¹Ay atmaten ur teẓrim ara belli ccariɛa teḥkem ɣef wemdan skud mazal-it idder ? Heddṛeɣ-ed akka i wid yessnen ccariɛa.

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

²A wen-d-fkeɣ yiwen n lemtel : tameṭṭut tețwarez ɣer wergaz-is s ccariɛa skud mazal-it yedder, meɛna ma yemmut wergaz-is tserreḥ-as ccariɛa ma tebɣa aț-țɛiwed zzwaǧ ;

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:

³ma tuɣ wayeḍ skud mazal argaz-is idder, yețțusemma tezna ; meɛna ma yemmut wergaz-is tserreḥ-as ccariɛa aț-țɛiwed zzwaǧ, ayagi ur yețțusemma ara d leḥṛam.

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.

⁴Ula d kunwi ay atmaten, temmutem ɣef wayen yeɛnan ccariɛa s lmut n Lmasiḥ, akken aț-țeṭṭfem deg win i d-yeḥyan si ger lmegtin iwakken aț-țxedmem ayen i s-iɛeǧben i Sidi Ṛebbi.

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.

⁵Axaṭer d ccariɛa i d-isbeggnen amek i nțeddu s lebɣi n tnefsit-nneɣ d ccehwat-nneɣ n diri ; d nețțat daɣen i d-isbeggnen amek yexdem ddnub-agi deg-nneɣ, armi i ɣ-yeṣṣaweḍ ɣer lmut.

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;

⁶Lameɛna tura nețțusellek si lḥekma n ccariɛa imi nețțusemma nemmut ɣef wayen yeɛnan ccariɛa nni i ɣ-yurzen, s wakka i nezmer tura a nḍuɛ Sidi Ṛebbi s lɛeqliya tajḍiṭ n Ṛṛuḥ iqedsen, mačči am zik s lɛeqliya-nni taqdimt mi nella seddaw n ccariɛa.

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.

⁷Acu ara d-nini ihi, eɛni ccariɛa deg-s ddnub ? Xaṭi ! Lameɛna lemmer ulac ccariɛa tili ur țissineɣ ara d acu i d ddnub. Axaṭer lemmer ur d-tenni ara ccariɛa : ur ṭṭamaɛ ara , tilli ur ẓriɣ ara belli ṭṭmeɛ d leḥṛam ?

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;

⁸Ddnub ifuṛes tagniț s lameṛ n ccariɛa ; yesnulfa-d deg-i mkul ṣṣenf n ṭṭmeɛ n diri ; axaṭer mbla ccariɛa ur d-ițban ara d acu i d ddnub.

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

⁹Zik, asmi ulac ccariɛa lliɣ țɛiciɣ s nneya, mi d-iffeɣ lameṛ n ccariɛa, ddnub yuki-d deg-i, yeṣṣaweḍ-iyi ɣer lmut.

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

¹⁰S wakka, lameṛ i glaqen ad iyi-ssiweḍ ɣer tudert, yewwi-yi ɣer lmut

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

¹¹axaṭer ddnub yufa abrid, s lameṛ-agi n ccariɛa dɣa ixdeɛ-iyi, yewwi-yi ɣer lmut.

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

¹²Ihi, ccariɛa s yiman-is teṣfa, lumuṛat yellan deg-s ṣfan, lhan yerna d lḥeqq.

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

¹³Eɛni yuɣal-iyi wayen yelhan d sebba n lmut ? Xaṭi ! D ddnub i yi-ṣṣawḍen ɣer lmut s wayen yelhan, iwakken s ccariɛa, a d-tban acḥal meqqṛet tezmert n ddnub.

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.

¹⁴Neẓra belli ccariɛa n Musa tețțunefk-ed s Ṛṛuḥ n Sidi Ṛebbi. Ma d nekk, d amdan kan i lliɣ yerna imlek-iyi ddnub.

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

¹⁵Ur ẓriɣ ara acu i xeddmeɣ, ayen bɣiɣ a t-xedmeɣ ur t-xeddmeɣ ara lameɛna d ayen akken keṛheɣ i xeddmeɣ.

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

¹⁶Ma yella ayen i xeddmeɣ d ayen akken ur bɣiɣ ara a t-xedmeɣ, tḥeqqeqeɣ belli ccariɛa telha.

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

¹⁷Tura ihi mačči d nekk i gxeddmen ayagi, meɛna d ddnub izedɣen deg-i.

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

¹⁸Axaṭer ẓriɣ belli ayen yelhan ur yezdiɣ ara deg-i nekk yellan d amdan. ?as akken yebɣa wul-iw ad ixdem lxiṛ, nekk ur zmireɣ ara a t-xedmeɣ,

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.

¹⁹axaṭer ur xeddmeɣ ara lxiṛ i bɣiɣ, meɛna d cceṛ ur bɣiɣ ara i xeddmeɣ ;

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

²⁰ma yella xeddmeɣ ayen ur bɣiɣ ara ihi mačči d nekk i t-ixeddmen meɛna d ddnub-nni izedɣen deg-i.

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.

²¹Ihi atan wayen fehmeɣ deg yiman-iw : mkul m'ara bɣuɣ ad xedmeɣ lxiṛ ad afeɣ d cceṛ kan iwumi zemreɣ.

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

²²Deg ul-iw ḥemmleɣ ccariɛa n Sidi Ṛebbi,

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

²³meɛna țțafeɣ deg yiman-iw yiwet n ṭṭbiɛa yețnaɣen d ccariɛa n Ṛebbi i gḥemmel wul-iw ; ṭṭbiɛa-yagi terra-yi seddaw lḥekma n ddnub yellan deg-i.

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.

²⁴A nnger-iw ! Anwa ara yi sellken si ṭṭbiɛa-agi n wemdan i yi-țțawin ɣer lmut ?

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

²⁵A neḥmed Sidi Ṛebbi imi s Ɛisa Lmasiḥ Ssid-nneɣ i nețțusellek ! S wakka ihi, s lefhama-inu, ḍuɛeɣ ccariɛa n Sidi Ṛebbi, meɛna s ṭṭbiɛa n wemdan yellan deg-i, d akli n ddnub i lliɣ.

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.