¹Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?

¹Tsy fantatrareo, va, ry rahalahy (fa miteny amin'izay mahalala ny lalàna aho), fa ny lalàna dia manapaka ny olona, raha mbola velona izy?

²For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

²Fa 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.

³So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

³Koa 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.

⁴Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

⁴Ary 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.

⁵For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

⁵Fa 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.

⁶But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

⁶Fa 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.

⁷What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

⁷Inona 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 (Eks. 20. 17).

⁸But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.

⁸Fa io didy io dia nentin'ny ota nampihetsika ny fitsiriritana rehetra tato anatiko; fa maty ny ota, raha tsy misy lalàna.

⁹For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

⁹Ary izaho dia velona tsy nanan-dalàna fahiny; fa rehefa tonga kosa ny didy, dia velona indray ny ota, ka dia maty aho.

¹⁰And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.

¹⁰Ary ny didy izay natao hahazoana fiainana, dia hitako fa nahatonga fahafatesana tamiko kosa.

¹¹For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.

¹¹Fa io didy io dia nentin'ny ota namitaka sy nahafaty ahy.

¹²Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

¹²Ka dia masina tokoa ny lalàna, ary masina ny didy sady marina no tsara.

¹³Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.

¹³Koa 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.

¹⁴For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

¹⁴Fa fantatsika fa araka ny fanahy ny lalàna; fa izaho kosa nofo, namidy ho andevon'ny ota.

¹⁵For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.

¹⁵Fa izay ataoko dia tsy fantatro; fa tsy izay sitrako no ataoko; fa izay halako no ataoko.

¹⁶If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.

¹⁶Fa raha manao ny tsy sitrako aho, dia manaiky fa tsara ny lalàna.

¹⁷Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

¹⁷Ary amin'izany tsy izaho intsony no manao izany, fa ny ota izay mitoetra ato anatiko.

¹⁸For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

¹⁸Fa 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.

¹⁹For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

¹⁹Fa tsy ny tsara izay sitrako no ataoko; fa ny ratsy izay tsy sitrako no ataoko.

²⁰Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

²⁰Fa raha ny tsy sitrako no ataoko, dia tsy izaho intsony no manao izany, fa ny ota izay mitoetra ato amiko.

²¹I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

²¹Koa hitako izao lalàna izao: raha ta-hanao ny marina aho, dia ato amiko ihany ny ratsy. [ Na: koa hitako fa raha ta-hanaraka ny lalàna aho hanaovako ny marina]

²²For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

²²Fa mankasitraka ny lalàn'Andriamanitra aho araka ny toetra anaty;

²³But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

²³nefa 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.

²⁴O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

²⁴Indrisy! olo-mahantra aho! Iza no hanafaka ahy amin'ny tenan'ity fahafatesana ity?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.

²⁵I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

²⁵Misaotra 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.