Romans 7
1 Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?
Tsy fantatrareo, va, ry rahalahy (fa miteny amin’ izay mahalala ny lalàna aho), fa ny lalàna dia manapaka ny olona, raha mbola velona izy?
2 For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.
Fa ny vehivavy izay manambady dia fehezin’ ny lalàna ho an’ ny lahy, raha mbola velona ny lahy; fa raha maty kosa ny lahy, dia afaka amin’ ny lalàn’ ny lahy izy.
3 So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.
Koa raha mbola velona ny lahy, ka manambady olon-kafa ravehivavy, dia hatao hoe mpijangajanga izy; fa raha maty kosa ny lahy, dia afaka amin’ izany lalàna izany izy ka tsy mba mpijangajanga, na dia manambady olon-kafa aza.
4 Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.
Ary amin’ izany ianareo koa, ry rahalahiko, dia efa natao maty ny amin’ ny lalàna noho ny tenan’ i Kristy, mba ho vadin’ ny hafa ianareo, dia Izay natsangana tamin’ ny maty, mba hahavokarantsika ho an’ Andriamanitra.
5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law worked in our members to bring out fruit to death.
Fa fony tao amin’ ny nofo isika, dia ny filan’ ny ota, izay nohetsehin’ ny lalàna, no niasa tao amin’ ny momba ny tenantsika hahavokatra ho amin’ ny fahafatesana.
6 But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.
Fa ankehitriny dia efa afaka tamin’ ny lalàna isika, satria maty ny amin’ izay nihazonana antsika, ka dia manompo amin’ ny havaozam-panahy isika, fa tsy amin’ ny hahelan-tsoratra.
7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”
Inona ary no holazaintsika? Ota va ny lalàna? Sanatria izany! Kanefa tsy nahalala ny ota aho, raha tsy tamin’ ny lalàna, satria tsy fantatro akory ny fitsiriritana, raha tsy ny lalàna no nanao hoe: Aza mitsiriritra.
8 But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
Fa io didy io dia nentin’ ny ota nampihetsika ny fitsiriritana rehetra tato anatiko; fa maty ny ota, raha tsy misy lalàna.
9 I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.
Ary izaho dia velona tsy nanan-dalàna fahiny; fa rehefa tonga kosa ny didy, dia velona indray ny ota, ka dia maty aho.
10 The commandment which was for life, this I found to be for death;
Ary ny didy izay natao hahazoana fiainana, dia hitako fa nahatonga fahafatesana tamiko kosa.
11 for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.
Fa io didy io dia nentin’ ny ota namitaka sy nahafaty ahy.
12 Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, righteous, and good.
Ka dia masìna tokoa ny lalàna, ary masìna ny didy sady marina no tsara.
13 Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, was producing death in me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceedingly sinful.
Koa ny tsara va no nahafaty ahy? Sanatria izany! Fa ny ota no nahafaty ahy, mba hiseho ho ota; fa ny tsara no nentiny nahafaty ahy, mba ho tonga ota indrindra ny ota noho ny nataon’ ny lalàna.
14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
Fa fantatsika fa araka ny fanahy ny lalàna; fa izaho kosa nofo, namidy ho andevon’ ny ota.
15 For I don’t understand what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.
Fa izay ataoko dia tsy fantatro; fa tsy izay sitrako no ataoko; fa izay halako no ataoko.
16 But if what I don’t desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.
Fa raha manao ny tsy sitrako aho, dia manaiky fa tsara ny lalàna.
17 So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.
Ary amin’ izany tsy izaho intsony no manao izany, fa ny ota izay mitoetra ato anatiko.
18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.
Fa fantatro fa tsy misy zavatra tsara mitoetra ato amiko, dia ato amin’ ny nofoko; fa ato anatiko ihany ny fikasana, saingy ny hahatanteraka ny tsara no tsy ato.
19 For the good which I desire, I don’t do; but the evil which I don’t desire, that I practice.
Fa tsy ny tsara izay sitrako no ataoko; fa ny ratsy izay tsy sitrako no ataoko.
20 But if what I don’t desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.
Fa raha ny tsy sitrako no ataoko, dia tsy izaho intsony no manao izany, fa ny ota izay mitoetra ato amiko.
21 I find then the law that, while I desire to do good, evil is present.
Koa hitako izao lalàna izao: raha ta-hanao ny marina aho, dia ato amiko ihany ny ratsy.
22 For I delight in God’s law after the inward person,
Fa mankasitraka ny lalàn’ Andriamanitra aho araka ny toetra anaty;
23 but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.
nefa mahita lalàna hafa amin’ ny momba ny tenako aho, miady amin’ ny lalàn’ ny saiko ka mamabo ahy ho an’ ny lalàn’ ny ota izay ao amin’ ny momba ny tenako.
24 What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?
Indrisy! olo-mahantra aho! Iza no hanafaka ahy amin’ ny tenan’ ity fahafatesana ity?
25 I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God’s law, but with the flesh, sin’s law.
Misaotra an’ Andriamanitra aho amin’ ny alalan’ i Jesosy Kristy Tompontsika. Koa raha ny amiko, dia mankatò ny lalàn’ Andriamanitra aho amin’ ny saiko, fa ny lalàn’ ny ota kosa amin’ ny nofoko.
