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?
Me nuanom, munim sɛ esiane sɛ mo nyinaa nim mmara no nti, mote nea mepɛ sɛ meka no ase sɛ; mmere dodow a onipa te ase no, mmara di ne so ana?
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.
Te sɛ ɔbea warefo, mmere dodow a okunu no te ase no de, ɔhyɛ ne kunu mmara ase, na sɛ okunu no wu de a, na ɔnhyɛ ne kunu mmara ase bio.
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.
Ɛno nti sɛ ɔkɔ ɔbarima foforo ho wɔ bere a ne kunu te ase a, wɔfrɛ no ɔwaresɛefo; na sɛ ne kunu no wu a na ɔnhyɛ saa mmara no ase bio; ɛno nti sɛ ɔware ɔbarima foforo a, ɔnyɛ ɔwaresɛefo.
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.
Afei me nuanom, mo nso, Kristo wu a owui nti moawu afi mmara no tumi ase. Ne saa nti, mone ɔno a wonyan no fii awufo mu abom sɛnea mobetumi asom Onyankopɔn.
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.
Bere a na yɛte ase ma yɛn ho no, yɛn bɔne su nam mmara no so kanyan yɛn wɔ yɛn mu ma yɛyɛɛ adwuma maa owu.
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.
Afei de, yɛnhyɛ mmara biara ase efisɛ yewu fii nea ɛkyekyeree yɛn sɛ nneduafo no ase. Afei de, yɛnhyɛ mmara biara a wɔakyerɛw no dedaw ase bio, na mmom yɛnam honhom foforo kwan so na ɛsom.
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.”
Enti asɛm bɛn na yɛnka? Mmara no yɛ bɔne ana? Dabi da! Mmom, ɛnam mmara so na mihuu sɛnea bɔne te. Sɛ ɛnyɛ mmara no na ɛkaa sɛ, “Mma wʼani mmere obi ade” a, anka minnim anibere.
8 But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
Bɔne nyaa kwan nam mmara nsɛm no so kekaa ne ho wɔ me mu, maa mʼani beree nneɛma ahorow bebree. Sɛ mmara no nni hɔ a, bɔne nso nni tumi.
9 I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.
Ansa na mehu mmara no na mewɔ nkwa. Nanso mmaransɛm no bae no, metee bɔne ase, na miwui.
10 The commandment which was for life, this I found to be for death;
Mihuu sɛ mmaransɛm a anka ɛde nkwa bɛba no, de owu bae.
11 for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.
Bɔne nam mmaransɛm no so nyaa kwan daadaa me; ɛnam mmaransɛm no so maa bɔne kum me.
12 Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, righteous, and good.
Nanso mmara no yɛ kronkron; na Mmaransɛm no nso yɛ kronkron, ɛteɛ na eye nso.
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.
Ade a eye no bɛyɛɛ owu maa me ana? Dabi da! Nanso sɛnea ɛbɛyɛ a yebehu bɔne sɛ bɔne no, ɛfaa nea eye so de owu brɛɛ me. Enti bɔne nam mmaransɛm so maa me huu sɛ bɔne yɛ ade a ɛyɛ hu.
14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
Yenim sɛ mmara no yɛ honhom mu ade nanso meyɛ ɔhonam muni a wɔatɔn me sɛ akoa ama bɔne.
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.
Mente nea meyɛ ase; efisɛ menyɛ nea ɛsɛ sɛ meyɛ na mmom, meyɛ nea mikyi.
16 But if what I don’t desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.
Sɛ meyɛ nea mempɛ sɛ meyɛ a, na ɛkyerɛ sɛ mepene so sɛ mmara no ye.
17 So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.
Sɛnea ɛte no, ɛnyɛ mʼankasa na meyɛ eyi; na mmom bɔne a ɛte me mu no.
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.
Minim sɛ ade pa biara nte me mu, me bɔne nipasu yi mu. Efisɛ mepɛ sɛ meyɛ nea eye nanso mintumi nyɛ.
19 For the good which I desire, I don’t do; but the evil which I don’t desire, that I practice.
Papa a mepɛ sɛ meyɛ no, menyɛ; mmom bɔne a mempɛ sɛ meyɛ no na meyɛ.
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.
Sɛ meyɛ nea mempɛ sɛ meyɛ a, na ɛkyerɛ sɛ ɛnyɛ me na meyɛe, na mmom ɛyɛ bɔne a ɛte me mu no.
21 I find then the law that, while I desire to do good, evil is present.
Mmara no ama mahu sɛ biribi te me mu a ɛmma mennyɛ nea minim sɛ eye.
22 For I delight in God’s law after the inward person,
Me koma nyinaa mu, migye Onyankopɔn mmara to mu.
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.
Nanso mifi mʼakwaa nyinaa mu hu sɛ biribi ne mʼadwene di aperepere, ɛma meyɛ bɔne akoa, na ɛno na ɛhyɛ me ma meyɛ biribiara.
24 What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?
Minni ahotɔ! Hena na obegye me afi saa ɔhonam a ɛde me rekɔ owu mu yi mu?
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.
Menam yɛn Awurade Yesu Kristo so meda Onyankopɔn ase. Na afei mʼankasa mʼadwene mu no, meyɛ akoa ma Onyankopɔn mmara, nanso bɔne nipasu mu no, meyɛ akoa ma bɔne.
