Romans 7

1 Ẹ̀yin kò ha mọ̀, ara: nítorí èmí bá àwọn tí ó mọ òfin sọ̀rọ̀ pé, òfin ní ipá lórí ènìyàn níwọ̀n ìgbà tí ó bá wà láààyè nìkan?

Know all of you not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law, ) how that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives?

2 Fún àpẹẹrẹ, nípa òfin ní a de obìnrin mọ́ ọkọ rẹ̀ níwọ̀n ìgbà tí ọkọ náà wà láààyè, ṣùgbọ́n bí ọkọ rẹ̀ bá kú, a tú u sílẹ̀ kúrò nínú òfin ìgbéyàwó náà.

For the woman which has an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he lives; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

3 Nígbà náà, bí ó bá fẹ́ ọkùnrin mìíràn nígbà tí ọkọ rẹ̀ wà láààyè, panṣágà ní a ó pè é. Ṣùgbọ́n bí ọkọ rẹ̀ bá kú, ó bọ́ lọ́wọ́ òfin náà, kí yóò sì jẹ́ panṣágà bí ó bá ní ọkọ mìíràn.

So then if, while her husband lives, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

4 Bẹ́ẹ̀ ni ẹ̀yin ará mi, ẹ̀yin pẹ̀lú ti di òkú sí òfin nípa ara Kristi, kí ẹ̀yin kí ó lè ní ẹlòmíràn, àní ẹni náà tí a jí dìde kúrò nínú òkú, kí àwa kí ó lè so èso fún Ọlọ́run.

Wherefore, my brethren, all of you also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that all of you should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

5 Nítorí ìgbà tí a wa nípa ti ara, ìfẹ́kúfẹ̀ẹ́ ẹ̀ṣẹ̀ nípa ti òfin, ma ń ṣiṣẹ́ nínú wa, tí a sì ń so èso tí ó yẹ fún ikú.

For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

6 Ṣùgbọ́n nísinsin yìí, nípa kíkú ohun tó so wá pọ̀ tẹ́lẹ̀ rí, a ti tú wa sílẹ̀ kúrò nínú òfin, kí a lè sin ín ní ìlànà tuntun ti Ẹ̀mí, kì í ṣe ní ìlànà àtijọ́ tí ìwé òfin gùnlé.

But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, (pneuma) and not in the oldness of the letter.

7 Ǹjẹ́ àwa o ha ti wí, nígbà náà? Òfin ha ń ṣe ẹ̀ṣẹ̀ bí? Kí a má rí i! Ṣùgbọ́n èmi kì bá tí mọ ohun tí ẹ̀ṣẹ̀ jẹ́, bí kò ṣe nípa òfin. Èmi kì bá tí mọ ojúkòkòrò, bí kò ṣe bí òfin ti wí pé, “Ìwọ kò gbọdọ̀ ṣe ojúkòkòrò.”

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, You shall not covet.

8 Ṣùgbọ́n ẹ̀ṣẹ̀ sì ti ipa òfin rí ààyè ṣiṣẹ́ onírúurú ìfẹ́kúfẹ̀ẹ́ nínú mi. Nítorí láìsí òfin, ẹ̀ṣẹ̀ jẹ́ ikú.

But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.

9 Èmi sì ti wà láààyè láìsí òfin nígbà kan rí; ṣùgbọ́n nígbà tí òfin dé, ẹ̀ṣẹ̀ sọjí èmi sì kú.

For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

10 Mo ṣàkíyèsí pé òfin tí ó yẹ kí ó mú ìyè wá ni ó padà mú ikú wá.

And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.

11 Nítorí ẹ̀ṣẹ̀ ti ipa òfin rí ààyè láti tàn mí jẹ, ó sì ti ipa òfin ṣe ikú pa mi.

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

12 Bẹ́ẹ̀ ni mímọ́ ni òfin, mímọ́ sì ni àṣẹ, àti òdodo, àti dídára.

Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

13 Ǹjẹ́ ohun tí ó dára ha di ikú fún mi bí? Kí a má rí i! Ṣùgbọ́n kí ẹ̀ṣẹ̀, kí ó lè farahàn bí ẹ̀ṣẹ̀, ó ń ti ipa ohun tí ó dára ṣiṣẹ́ ikú nínú mi, kí ẹ̀ṣẹ̀ lè ti ipa òfin di búburú rékọjá.

Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.

14 Nítorí àwa mọ̀ pé ohun ẹ̀mí ni òfin, ṣùgbọ́n ẹni ti ara ni èmi, tí a ti tà sábẹ́ ẹ̀ṣẹ̀.

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

15 Èmi pàápàá, kò mọ̀ ohun tí èmi ń ṣe. Nítorí pé, ohun tí mo fẹ́ ṣe gan an n kò ṣe é, ṣùgbọ́n ohun tí mo kórìíra ni mo ń ṣe.

For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.

16 Ṣùgbọ́n bí mo bá ṣe ohun tí èmi kò fẹ́, mo gbà pé òfin dára.

If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.

17 Ṣùgbọ́n bí ọ̀rọ̀ ṣe rí yìí kì í ṣe èmi ni ó ṣe é bí kò ṣe ẹ̀ṣẹ̀ tí ń gbé inú mi.

Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwells in me.

18 Èmi mọ̀ dájú pé kò sí ohun tí ó dára kan tí ń gbé inú mi, àní, nínú ara ẹ̀ṣẹ̀ mi. Èmi fẹ́ ṣe èyí tí ó dára, ṣùgbọ́n kò sé é ṣe.

For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh, ) dwells no good thing: in order to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

19 Nítorí ohun tí èmi ṣe kì í ṣe ohun rere tí èmi fẹ́ láti ṣe; rárá, ṣùgbọ́n búburú tí èmi kò fẹ́, èyí nì ni èmi ń ṣe.

For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

20 Nísinsin yìí, bí mo bá ń ṣe nǹkan tí n kò fẹ́ láti ṣe, kì í ṣe èmí fúnra mi ni ó ṣe é, bí kò ṣe ẹ̀ṣẹ̀ tí ń bẹ nínú ni ó ṣe é.

Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwells in me.

21 Nítorí náà, èmi kíyèsi pé òfin ní ń ṣiṣẹ́ nínú mi, nígbà tí èmi bá fẹ́ ṣe rere, búburú wà níbẹ̀ pẹ̀lú mi.

I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

22 Nínú ìjìnlẹ̀ ọkàn mi mo ní inú dídùn sí òfin Ọlọ́run;

For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

23 mo rí òfin mìíràn tó ń ṣiṣẹ́ nínú ẹ̀yà ara mi, èyí tí ń gbógun ti òfin tó tinú ọkàn mi wá, èyí tí ó sọ mi di ẹrú òfin ẹ̀ṣẹ̀ tí ó ń ṣiṣẹ́ nínú ẹ̀yà ara mi.

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 Èmi ẹni òsì! Ta ni yóò ha gbà mí sílẹ̀ lọ́wọ́ ara kíkú yìí?

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

25 Ọpẹ́ ni fún Ọlọ́run nípasẹ̀ Jesu Kristi Olúwa wa! Ǹjẹ́ nítorí náà, èmi fúnra mi jẹ́ ẹrú sí òfin Ọlọ́run, ṣùgbọ́n nínú ara ẹ̀ṣẹ̀ mo jẹ́ ẹrú fún òfin ẹ̀ṣẹ̀.

I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.