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

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

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

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:

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, 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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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;

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

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

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

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

¹⁰uye murairo waiva weupenyu, wakawanikwa neni wava werufu;

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

¹⁷Zvino handisisiri ini ndinozviita, asi chivi chinogara mandiri.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

²⁴Ndiri munhu unoshungurudzika! Ndiani uchandisunungura pamuviri werufu urwu?

²⁴O wretched man that I [am]! who shall deliver me out of this body of 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* with the mind serve God's law; but with the flesh sin's law.