Baroma 7
1 A ga lo ise lo bo lo tlhaloganye, bakaulengwe ba Sejuta ba ba rategang mo go Keresete, gore fa motho a a swa, molao ga o sa tlhole o mo tlama?
Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?
2 Mmang ke tshwantshe: Fa mosadi a nyalwa, molao o mo golegelela mo monneng wa gagwe fela fa a sa ntse a tshela. Mme fa monna a a swa, mosadi ga a sa tlhole a golegeletswe mo go ene; melao ya lonyalo ga e sa tlhole e mo ama.
For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.
3 Mme o ka nna a nyalwa ke monna o sele fa a rata. Moo go ne go tlaa bo go sa siama fa monna a ne a sa ntse a tshela, mme go siame sentle fela fa monna a sule.
So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.
4 “Monna wa gago,” mong wa gago e kile ya ne e le molao wa Sejuta; mme o ne wa “swa” jaaka o ka re o swa le Keresete mo mokgorong; mme ka o “sule”, ga o sa tlhole o “Nyetswe ke molao,” le gone molao ga o sa tlhole o na le taolo mo go wena. Mme o ne wa boela mo botshelong gape fa Keresete a rula, jalo he o motho yo mosha. Mme jaanong o “nyetswe,” go bua jalo ke raya gore, o nyetswe ke yo o tsogileng mo baswing, gore o tle o ungwe loungo lo lo siameng, ke gore ditiro tse di siameng tsa Modimo.
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 might produce fruit to God.
5 Erile fa tlholego ya lona e kgologolo e sa ntse e dira mo nameng, dithato tsa boleo di ne di dira mo go lona, di lo batlisa go dira sengwe le sengwe se Modimo o neng o re lo seka lwa se dira, lo ungwa ditiro tsa boleo, loungo lo lo bolayang lwa loso.
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law worked in our members to bring out fruit to death.
6 Mme jaanong ga lo sa tlhole lo tlhokana le go tshwenyega ka melao ya Sejuta le ngwao gonne lo ne lwa “swa” lo sa ntse lo le mo botshwarongjwa yone, mme jaanong lo ka direla Modimo tota; eseng ka tsela e kgologolo e ka yone lo neng lo obamela melao ka fa go batlwang ka teng, mme e leng ka tsela e ncha, (lo o obamela ka bojotlhe jwa dipelo tsa lona le maikutlo).
But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.
7 Mme jalo, a ke raya gore melao e ya Modimo e bosula? Nnyaa ga ke rialo! Molao ga o boleo gonne ke one molao o o mpontshiteng sebe sa me. Nkabo ke ile ka seka ka itse sebe se se mo pelong ya me, dithato tse di bosula tse di fitlhegileng mo go yone fa molao o ne o sa re, “O seka wa nna le dithato tse di bosula mo pelong ya gago.”
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”
8 Mme sebe se dirisitse molao o kgatlhanong le dithato tse di bosula ka go nkgakolola gore dithato tse di ntseng jalo ga di a siama ebile di tsosa mefuta yotlhe ya dithato tse di sa letlelelweng mo go nna! Fela fa go ne go sena melao e e ka rojwang go ka bo go sena boleo.
But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
9 Ke sone se ke neng ke ikutlwa sentle fa ke sa tlhaloganye se tota molao o neng o se batla. Mme erile fa ke sena go ithuta boammaaruri, ke ne ka lemoga gore ke robile molao ebile ke moleofi yo o tshwanetseng go swa.
I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.
10 Mme ka fa ke lemogileng ka teng, molao o o molemo o o neng o tshwanetse go ntshupegetsa tsela ya botshelo o ne wa dira gore ke atlholelwe loso.
The commandment which was for life, this I found to be for death;
11 Sebe sa ntsietsa ka go tsaya melao e e molemo ya Modimo se e dirisa go nkatlholela loso.
for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.
12 Le fa go ntse jalo, lemoga gore molao ka bo one o ne o siame ebile o le molemo.
Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, righteous, and good.
13 Mme moo go ka diragala jang? A molao ga se one o o dirileng gore ke atlholelwe loso? Mme jaanong molao o ka nna molemo jang? Nnyaa, e ne e le sebe, ke selo sa bo-Satane, se se dirisitseng se se neng se le molemo go lere katlholo ya me. Jalo o ka bona ka fa maikaelelong a sone a a bosula go bolaya le go atlholela loso.
Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, was producing death in me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceedingly sinful.
14 Molao o molemo, jalo he, molato ga o mo molaong o mo go nna, gonne ke rekisitswe mo botlhankeng jwa sebe jaaka monngake.
For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
15 Ga ke itlhaloganye gotlhelele, gonne tota ke batla go dira se se molemo, mme ga ke kgone. Ke dira se ke sa se rateng go se dira, se ke se ilang.
For I don’t understand what I am doing. For I don’t practise what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.
16 Ke itse sentle gore se ke se dirang ga se a siama, le letswalo la me le le sa siamang le supa gore ke dumalana le melao e ke e robang.
But if what I don’t desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.
17 Mme ga ke kgone go ithusa, gonne ga se nna ke se dirang. Ke sebe se se mo go nna ke sone se nonofileng go mpheta, ke sone se ntirisang dilo tse di bosula tse.
So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.
18 Ke itse gore ke bodile e le ruri ka ntlha ya tlholego ya me e kgologolo ya boleo. Le fa ke re ke leka go tilela kae, ga ke kgone go itira gore ke dire tshiamo. Ke a rata mme ga ke kgone.
For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.
19 Fa ke batla go dira molemo ga ke o dire; mme fa ke leka gore ke se ka ka dira bosula, ke a bo dira.
For the good which I desire, I don’t do; but the evil which I don’t desire, that I practise.
20 Jaanong fa ke dira se ke sa rateng go se dira, go bonala sentle kwa molato o leng teng: Sebe se santse se nngaparetse ka bosula jwa sone.
But if what I don’t desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.
21 Go bonala e le boammaaruri jo bo leng teng mo botshelong gore fa ke batla go dira se se siameng, ke hekeetsega go dira se se sa siamang.
I find then the law that, while I desire to do good, evil is present.
22 Ke rata go dira go rata ga Modimo fela kafa tlholegong yame e ncha e ntseng ka teng;
For I delight in God’s law after the inward person,
23 mme go na le selo sengwe mo botennye jwa me, mo tlholegong ya me e kgologolo, se se tlhabanang le tlhaloganyo ya me, mme se ntira motlhanka wa boleo jo bo sa ntseng bo le mo go nna.
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 Mo tlhaloganyong ya me ke batla go nna motlhanka wa Modimo yo o ikemise-ditseng go dira go rata ga one mme mo boemong jwa moo ke iphitlhela ke sa ntse ke le motlhanka wa boleo. Jalo lo bona ka fa go ntseng ka teng: Botshelo jwa me jo bosha bo mpolelela gore ke dire molemo, mme tlholego e kgologolo e e sa ntseng e le mo go nna e rata go leofa.
What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?
25 Oo, ke mo bothateng jo bo boitshegang jang! Emang yo o tlaa nkgololang mo botlhankeng jo jwa tlholego e ya loso. Ke leboga Modimo! Gonne go setse go dirilwe ke Keresete Morena wa rona. O nkgolotse.
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.
