Maroma 7
1 Kapa kawizi, bakwangu (mukuti, nikwete kuwamba kubantu bezi mulao), mukuti mulao njoyendisa muntu inako yose yahala?
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 Mukuti mwanakazi yosesetwe usuminwa chamulao kwamwihyabwe hebanachihala, kono mukwame hafwa, chazwisiwa kumulao wamasenso.
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 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.
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 Chobulyo, bakwangu, mubatendwa bafwile kumulao chamubili wa Kiriste. Ichi chitendahala bulyo kuti mubemubantu bonke, linuhe, kozo yababuswa kubafwile, kuti tubike zichelantu za Ireeza.
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 Mukuti hatubena munyama, itakazo zechive zibabusuluswa kubamwi bentu chamulao kuleta zichelantu kukati ifu.
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 Konohanu tubalukululwa kumulao. Tubafwi kechina chibatusumine. Ichi china bulyo mukuti tusebeze mubuhya bwaluhuho imi isini mukusupala kweñolo.
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 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 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 Kono chive chiba hindi chibaka mumulao imi libaleti ilato lisali lyeniti kwangu. Mukuti hebakakwina mulao, chive chifwile.
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 Mwinako yimwi nibakuhala ni kusena mulao, kono mulao hawiza, chive chichahala, imi ime chinafwa.
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 Mulao ubakuleta kuhala ubaleti kufwa kwangu.
The commandment that should have meant life I found to result in death!
11 Mukuti chive chibawani chibaka mumulao, imi chibanichengeleli. Kakuya chamulao chibanihayi.
Sin took advantage of the commandment to deceive me, and used it to bring about my death.
12 Chobulyo mulao ujolwele, ni taelo ijolwele, yinahande ni kushiyama.
And so the Law is holy, and each commandment is also holy, and just, 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, 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 Mukuti twizi kuti mulao luhuho, kono ime ninyama. Nibawuzwa kuti nibeni mutanga wechive.
We know that the Law is spiritual, but I am earthly – sold into slavery to sin.
15 Mukuti chonse chinitenda, kanichizuwisisi. Mukuti chonse chinisaka kutenda, kanichitendi, imi chinitoyete, nichitenda.
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 Kono heba nitenda chinisasaki, ni zuminzana ni mulao kuti mulao mulotu.
But when I do what I want not to do, I am admitting that the Law is right.
17 Kono hanu kaichili ime yozitenda, kono chive chihala mukati kangu.
This being so, the action is no longer my own, but is done by the sin which is within me.
18 Mukuti nizi kuti china kwangu, njichina munyamayangu, kakuhali chituchilotu. Mukuti itakazo yezilotu yina name, kono kaniwoli kuchitenda.
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 Mukuti zilotu zinisaka kutenda kanizitendi, kono zive zinisasaki kutenda, zinitenda.
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 Linuhanu haba nitenda chinisasaki kutenda, linu kayichili ime yochitenda, kono chive china name.
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 Niwana, linu, mazimo enakwangu akuti nisaka kutenda chilotu, kono chive initi china name.
This, then, is the law that I find – when I want to do right, wrong presents itself!
22 Linu nitabela mulao we Ireeza ni muntu wina name.
At heart I delight in the Law of God;
23 Kono nibona mazimo angi muzilama zenyamayangu. Zilwisana ni mazimo aboko kwangu. Ziletwa kusuminwa kwa mazimo echive ena muzilama zenyamayangu.
but throughout my body I see a different law, one which is in conflict with the law accepted by my reason, and which endeavors to make me a prisoner to that law of sin which exists throughout my body.
24 Nimuntu yasena ituso! Njeni yese anizwise mowu mubili wefu?
Miserable man that I am! Who will deliver me from the body that is bringing me to 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.
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.
