¹Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

¹Naizvozvo isuwo zvatakakomberedzwa negore guru rakadai rezvapupu, ngatibvisei mitoro yose nechivi chinongotinamatira, ngatimhanye nemoyo murefu nhangemutange yakaiswa mberi kwedu,

²Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

²tichitarira kuna Jesu, muvambi nemupedzeredzi werutendo rwedu, iye nekuda kwemufaro wakaiswa pamberi pake wakatsunga pamuchinjikwa, achizvidza kunyadziswa kwawo, akagara kuruoko rwerudyi rwechigaro cheushe chaMwari.

³For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

³Nekuti cherekedzai uyo wakatsunga pagakava rakadai revatadzi vachimirisana naye, kuti imwi murege kuneta nekupera simba pamweya yenyu.

⁴Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

⁴Muchigere kupikisa kusvikira muropa muchirwa nechivi;

⁵And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:

⁵uye makakangamwa kurudziro inotaura kwamuri kwazvo sekuvana, kuchiti: Mwanakomana wangu, usazvidza kuranga kwaIshe, kana kupera moyo kana uchitsiurwa naye;

⁶For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

⁶Nekuti Ishe waanoda unomuranga, nekuzvambaradza mwanakomana umwe neumwe waanogamuchira.

⁷If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

⁷Kana muchitsunga pakurangwa, Mwari unokubatai sevanakomana; nekuti mwanakomana ndeupi usingarangwi nababa?

⁸But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

⁸Asi kana musingarangwi sezvinoitirwa vagovani vose, muri vana veupombwe, kwete vanakomana.

⁹Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

⁹uyezve isu takambova nemadzibaba enyama yedu aidzora uye tikavakudza; ko hatingazviisi zvikuru pasi paBaba vemweya kuti tirarame here?

¹⁰For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.

¹⁰Nekuti ivo zvirokwazvo vakatiranga mazuva mashoma pamadiro avo: asi iye unotiranga kuti tibatsirwe, tigogoverwa utsvene hwake.

¹¹Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

¹¹Zvino hakuna kuranga kwazvino kunoratidza kufadza, asi kushungurudza zvakadaro pashure kunobereka zvibereko zverugare zvakarurama kune vanorovedzwa mazviri.

¹²Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;

¹²Saka simbisai maoko akaremberera pasi, nemabvi akarengwezeka;

¹³And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.

¹³gadzirirai tsoka dzenyu nzira dzakarurama, kuti icho chinokamhina chirege kushodoka, asi panzvimbo yeizvozvo chiporeswe.

¹⁴Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

¹⁴Tevererai rugare nevose, neutsvene, nokuti kunze kwahwo hakuna munhu uchaona Ishe;

¹⁵Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;

¹⁵Muchichenjerera kuti kurege kuva nemunhu unokundikana panyasha dzaMwari; kuti zvimwe mudzi wekuvava urege kumutsa dambudziko ukutambudzei vazhinji vagosvibiswa;

¹⁶Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.

¹⁶kurege kuva nemhombwe kana munhu usina hanya naMwari, saEsau wakatengesa udangwe hwake nekudya kumwe.

¹⁷For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.

¹⁷Nekuti munoziva kuti pashure achizoda hake kugara nhaka yekuropafadzwa, wakarambwa; nekuti haana kuwana nzvimbo yekutendeuka, kunyange akaitsvaka zvikuru nemisodzi.

¹⁸For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,

¹⁸Nekuti hamuna kuswedera kugomo ringabatwa, rinopfuta moto, uye kurima nekusviba, nekudutu guru remhepo,

¹⁹And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:

¹⁹uye kurira kwehwamanda, nenzwi remashoko; iro ivo vakarinzwa vakakumbira kuti shoko rimwe rirege kuzotaurwa kwavarizve;

²⁰(For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:

²⁰Nekuti vakakoniwa kutevera icho chakanga charairwa, chekuti: Kana zvakadaro nemhuka kana ikabata gomo, ichatakwa nemabwe; kana kufurwa nemuseve.

²¹And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)

²¹icho chakaonekwa chaityisa zvekuti Mozisi wakati: Ndinotya kwazvo, ndinodedera.

²²But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,

²²Asi imwi mauya kugomo reZiyoni, nekuguta raMwari mupenyu, Jerusarema rekudenga, nekumazana evatumwa vasingaverengeki,

²³To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

²³kuungano huru nekereke yematangwe akanyorwa kumatenga, nekuna Mwari mutongi wevose, nekumweya yevakarurama vakapereredzwa,

²⁴And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things that that of Abel.

²⁴nekuna Jesu murevereri wesungno itsva, nekuropa rekusasa, rinotaura zvinhu zviri nani pane zvaAbhero.

²⁵See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:

²⁵Chenjerai kuti murege kuramba uyo unotaura; nekuti dai vasina kupukunyuka iye wakataura panyika, zvikuru sei isu kana tichifuratira iye unobva kumatenga;

²⁶Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.

²⁶inzwi rake rakazungunusa nyika nguva iyo asi zvino wakavimbisa achiti: Kamwe chetezve ndichazungunusa kwete nyika chete, asi dengawo.

²⁷And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.

²⁷Zvino izvi zvekuti: Kamwe zvekare, zvinoratidza kubviswa kwezvinhu zvinozununguka, sezvinhu zvakaitwa, kuti izvo zvisingagoni kuzungunuka zvigare.

²⁸Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:

²⁸Naizvozvo zvatinogamuchira ushe hwusingazununguswi, ngative nenyasha dzatingagona kushumira nadzo Mwari zvinogamuchirika nekukudza nekutya Mwari.

²⁹For our God is a consuming fire.

²⁹Nekuti Mwari wedu moto unoparadza.