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?
Nikuba bobo tamuzi na, nobakwesu ( nkambo ndokwambuula kubantu abo bazi mulawo), kuti mulawo ulatonga kumuntu kufumbwa chiindi nchapona?
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.
Nkambo mwanakazi ukwetwe ulangwa amulawu kumulumi chiindi napona, pesi kuti mwalumi wafwa, ulangununwa kuzwa kumulawo wakukwatwa.
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.
Alubo, chindi mwalumi wakwe nachipona, kuti wakukwatwa awumbi mwalumi, uyowambwa kuti ngusimamambe. Pesi kuti mwalumi wakwe wafwa, wangunuka kuzwa kumulawo, alubo tanoli simamambe pe, kuti wakwatwa awumbi mwalumi.
4 Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Messiah, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.
Nkiinkako, nobakwesu, mwakachitwa alimwi mwakafwa kumulawo kwinda mumubili wa Kkilisito. Ezi zilobo kuti mukaswanizigwe kuli umbi, nkukuti kuli oyo wakabusigwa kuzwa kubafu, kuchitila kuti tube amuchelo wa Leza.
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.
Nkambo nitwakali munyama, chiyandisyo chazibi, chibusigwa a mulawo, chakali a mulimo muziizo zyesu kukuzyala muchelo walufu.
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.
Pesi lino twakangununwa kuzwa kumulawu. Twakafwa kuli echo nchitwakangidwe. Echi chilibobu kuti tukabelekele mubupya bwa Muuya alimwi kutali mubukulukulu bwalugwalo.
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.”
Tulatyeni kabi? Mulawo imawo mubina? Kutabi bobo. Nikubabobo, tendali kunoziba chibi, nikwatanoli kwinda mumulawo. Nkambo ndanoli nkintazi ibbivwe kutali kuti mulawo wakamba, “Mutabi abbivwe.”
8 But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
Pesi chibi chakabweza mwenya mukwinda mumalayilile alimwi akweeta bbivwe mulindime. Kuti kakutakwe mulawo, chibi chilifwide.
9 I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.
Kuli chimwi chiindi ndakali kupona katakwe mulawo, pesi elyo malayile nakasika, chibi chakajana lubo buumi, alimwi ndakafwa.
10 The commandment which was for life, this I found to be for death;
Malayilile ayo akayelede kweta buumi akasanduka aba lufu lwangu.
11 for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.
Nkambo chibi chakabweza mwenya kwindila mumalayilile alimwi akandena. Kwindila mumalayilile chakandijeya.
12 Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, righteous, and good.
Nkinkaako mulawo ulasalala, alimwi malayilile alasalala, bululami, alimwi bubotu.
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.
Nkinkako ezyo zibotu zyakabotu lufu na kulindime? Kutabi boobo. Pesi chibi, kuchitila kuti chikatondezegwe kuba chibi, chakazyala lufu muli ndime kwindila achecho chakali chibotu, alimwi kwindila amalayilile chibi chibe chibi loko kwinda mmwelo.
14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
Nkambo tulizi kuti mulawo nguwa Muuya, pesi imebo ndimunyama. Ndakamuzigwa munsi abuzike kuchibi.
15 For I don’t understand what I am doing. For I don’t practise what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.
Ezyo nzindichita, tandizimvwisisisyi loko. nkambo nzinjanda kuchita, tandizichiti, alimwi ezyo nzizonda, ndachita.
16 But if what I don’t desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.
Pesi kuli ndachita nzitayandi, ndazuminana a mulawo kuti mulawo uliluleme.
17 So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.
Pesi lino tokuchili ndime uzichita, pesi chibi echo chipona mulindime.
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.
Nkambo ndilizi kuti mulindime, echo chilimunyama, tamuponi chintu chabubotu pe. Nkambo chiyandisyo chabubotu buli mulandime, pesi tandikozichita pe.
19 For the good which I desire, I don’t do; but the evil which I don’t desire, that I practise.
Ezyo zibotu zindiyanda, tandizichiti, pesi ikuti mbuntayandi mbunchinta.
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.
Lino kuti ndachita nzintayandi kuchita, abobo takuchili ndime ulokuchita, pesi biyo chibi chikkala mulindime.
21 I find then the law that, while I desire to do good, evil is present.
Elyo, ndijana mulawu oyu, amo mpundiyanda kuchita kabotu, chibi mpuchili andime.
22 For I delight in God’s Torah after the inward person,
Nkambo ndilakondwa mumulawo wa Leza amumuntu wangu wamukati.
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.
Pesi ndibona busiyene mulawo mumuzizo zyangu. Ulwisyanya a mulawo mupya mumiyeeyo yangu. Zindibweza ndibe muzike wamulawo muchibi muzizo zyangu.
24 What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?
Ndilimuntu umuside! Ngwani ulondinunula kuzwa kumubili wa lufu?
25 I thank God through Yeshua the Messiah, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God’s Torah, but with the flesh, sin’s law.
Pesi kulumba ngakube kuli Leza kwinda muli Jesu Kkilisito Mwami wesu! Nkinkako, ime lwangu mbelekela mulawu wa Leza amwi a miyeyo yangu. Nikuba bobo, anyama yangu ndibelekela mulawo wachibi.
