Warumi 7
1 Au hamjui, ndugu zangu (kwa kuwa naongea na watu wanaoijua sheria), kwamba sheria humtawala mtu anapokuwa hai?
Are ye ignorant, brethren — for to those knowing law I speak — that the law hath lordship over the man as long as he liveth?
2 Kwa maana mwanamke aliyeolewa amefungwa na sheria kwa yule mme wake anapokuwa hai, lakini ikiwa mme wake atakufa, atakuwa amewekwa huru kutoka sheria ya ndoa.
for the married woman to the living husband hath been bound by law, and if the husband may die, she hath been free from the law of the husband;
3 Hivyo basi, wakati mme wake angali akiishi, ikiwa anaishi na mwanamme mwingine, ataitwa mzinzi. Lakini ikiwa mme wake akifa, yuko huru dhidi ya sheria, hivyo hatakuwa mzinzi ikiwa anaishi na mwanamme mwingine.
so, then, the husband being alive, an adulteress she shall be called if she may become another man's; and if the husband may die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, having become another man's.
4 Kwa hiyo, ndugu zangu, ninyi pia mlifanywa wafu kwa sheria kwa njia ya mwili wa Kristo. Imekuwa hivi ili mpate kuunganishwa na mwingine, kwake yeye ambaye alifufuliwa kutoka wafu ili tuweze kumzalia Mungu matunda.
So that, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of the Christ, for your becoming another's, who out of the dead was raised up, that we might bear fruit to God;
5 Kwa maana tulipokuwa katika hali ya mwili, tamaa za dhambi ziliamshwa katika viungo vyetu kwa njia ya sheria na kuizalia mauti matunda.
for when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins, that [are] through the law, were working in our members, to bear fruit to the death;
6 Lakini sasa tumefunguliwa kutoka katika sheria. Tumeifia ile hali iliyotupinga. Ili sisi tupate kutumika katika hali mpya ya Roho, na si katika hali ya zamani ya andiko.
and now we have ceased from the law, that being dead in which we were held, so that we may serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of letter.
7 Tusemeje basi? Sheria ni dhambi? La hasha. Hata hivyo, nisingelitambua dhambi, isingelikuwa kwa njia ya sheria. Kwa kuwa nisingelijua kutamani kama sheria isingelisema, “Usitamani.”
What, then, shall we say? the law [is] sin? let it not be! but the sin I did not know except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the law had not said:
8 Lakini dhambi ilipata nafasi kwa ile amri na ikaleta ndani yangu kila aina ya kutamani. Kwa maana dhambi pasipo sheria imekufa.
'Thou shalt not covet;' and the sin having received an opportunity, through the command, did work in me all covetousness — for apart from law sin is dead.
9 Nami nilikuwa hai hapo kwanza bila sheria, lakini ilipokuja ile amri, dhambi ilipata uhai, nami nikafa.
And I was alive apart from law once, and the command having come, the sin revived, and I died;
10 Ile amri na ambayo ingelileta uzima iligeuka kuwa mauti kwangu.
and the command that [is] for life, this was found by me for death;
11 Kwa maana dhambi ilipata nafasi kwa ile amri na ikanidanganya. Kupitia ile amri, iliniua.
for the sin, having received an opportunity, through the command, did deceive me, and through it did slay [me];
12 Hivyo sheria ni takatifu, na ile amri ni takatifu, ya yaki, na njema.
so that the law, indeed, [is] holy, and the command holy, and righteous, and good.
13 Hivyo basi ile iliyo njema ilikuwa mauti kwangu mimi? Isiwe hivyo kamwe. Lakini dhambi, ili ionekane kuwa ni dhambi hasa kupitia ile njema, ilileta mauti ndani yangu. Hii ilikuwa ili kwamba kupitia ile amri, dhambi izidi kuwa mbaya mno.
That which is good then, to me hath it become death? let it not be! but the sin, that it might appear sin, through the good, working death to me, that the sin might become exceeding sinful through the command,
14 Kwa maana twajua ya kuwa sheria asili yake ni ya rohoni, lakini mimi ni mtu wa mwilini. Nimeuzwa chini ya utumwa wa dhambi.
for we have known that the law is spiritual, and I am fleshly, sold by the sin;
15 Maana nifanyalo, silielewi dhahiri. Kwa kuwa lile nilipendalo kutenda, silitendi, na lile nilichukialo, ndilo ninalolitenda.
for that which I work, I do not acknowledge; for not what I will, this I practise, but what I hate, this I do.
16 Lakini kama nikilitenda lile nisilolipenda, nakubaliana na sheria ya kuwa sheria ni njema.
And if what I do not will, this I do, I consent to the law that [it is] good,
17 Lakini sasa si mimi nafsi yangu ninayetenda hilo, bali ni ile dhambi ikaayo ndani yangu.
and now it is no longer I that work it, but the sin dwelling in me,
18 Kwa maana najua ya kuwa ndani yangu, yaani ndani ya mwili wangu, halikai jambo jema. Kwa kuwa tamaa ya lililo jema imo ndani yangu, lakini silitendi.
for I have known that there doth not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh, good: for to will is present with me, and to work that which is right I do not find,
19 Kwa maana lile jema nilipendalo silitendi, bali lile ovu nisilolipenda ndilo nilitendalo.
for the good that I will, I do not; but the evil that I do not will, this I practise.
20 Sasa kama natenda lile nisilolipenda, si mimi binafsi nilitendaye, bali ni ile dhambi ikaayo ndani yangu.
And if what I do not will, this I do, it is no longer I that work it, but the sin that is dwelling in me.
21 Nimefahama, tena, imo kanuni ndani yangu ya kutaka kutenda lililo jema, lakini uovu hakika umo ndani yangu.
I find, then, the law, that when I desire to do what is right, with me the evil is present,
22 Kwa maana naifurahia sheria ya Mungu kwa utu wa ndani.
for I delight in the law of God according to the inward man,
23 Lakini naona kanuni iliyo tofauti katika viungo vya mwili wangu. Inapiga vita dhidi ya kanuni mpya katika akili zangu. Inanifanya mimi mateka kwa kanuni ya dhambi iliyo katika viungo vya mwili wangu.
and I behold another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of the sin that [is] in my members.
24 Mimi ni mtu wa huzuni! Ni nani atakayeniokoa na mwili huu wa mauti?
A wretched man I [am]! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death?
25 Lakini shukrani kwa Mungu kwa Yesu Kristo Bwana wetu! Hivyo basi. Mimi mwenyewe kwa akili zangu naitumikia sheria ya Mungu. Bali, kwa mwili naitumikia kanuni ya dhambi.
I thank God — through Jesus Christ our Lord; so then, I myself indeed with the mind do serve the law of God, and with the flesh, the law of sin.
