Taka'da ni Lagyeogye yasi
1 Endaro tase ma oyebe atane ono minina tana ndi, ädrupii maro, tana ami cini mini ta ota ro ndi. Ota ka lidri miri toto tu oriro ànyaro si. 2 Taka'dana anjioko, toko se, agyebe, embete ota si ago anyaro ri tu ori ro ndaro si, oko ondro nda kodra bete, 'dooko anya te dritai ro ni ota se kembe anya be ndäri ana yasi. 3 Kpa inye, ondro anya kurudrite mano aza be 'dooko ago anyaro dri orivoya lidri ro, äzina anya te taoye'ba ago drisi, oko ondro ago anyaro kodrate, ota voro anya orivoya dritai ro ye takozi ko ago drisi ago ondro anya kuru ago aza ca owo. 4 Ami kpa orivoya oso inye, ädrupii maro. Ta ota rosi, midra kpate tana ami ni telesi lomvo Kristo ro, ago yauono ami ni nda se eŋgate ni avo yasi ro tana ma'do robe kadoro ruindu Lu ri ya. 5 Tana ondro ka'do màrite oso a'do amaro lomvo ro voro, eteŋga takozi leme lomvo amaro ya te Ota se kabe losi oye ama lomvo si, ago màte ruindu odra ri oyena ayani. 6 Caoko, yauono ama orivoya dritai ro ni Ota ri, tana màdrate ŋgase kembe ama be kamba'bai ro ri. Minduru kote tona liti uku ota egyi egyi ro ya, oko te tase to'di Tori ro ri.
Ota ndi Takozi be
7 Ka'do inye, màtana ndi màkye, Ota andivo orivoya takozi yi ya? Ko inye! Oko Ota 'ba ma te takozi unine. Ondro aba ota kata ko ekye: “Mi'ba ya ko ŋga 'diaza rota,” aba mänina ko ta yao'ba ro nonye ono tana unine. 8 Oko Ota se ana si takozi usu kandrakado anyaro te yao'ba se cini ma ya ono drî na teŋgane. Ota ako takozi orivoya avo yi. 9 Sedri andivo maro lidriidriro ota ako owo, oko ondro ota kikyite oko, takozi adrite, 10 ago madrate. Ago ota se usu tana be kabe ni adri ezi ono, ta maro ta ezite odra ayani. 11 Takozi usu kandrakado iro te, ago ta ota rosi anya odo ma te ago fu ma te.
12 Ka'do inye, Ota andivo orivoya alokado, ago ota orivoya alokado, ŋgye ago kado. 13 Oko inye'do tase orivoya kado ono 'ba ma ni odrane ya? Ko inye! Takozi owo; anya ezi odra te mädri ŋgase kado si, tana aka'da takozi robe takozi ro. Ago ndi inye, ota si aka'da takozi te a'done koziekyero ndra.
Ruufu Ya Lidri roya
14 Mänite anjioko Ota orivoya tori ro, oko ma orivoya mano oŋgwaoŋgwa ro yi, agyete iyeäṛi ro takozi ri. 15 Mäni tase mabe oyena ko, tana maye tase malebe oyene kote, oko maye ṛo tase ya maro osoro lomvoigye ayani vona ro. 16 Ondro ma tase male ko oyene oyena ayani, 'do ka'date anjioko male tadrite anjioko Ota orivoya kado. 17 Ago ma ko ni nda se kabe ŋga ono oyena owo; oko ni takozi se kabe ori ma ya owo. 18 Mänite anjioko takado ri ko ma ya, anjioko a'do lidri ro maro ya. Tana ole takado oyero gica orivoya ma ya, caoko ma mbaraako oyene. 19 Maye takado se malebe oyene kote, mago maye ṛo tase undiro male ko oyene ayani. 20 Ondro ma tase male ko oyene oyena, 'do ka'date anjioko ma kote ni 'dise kabe oyena owo, oko takozi se kabe ori ma ya ono owo.
21 Ago musuvote anjioko ota se ono orivoya losi oyevoya! Ondro malete tase orivoya kado oyene, tase orivoya kozi mabe sina manji toto ayani. 22 Ya yasi maro le ota Lu ro. 23 Oko mandre ota to aza te orivoya losi oyevoya lomvo maro ya, ota se kabe kyila oye ota se tauni drî maro ro kolebe be. Anya ka ma o'ba kamba'ba ro ota takozi ro se orivoya losi oyevoya lomvo maro ya ri. 24 Ma mano riyä ako yi! A'di opana ma gini lomvo se ka ugu ma o'ba odrane ono risi ya? 25 Aro'boya ka'do Lu ri, se ka ta ono oye Opi amaro Yesu Kristo si!
Ono ni, taoye maro, modo maro si mäni ndi ruindune ota Lu ro ri tauni drî maro rosi, oko lomvo maro ka ruindu ota takozi ro ri.
An Example from Marriage
1 My friends, you surely understand enough about law to know that laws only have power over people who are alive. 2 For example, the Law says that a man's wife must remain his wife as long as he lives. But once her husband is dead, she is free 3 to marry someone else. However, if she goes off with another man while her husband is still alive, she is said to be unfaithful.
4 That is how it is with you, my friends. You are now part of the body of Christ and are dead to the power of the Law. You are free to belong to Christ, who was raised to life so we could serve God. 5 When we thought only of ourselves, the Law made us have sinful desires. It made every part of our bodies into slaves who are doomed to die. 6 But the Law no longer rules over us. We are like dead people, and it cannot have any power over us. Now we can serve God in a new way by obeying his Spirit, and not in the old way by obeying the written Law.
The Battle with Sin
7 Does this mean that the Law is sinful? Certainly not! But if it had not been for the Law, I would not have known what sin is really like. For example, I would not have known what it means to want something that belongs to someone else, unless the Law had told me not to do this. 8 It was sin that used this command as a way of making me have all kinds of desires. But without the Law, sin is dead.
9 Before I knew about the Law, I was alive. But as soon as I heard that command, sin came to life, 10 and I died. The very command that was supposed to bring life to me, instead brought death. 11 Sin used this command to trick me, and because of it I died. 12 Still, the Law and its commands are holy and correct and good.
13 Am I saying something good caused my death? Certainly not! It was sin that killed me by using something good. Now we can see how terrible and evil sin really is. 14 We know that the Law is spiritual. But I am merely a human, and I have been sold as a slave to sin. 15 In fact, I don't understand why I act the way I do. I don't do what I know is right. I do the things I hate. 16 Although I don't do what I know is right, I agree that the Law is good. 17 So I am not the one doing these evil things. The sin that lives in me is what does them.
18 I know that my selfish desires won't let me do anything that is good. Even when I want to do right, I cannot. 19 Instead of doing what I know is right, I do wrong. 20 And so, if I don't do what I know is right, I am no longer the one doing these evil things. The sin that lives in me is what does them.
21 The Law has shown me that something in me keeps me from doing what I know is right. 22 With my whole heart I agree with the Law of God. 23 But in every part of me I discover something fighting against my mind, and it makes me a prisoner of sin that controls everything I do. 24 What a miserable person I am. Who will rescue me from this body that is doomed to die? 25 Thank God! Jesus Christ will rescue me.
So with my mind I serve the Law of God, although my selfish desires make me serve the law of sin.