BAROMA 7

Mokeresete yo o golotsweng mo molaong o direla Modimo ka mowa o mošwa

1 Bakaulengwe – kana ke bua le ba ba itseng molao – a ga lo itse gore molao o busa motho fela, fa a sa ntse a phela? 2 Kana mosadi yo o nang le monna wa gagwe o golegeletswe mo monneng ka molao, fa monna a sa ntse a phela; mme fa monna a sule, foo o tla bo a golotswe mo molaong wa lenyalo. 3 Jaanong fa a ka nna wa monna yo mongwe, monna wa gagwe a sa tshela, go tla twe o kgotlela nyalo; mme fa monna a sule, foo o tla bo a golotswe mo molaong, mme ga go nke go twe o kgotlela nyalo, le fa a ka nna wa monna yo mongwe. 4 Bakaulengwe ba me, le lona lo bolailwe jalo ntlheng ya molao ka mmele wa ga Keresete gore lo nne ba yo mongwe, e bong ba yo o tsositsweng mo baswing, gore re ungwele Modimo;t 5 gonne e rile re sa le mo nameng, dikeletso tsa maleo tse di tlhotlhelediwang ka molao tsa bo di dira ka thata mo ditokololong tsa rona gore di ungwe maungo a loso.t

6 Mme jaanong re golotswe mo molaong, ka re sule ntlheng ya sona se se neng se re tshwere; ke ka moo re leng badiredi ka fa bošweng jwa mowa, e seng ka fa mokgweng wa bogologolo wa ditlhaka tsa molao.t

Molao o re supetsa boleo

11 Gonne boleo jwa ntsietsa, ka bo bonye tlhotlheletso ka taolo, jwa mpolaya ka yona.t
12 Jalo he, molao o boitshepo, le taolo e boitshepo, e siame, e molemo.t

13 Jaanong a ke go re, se se molemo se mphetogetse loso? A go se tualo! Ke boleo jo bo ntsiseditseng loso ka se se molemo gore bo bonale e le boleo tota, gore boleo e nne jo bo bobe bogolo ka taolo.t

Ntwa ya nama e e lwang le mowa

20 Fa jaanong nna ke dira se ke sa se rateng, e tla bo e sa tlhole e le nna yo o se dirang, mme e tla bo e le boleo jo bo agileng mo teng ga me.
21 Jaanong ke fitlhela molao mo go nna wa go re: E a re fa ke rata go dira molemo, bosula bo nne teng mo go nna. 22 Gonne ka fa mothong yo o ka mo teng ke itumelela molao wa Modimo. 23 Fela ke fitlhela go na le molao o sele mo ditokololong tsa me o o lwang le molao wa maikutlo a me; e bile o nkgolega ka molao wa boleo o o mo ditokololong tsa me.t 24 A motho wa mogolo nna! Ke mang yo o tla nkgololang mo mmeleng wa loso lo?

25 Ke leboga Modimo, ka ke gololwa ka Jesu Keresete, Morena wa rona.
Jaanong go ntse jaana: nna ka nosi ke direla molao wa Modimo ka maikutlo, mme ka nama ke direla molao wa boleo.t

Romans 7

Believers United to Christ

1 Or do you not know, brethren (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has jurisdiction over a person as long as he lives?2 For the married woman is bound by law to her husband while he is living; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law concerning the husband.3 So then, if while her husband is living she is joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress though she is joined to another man.

4 Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.5 For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law, were at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.6 But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the tSpirit and not in oldness of the letter.

7 What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? May it never be! On the contrary, I would not have come to know sin except through the Law; for I would not have known about coveting if the Law had not said, "YOU SHALL NOT COVET."8 But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind; for apart from the Law sin is dead.9 I was once alive apart from the Law; but when the commandment came, sin became alive and I died;10 and this commandment, which was to result in life, proved to result in death for me;11 for sin, taking an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.12 So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.

13 Therefore did that which is good become a cause of death for me? May it never be! Rather it was sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin by effecting my death through that which is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful.

The Conflict of Two Natures

14 For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am of flesh, sold into bondage to sin.15 For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate.16 But if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with the Law, confessing that the Law is good.17 So now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.18 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not.19 For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want.20 But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.

21 I find then the principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good.22 For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man,23 but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members.24 Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death?25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin.