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?

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

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.

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 ;

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 ?

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

²²Deg ul-iw ḥemmleɣ ccariɛa n Sidi Ṛebbi,

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.