Men Rom 7
1 DE ri ai kan, komail jota aja i kin peidok ren me aja kapun o me kapun o kin poedi aramaj arain a memaur?
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 Pwe li amen, me a warok mia, kin kaupinki kapun en a warok arain a memaur. A ma a warok melar, a muei janer kapun en a warok.
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 A ma a pan paudeki amen ol ni a warok memaur, a pan adaneki kamal amen; a ma a warok melar, a muei janer kapun, ap jota pan kamal amen, ma a pan pur on amen ol.
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 Ari ri ai kan, iduen pil komail mekilar kapun o pweki war en Krijtuj, pwen wiala nain amen, iet, me iajadar jan ren me melar akan, pwen kaparapar on Kot.
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 Pwe ni at kekeideki tiak en pali uduk, inon en dip me kelail nan kokon atail pweki kapun o, pwen kaparapar on mela.
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 A met kitail muei janer kapun o, pwe jal pat on mela olar, pwe kitail en papa on tiak kap en nen, a kaidin on tiak marin en intin.
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 Ari, da me kitail en inda? Me dip kapun o? O jo! A i pan jaja dip, ma jo kapun. Pwe I pan jaja duen inon jued, ma kapun jo kalok kidar: Koe der norok!
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 A dip kadiarok kidar kujoned, ap kainon on ia jon en inon jued karoj, pwe ma jota kapun dip mela.
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 Pwe maj o i jota mi pan kapun, ap mamaureta, a kujoned lao mia, dip ai ap diarokadar.
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 A nai melar; kujoned, me loki don ia, pwe i en maure kida, kare on ia mela.
The commandment that should have meant life I found to result in death!
11 Pwe dip kadiarok kidar kujoned liapai ia dar, ap kame ia lar.
Sin took advantage of the commandment to deceive me, and used it to bring about my death.
12 Ari, kapun o me jaraui o kujoned me jaraui, a pun o mau.
And so the Law is holy, and each commandment is also holy, and just, and good.
13 A iaduen me mau kot kare on ia mela? O jo! A dip en janjale kida me kamau o ni a kare on ia mela, pwe dip en janjale kida kujoned.
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 Pwe kitail aja, me kapun o me nenin, a nai me uduken o netilan dip.
We know that the Law is spiritual, but I am earthly – sold into slavery to sin.
15 Pwe i jota aja, da me i en wia. Pwe kaidin me i mauki, me i kin wiada, a me i kin juedeki, iei me i kin wia.
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 Ari, ma i kin wiada, me i kan wia, nan i kin kajanjaleda, me kapun me mau.
But when I do what I want not to do, I am admitting that the Law is right.
17 A ma i wiadar, me i jota men wia, kaidin nai me wiadar, a dip me mimi lol i.
This being so, the action is no longer my own, but is done by the sin which is within me.
18 Pwe i aja, me jota mau kot mi lol i nan uduk ai, pwe i kin men wiada me mau, a en anada me pun i jota kak on.
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 Pwe me mau o, me i men wiada, i jota kin kapwaida, a me jued, me i kan, i me i kin wiada.
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 A ma i wiada, me i jo men wiada, kaidin nai me wiada, a dip me mi lol i.
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 let me kapun kadiarok on ia: Ni ai men wiada me mau, me jued mimi re i.
This, then, is the law that I find – when I want to do right, wrong presents itself!
22 Pwe i kin mauki kapun en Kot pali lol en aramaj.
At heart I delight in the Law of God;
23 I ap diaradar eu kapun ni ai kokon akan, me kin palian kapun en loli, ap kalua ia di pan kapun en dip, me mi nan ai kokon akan.
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 O nai aramaj luet amen! Ij me pan kamaio wei ia jan ni war mela wet!
Miserable man that I am! Who will deliver me from the body that is bringing me to this death?
25 I danke Kot pweki Iejuj Krijtuj atail Kaun. Nan lol i i kin papan kapun en Kot, a ni pali uduk kapun en dip.
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.
