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?

¹Tsy fantatrareo, va, ry rahalahy (fa miteny amin'izay mahalala ny lalàna aho), fa ny lalàna dia manapaka ny olona, raha mbola velona izy?

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.

²Fa ny vehivavy izay manambady dia fehezin'ny lalàna ho an'ny lahy, raha mbola velona ny lahy; fa raha maty kosa ny lahy, dia afaka amin'ny lalàn'ny lahy izy.

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.

³Koa raha mbola velona ny lahy, ka manambady olon-kafa ravehivavy, dia hatao hoe mpijangajanga izy; fa raha maty kosa ny lahy, dia afaka amin'izany lalàna izany izy ka tsy mba mpijangajanga, na dia manambady olon-kafa aza.

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.

⁴Ary amin'izany ianareo koa, ry rahalahiko, dia efa natao maty ny amin'ny lalàna noho ny tenan'i Kristy, mba ho vadin'ny hafa ianareo, dia Izay natsangana tamin'ny maty, mba hahavokarantsika ho an'Andriamanitra.

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.

⁵Fa fony tao amin'ny nofo isika, dia ny filan'ny ota, izay nohetsehin'ny lalàna, no niasa tao amin'ny momba ny tenantsika hahavokatra ho amin'ny fahafatesana.

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.

⁶Fa ankehitriny dia efa afaka tamin'ny lalàna isika, satria maty ny amin'izay nihazonana antsika, ka dia manompo amin'ny havaozam-panahy isika, fa tsy amin'ny hahelan-tsoratra.

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

⁷Inona ary no holazaintsika? Ota va ny lalàna? Sanatria izany! Kanefa tsy nahalala ny ota aho, raha tsy tamin'ny lalàna, satria tsy fantatro akory ny fitsiriritana, raha tsy ny lalàna no nanao hoe: Aza mitsiriritra (Eks. 20. 17).

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

⁸Fa io didy io dia nentin'ny ota nampihetsika ny fitsiriritana rehetra tato anatiko; fa maty ny ota, raha tsy misy lalàna.

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

⁹Ary izaho dia velona tsy nanan-dalàna fahiny; fa rehefa tonga kosa ny didy, dia velona indray ny ota, ka dia maty aho.

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

¹⁰Ary ny didy izay natao hahazoana fiainana, dia hitako fa nahatonga fahafatesana tamiko kosa.

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

¹¹Fa io didy io dia nentin'ny ota namitaka sy nahafaty ahy.

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

¹²Ka dia masina tokoa ny lalàna, ary masina ny didy sady marina no tsara.

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.

¹³Koa ny tsara va no nahafaty ahy? Sanatria izany! Fa ny ota no nahafaty ahy, mba hiseho ho ota; fa ny tsara no nentiny nahafaty ahy, mba ho tonga ota indrindra ny ota noho ny nataon'ny lalàna.

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

¹⁴Fa fantatsika fa araka ny fanahy ny lalàna; fa izaho kosa nofo, namidy ho andevon'ny ota.

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.

¹⁵Fa izay ataoko dia tsy fantatro; fa tsy izay sitrako no ataoko; fa izay halako no ataoko.

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

¹⁶Fa raha manao ny tsy sitrako aho, dia manaiky fa tsara ny lalàna.

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

¹⁷Ary amin'izany tsy izaho intsony no manao izany, fa ny ota izay mitoetra ato anatiko.

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.

¹⁸Fa fantatro fa tsy misy zavatra tsara mitoetra ato amiko, dia ato amin'ny nofoko; fa ato anatiko ihany ny fikasana, saingy ny hahatanteraka ny tsara no tsy ato.

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

¹⁹Fa tsy ny tsara izay sitrako no ataoko; fa ny ratsy izay tsy sitrako no ataoko.

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

²⁰Fa raha ny tsy sitrako no ataoko, dia tsy izaho intsony no manao izany, fa ny ota izay mitoetra ato amiko.

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

²¹Koa hitako izao lalàna izao: raha ta-hanao ny marina aho, dia ato amiko ihany ny ratsy. [ Na: koa hitako fa raha ta-hanaraka ny lalàna aho hanaovako ny marina]

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

²²Fa mankasitraka ny lalàn'Andriamanitra aho araka ny toetra anaty;

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.

²³nefa mahita lalàna hafa amin'ny momba ny tenako aho, miady amin'ny lalàn'ny saiko ka mamabo ahy ho an'ny lalàn'ny ota izay ao amin'ny momba ny tenako.

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

²⁴Indrisy! olo-mahantra aho! Iza no hanafaka ahy amin'ny tenan'ity fahafatesana ity?Misaotra an'Andriamanitra aho amin'ny alalan'i Jesosy Kristy Tompontsika. Koa raha ny amiko, dia mankatò ny lalàn'Andriamanitra aho amin'ny saiko, fa ny lalàn'ny ota kosa amin'ny nofoko.

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.

²⁵Misaotra an'Andriamanitra aho amin'ny alalan'i Jesosy Kristy Tompontsika. Koa raha ny amiko, dia mankatò ny lalàn'Andriamanitra aho amin'ny saiko, fa ny lalàn'ny ota kosa amin'ny nofoko.