Romans 7
1 Surely, Brothers, you know (for I am speaking to men who know what Law means) that Law has power over a man only as long as he lives.
Au mutangite kwako, (kwa kuwa nikoya na babatangite seliya), kwa kuwa seliya itawala mundu yes bile mwomi?
2 For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband while he is living; but, if her husband dies, she is set free from the law that bound her to him.
Mana ajwo nwawa jwakondeke atabilwe na seliya kwa another nchengowe mana abile nkoti, ili mene ayomwike mene awile, alowa panga mutabilwe ya seliya ya ndoa.
3 If, then, during her husband’s lifetime, she unites herself to another man, she will be called an adulteress; but, if her husband dies, the law has no further hold on her, nor, if she unites herself to another man, is she an adulteress.
Tumbwe kae, wakati about asengo babe babi aomi, mene itei atama na nalume jwembe akemelwa mmalaya. Ila mene abo asengo babe bawile, nai lusa kwa seliya, hapo apangali mmalaya, mene itei akonda kwa nnalume ywenge.
4 And so with you, my Brothers; as far as the Law was concerned, you underwent death in the crucified body of the Christ, so that you might be united to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that our lives might bear fruit for God.
kwa-nyo, mwalongo bango, mwapangilwe maiti kwa seliya kwa ndila ya yega ya Kirisitu. Ibile nyoo lenga mupale unganishwa na jwenge kwa ywembe jwa fufuliwe buka kiwo lenga tuweze ku-papya Nnongo matunda.
5 When we were living merely earthly lives, our sinful passions, aroused by the Law, were active in every part of our bodies, with the result that our lives bore fruit for Death.
Mana patwabile haya payiga nkati ya mwili, tamaa ya sambi yatijumukilwa muiungo yoti kwa ndila ya seliya na kwipapya maiti matunda.
6 But now we are set free from the Law, because we are dead to that which once kept us under restraint; and so we serve under new, spiritual conditions, and not under old, written regulations.
Ila saa yeno tuyong'olilwe buku mu seliya. Tuweli mulo hali yayatupingite. Lenga twenga tupate tumika mu hali yayambe ya Roho, nasi hali ya zamani ya andiko.
7 What are we to say, then? That Law and sin are the same thing? Heaven forbid! On the contrary, I should not have learned what sin is, had not it been for Law. If the Law did not say ‘Thou shalt not covet,’ I should not know what it is to covet.
Tulongele buli? seliya sambi? Ataa, Alanyo, mbele kwitangalii sambi, ila kwa ndela ya seliya. Kwa kuwa mbele tangalii tamaniya bila seliya ika kotoka baya, “Uneutamani”.
8 But sin took advantage of the Commandment to arouse in me every form of covetousness, for where there is no consciousness of Law sin shows no sign of life.
Lakini sambi yapatike nafasi kwa yelu amri ni takatifu ya haki na ukoto.
9 There was a time when I myself, unconscious of Law, was alive; but when the Commandment was brought home to me, sin sprang into life, while I died!
Nanenga nabi na koti hapo zamani bila seliya, lakini payaichi yelu amri, sambi yapatike ngupu, na nenga nganawile.
10 The very Commandment that should have meant Life I found to result in Death!
Yelo amri ye peleleta ukoto yatigalambuka yabi kiwo kasango.
11 Sin took advantage of the Commandment to deceive me, and used it to bring about my Death.
Kwa mana sambi yapatike nafasi kwa yelu amri na yatigonga pitya mulo mu'amri yatimbulaga.
12 And so the Law is holy, and each Commandment is also holy, and just, and good.
Kumbe seliya takatifu, na yelo amri nembe takatifu, ya haki, na ukoto.
13 Did, then, a thing, which in itself was good, involve Death in my case? Heaven forbid! It was sin that involved Death; so that, by its use of what I regarded as good to bring about my Death, its true nature might appear; and in this way the Commandment showed how intensely sinful sin is.
Kumbe iyo ya ibele ya ukoto yabile ya kiwo kasango nenga kana ibe nyoo kabisa. Lakini sambi, yabonekine panga sambi hasa pitya kwa yalo njema, yaileta kiwo ngati yango. Ayee yabile pitya kwa yelo amri, sambi kene ya pange mbaya muno.
14 We know that the Law is spiritual, but I am earthly — sold into slavery to Sin.
Mana tutangite panga seliya tubwa kwake ni ya mwoyo, lakini nenga na mundu wa payenga, mpemejilwe pa'e ya utumwa wa sambi.
15 I do not understand my own actions. For I am so far from habitually doing what I want to do, that I find myself doing the very thing that I hate.
Mana lanilipanga nilitangite-lii kabisa, mana lelo lyanipendile kulipanga-kwako na lyanichukya, nganilipanga.
16 But when I do what I want not to do, I am admitting that the Law is right.
Lakini mana nilipangite lelo lyanikotwike kulipenda, seliya yenda kuniyeketya yo panga seliya ni nkoto.
17 This being so, the action is no longer my own, but that of Sin which is within me.
Ila nenga lili nafsi yango yanipangalyo, ila yelo sambi yaitama nkati yango.
18 I know that there is nothing good in me — I mean in my earthly nature. For, although it is easy for me to want to do right, to act rightly is not easy.
Kwa Mana ndangite nkati yango, yani, nkati ya payenga yango, litama kwako likowe linanoga. kwa kuwa tamaniya kwa linanoga ibi kati yango, ila nipanga-lii.
19 I fail to do the good thing that I want to do, but the bad thing that I want not to do — that I habitually do.
Kwa maana lelo linanoga lyanilipendile nilipanga kwako, ila lelo libaya lyangotwike kulipenda ngalyo ndenda.
20 But, when I do the very thing that I want not to do, the action is no longer my own, but that of Sin which is within me.
Tubwe Mana kandenda lelo lyangotwike kulipenda si nenga kiyango nganipanga, kumbe yelo sambi yango yaitama nkati yango.
21 This, then, is the law that I find — when I want to do right, wrong presents itself!
Ndangite ibile haki ngati yango yaipala panga lyalibile lizuri, lakini ubaya ubile nkati yango.
22 At heart I delight in the Law of God;
Mana Nenda kuipulaikya seliya ya Nnongo kwa mundu jwa nkati.
23 but throughout my body I see a different law, one which is in conflict with the law accepted by my reason, and which endeavours to make me a prisoner to that law of Sin which exists throughout my body.
Lakini mbona tofauti nkati ya viungo ya yega yango. Ingawa kwina ngonda juyo kanuni ya yambi na mulunda lyango.
24 Miserable man that I am! Who will deliver me from the body that is bringing me to this Death?
Need na mundu wene uruma! nyai jwaweza kunilopwa yega ya kiwo?
25 Thank God, there is deliverance through Jesus Christ, our Lord! Well then, for myself, with my reason I serve the Law of God, but with my earthly nature the Law of Sin.
Lakini ni shukuru Nnongo na Yesu Kirisitu Nngwana witu! Nga-nyo. Nenga na mwene kwa akili yango nitumikiya seliya ya Nnongo. Ila kwa yenga nitumikiya kanuni ya sambi.
