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

¹Are ye ignorant, brethren — for to those knowing law I speak — that the law hath lordship over the man as long as he liveth?

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.

²for the married woman to the living husband hath been bound by law, and if the husband may die, she hath been free from the law of the husband;

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.

³so, then, the husband being alive, an adulteress she shall be called if she may become another man`s; and if the husband may die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, having become another man`s.

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.

⁴So that, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of the Christ, for your becoming another`s, who out of the dead was raised up, that we might bear fruit to God;

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.

⁵for when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins, that [are] through the law, were working in our members, to bear fruit to the death;

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.

⁶and now we have ceased from the law, that being dead in which we were held, so that we may serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of letter.

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).

⁷What, then, shall we say? the law [is] sin? let it not be! but the sin I did not know except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the law had not said:

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

⁸`Thou shalt not covet;` and the sin having received an opportunity, through the command, did work in me all covetousness — for apart from law sin is dead.

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

⁹And I was alive apart from law once, and the command having come, the sin revived, and I died;

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

¹⁰and the command that [is] for life, this was found by me for death;

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

¹¹for the sin, having received an opportunity, through the command, did deceive me, and through it did slay [me];

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

¹²so that the law, indeed, [is] holy, and the command holy, and righteous, and good.

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.

¹³That which is good then, to me hath it become death? let it not be! but the sin, that it might appear sin, through the good, working death to me, that the sin might become exceeding sinful through the command,

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

¹⁴for we have known that the law is spiritual, and I am fleshly, sold by the sin;

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

¹⁵for that which I work, I do not acknowledge; for not what I will, this I practise, but what I hate, this I do.

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

¹⁶And if what I do not will, this I do, I consent to the law that [it is] good,

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

¹⁷and now it is no longer I that work it, but the sin dwelling in me,

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.

¹⁸for I have known that there doth not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh, good: for to will is present with me, and to work that which is right I do not find,

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

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

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

²⁰And if what I do not will, this I do, it is no longer I that work it, but the sin that is dwelling in 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]

²¹I find, then, the law, that when I desire to do what is right, with me the evil is present,

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

²²for I delight in the law of God according to the inward man,

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.

²³and I behold another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of the sin that [is] in my members.

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.

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

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.

²⁵I thank God — through Jesus Christ our Lord; so then, I myself indeed with the mind do serve the law of God, and with the flesh, the law of sin.