Maroma 7
1 Kapa kawizi, bakwangu (mukuti, nikwete kuwamba kubantu bezi mulao), mukuti mulao njoyendisa muntu inako yose yahala?
Or do you not know, brothers (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law has authority over a person for as long as he lives?
2 Mukuti mwanakazi yosesetwe usuminwa chamulao kwamwihyabwe hebanachihala, kono mukwame hafwa, chazwisiwa kumulao wamasenso.
For the married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law concerning the husband.
3 Linuhape, cheyoinako mwihyabwe nachihala, heba nakahala ni wungi mukwame, kasupiwe musangu. Kono heba mwihyabwe ufwa, ulukuluhute kumulao, linu kena musangu, heba nakekala ni wungi mukwame.
So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she is called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress, though she is joined to another man.
4 Chobulyo, bakwangu, mubatendwa bafwile kumulao chamubili wa Kiriste. Ichi chitendahala bulyo kuti mubemubantu bonke, linuhe, kozo yababuswa kubafwile, kuti tubike zichelantu za Ireeza.
Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we may bear fruit to God.
5 Mukuti hatubena munyama, itakazo zechive zibabusuluswa kubamwi bentu chamulao kuleta zichelantu kukati ifu.
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit for death.
6 Konohanu tubalukululwa kumulao. Tubafwi kechina chibatusumine. Ichi china bulyo mukuti tusebeze mubuhya bwaluhuho imi isini mukusupala kweñolo.
But now we have been released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.
7 Katuwambe nzi linu? Kana mulao uwo wine chive? Kanzi nikubebulyo hape. Nihakubabulyo, ninisana nibezibi chive, heba nikusana kubabi chamulao. Mukuti ninisana nibezibi kuti kulakaza chive hesi mulao hawuwamba, “kanzi ulakazi.”
What should we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not. However, I would not have known sin, except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness, unless the law had said, "Do not covet."
8 Kono chive chiba hindi chibaka mumulao imi libaleti ilato lisali lyeniti kwangu. Mukuti hebakakwina mulao, chive chifwile.
But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
9 Mwinako yimwi nibakuhala ni kusena mulao, kono mulao hawiza, chive chichahala, imi ime chinafwa.
I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin became alive, and I died.
10 Mulao ubakuleta kuhala ubaleti kufwa kwangu.
The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death;
11 Mukuti chive chibawani chibaka mumulao, imi chibanichengeleli. Kakuya chamulao chibanihayi.
for sin, taking the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.
12 Chobulyo mulao ujolwele, ni taelo ijolwele, yinahande ni kushiyama.
Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
13 Kana chilotu chibabi ifu kwangu? Kanzi ni kubi bulyo. Kono chive, chibatondezi bubi mukati kabulotu, kubaleti kufwa kwangu. Ichi chibabi bulyo kuya chamulao, chive chiwola kuba chintu chibi chisawolwi kupimwa.
Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Absolutely not. But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.
14 Mukuti twizi kuti mulao luhuho, kono ime ninyama. Nibawuzwa kuti nibeni mutanga wechive.
For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
15 Mukuti chonse chinitenda, kanichizuwisisi. Mukuti chonse chinisaka kutenda, kanichitendi, imi chinitoyete, nichitenda.
For I do not know what I am doing. For I do not practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.
16 Kono heba nitenda chinisasaki, ni zuminzana ni mulao kuti mulao mulotu.
But if I do what I do not want to do, I agree with the law that it is good.
17 Kono hanu kaichili ime yozitenda, kono chive chihala mukati kangu.
So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.
18 Mukuti nizi kuti china kwangu, njichina munyamayangu, kakuhali chituchilotu. Mukuti itakazo yezilotu yina name, kono kaniwoli kuchitenda.
For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For the desire is present in me, but the doing of the good is not.
19 Mukuti zilotu zinisaka kutenda kanizitendi, kono zive zinisasaki kutenda, zinitenda.
For the good which I desire, I do not do; but the evil which I do not desire, that I practice.
20 Linuhanu haba nitenda chinisasaki kutenda, linu kayichili ime yochitenda, kono chive china name.
But if what I do not desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.
21 Niwana, linu, mazimo enakwangu akuti nisaka kutenda chilotu, kono chive initi china name.
I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.
22 Linu nitabela mulao we Ireeza ni muntu wina name.
For I delight in God's law in my inner being,
23 Kono nibona mazimo angi muzilama zenyamayangu. Zilwisana ni mazimo aboko kwangu. Ziletwa kusuminwa kwa mazimo echive ena muzilama zenyamayangu.
but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.
24 Nimuntu yasena ituso! Njeni yese anizwise mowu mubili wefu?
What a wretched man I am. Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?
25 Kono kulitumela kube kwa Ireeza ka Jesu Krisite Simwine wentu! Linuhanu, ime nimwine nisebeleza mulao wa Ireeza nengana. Nihakubabulyo, mwinyama nisebeleza mazimo echive.
Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ, our Lord. So then with the mind, I myself serve God's law, but with the flesh, the sin's law.
