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?

¹Ahihleh, unaute aw, danin mi a dam sung teng a tungah vai a hawm nak chih na theikei ua hia? – dan thei mite kiangah ka gen ahi.

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.

²Numei, pasal nei a pasal a dam sung teng dana a pasala henkhawmin a om ahi; himahleh, a sihin, pasal lamah dan akipan khahin a om ahi.

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.

³Hichiin, a pasal dam sunga mi dang a kitenpih leh, Angkawm, chih ahi ding hi; a pasal a sihin bel huai dan akipan khahin a oma, huchiin, mi dang nei leh leng angkawm ahi kei hi.

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.

⁴Huan, ka unaute aw, Pathian lama i gah theihna dingin midang, misi laka kipan kaihthoh ngeingei na kitenpih theihna ding un, Kris pumpi pansanin dan lamah hihsihin na omta uhi.

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.

⁵Sa a i om lai un dan jiaka khelhna utna hongsuakten, i sa hiangte ah, sihna khopa gah dingin, a sem naka.

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.

⁶Tuin bel honlenpa lakah sikhinin, dan akipan khahin i omta, laigelh lui bang lel hi loua, Khaa hinna thaka na i sep theihna dingin.

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

⁷Bang i genta dia leh? Dan khelhna hia? Hi lou hial. Himahleh, dan jiaka theih hi keileh, khelhna theilou ding hi ing a; danin, eng ken, chi kei leh, eng chih theilou ding hi inga.

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

⁸Himahleh, khelhnain, thupiak jiakin, lemtan lai muin enna chiteng ka sungah a om saka.

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

⁹Dan lou injaw khelhna si ahi. Huan, tumalamin kei dan louin ka hinga; himahleh thupiak a hongom takin khelhna a honghalh a, kei ka sita hi.

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

¹⁰Huan, hinna thuchiam nei thupiak tuh keidin sihna a honghi chih ka na theita.

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

¹¹Khelhnain thupiak jiakin, lemtan lai muin honkhema, thupiak zangin a honhihlumta hi.

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

¹²Huchiin, dan tuh a siangthou ahi, thupiak leng a siangthou a, adika, a hoih ahi.

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.

¹³Ahihleh, thil hoih keia din sihna a honghi ahia? Hilou hial. Khelhna kei sin sihna a honghi zo ta ahi. Huchiin, khelhna tuh khelhna ahi chih a lat theihna dingin thil hoih zangin a honhihlum ahi; thupiak jiaka khelhna tuh khelhna thupitak a honghih theihna dingin.

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

¹⁴Dan tuh khalam thil ahi chih i thei ngal ua, kei bel sami khelhna a khotsa ka hi.

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.

¹⁵Thil ka hihpen, a dan ka theikei; ka thil hih jelpen, ka thihih utlam ahi ngal keia, ka thil huatlam tak ka hih zo nak ahi.

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

¹⁶Ka hih ut louh lam ka hih ngalin, dan a hoih chih pompih ka hi ta hi.

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

¹⁷Huaichiangin, ka thilhihpen keimah hih a hita keia, khelhna keimaha om hih ahi jaw hi.

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.

¹⁸Keimah ah, huai tuh ka sa ah, thil hoih himhim a teng kei chih ka thei: thil hoih hih utna jaw keimah ah a om na a, thil hoih ka hihthei kei.

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

¹⁹Hoihna hih ka ut pen ka hih keia, khelhna hih ka ut louhpen, ka hih zo naka.

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

²⁰Ka utlouh lam pen ka hih ngal chiangin, a hihpa tuh kei ka hita keia, khelhna keimaha ompen ahi jaw hi.

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

²¹Huchiin, hiai dan ka hontheita; thil hoih hih ka ut laiin gitlouhna ka kiangah a hongom nak ahi.

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

²²Ka lungsim taktakin Pathian dan tungah ka kipak ngal naka;

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.

²³Himahleh, ka sa hiangte ah dan tuam a om chih ka thei, huaiin ka lungsim dan a dou a, ka sa hiangtea khelhna dan om kiangah salin a honpi nak hi.

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

²⁴Mi genthei hina lawmlawm ing e! Hiai sihna pumpi lakah kuan ahia honsuakta sak ding?Jesu Kris i Toupa jiakin Pathian kiangah kipahthu ka gen ahi. Huchiin, keimah takin jaw ka lungsimin Pathian dan ka sema, ka sain tuh gitlouhna dan a sem hi.

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.

²⁵Jesu Kris i Toupa jiakin Pathian kiangah kipahthu ka gen ahi. Huchiin, keimah takin jaw ka lungsimin Pathian dan ka sema, ka sain tuh gitlouhna dan a sem hi.