Romans 7
1 Brethren, do you not know--for I am writing to people acquainted with the Law--that it is during our lifetime that we are subject to the Law?
Koso ukia, owetena, nikech awuoyo gi joma ongʼeyo chik, ni chik otweyo ngʼato mana ka pod ongima?
2 A wife, for instance, whose husband is living is bound to him by the Law; but if her husband dies the law that bound her to him has now no hold over her.
Kuom ranyisi, dhako mokendi Chik otweyo gi chwore mana ka chwore pod ngima; to ka chwore otho, to ogonye e chik mar kend.
3 This accounts for the fact that if during her husband's life she lives with another man, she will be stigmatized as an adulteress; but that if her husband is dead she is no longer under the old prohibition, and even though she marries again, she is not an adulteress.
Kamano bende, ibiro luong dhakono ni jachode ka odak gi dichwo machielo ka chwore pod ngima. To ka chwore otho, to ogonye kuom chikno kendo ka dichwo machielo okende to ok kwane kaka jachode.
4 So, my brethren, to you also the Law died through the incarnation of Christ, that you might be wedded to Another, namely to Him who rose from the dead in order that we might yield fruit to God.
Kamano owetena, un bende, usetho korka chik kuom ringre Kristo, mondo koro ubed jo-ngʼat machielo, ma en Jal mosechier oa kuom joma otho, mondo eka wanyag olemo ne Nyasaye.
5 For whilst we were under the thraldom of our earthly natures, sinful passions-- made sinful by the Law--were always being aroused to action in our bodily faculties that they might yield fruit to death.
Nimar kane pod ringruok chikowa, chik ne chiewo gombowa maricho, kendo negitiyoe ringrewa, omiyo ne wanyago olemo makelo tho.
6 But seeing that we have died to that which once held us in bondage, the Law has now no hold over us, so that we render a service which, instead of being old and formal, is new and spiritual.
To sani, nikech wasetho ne gima notweyowa chon, mondo wabed wasumbini, ok manie bwo chik machon mondiki, to manie ngima manyien kuom Roho.
7 What follows? Is the Law itself a sinful thing? No, indeed; on the contrary, unless I had been taught by the Law, I should have known nothing of sin as sin. For instance, I should not have known what covetousness is, if the Law had not repeatedly said, "Thou shalt not covet."
Kare koro wanyalo wacho angʼo? Chik en richo koso? Ok kamano ngangʼ! Adiera, dine ok angʼeyo gima richo en ka dine onge chik. Nimar bende dine ok angʼeyo gima chik en ka dine ok owacho niya, “Kik igombi gir wadu.”
8 Sin took advantage of this, and by means of the Commandment stirred up within me every kind of coveting; for apart from Law sin would be dead.
To richo nokawo thuolo mane chik okelo mopidho kit gombo mayoreyore kuoma nimar ka chik onge to richo otho.
9 Once, apart from Law, I was alive, but when the Commandment came, sin sprang into life, and I died;
Mokwongo kane chik onge, to ne angima, to ka Chik nobiro, to richo nochier kuoma mi atho.
10 and, as it turned out, the very Commandment which was to bring me life, brought me death.
Nanwangʼo ni chikno, mane onego okel ngima, nolokore mokelo tho.
11 For sin seized the advantage, and by means of the Commandment it completely deceived me, and also put me to death.
Nimar richo nokawo thuolo mane chik okelo, mowuonda, kendo okonyore gi chikno mondo onega.
12 So that the Law itself is holy, and the Commandment is holy, just and good.
Omiyo Chik ler, kendo chike moketi bende ler, kendo nikare, to kendo ber.
13 Did then a thing which is good become death to me? No, indeed, but sin did; so that through its bringing about death by means of what was good, it might be seen in its true light as sin, in order that by means of the Commandment the unspeakable sinfulness of sin might be plainly shown.
Dibed ni gima ber ema nomiyo atho koso? Ok kamano kata matin! Richo notiyo gi gima ber, mi onega, mondo richo ongʼere malongʼo ni en angʼo. Kamano chik nyiso ni richo en gima rach moloyo.
14 For we know that the Law is a spiritual thing; but I am unspiritual--the slave, bought and sold, of sin.
Wangʼeyo ni Chik en gir chuny; to an ngʼat ringruok, kendo richo osengʼiewa moloka misumbane.
15 For what I do, I do not recognize as my own action. What I desire to do is not what I do, but what I am averse to is what I do.
Gik ma atimo odhiera ngʼeyo. Nimar ok atim gik ma adwaro, to atimo mana gik ma ok adwar.
16 But if I do that which I do not desire to do, I admit the excellence of the Law,
Koro ka atimo gik ma ok adwar, to mano nyiso ni Chik ber.
17 and now it is no longer I that do these things, but the sin which has its home within me does them.
Chutho, an ok ema atim gino, to richo manie iya ema time.
18 For I know that in me, that is, in my lower self, nothing good has its home; for while the will to do right is present with me, the power to carry it out is not.
Angʼeyo ni onge gimoro kata achiel maber manie iya, tiende ni, kita mar richo. Nimar an-gi gombo mar timo gima ber to ok anyal time.
19 For what I do is not the good thing that I desire to do; but the evil thing that I desire not to do, is what I constantly do.
Nimar ok atim gima ber ma adwaro mondo atim to asiko atimo mana gima rach.
20 But if I do that which I desire not to do, it can no longer be said that it is I who do it, but the sin which has its home within me does it.
Koro ka atimo gima ok adwar timo, to koro an ok ema atime, to richo modak e iya ema time.
21 I find therefore the law of my nature to be that when I desire to do what is right, evil is lying in ambush for me.
Omiyo ayudo chikni katiyo: Ni ka adwaro timo gima ber, to apo ka rach bende ni koda.
22 For in my inmost self all my sympathy is with the Law of God;
Nimar ei chunya maiye amor gi chik Nyasaye;
23 but I discover within me a different Law at war with the Law of my understanding, and leading me captive to the Law which is everywhere at work in my body--the Law of sin.
to aneno chik machielo katiyo e fuonde mag ringra makedo gi chik manie chunya, mamiyo abedo misumba Chik mar richo manie fuondena.
24 (Unhappy man that I am! who will rescue me from this death-burdened body?
Mano kaka an ngʼama chandore! En ngʼa mabiro resa kuom ringruokni mar tho?
25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!) To sum up then, with my understanding, I--my true self--am in servitude to the Law of God, but with my lower nature I am in servitude to the Law of sin.
Erokamano ne Nyasaye kuom Yesu Kristo Ruodhwa! Kuom mano, an awuon gi ei pacha an misumba mar chik Nyasaye, to kuom kita mar richo, an misumba mar chik mar richo.
