VaRoma 7
1 Hamuzivi here, hama (nokuti ndinotaura kuna avo vanoziva murairo), kuti murairo unotonga munhu nguva yese yaanenge ari mupenyu?
Or do ye not know, my Brethren.-(for I am speaking to them that know the law, )- that the law hath dominion over a man, as long as he is alive?
2 Nokuti mukadzi akawanikwa wakasungwa nemurairo kumurume anorarama; asi kana murume afa, wasunungurwa pamurairo wemurume.
Just as a woman, by the law, is bound to her husband, as long as he is alive: but if her husband should die, she is freed from the law of her husband.
3 Naizvozvo zvino kana murume ari mupenyu, achanzi chifeve kana akava weumwe murume; asi kana murume afa, wasununguka pamurairo, kuti asava chifeve, kana akava wemumwe murume.
And if, while her husband is alive, she should adhere to another man, she would become an adulteress: but if her husband should die, she is freed from the law; and would not be an adulteress though joined to another man.
4 Naizvozvo, hama dzangu, nemwi makaitwa vakafa kumurairo nemuviri waKristu, kuti muve veumwe, kuna iye wakamutswa kubva kuvakafa, kuti tiberekere Mwari zvibereko.
And now, my brethren, ye also have become dead to the law, by the body of Messiah; that ye might be joined to another, even to him who arose from the dead; and might yield fruits unto God.
5 Nokuti pataiva munyama, kuchiva kwezvivi zvaiva kubidikidza nemurairo kwakabata mumitezo yedu kubereka zvibereko zvinoisa kurufu.
For while we were in the flesh, the emotions of sin which are by the law, were active in our members, that we should bear fruits unto death.
6 Asi zvino takasunungurwa pamurairo, takafa kune zvatakange takabatwa nazvo, kuti tishumire muutsva hwemweya, kwete neutsaru hwerugwaro.
But now we are absolved from the law, and are dead to that which held us in its grasp: that we might henceforth serve in the newness of the spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
7 Ko zvino tichatii? Murairo chivi here? Ngazvisadaro! Asi handisaiziva chivi, kunze kwekubudikidza nemurairo; nokuti handisaizivawo ruchiva, kana murairo wakange usina kureva kuti: Usachiva.
What shall we say then? Is the law sin?, Far be it. For I had not learned sin, except by means of the law: for I had not known concupiscence, had not the law said, Thou shalt not covet:
8 Asi chivi, chawana mukana nemurairo, chikaita mandiri ruchiva rwese; nokuti kunze kwemurairo chivi chakafa.
and by this commandment, sin found occasion, and perfected in me all concupiscence: for without the law, sin was dead.
9 Ini ndakambova mupenyu kunze kwemurairo, asi murairo pawakasvika, chivi chakava chipenyuzve, neni ndikafa;
And I, without the law, was alive formerly; but when the commandment came, sin became alive, and I died;
10 uye murairo waiva weupenyu, iwo wakawanikwa neni wava werufu;
and the commandment of life was found by me to be unto death.
11 nokuti chivi, chawana mukana nemurairo, chakandinyengera chikandiuraya nawo.
For sin, by the occasion which it found by means of the commandment, seduced me; and thereby slew me.
12 Naizvozvo mutemo mutsvene, nemurairo mutsvene, uye wakarurama, uye wakanaka.
Wherefore, the law is holy; and the commandment is holy, and righteous, and good.
13 Naizvozvo zvakanaka zvakava rufu mandiri here? Ngazvisadaro! Asi chivi, kuti chiratidzwe kuti chivi, chinobata rufu mandiri nezvakanaka; kuti chivi nemurairo chive chakaipa kwazvo-kwazvo.
Did that which is good, therefore, become death to me? Far be it. But sin, that it might be seen to be sin, perfected death in me by means of that good law; that sin might the more be condemned, by means of the commandment.
14 Nokuti tinoziva kuti murairo ndewemweya; asi ini ndiri wenyama, ndakatengeswa pasi pechivi.
For we know, that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, and sold to sin.
15 Nokuti icho chandinoita, handichizivi; nokuti chandinoda, ndicho chandisingaiti; asi chandinovenga, ndicho chandinoita.
For what I am doing, I know not: and what I would, I do not perform; but what I hate, that I do.
16 Zvino kana ndichiita icho chandisingadi, ndinobvumirana nemurairo kuti wakanaka.
And if I do what I would not, I testify of the law, that it is right.
17 Asi ikozvinowo handisisiri ini ndinochiita, asi chivi chinogara mandiri.
And then, it is no more I who do that thing; but sin, which dwelleth in me.
18 Nokuti ndinoziva kuti mandiri, ndiko kuti munyama yangu, hamugari chakanaka; nokuti kuda kurimo mandiri, asi kuita chakanaka handikuwani.
For I know, that in me, (that is, in my flesh, ) good dwelleth not: because, to approve the good, is easy for me; but to do it, I am unable.
19 Nokuti chakanaka chandinoda, handiiti; asi chakaipa chandisingadi, ndicho chandinoita.
For I do not perform the good, which I would perform; but the bad, which I would not perform, that I do perform.
20 Zvino kana ndichiita icho chandisingadi ini, handisisiri ini ndinochiita, asi chivi chinogara mandiri.
And if I do what I would not, it is not I that do it, but sin which dwelleth in me.
21 Naizvozvo ndinowana murairo wekuti kana ndichida kuita chakanaka, chakaipa chiripo pandiri.
I find therefore a law coinciding with my conscience, which assenteth to my doing good, whereas evil is near to me.
22 Nokuti ndinofara mumurairo waMwari zvinoenderana nemunhu wemukati;
For I rejoice in the law of God, in the interior man.
23 asi ndinoona umwe murairo mumitezo yangu unorwa nemurairo wemurangariro wangu, uye uchanditapira kumurairo wechivi uri mumitezo yangu.
But I see another law in my members, which warreth against the law of my conscience, and maketh me a captive to the law of sin which existeth in my members
24 Ini munhu anosuruvara! Ndiani achandisunungura pamuviri werufu urwu?
O, a miserable man, am I! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
25 Ndinotenda Mwari kubudikidza naJesu Kristu Ishe wedu. Naizvozvo zvino nemurangariro ini ndomene ndinoshumira murairo waMwari, asi nenyama murairo wechivi.
I thank God; by means of our Lord Jesus Messiah I shall be rescued. [ (Romans 7:26) Now, therefore, in my conscience, I am a servant of the law of God; but in my flesh, I am a servant of the law of sin. ]
