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?
Surely, friends, you know (for I am speaking to people who know what Law means) that Law has power over a person only as long as they 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 example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband while he is living; but, if her husband dies, she is set free from the law that bound her to him.
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.
If, then, during her husband’s lifetime, she unites herself to another man, she will be called an adulteress; but, if her husband dies, the law has no further hold on her, nor, if she unites herself to another man, is she an adulteress.
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.
And so with you, my friends; as far as the Law was concerned, you underwent death in the crucified body of the Christ, so that you might be united to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that our lives might bear fruit for 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.
When we were living merely earthly lives, our sinful passions, aroused by the Law, were active in every part of our bodies, with the result that our lives bore fruit for 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 set free from the Law, because we are dead to that which once kept us under restraint; and so we serve under new, spiritual conditions, and not under old, written regulations.
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 are we to say, then? That Law and sin are the same thing? Heaven forbid! On the contrary, I should not have learned what sin is, had not it been for Law. If the Law did not say ‘You must not covet,’ I should not know what it is to covet.
8 Ṣùgbọ́n ẹ̀ṣẹ̀ sì ti ipa òfin rí ààyè ṣiṣẹ́ onírúurú ìfẹ́kúfẹ̀ẹ́ nínú mi. Nítorí láìsí òfin, ẹ̀ṣẹ̀ jẹ́ ikú.
But sin took advantage of the commandment to arouse in me every form of covetousness, for where there is no consciousness of Law sin shows no sign of life.
9 Èmi sì ti wà láààyè láìsí òfin nígbà kan rí; ṣùgbọ́n nígbà tí òfin dé, ẹ̀ṣẹ̀ sọjí èmi sì kú.
There was a time when I myself, unconscious of Law, was alive; but when the commandment was brought home to me, sin sprang into life, while I died!
10 Mo ṣàkíyèsí pé òfin tí ó yẹ kí ó mú ìyè wá ni ó padà mú ikú wá.
The commandment that should have meant life I found to result in death!
11 Nítorí ẹ̀ṣẹ̀ ti ipa òfin rí ààyè láti tàn mí jẹ, ó sì ti ipa òfin ṣe ikú pa mi.
Sin took advantage of the commandment to deceive me, and used it to bring about my death.
12 Bẹ́ẹ̀ ni mímọ́ ni òfin, mímọ́ sì ni àṣẹ, àti òdodo, àti dídára.
And so the Law is holy, and each commandment is also 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.
Did, then, a thing, which in itself was good, involve death in my case? Heaven forbid! It was sin that involved death; so that, by its use of what I regarded as good to bring about my death, its true nature might appear; and in this way the commandment showed how intensely sinful sin is.
14 Nítorí àwa mọ̀ pé ohun ẹ̀mí ni òfin, ṣùgbọ́n ẹni ti ara ni èmi, tí a ti tà sábẹ́ ẹ̀ṣẹ̀.
We know that the Law is spiritual, but I am earthly – sold into slavery to 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.
I do not understand my own actions. For I am so far from habitually doing what I want to do, that I find myself doing the thing that I hate.
16 Ṣùgbọ́n bí mo bá ṣe ohun tí èmi kò fẹ́, mo gbà pé òfin dára.
But when I do what I want not to do, I am admitting that the Law is right.
17 Ṣùgbọ́n bí ọ̀rọ̀ ṣe rí yìí kì í ṣe èmi ni ó ṣe é bí kò ṣe ẹ̀ṣẹ̀ tí ń gbé inú mi.
This being so, the action is no longer my own, but is done by the sin which is within 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.
I know that there is nothing good in me – I mean in my earthly nature. For, although it is easy for me to want to do right, to act rightly is not easy.
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.
I fail to do the good thing that I want to do, but the bad thing that I want not to do – that I habitually 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.
But, when I do the thing that I want not to do, the action is no longer my own, but is done by the sin which is within 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.
This, then, is the law that I find – when I want to do right, wrong presents itself!
22 Nínú ìjìnlẹ̀ ọkàn mi mo ní inú dídùn sí òfin Ọlọ́run;
At heart I delight in the Law of God;
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 throughout my body I see a different law, one which is in conflict with the law accepted by my reason, and which endeavors to make me a prisoner to that law of sin which exists throughout my body.
24 Èmi ẹni òsì! Ta ni yóò ha gbà mí sílẹ̀ lọ́wọ́ ara kíkú yìí?
Miserable man that I am! Who will deliver me from the body that is bringing me to 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.
Thank God, there is deliverance through Jesus Christ, our Lord! Well then, for myself, with my reason I serve the Law of God, but with my earthly nature the Law of sin.
