Walumi 7
1 Aje semmenye, mwaholo bhane (hwa habhe eyanga na bhatu bhabhaimenye edajizyo), aje edajizyo ehatabhala omtu pali mwomi?
Do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to those who know law), that the law has authority over someone only as long as he lives?
2 Hwa huje oshe yayegwilwe afungwilwe nedajizyo hwola olume wakwe pali mwomi nantele huje olume nkawafwa abhabhe abhehwilwe wene afume hundajizyo eye ndowa.
For example, a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if the man should die, she is released from the law about the husband.
3 Eshi basi, husiku olumu wakwe nkali sadela, huje adela no lume owenje tiigahuni nkashe. Je olume wakwe afwiye aliwene hundajizyo, esho sagabhabhe huni nkashele adela nalume owenje.
So then, if she should ‘marry’ another man while her husband is living, she will be labeled an adulteress; but if the husband should die, she is free from that law, not being an adulteress if she marries another man.
4 Hwelyo, mwaholo bhane, amwe eshi mwabhombwilwe bhafwe bhe ndajizyo hwidala elye mbele gwa Kilisiti. Eli eshi aje tiuganisiwe noweje hwamwene yuoyu yali azyosyelwe afume hwabhafwe aje tiwezye hupapile Ongolobhe amadodolo.
Therefore, my brothers, you also were put to death to the law through the body of the Christ so as to belong to another—to Him who was raised from the dead—so that we should produce fruit to God.
5 Huje patali tili shi bele, enyonyo ezye mbibhi zya damuziwe hu viungo vyetu hwidala elyedajizyo naipapile efwa amadondolo.
Because when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our body parts to produce fruit to death.
6 Nantele ehi tipinyilwe afume hudajizyo. Tiifweleye ela yayli etikhomile. Aje ate tipate atumishe hu hali empya ye Fijili, nate huhaliye made ye nsimbo.
But now we have been released from the law, having died to what was gripping us, so as to slave in newness of spirit and not in oldness of letter.
7 Tiyajewele eshi? Endajizyo aje mbibhi? Haa. Hata eshi, senezagai manye embibhi, hangasaya hali hwidala lye ndajizyo. Aje saganaheza gama asangwe aje ndajizyo hangasaga eyanjile, “Osinyonye.”
So what shall we say then? Is the law sin? Of course not! Indeed, I would not have come to know the sin except through the law: I would not have recognized covetousness if the law had not said, “You must not covet.”
8 Huje embibhi yapate nafwasi hwela eemuli nalete muhati mulini shila aina eyensongwo. Huje embibhi pasagapali endajizyo efwiye.
But the sin, grasping an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. Now without the law sin is dead.
9 Nane ehali mwomi epo olwahwande bila ndajizyo, eshi pehenza ela eamuli embibhi yapete owomi, nane nafwa.
Once upon a time, without law, I was actually ‘alive’; but when the commandment came, the sin came to life and I died.
10 Ela eamuli yayali elete owomi yagalushe abhe fwa hulini.
Yes, the commandment that was to bring me life turned out to bring death.
11 Hwa huje embibhi yapete enufwa si hwela eamuli nantele yahopeye. Ashilile hwela eamuli, yangojile.
Because the sin, grasping an opportunity through the commandment, completely deceived me, and used it to ‘kill’ me.
12 Eshi edajizyo ntufye, yope ela eamuli ntufye, yelyoli na nyinza.
So then, the law itself is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
13 Eshi basi elayeli nyinza yalifwa hulini ane. Eganjebhe sho kabisa huje embibhi yaloleshe abhe mbibhi hani ajedele hwela enyinza ehaletile efwa muhati mlini. Eneyali aje huje ajendele hwela eamuli embibhi zyonje lele abhe mbibhi tee.
So has what is good become death to me? Of course not! Rather the sin, that it might be exposed as sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment the sin might become extremely sinful.
14 Hwa huje timenye yahuje endejizyo shikulilo shakwe shahumwoyo eshiane endimtu webele. Enkaziwe pasi patumwe owembibhi.
We know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, having been ‘sold’ under sin
15 Aje lye bhomba saga, edimanya shinza. Aje lila lyedigene abhombe saga edibhomba nalila lyendivitwa lyebhomba.
—you see, I do not understand what I am doing: I do not practice what I want to do, but I do what I hate!
16 Aje shi nkembalibhombe lila lyasaga endigene ehwetehana nedajizyo eya je edajizyo nyinza.
But if I do what I do not want to do, I agree with the law that it is good.
17 Huje eshi saga nene humwoyo gwane nebhomba elyo, huje yoyela embibhi yekhala muhati mlini.
So now it is no longer I who am doing it, but the sin dwelling in me.
18 Hwa huje emenye aje muhati mlini aje muhati mbele, gwana sezikhala enongwa. Enyenza hwa hubhe enyonyo eyeliza eli muhati mulini, aje sebhomba.
Further, I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; because to will is present with me, but I do not find how to perform the good.
19 Hwa huje lila elinza lyendigene saga edibhamba huje lila ibhibhi lyasaga edigene lyebhomba.
Because I do not do the good that I want to do; rather I practice the evil that I do not want to do.
20 Eshi khashele ebhomba lila lyasaga edigene saga nene binafusi nebhomba huje yayela embibhi yeli muhati mulini.
Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but the sin dwelling in me.
21 Emenye, nantele ehweli ekanu ni muhati mulini ya hwanze abhombe lyalili linza eshi embibhi lyoli zihweli muhati mulini.
So I find this ‘law’: when I want to do good, evil is right there with me.
22 Hwa huje ejisongwelwe edajizyo yo Ngolobhe hu utu owa muhati.
I joyfully agree with God's law according to the inner man,
23 Eshi ejilola ekanuni yeli payo huviungo vyavili mble gwane. Ekho mana ibho huzidi ya kanuni empya hujele zyane. Embomba ane abhekhatwe hukanuniye mbibhi mbibhi yeli huviungo vyavili mubele.
but I see a different ‘law’ in my body parts, warring against the law of my mind and taking me captive to the law of the sin that is in my body parts.
24 Ane edi mtu we sago wenu gadafyole no mbele oguuogwe fwe?
What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
25 Eshi salifi hwa Ngolobhe owa Yesu Kilisiti Ogosi wetu! Aje eshi ane nene hunjele zyune enjitumishila endajizyo ya Ngolobhe. Aje hubele ejitumishila kanuni yenzambe.
I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I myself serve God's law, but with the flesh, sin's law.
