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

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

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

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;

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.

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.

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

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;

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

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;

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

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.

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

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:

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

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.

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

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

¹⁰uye murairo waiva weupenyu, wakawanikwa neni wava werufu;

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

¹⁷Zvino handisisiri ini ndinozviita, asi chivi chinogara mandiri.

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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.

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

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

²²Nekuti ndinofara mumurairo waMwari nemunhu wemukati;

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

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

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.

²⁴Ndiri munhu unoshungurudzika! Ndiani uchandisunungura pamuviri werufu urwu?

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

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

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.