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?

¹Ex hermân, lâex nequenau c'a'ru naxye sa' li chak'rab. Nequenau nak li chak'rab cuan xcuanquil sa' xbêneb li toj yo'yôqueb.

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.

²Nak nasumla junak ixk junaj chic ru riq'uin lix bêlom. Tz'îbanbil sa' li chak'rab nak inc'a' chic naru neque'xjach rib a' yal jo' najtil yo'yôk li bêlomej. Aban cui nacam li bêlomej, li câmc najachoc reheb ut li ixk nacana xjunes.

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.

³Cui toj yo'yo lix bêlom ut naxsume jalan chic cuînk, a'an naxmux ru lix sumlajic. Cui nacam li bêlomej, mâc'a' chic xcuanquil li chak'rab a'an sa' xbên li ixk. Moco tixmux ta chic ru lix sumlajic cui nasumla riq'uin jalan chic cuînk.

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.

⁴Jo'can ajcui' lâo, ex inhermân. Xban nak xkapâb li Jesucristo chanchan kochben nak quicam li Cristo. Ut mâc'a' chic xcuanquil lix chak'rab laj Moisés sa' kabên. Ut mâc'a'o chic rubel xcuanquil li chak'rab. Lâo reho chic li Cristo li quicuacli cui'chic chi yo'yo sa' xyânkeb li camenak re nak toc'anjelak chiru li Dios.

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.

⁵Junxil xkabânu chak li c'a'ru inc'a' us li quixrahi chak ru li kach'ôl. Li chak'rab quixc'ut chiku c'a'ru li inc'a' us ut a' chic li inc'a' us quicuulac chiku xbânunquil. Ut riq'uin xbânunquil a'an cuan li câmc.

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.

⁶A'ut anakcuan chanchan li camenako xban nak li najter chak'rab mâc'a' chic xcuanquil chok' ke lâo. Mâcua' chic li chak'rab yal re sa' kabên. Ut inc'a' chic yôco chi c'anjelac rubel xcuanquil li chak'rab tz'îbanbil chak najter. Anakcuan nococ'anjelac chiru li Dios sa' li ac' yu'am li naxq'ue ke li Santil Musik'ej.

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

⁷¿C'a'ru takaye chirix a'in? ¿Ma takaye nak inc'a' us li chak'rab? Inc'a'. Mâ jok'e takaye chi jo'can. Ninye êre nak cui ta mâc'a' li chak'rab, inc'a' raj xinnau c'a'ru li mâc. Moco xinnau ta raj nak inc'a' us xrâbal ru li jalan aj e, cui ta inc'a' tz'îbanbil sa' li chak'rab chi jo'ca'in: Mâra ru li c'a'ru re lâ cuas âcuîtz'in.

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

⁸Li chak'rab quic'utuc chicuu c'a'ru li mâc. Xban nak ac ninnau chic c'a'ru li mâc, k'axal cui'chic quinq'ue inch'ôl chixbânunquil. Cui ta mâc'a' li chak'rab mâc'a' raj li mâc.

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

⁹Nak toj mâji' ninnau c'a'ru naxye li chak'rab, moco ninc'oxla ta nak lâin aj mâc ut inc'a' xinnau nak inc'ulub ta li câmc. Aban nak xinnau li chak'rab, xinnau nak lâin aj mâc. Ut cue li câmc.

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

¹⁰Li chak'rab xq'ue raj inyu'am, abanan nak quicuabi chanchan incamsinquil quixbânu.

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

¹¹Li chak'rab châbil ut xq'ue raj cue li yu'am, abanan li mâc xinixbalak'i. Ut xban li chak'rab, li mâc xinbânu xq'ue li câmc sa' inbên.

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

¹²Relic chi yâl nak li chak'rab q'uebil chak xban li Dios, a'an santil chak'rab, ut li kataklanquil xban li Dios santo ajcui', tîc ut châbil.

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.

¹³¿Ma târûk tinye nak li châbil chak'rab quic'amoc chak li câmc sa' inbên? Inc'a'. Inc'a' naru tinye chi jo'can xban nak mâcua' li chak'rab quic'amoc chak re li câmc. Aban li mâc quic'amoc chak re li câmc sa' inbên. Li chak'rab quixc'ut chicuu lix yibal ru li mâc. Jo'can nak li châbil quixc'ut chicuu li inc'a' us. Ut li inc'a' us a'an li mâc.

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

¹⁴Nakanau nak li chak'rab musik'anbil xban li Dios. Aban lâin yal cuînkin. Jo'can nak ninmâcob.

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.

¹⁵Inc'a' nintau ru c'a'ut nak ninbânu li inc'a' us. Nacuaj raj xbânunquil li us, abanan a' chic li inc'a' us li ninbânu. Xic' raj nacuil li inc'a' us aban a'an chic li ninbânu.

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

¹⁶A' chic li inc'a' nacuaj xbânunquil, a'an chic li ninbânu ut riq'uin a'an ninq'ue retal nak li chak'rab châbil xban nak naxc'ut chicuu nak inc'a' us li ninbânu.

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

¹⁷Jo'can nak mâcua' chic lâin li ninbânun re li inc'a' us, aban li mâc li cuan cuiq'uin, a'an nataklan cue.

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.

¹⁸Lâin ninnau nak moco châbilin ta. Chalen sa' inyo'lajic lâin chak aj mâc. Nacuaj raj xbânunquil li us, abanan inc'a' ninru chixbânunquil.

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

¹⁹Lâin nacuaj raj xbânunquil li us, aban inc'a' ninbânu. A' chic li mâusilal ninbânu, li inc'a' raj nacuaj xbânunquil.

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

²⁰Cui lâin ninbânu li inc'a' nacuaj xbânunquil, mâcua' chic lâin ninbânun re; aban li mâc li cuan cuiq'uin, a'an li nataklan cue.

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

²¹A'an a'in li ninc'ul: Nak nacuaj raj xbânunquil li us, a' chic li inc'a' us li ninbânu.

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

²²Nasaho' sa' lin ch'ôl riq'uin lix chak'rab li Dios ut a'an li nacuaj xbânunquil.

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.

²³Aban xban nak yal cuînkin, nacuec'a nak cuan jun li ch'a'ajquilal sa' li cuâm naramoc re chicuu li us li nacuaj raj xbânunquil. Ut li ch'a'ajquil a'an, a'an li mâc li toj cuan cuiq'uin, ut chanchan li cuanquin chi prêxil xban.

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

²⁴¡C'ajo' xtok'obâl cuu! ¿Ani tâcolok cue chiru lin najter na'leb li nac'amoc chak re li câmc sa' inbên?Ca'aj cui' li Kâcua' Jesucristo tâcolok cue chiru lin najter na'leb. Ac xink'axtesi cuib rubel xcuanquil lix chak'rab li Dios ut ac' chic lin na'leb. Ninq'ue inch'ôl chixpâbanquil li Dios, aban xban nak yal cuînkin, toj cuan lin najter na'leb cuiq'uin. Abanan ninbantioxi chiru li Dios xban nak li Kâcua' Jesucristo tâtenk'ânk cue re nak tincanab xbânunquil lin najter na'leb.

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.

²⁵Ca'aj cui' li Kâcua' Jesucristo tâcolok cue chiru lin najter na'leb. Ac xink'axtesi cuib rubel xcuanquil lix chak'rab li Dios ut ac' chic lin na'leb. Ninq'ue inch'ôl chixpâbanquil li Dios, aban xban nak yal cuînkin, toj cuan lin najter na'leb cuiq'uin. Abanan ninbantioxi chiru li Dios xban nak li Kâcua' Jesucristo tâtenk'ânk cue re nak tincanab xbânunquil lin najter na'leb.