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?
Nikuba bobo tamuzi na, nobakwesu ( nkambo ndokwambuula kubantu abo bazi mulawo), kuti mulawo ulatonga kumuntu kufumbwa chiindi nchapona?
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.
Nkambo mwanakazi ukwetwe ulangwa amulawu kumulumi chiindi napona, pesi kuti mwalumi wafwa, ulangununwa kuzwa kumulawo wakukwatwa.
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.
Alubo, chindi mwalumi wakwe nachipona, kuti wakukwatwa awumbi mwalumi, uyowambwa kuti ngusimamambe. Pesi kuti mwalumi wakwe wafwa, wangunuka kuzwa kumulawo, alubo tanoli simamambe pe, kuti wakwatwa awumbi mwalumi.
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.
Nkiinkako, nobakwesu, mwakachitwa alimwi mwakafwa kumulawo kwinda mumubili wa Kkilisito. Ezi zilobo kuti mukaswanizigwe kuli umbi, nkukuti kuli oyo wakabusigwa kuzwa kubafu, kuchitila kuti tube amuchelo wa Leza.
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.
Nkambo nitwakali munyama, chiyandisyo chazibi, chibusigwa a mulawo, chakali a mulimo muziizo zyesu kukuzyala muchelo walufu.
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.
Pesi lino twakangununwa kuzwa kumulawu. Twakafwa kuli echo nchitwakangidwe. Echi chilibobu kuti tukabelekele mubupya bwa Muuya alimwi kutali mubukulukulu bwalugwalo.
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."
Tulatyeni kabi? Mulawo imawo mubina? Kutabi bobo. Nikubabobo, tendali kunoziba chibi, nikwatanoli kwinda mumulawo. Nkambo ndanoli nkintazi ibbivwe kutali kuti mulawo wakamba, “Mutabi abbivwe.”
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.
Pesi chibi chakabweza mwenya mukwinda mumalayilile alimwi akweeta bbivwe mulindime. Kuti kakutakwe mulawo, chibi chilifwide.
9 Once, apart from Law, I was alive, but when the Commandment came, sin sprang into life, and I died;
Kuli chimwi chiindi ndakali kupona katakwe mulawo, pesi elyo malayile nakasika, chibi chakajana lubo buumi, alimwi ndakafwa.
10 and, as it turned out, the very Commandment which was to bring me life, brought me death.
Malayilile ayo akayelede kweta buumi akasanduka aba lufu lwangu.
11 For sin seized the advantage, and by means of the Commandment it completely deceived me, and also put me to death.
Nkambo chibi chakabweza mwenya kwindila mumalayilile alimwi akandena. Kwindila mumalayilile chakandijeya.
12 So that the Law itself is holy, and the Commandment is holy, just and good.
Nkinkaako mulawo ulasalala, alimwi malayilile alasalala, bululami, alimwi bubotu.
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.
Nkinkako ezyo zibotu zyakabotu lufu na kulindime? Kutabi boobo. Pesi chibi, kuchitila kuti chikatondezegwe kuba chibi, chakazyala lufu muli ndime kwindila achecho chakali chibotu, alimwi kwindila amalayilile chibi chibe chibi loko kwinda mmwelo.
14 For we know that the Law is a spiritual thing; but I am unspiritual--the slave, bought and sold, of sin.
Nkambo tulizi kuti mulawo nguwa Muuya, pesi imebo ndimunyama. Ndakamuzigwa munsi abuzike kuchibi.
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.
Ezyo nzindichita, tandizimvwisisisyi loko. nkambo nzinjanda kuchita, tandizichiti, alimwi ezyo nzizonda, ndachita.
16 But if I do that which I do not desire to do, I admit the excellence of the Law,
Pesi kuli ndachita nzitayandi, ndazuminana a mulawo kuti mulawo uliluleme.
17 and now it is no longer I that do these things, but the sin which has its home within me does them.
Pesi lino tokuchili ndime uzichita, pesi chibi echo chipona mulindime.
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.
Nkambo ndilizi kuti mulindime, echo chilimunyama, tamuponi chintu chabubotu pe. Nkambo chiyandisyo chabubotu buli mulandime, pesi tandikozichita pe.
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.
Ezyo zibotu zindiyanda, tandizichiti, pesi ikuti mbuntayandi mbunchinta.
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.
Lino kuti ndachita nzintayandi kuchita, abobo takuchili ndime ulokuchita, pesi biyo chibi chikkala mulindime.
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.
Elyo, ndijana mulawu oyu, amo mpundiyanda kuchita kabotu, chibi mpuchili andime.
22 For in my inmost self all my sympathy is with the Law of God;
Nkambo ndilakondwa mumulawo wa Leza amumuntu wangu wamukati.
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.
Pesi ndibona busiyene mulawo mumuzizo zyangu. Ulwisyanya a mulawo mupya mumiyeeyo yangu. Zindibweza ndibe muzike wamulawo muchibi muzizo zyangu.
24 (Unhappy man that I am! who will rescue me from this death-burdened body?
Ndilimuntu umuside! Ngwani ulondinunula kuzwa kumubili wa lufu?
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.
Pesi kulumba ngakube kuli Leza kwinda muli Jesu Kkilisito Mwami wesu! Nkinkako, ime lwangu mbelekela mulawu wa Leza amwi a miyeyo yangu. Nikuba bobo, anyama yangu ndibelekela mulawo wachibi.
