¹ Bokk yi, yéen ñi may waxal xam ngeen luy yoon; xam ngeen kon ne, yoon am na doole ci nit diirub dundam.

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?

² Ci maanaa, mi ngi mel ni jigéen juy séy; yoon a ngi koy boole ak jëkkëram, ñu ànd seen giiru dund, waaye su jëkkër ji faatoo, buum gi dagg na.

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.

³ Kon nag su jabar ji àndee ak beneen góor, te fekk jëkkër jiy dund, dees na ko àtte njaaloo. Waaye bu jëkkër ji faatoo, yoon jeexal na seen diggante; man na séy nag ak beneen góor, te loolu du njaaloo.

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.

⁴ Nii laa leen ko man a misaale, samay bokk; bi Kirist deeyee, dangeen a deeyandoo ak moom, te noonu yoonu Musaa wàcc leen. Léegi nag yéena ngi ànd ak keneen, maanaam Kirist mi dekki, ngir nu amal Yàlla njariñ.

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.

⁵ Keroog ba nu daan topp sunu nafsu, yoonu Musaa daan na xamb bëgg-bëgg yu bon, yiy yengal sunuy cér, ba jural nu dee.

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.

⁶ Waaye léegi yoon wi wàcc na nu, ci li nu dee, ba rëcc cig buumam. Léegi nag nu ngi jaamu Yàlla, waxumaleen ci sàmm santaane rekk, ndax loolu wees na, waaye ci kàttan gu bees, gi nu Xelum Yàlla di may.

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.

⁷ Kon nag lu nu war a wax? Ndax bàkkaar ci yoonu Musaa la jóge? Mukk! Waaye moo ma xamal luy bàkkaar. Ndaxte su ma yoon wi waxul woon: «Bul bëgg yëfi jaambur,» kon duma xam luy xemmem.

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

⁸ Waaye bàkkaar jaare na ci ndigalu Yàlla, daldi ñëw dugg ci man, ba yengal ci man xemmem yu bare. Ndaxte ba ma xamagul woon yoonu Musaa, bàkkaar da ne woon nemm ci man.

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

⁹ Te keroog bi ma xamagul lu yoon wi santaane, maa ngi doon dund dund gu neex; waaye ba ma ko déggee, bàkkaar dafa daldi fuddu ci man, te man ma daldi dee.

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

¹⁰ Noonu gis naa ne, ndigal loolu waroon a jëme nit ñi ci dund, daf maa jëme ci dee.

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

¹¹ Ndaxte bàkkaar jaar na ci li Yàlla digle, ba nax ma, rey ma.

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

¹² Kon nag man nanoo wax ne, yoonu Musaa yoon wu sell la, te ndigalu Yàlla dafa sell, jub te baax.

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

¹³ Ndax kon lu baax moo ma tàbbal ci dee? Mukk! Bàkkaar a ko def, ngir jikkoom feeñ; dafa gis ci lu baax loolu bunt bu mu man a jaar, ba rey ma. Noonu ndigalu Yàlla tax na, bàkkaar fés, bon ba jéggi dayo.

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.

¹⁴ Xam nanu ne, yoonu Musaa ngi jóge ci Yàlla, waaye man yëfi àddina laa fonk, te nekk ci dooley bàkkaar, mel nib jaam.

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

¹⁵ Ndaxte samay jëf jaaxal na ma; li ma bëgg a def, duma ko def, waaye li ma bañ rekk, moom laay def.

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.

¹⁶ Kon nag gannaaw li may def du sama coobare, nangu naa ne yoonu Musaa baax na.

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

¹⁷ Léegi nag du man maay def lu bon loolu, waaye bàkkaar bi dëkk ci man, moo ma ciy jiiñ.

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

¹⁸ Ndaxte xam naa ne, lu baax dëkkul ci man, maanaam ci sama bindu doom Aadama. Am naa yéeney def lu baax, waaye awma kàttanu yeggale.

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.

¹⁹ Lu baax nag lu may yéene, duma ko def, waaye lu bon lu ma bëggul, moom laay def.

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

²⁰ Bu fekkee nag lu ma bëggul, moom laay def, kon dootul sama coobare, waaye bàkkaar bi dëkk ci man, moo ma ci jiiñ.

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

²¹ Gis naa nag lii: saa su ma bëggee def lu baax, lu bon a ngi ma taxawu.

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

²² Ndaxte ci sama biir xol yoonu Yàlla wi neex na ma.

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

²³ Waaye gis naa jeneen doole juy yengu ci samay céri yaram, di bëre ak li sama xol bëgg; day bëre ba noot ma, def ma jaam ci dooley bàkkaar joojuy yengu ci samay cér.

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.

²⁴ Céy maaka torox! Ana ku may musal ci sama yaram, wii may jëme ci dee?

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

²⁵ Maa ngi sant Yàlla; am na kuy musle, mooy Yeesu Kirist sunu Boroom. Kon nag lii laa gis ci sama bopp: ci sama xel maa ngi topp yoonu Yàlla, waaye ci sama bindu doom Aadama maa ngi topp yoonu bàkkaar.

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.