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.
Or do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to people who know about law), that the law controls a person for as long as he 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 the married woman is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.
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.
So then, while her husband is living, if she lives with another man, she will be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so she is not an adulteress if she lives with another man.
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.
Therefore, my brothers, you were also made dead to the law through the body of Christ. This is so that you could be joined to another, that is, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might produce 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.
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear 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 have been released from the law. We have died to that by which we were held. This is so that we might serve in newness of the Spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.
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 will we say then? Is the law itself sin? May it never be. However, I would never have known sin, if it were not through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law said, “You must not 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 the opportunity through the commandment and brought about every lust in me. For without the law, sin is dead.
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.
At one time I was alive without the law, but when the commandment came, sin regained life, and I died.
10 Na gane cewa wannan umarnin da aka nufa ya kawo rai, a gaskiya ya jawo mutuwa ce.
The commandment that was to bring life turned out to be death for me.
11 Gama zunubi, da ya sami dama ta wurin umarni, sai ya ruɗe ni, kuma ta wurin umarnin kuwa ya kashe ni.
For sin took the opportunity through the commandment and deceived me. Through the commandment it killed me.
12 Saboda haka fa, dokar tana da tsarki, umarnin kuma yana da tsarki, su duka suna da adalci da kuma kyau.
So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, 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.
So did what is good become death to me? May it never be. But sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin through what is good, brought about death in me. This was in order that through the commandment, sin might become sinful beyond measure.
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.
For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh. I have been sold under 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.
For what I do, I do not really understand. For what I want to do, I do not do, and what I hate, I do.
16 In kuma na yi abin da ba na son yi, na yarda da cewa dokar aba ce mai kyau.
But if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law that the law is good.
17 Kamar dai yadda yake, ba ni kaina nake yinsa ba, sai dai zunubin da yake zaune a cikina ne.
But now it is no longer I who do it, but the sin that lives in 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.
For I know that in me, that is in my flesh, lives no good thing. For the desire for good is with me, but I cannot do it.
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.
For the good that I want I do not do, but the evil that I do not want, that I 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.
Now if I do what I do not want to do, then it is no longer I who am acting, but rather sin that lives in 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.
I find, then, the principle in me that I want to do what is good, but that evil is actually present in me.
22 Gama a ciki-cikina ina farin cikin da dokar Allah;
For I rejoice in the law of God with the inner man.
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 I see a different principle in my body parts. It fights against that new principle in my mind. It takes me captive by the principle of sin that is in my body parts.
24 Kaitona! Wane ne zai cece ni daga wannan jiki mai mutuwa?
I am a miserable man! Who will deliver me from this body of 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.
But thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind. However, with the flesh I serve the principle of sin.
