¹Are ye ignorant, brethren, (for I speak to those knowing law,) that law rules over a man as long as he lives?

¹Hamuzivi here hama (nokuti ndinotaura kuna avo vanoziva murairo), kuti murairo unotonga munhu kana achingorarama chete?

²For the married woman is bound by law to her husband so long as he is alive; but if the husband should die, she is clear from the law of the husband:

²Nekuti mukadzi une murume wakasungwa nemurairo kumurume, kana achingova mupenyu chete; asi kana murume afa, wasunungurwa pamurairo womurume.

³so then, the husband being alive, she shall be called an adulteress if she be to another man; but if the husband should die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, though she be to another man.

³Naizvozvo zvino kana murume ari mupenyu, uchanzi chifeve kana akava womumwe murume, asi kana murume wake afa, wasununguka pamurairo uyu, kuti asava chifeve kana akava womumwe murume.

⁴So that, my brethren, *ye* also have been made dead to the law by the body of the Christ, to be to another, who has been raised up from among [the] dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.

⁴Naizvozvo hama dzangu nemwiwo makaitwa vakafa kumurairo nemuviri waKristu; kuti muve veumwe, kuna iye wakamutswa kuvakafa, kuti tiberekere Mwari chibereko.

⁵For when we were in the flesh the passions of sins, which [were] by the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit to death;

⁵Nekuti pataiva munyama, kuchiva kwezvivi zvaiva nokuda kwemurairo kwakabata mumitezo yedu kuberekera rufu chibereko.

⁶but now we are clear from the law, having died in that in which we were held, so that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of letter.

⁶Asi zvino takasunungurwa pamurairo, kuti takafa kune izvozvo zvakange zvakatibata kuti tishumire neutsva hwemweya, kwete neutsaru hwemagwaro.

⁷What shall we say then? [is] the law sin? Far be the thought. But I had not known sin, unless by law: for I had not had conscience also of lust unless the law had said, Thou shalt not lust;

⁷Zvino tichatiyi? Murairo chivi here? Ngazvisadaro! Asi handizaiziva chivi kunze kwekubudikidza nemurairo; nekuti handizaiziva ruchiva, kana murairo usina kuti: Usachiva.

⁸but sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, wrought in me every lust; for without law sin [was] dead.

⁸Asi chivi chakawana mukana nemurairo, chikaita mandiri mitoo yese yeruchiva; nekuti pasina murairo chivi chakafa.

⁹But *I* was alive without law once; but the commandment having come, sin revived, but *I* died.

⁹Ini ndaiva mupenyu kunze kwemurairo, asi murairo pawakasvika, chivi chakamuka, ini ndikafa;

¹⁰And the commandment, which [was] for life, was found, [as] to me, itself [to be] unto death:

¹⁰uye murairo waiva weupenyu, wakawanikwa neni wava werufu;

¹¹for sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew [me].

¹¹nekuti chivi, chakawana mukana nemurairo, chikandinyengera chikandiponda nawo.

¹²So that the law indeed [is] holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

¹²Naizvozvo mutemo mutsvene, nemurairo mutsvene wakarurama, uye wakanaka.

¹³Did then that which is good become death to me? Far be the thought. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death to me by that which is good; in order that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.

¹³Naizvozvo zvakanaka zvakava rufu mandiri here? Ngazvisadaro! Asi chivi, kuti chiratidzwe kuti chivi chinobata rufu mandiri nezvakanaka; kuti chivi nemurairo chive chakaipa kwazvo-kwazvo.

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

¹⁴Nekuti tinoziva kuti murairo ndewemweya; asi ini ndiri wenyama, ndakatengeswa pasi pechivi.

¹⁵For that which I do, I do not own: for not what I will, this I do; but what I hate, this I practise.

¹⁵Nekuti izvo zvandinoita handizvitenderi; nekuti zvandinoda handiiti izvo; asi zvandinovenga ndizvo zvandinoita.

¹⁶But if what I do not will, this I practise, I consent to the law that [it is] right.

¹⁶Zvino kana ndichiita izvo zvandisingadi, ndinobvumirana nemurairo kuti wakanaka.

¹⁷Now then [it is] no longer *I* [that] do it, but the sin that dwells in me.

¹⁷Zvino handisisiri ini ndinozviita, asi chivi chinogara mandiri.

¹⁸For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, good does not dwell: for to will is there with me, but to do right [I find] not.

¹⁸Nekuti ndinoziva kuti mandiri, ndiko kuti munyama yangu, hamugari chinhu chakanaka; nekuti kuda kurimo mandiri, asi kuita izvo zvakanaka handikuwani.

¹⁹For I do not practise the good that I will; but the evil I do not will, that I do.

¹⁹Nekuti zvakanaka zvandinoda handiiti; asi zvakaipa zvandisingadi, izvo ndinoita.

²⁰But if what *I* do not will, this I practise, [it is] no longer *I* [that] do it, but the sin that dwells in me.

²⁰Zvino kana ndichiita izvo zvandisingadi, handisisiri ini ndinozviita, asi chivi chinogara mandiri.

²¹I find then the law upon *me* who will to practise what is right, that with *me* evil is there.

²¹Naizvozvo ndinowana murairo kuti kana ndichida kuita chakanaka, chakaipa chiripo pandiri.

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

²²Nekuti ndinofara mumurairo waMwari nemunhu wemukati;

²³but I see another law in my members, warring in opposition to the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which exists in my members.

²³asi ndinoona umwe murairo mumitezo yangu, uchirwa nemurairo wemurangariro wangu, uye uchanditapira kumurairo wechivi uri mumitezo yangu.

²⁴O wretched man that I [am]! who shall deliver me out of this body of death?

²⁴Ndiri munhu unoshungurudzika! Ndiani uchandisunungura pamuviri werufu urwu?

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

²⁵Ndinotenda Mwari kubudikidza naJesu Kristu Ishe wedu. Naizvozvo nemurangariro ini ndomene ndinoshumira murairo waMwari, asi nenyama murairo wechivi.