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?
Au mutangite kwako, (kwa kuwa nikoya na babatangite seliya), kwa kuwa seliya itawala mundu yes bile mwomi?
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
Mana patwabile haya payiga nkati ya mwili, tamaa ya sambi yatijumukilwa muiungo yoti kwa ndila ya seliya na kwipapya maiti matunda.
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.
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 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."
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 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.
Lakini sambi yapatike nafasi kwa yelu amri ni takatifu ya haki na ukoto.
9 Once, apart from Law, I was alive, but when the Commandment came, sin sprang into life, and I died;
Nanenga nabi na koti hapo zamani bila seliya, lakini payaichi yelu amri, sambi yapatike ngupu, na nenga nganawile.
10 and, as it turned out, the very Commandment which was to bring me life, brought me death.
Yelo amri ye peleleta ukoto yatigalambuka yabi kiwo kasango.
11 For sin seized the advantage, and by means of the Commandment it completely deceived me, and also put me to death.
Kwa mana sambi yapatike nafasi kwa yelu amri na yatigonga pitya mulo mu'amri yatimbulaga.
12 So that the Law itself is holy, and the Commandment is holy, just and good.
Kumbe seliya takatifu, na yelo amri nembe takatifu, ya haki, na ukoto.
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.
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 For we know that the Law is a spiritual thing; but I am unspiritual--the slave, bought and sold, of sin.
Mana tutangite panga seliya tubwa kwake ni ya mwoyo, lakini nenga na mundu wa payenga, mpemejilwe pa'e ya utumwa wa sambi.
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.
Mana lanilipanga nilitangite-lii kabisa, mana lelo lyanipendile kulipanga-kwako na lyanichukya, nganilipanga.
16 But if I do that which I do not desire to do, I admit the excellence of the Law,
Lakini mana nilipangite lelo lyanikotwike kulipenda, seliya yenda kuniyeketya yo panga seliya ni nkoto.
17 and now it is no longer I that do these things, but the sin which has its home within me does them.
Ila nenga lili nafsi yango yanipangalyo, ila yelo sambi yaitama nkati yango.
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.
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 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.
Kwa maana lelo linanoga lyanilipendile nilipanga kwako, ila lelo libaya lyangotwike kulipenda ngalyo ndenda.
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.
Tubwe Mana kandenda lelo lyangotwike kulipenda si nenga kiyango nganipanga, kumbe yelo sambi yango yaitama nkati yango.
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.
Ndangite ibile haki ngati yango yaipala panga lyalibile lizuri, lakini ubaya ubile nkati yango.
22 For in my inmost self all my sympathy is with the Law of God;
Mana Nenda kuipulaikya seliya ya Nnongo kwa mundu jwa nkati.
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.
Lakini mbona tofauti nkati ya viungo ya yega yango. Ingawa kwina ngonda juyo kanuni ya yambi na mulunda lyango.
24 (Unhappy man that I am! who will rescue me from this death-burdened body?
Need na mundu wene uruma! nyai jwaweza kunilopwa yega ya kiwo?
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.
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.
