¹Ompi' -ompi', ni'inca moto atura topoparenta. Jadi', tantu ni'inca napa to ku'uli' tohe'i: kita' manusia' bate tuwu' hi une' kuasa atura topoparenta bula-ta tuwu' -pidi. Aga ane mate-ta-damo, uma-pi ria kuasa atura toe hi kita'.

¹Or don’t you know, brothers The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.” (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?

²Rapa' -na hadua tobine to motomanei: bula tomane-na tuwu' -pidi, bate tehoo' -i hi tomane-na hante atura poncamoko. Aga ane mate-damo tomane-na, tebahaka-imi ngkai atura to mpohoo' -i hi tomane-na toe.

²For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

³Jadi', ane rapa' -na tobine toei mpotomane tomane ntani' -na bula tuwu' -pidi tomane-na to lomo' -na, mobualo' hanga' -na. Aga ane mpolia' mate-mi-hawo tomane-na, uma-ipi tehoo' hante atura toe. Nau' ncamoko-i hante tomane ntani' -na, uma-i-hawo rahanga' topobualo'.

³So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.

⁴Wae wo'o hante kita' ompi'. Ri'ulu tehoo' -ta hi Atura Pue'. Tapi' mate-tamo hangkaa-ngkania hante woto Kristus alaa-na mogaa' -mi posidaia' -ta hante Atura Pue', uma-pi ria kuasa atura toe hi kita'. Pai' hewa toe lau, mosidai' -tamo hi kahadua-na, Hi'a-mi Kristus to tuwu' nculii' ngkai kamatea. Ngkai posidaia' -ta hante Kristus toe, kita' jadi' mokalaua hi Alata'ala.

⁴Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God.

⁵Ri'ulu, kako'ia-ta mepangala' hi Yesus, ria kahinaa nono-ta doko' mpobabehi to dada'a. Napa to ratagi-taka hi rala Atura Pue', toe lau-mi to doko' tababehi-e. Toe pai' hi rala katuwu' -ta to ri'ulu tapake' woto-ta mpobabehi jeko', alaa-na masipato' -ta rahuku' mate pai' ragaa' ngkai Alata'ala.

⁵For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.

⁶Aga hewa toe lau, tebahaka-tamo ngkai Atura Pue' to mpohoo' -ta ri'ulu toe, apa' mate-tamo hangkaa-ngkania hante Kristus. Jadi', uma-tapa mpotuku' ohea to hae: uma-tapa mpotuku' atura-atura to te'uki'. Hewa toe lau mpotuku' ohea to bo'u-tamo: mpotuku' -ta konoa Alata'ala ngkai baraka' Inoha' Tomoroli'.

⁶But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

⁷Ta'uli' we'i Kristus mpobahaka-ta ngkai Atura Pue'. Aga neo' ta'uli' hewa toi: dada'a-hana Atura Pue'. Uma makono lolita toe! Atura Pue' lompe', apa' ngkai Atura Pue' toe ta'inca napa to rahanga' jeko'. Ane rapa' -na uma ria parenta to mpo'uli': "Neo' mpokahina anu doo," ke uma-hawo ku'incai kadada'a-na hina to hi rala nono-ku.

⁷What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting, unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.” Exodus 20:17; Deuteronomy 5:21

⁸Aga kampo'epe-ku Atura Pue' to mpo'uli': "Neo' mehina," mologa-mi jeko' mobago hi rala nono-ku, alaa-na kamehii-hinaa lau-ama. Ane rapa' -na uma ria Atura Pue' to mpotudo' jeko' -ku, ke uma ria kuasa jeko' hi rala nono-ku.

⁸But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

⁹Ri'ulu kako'ia-na ku'incai Atura Pue', ku'uli' lompe' moto katuwu' -ku. Ntaa' we'i, kampo'epe-ku Atura Pue', mehupa' lau-mi jeko' to hi rala nono-ku,

⁹I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

¹⁰pai' masipato' -a rahuku' mate pai' ragaa' ngkai Alata'ala. Kakono-na, patuju-na Atura Pue' bona mporata-a katuwua' to lompe'. Ntaa' we'i, kampo'inca-ku Atura Pue' toe, mojeko' lau-ama alaa-na masipato' -a rahuku' mate pai' ragaa' ngkai Alata'ala.

¹⁰The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death;

¹¹Kampo'epe-ku Atura Pue', mologa lau-mi jeko' mobago hi rala nono-ku. Ma'ala ta'uli' hewa toi: ngkai Atura Pue' toe, napahala'nawu' jeko' lau-ama, alaa-na masipato' -a rahuku' mate pai' ragaa' ngkai Alata'ala.

¹¹for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.

¹²Jadi', Atura Pue' moroli', pai' parenta Pue' bate moroli', monoa' pai' lompe'.

¹²Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

¹³Aga neo' ta'uli' hewa toi: ha Atura Pue' to lompe' toe-mi pai' alaa-na mate-a pai' ragaa' ngkai Alata'ala? Tantu uma. Tapi' Atura Pue' toe napo'ohea jeko' mpokeni kamatea hi aku' pai' mpogaa' -a ngkai Alata'ala. Ngkai Atura Pue' to lompe' toe, lonto' -mi jeko' to hi rala nono-ku, pai' lonto' -mi kadada'a-na jeko'.

¹³Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.

¹⁴Ta'inca moto ompi', Atura Pue' bate lompe' apa' ngkai Inoha' Tomoroli' -i. Tapi' aku' toi-e, manusia' to lente-a, apa' napobatua jeko' -a-hana.

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

¹⁵Uma ku'incai kalaua-na kehi-ku toi. Po'ingku to lompe' to doko' kubabehi, uma lau kubabehi. Po'ingku to kupokahuku' -e, toe lau-di to kubabehi!

¹⁵For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

¹⁶Tapi' ane kubabehi po'ingku to uma kupokonoi, batua-na kupangaku' kalompe' -na Atura Pue'.

¹⁶But if what I don’t desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.

¹⁷Jadi', hewa to bela-hawo aku' mpu'u to mpobabehi po'ingku to dada'a toe. Jeko' to ria ami' hi rala nono-ku, hi'a-mi pue' bago.

¹⁷So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

¹⁸Apa' ku'inca moto-le, uma ria to lompe' hi rala nono-ku, aku' toi manusia' topojeko'. Dota moto-a mpobabehi po'ingku to lompe', aga uma kukulei' mpobabehi.

¹⁸For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.

¹⁹Uma kubabehi po'ingku to lompe' hewa to kupokono. To ntora kubabehi-e, po'ingku to dada'a to uma kupokonoi.

¹⁹For the good which I desire, I don’t do; but the evil which I don’t desire, that I practice.

²⁰Tapi' ane kubabehi po'ingku to uma kupokonoi, batua-na bela aku' to mpobabehi tetu. Jeko' to hi rala nono-ku, hi'a-mi pue' bago.

²⁰But if what I don’t desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

²¹Toe-toe oa' to jadi' hi rala katuwu' -ku: dota-a mpobabehi po'ingku to lompe', hiaa' to dada'a ria ami' -mi hi rala nono-ku.

²¹I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.

²²Hi rala nono-ku kupokono Atura Pue' Ala.

²²For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,

²³Tapi' uma lau-di kutuku' Atura Pue' toe-e, apa' ria kuasa ntani' -na hi rala katuwu' -ku to mpodagi-a. Hi rala nono-ku dota mpu'u-a mpotuku' Atura Pue', tapi' kuasa jeko' to hi rala katuwu' -ku mosisala hante kadota nono-ku toe, alaa-na nadagi jeko' -ama.

²³but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

²⁴Aku' manusia' to silaka mpu'u toi-e! Hema-mi-kuwo to mpobahaka-a ngkai woto to mpokeni kamatea toi-e?

²⁴What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

²⁵Tarima kasi ku'uli' hi Alata'ala! Hi'a-mi to mpobahaka-a, hante petauntongoi' -na Yesus Kristus, Pue' -ta. Jadi', hi rala nono-ku dota-a mpotuku' Atura Pue' Ala. Tapi' bate nakuasai jeko' oa' -a sabana kahinaa nono-ku to dada'a.

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