Romawa 7
1 Ba ku sani ba,’yan’uwa, ina magana ne fa da mutanen da suka san doka, cewa dokar tana da iko a kan mutum muddin yana a raye ne kawai.
Surely, friends, you know (for I am speaking to people who know what Law means) that Law has power over a person only as long as they lives.
2 Misali, bisa ga doka mace mai aure tana daure ga mijinta muddin mijin yana da rai, amma in mijinta ya mutu, an sake ta ke nan daga dokar aure.
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.
3 Saboda haka fa, in ta auri wani yayinda mijinta yana raye, za a ce da ita mazinaciya. Amma in mijinta ya mutu, an sake ta ke nan daga wannan doka, ita kuwa ba mazinaciya ba ce, ko da yake ta auri wani.
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.
4 Saboda haka’yan’uwana, ku ma kun mutu ga dokar ta wurin jikin Kiristi, domin ku zama na wani, gare shi wanda aka tashe shi daga matattu, don mu ba da amfani ga Allah.
And so with you, my friends; 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.
5 Gama sa’ad da halin mutuntaka yake mulkinmu, sha’awace-sha’awacen zunubi waɗanda dokar ta zuga sun yi ta aiki a jikunanmu, don mu ba da amfani wa mutuwa.
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.
6 Amma yanzu, ta wurin mutuwa ga abin da dā ya daure mu, an sake mu daga dokar saboda mu yi hidima a sabuwar hanyar Ruhu, ba a tsohuwar hanyar rubutaccen ƙa’ida ba.
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.
7 Me za mu ce ke nan? Dokar zunubi ce? Sam, ko kaɗan! Tabbatacce ai, da ban san mene ne zunubi ba in ba ta wurin doka ba. Gama da ban san mene ne ƙyashi yake ba tabbatacce in ba don doka ta ce, “Kada ka yi ƙyashi ba.”
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 “You must not covet,” I should not know what it is to covet.
8 Amma zunubi, da ya sami dama ta wurin umarnin nan, ya haifar a cikina kowane halin ƙyashi iri-iri. Gama in babu doka, zunubi matacce ne.
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.
9 Dā kam ina da rai sa’ad da ban san doka ba; amma da umarni ya zo, sai zunubi ya zaburo da rai na kuma mutu.
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!
10 Na gane cewa wannan umarnin da aka nufa ya kawo rai, a gaskiya ya jawo mutuwa ce.
The commandment that should have meant life I found to result in death!
11 Gama zunubi, da ya sami dama ta wurin umarni, sai ya ruɗe ni, kuma ta wurin umarnin kuwa ya kashe ni.
Sin took advantage of the commandment to deceive me, and used it to bring about my death.
12 Saboda haka fa, dokar tana da tsarki, umarnin kuma yana da tsarki, su duka suna da adalci da kuma kyau.
And so the Law is holy, and each commandment is also holy, and just, and good.
13 Abin nan da yana mai kyau, zai kawo mini mutuwa? Ko kaɗan! Amma domin zunubi ya bayyana kansa a matsayin zunubi, sai ya haifar da mutuwa a cikina ta wurin abin da yake mai kyau, domin ta wurin umarnin nan zunubi ya fito da matuƙar muninsa.
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.
14 Mun san cewa doka aba ce ta ruhu; amma ni ba na ruhu ba ne, an sayar da ni a matsayin bawa ga zunubi.
We know that the Law is spiritual, but I am earthly – sold into slavery to sin.
15 Ban gane abin da nake yi ba. Don abin da nakan so yi, ba shi nakan yi ba, sai dai abin da nake ƙi, shi nake yi.
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 thing that I hate.
16 In kuma na yi abin da ba na son yi, na yarda da cewa dokar aba ce mai kyau.
But when I do what I want not to do, I am admitting that the Law is right.
17 Kamar dai yadda yake, ba ni kaina nake yinsa ba, sai dai zunubin da yake zaune a cikina ne.
This being so, the action is no longer my own, but is done by the sin which is within me.
18 Gama na san cewa babu wani abin kirkin da yake zaune a cikina, wato, a mutuntakata. Gama sha’awar yin abu mai kyau kam ina da ita, sai dai ikon yin ne fa babu.
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.
19 Gama abin da nake yi ba shi ne abu mai kyau da nake so in yi ba; a’a, mugun da ba na so in yi, shi ne nake ci gaba da yi.
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.
20 To, in na yi abin da ba na so in yi, ba ni ba ne nake yinsa, sai dai zunubin nan da yake zaune a cikina.
But, when I do the thing that I want not to do, the action is no longer my own, but is done by the sin which is within me.
21 Saboda haka na gane wannan ƙa’ida ce take aiki a cikina. Sa’ad da nake so in yi abu mai kyau, sai in ga cewa mugun nan ne nake yi.
This, then, is the law that I find – when I want to do right, wrong presents itself!
22 Gama a ciki-cikina ina farin cikin da dokar Allah;
At heart I delight in the Law of God;
23 amma ina ganin wata doka tana aiki a gaɓoɓin jikina, tana yaƙi da dokar hankalina, tana kuma sa in zama ɗaurarren dokar zunubin da take aiki a gaɓoɓin jikina.
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.
24 Kaitona! Wane ne zai cece ni daga wannan jiki mai mutuwa?
Miserable man that I am! Who will deliver me from the body that is bringing me to this death?
25 Godiya ga Allah ta wurin Yesu Kiristi Ubangijinmu! Saboda haka fa, ni kaina a cikin hankalina, ni bawa ne ga dokar Allah, amma a mutuntaka, ni bawa ne ga dokar zunubi.
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.
