Ndị Rom 7
1 Ọ bụ na unu amaghị ụmụnna m, unu ndị maara iwu nke ọma na ọ bụ oge mmadụ dị ndụ ka iwu na-ejide ya?
ARE you unacquainted, brethren, (for I am speaking to those who know the law, ) that the law exercises dominion over a person for as long time as he liveth?
2 Dịka ihe ịmaatụ, iwu na-ejikọta nwanyị lụrụ di na di ya mgbe di ya ka nọ ndụ, ma ọ bụrụ na di nwanyị ahụ anwụọ, ọ nọkwaghị nʼokpuru iwu jikọtara ha dịka di na nwunye.
For the woman who is subject to a husband, is bound by the law to that husband during his life; but if the husband be dead, she is discharged from that husband.
3 A ga-akpọ ya nwanyị na-akwa iko ma ọ bụrụ na ọ lakwuru nwoke ọzọ mgbe di ya ka dị ndụ. Ma ọ bụrụ na di ya anwụọ, ọ ga-abụ onye nwere onwe ya site nʼiwu ahụ. Ọ kwaghị iko ma ọ bụrụ na ọ lụọ nwoke ọzọ.
She shall therefore certainly be counted an adulteress, if, her husband being alive, she be for another man: but if her husband is dead, she is free from the law; so that she shall be no adulteress, though married to another husband.
4 Ya mere, ụmụnna m, unu onwe unu kwa anwụọla nʼebe iwu dị site nʼahụ Kraịst, ka e nwe ike kenye unu onye ọzọ, bụ onye ahụ e mere ka o si nʼọnwụ bilie. Ka anyị site na ya mịa mkpụrụ nye Chineke.
Wherefore, my brethren, ye also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ; that ye might be for another, who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit for God.
5 Mgbe anụ ahụ mmehie na-achị anyị, ọchịchọ ọjọọ nke iwu na-akpali jupụtara nʼime anyị, nke mere na anyị na-amị mkpụrụ nye ọnwụ.
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions excited by the law, wrought powerfully in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death.
6 Ugbu a, a tọghapụla anyị pụọ nʼaka iwu ebe anyị nwụrụ nye ihe ndị kere anyị agbụ na mbụ, anyị anaghị ebikwa ndụ nʼusoro iwu ochie nke e dere nʼakwụkwọ, kama anyị na-eje ozi nʼusoro ndụ ọhụrụ nke mmụọ.
But now we have been discharged from the law, that being dead by which we were held fast; that we should serve in renovation of spirit, and not in the antiquity of the letter.
7 Ugbu a, gịnị ka anyị ga-ekwu? Iwu ahụ ọ bụ mmehie? Nʼezie, mbaa! Agaraghị m ama ihe mmehie bụ ma ọ bụghị site nʼiwu. Ọ bụrụ na iwu asịghị, “Enwela anya ukwu,” agaraghị m ama na ọ bụ mmehie.
What then shall we say? Is the law sin? God forbid. Yea, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not even known concupiscence, unless the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
8 Ma mmehie sitere nʼiwu a megidere ọchịchọ ọjọọ, mee ka echiche m mgbe niile bụrụ ihe gbasara ihe ọjọọ, na otu m ga-esi mee ha. A sị na iwu adịghị, mmehie agaraghị adị.
But sin, seizing the opportunity by the law, wrought in me all concupiscence. For without the law sin is dead.
9 Na mbụ, abụ m onye dị ndụ mgbe iwu na-adịghị, ma mgbe iwu bịara, e mere ka mmehie nwe ntute.
For though I lived without the law formerly; yet when the commandment came, sin revived, but I died.
10 Anwụrụ m, ma chọpụta na iwu ahụ kwesiri iwetara m ndụ ghọziri ihe wetara ọnwụ.
And the commandment, which was for life, the same was found by me for death.
11 Nʼihi na mmehie jiri ohere ahụ iwu webatara ghọgbuo m, sitekwa nʼiwu ahụ gbuo m.
For sin, seizing the occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and thereby slew me.
12 Nʼezie, iwu ahụ dị nsọ, ihe e nyere nʼiwu dị nsọ, bụrụkwa ezi omume na ihe dị mma.
So then the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
13 Mgbe ahụ, ọ pụtara na ihe ahụ dị mma wetaara m ọnwụ? Mba! Kama ọ bụ mmehie sitere nʼihe dị mma wetara m ọnwụ, ka e nwee ike gosipụta na mmehie bụ ihe jọgburu onwe ya site nʼihe e nyere nʼiwu.
Did then that which is good become fatal to me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin by that which was good in itself, was the cause of death to me; that sin through the commandment might become transcendantly sinful.
14 Anyị matara na iwu bụ ihe nke mmụọ ebe mụ onwe m bụ anụ ahụ efu, onye e rere dịka ohu nye mmehie.
For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
15 O nweghị ụzọ ihe m na-eme si doo m anya. Nʼihi na ihe m na-eme abụghị ihe m chọrọ ime, ọ bụ ihe m kpọrọ asị bụ ihe na-agara m aka ime mgbe niile.
For that which I am doing I approve not: for not the thing which I wish, that do I practise; but the very thing I hate, that I do.
16 Ma ọ bụrụ na m eme ihe m na-achọghị ime, ana m ekwenye na iwu dị mma.
But if what I would not, that I do, I concur with the law that it is excellent.
17 Ma dịka ọ dị, ọ bụkwaghị mụ onwe m na-eme ihe ndị a, kama ọ bụ mmehie bi nʼime m.
Now then no more I do this, but sin dwelling in me.
18 O doro m anya na o nweghị ihe ọma ọbụla dị nʼime m, ya bụ nʼime anụ ahụ m. Nʼihi na ọ na-agụ m agụụ ime ezi ihe, ma ike ime ezi ihe adịghị nʼime m.
For I know that there dwelleth not in me (that is, in my flesh) any good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
19 Ihe m na-eme mgbe m chọrọ ime ezi ihe abụghị ezi ihe ahụ m chọrọ ime kama ọ bụ ajọọ ihe ahụ m na-achọghị ime ka m na-eme.
For I do not the good which I wish: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
20 Ọ bụrụ na m na-eme ihe ahụ m na-achọghị ime, ọ pụtara na ọ bụghị mụ onwe m na-eme ihe ndị ahụ. Kama ọ bụ mmehie bi nʼime m na-eme ha.
If then I do that which I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
21 Achọpụtara m iwu nke na-arụ ọrụ nʼime m. Mgbe m chọrọ ime ihe ọma, naanị ihe ọjọọ bụ ihe na-agara m aka ime.
I find then a law, that, when I wish to do good, evil is presented to me.
22 Nʼime ime onwe m, ọ na-agụ m agụụ ime ihe iwu Chineke kwuru.
For I am delighted with the law of God, as respecting the inward man:
23 Ma ana m ahụta iwu ọzọ dị nʼime m nke na-agba mgba megide iwu nke dị nʼuche m, ime ka m bụrụ ohu nye iwu nke mmehie na-arụ ọrụ ya nʼanụ ahụ m.
but I see another law in my members, militating against the law in my mind, and making me captive to the law of sin which is in my members.
24 Lee ụdị ọnọdụ ọjọọ nke m hụtara onwe m nʼime ya! Onye pụrụ ịnapụta m site nʼanụ ahụ a nke na-eduba m nʼọnwụ?
O wretched man, I! who shall pluck me from the body of this death?
25 Ma ekele dịrị Chineke, onye na-anapụta m site na Kraịst Jisọs Onyenwe anyị! Ya mere, nʼime mmụọ m, abụ m odibo nye iwu Chineke, ma nʼime anụ ahụ mmehie m, abụ m ohu nye iwu nke mmehie.
I give thanks to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Well then, I myself with my mind am servant to the law of God; but in my flesh to the law of sin.
