Baloma 7

1 Mobanse, ndambanga ne njamwe, pakwinga mwense muwinshi mulawo. Mucinsheti Milawo ikute kwendelesha muntu acibanga muyumi.

Whether are you ignorant, O brethren, for I speak to those knowing the law, for the law hath dominion over a man for so long time as he may live?

2 Mwacilesho, milawo ilambangeti, mutukashi webwa wasungwa kumulume pacindi conse mulume acibanga muyumi. Nomba mulume afwa, mutukashi usa ukute kusunguluka ku milawo ya cikwati.

For a woman who is under her husband has been given to her husband by the law so long as he lives; but if the husband may die, she is free from the law of the husband.

3 Weco, na mutukashi wenda ne mutuloba naumbi ibendi kacili muyumi, ukute kwambweti nimupombo. Nomba ibendi afwa, mutukashi ukute usunguluka ku Milawo ya cikwati, neco ebwa ku mutuloba naumbi liya kwinsa bupombo sobwe.

Then if she may be married to another man, her husband still living, she will be designated an adulteress: but if her husband may die, she is free from the law; and is no adulteress, though she is married to another man.

4 Nicimo cimo nenjamwe mobanse. Pakwinga lino njamwe cilama ca mubili wa Yesu Klistu. Mpwalafwa ne njamwe mwalafwa nendi pamo, mwalasungululwa ku Milawo, neco lino njamwe bakendi uyo walapunduka kubafu kwambeti tucikonshe kusebensela cena Lesa.

So, my brethren, ye are dead to the law through the body of Christ, that ye should be married to another, to him who is risen from the dead, in order that we may bring forth fruit unto God.

5 Pakwinga pacindi mpotwalikwikala mubwikalo bwakusemwa nabo, lunkumbwa lwakuyanda kwinsa bintu byaipa lwalikuboneka mu Milawo byalikusebensa mumibili yetu, nomba ibyo ebyalaleta lufu.

For when we were in carnality, the emotions of sins, which were through the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

6 Nsombi lino twasungululwa ku Milawo. Twabeti twalafwa ne kulekana ne Milawo iyo yalikutusunga busha. Lino Mushimu Uswepa ulatunyamfwanga kusebensela Lesa munshila shalinolino, nshila yakaindi yakukonkela Milawo yalembwa twaileka.

But now we have been made free from the law, being dead in that in which we were held; so that we serve in the newness of the spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

7 Lino ngatwamba aconi? Sena twambeti Milawo yaipa? Sobwe! Milawo eyalandesheti njishibe bwipishi. Pakwinga Milawo neyalabula kwambeti utakumbwa ca munobe, nendalabula kwinshiba kwipa kwa lunkumbwa lwakame.

Then what shall we say? is the law sin? It could not be so; but I did not know sin except through the law: for indeed I had not known lusts, unless the law said, Thou shalt not covet.

8 Pacebo ca Mulawo uyu, bwipishi bwalacana pakwingilila mulinjame mbuli lunkumbwa lwa bintu byapusana pusana. Pakwinga kwabula Milawo, bwipishi nkabwelela kubapo sobwe.

But sin, taking occasion through the commandment, did work in me all concupiscence; for without law sin was dead.

9 Ame kaindi ndalikwikala kwakubula Mulawo, nsombi pacindi mpondalatatika kwinshiba Milawo, popelapo bwipishi bwalatatika kukonempa mubuyumi bwakame.

But I was alive at one time without law: but the commandment having come, sin revived,

10 Nomba ame ndalabeti ndafwa. Lino Milawo yopeleyo yalikuyandika kuleta buyumi kulinjame, nomba eyalantwala ku lufu.

and I died; and the commandment, which was unto life, the same was unto death.

11 Pakwinga bwipishi bwalacana pakwingilila pacebo ca Milawo yalambepa ne kunshina.

For sin, taking occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it slew me.

12 Mwakutatonshana, Milawo ya Mose yonse yaswepa, kayi mulawo uliwonse waswepa walulama kayi waina.

So the law is indeed holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

13 Sena ekwambeti cintu caina ici ecalanshinisha? Sobwe! Nsombi bwipishi ebwalanshina pakusebensesha cintu caina calandetela lufu, kwambeti bwikalo bwa buntu bwakame bwaipa bubonekele pantangalala. Kupitila mu Milawo, bwipishi bukute kuboneketi bwaipa ciyosha!

Then did that which is good become death to me? it could not be so: but sin, that it may appear sin, through the good was working out death to me, in order that sin may be exceedingly sinful through the commandment.

14 Tucinsheti Milawo ya Mose ni Lesa walamupa. Nsombi ame njame muntu watyompwa, kayi wolishiwa eti musha kubwipishi.

For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, having been sold under sin.

15 Nkankute kwinshiba mbyonkute kwinsa. Pakwinga nkakute kwinsa bintu mbyonsuni kwinsa, nsombi bintu mbyondapela, embyonkute kwinsa.

For that which I do, I know not: for I do that which I do not will; but I do that which I hate.

16 Nsombi na nkandayandanga kwinsa byaipa mbyonkute kwinsa, ekwambeti ndasuminishinga kwambeti Milawo isa yaina.

But if I do that which I do not will, I consent to the law that it is beautiful;

17 Neco bintu bikute kwinshika, ntame nkute kubinsa, nsombi nibwipishi buli mukati mwakame.

but now it is no more I that do it, but sin dwelling in me.

18 Ndicinsheti mulinjame nkamukute kwikala bintu byaina. “Ndambanga pa bwikalo bwa buntu bwakusemwa nabo.” Nambi nkute kuyanda kwinsa bintu byaina, nkankute kubinsa.

For I know that in me, that is, in my carnal mind, there dwells no good thing. For to will is present with me, but to do that which is beautiful is not:

19 Nkankute kwinsa byaina ibyo mbyonsuni, nsombi nkute kwinsa byaipa ibyo mbyontasuni.

for the good which I will I do not; but the evil which I do not will, that I do.

20 Nandenshinga bintu mbyontasuni, ekwambeti ntame ndabinshinga nsombi nibwipishi buli mukati mwakame.

If I do that which I do not will, it is no longer I that do it, but sin dwelling in me.

21 Neco nkute kuboneti uwu mulawo ukute kulwana mukati mwakame pakwinga pacindi ncondayandanga kwinsa byaina, byaipa bikute kabili nenjame.

Then I find a law, that, to me wishing to do that which is beautiful, that the evil is present with me:

22 Moyo wakame ukute kukondwa ne Milawo ya Lesa.

for I delight in the law of God according to the inward man;

23 Nsombi mukati mwakame nkute kubona mulawo naumbi ukute kulwana mu mubili wakame, mulawo uwo eukute kulwana kayi ne miyeyo yakame, mulawo wopeloyo ulansandulu kuba musha wa mulawo wa bwipishi uli mulinjame.

but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

24 Ndemucangu ame! Niyani eshampulushe kufuma mumubili uwu ulantwalanga ku lufu?

O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

25 Tulumbaishe Lesa! Endiye eshampulushe kupitila muli Yesu Klistu Mwami wetu. Neco ame mu miyeyo yakame yonse nkute kusebensela Milawo ya Lesa, nsombi bwikalo bwakame bwakusemwa nabo bukute kusebensela mulawo wa bwipishi.

Thanks be unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord: then therefore with the mind I serve the law of God; but with carnality the law of sin.