¹I say then, Has God cast away his people? Far be the thought. For *I* also am an Israelite, of [the] seed of Abraham, of [the] tribe of Benjamin.

¹Zvino ndinoti: Ko Mwari wakarasa vanhu vake here? Ngazvisadaro! Nekuti iniwo ndiri muIsraeri, wembeu yaAbhurahamu, werudzi rwaBenjanimi.

²God has not cast away his people whom he foreknew. Know ye not what the scripture says in [the history of] Elias, how he pleads with God against Israel?

²Mwari haana kurasha vanhu vake vaakagara aziva. Ko hamuzivi kuti Rugwaro runoti kudini kuna Eria here? Kuti unoreverera sei kuna Mwari pamusoro pevaIsraeri, achiti:

³Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have dug down thine altars; and *I* have been left alone, and they seek my life.

³Ishe, vakauraya vaporofita venyu, vakaputsa aritari dzenyu, zvino ini ndasara ndoga, uye vanotsvaka upenyu hwangu.

⁴But what says the divine answer to him? I have left to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed knee to Baal.

⁴Asi mhinduro yaMwari inoti kudii kwaari? Unoti: Ndakazvichengetera zvuru zvinomwe zvevarume, vasina kufugamira ibvi kuna Bhaari.

⁵Thus, then, in the present time also there has been a remnant according to election of grace.

⁵Zvino saizvozvo nguva inowo variko vakasara maererano nesananguro yenyasha.

⁶But if by grace, no longer of works: since [otherwise] grace is no more grace.

⁶Zvino kana zviri zvenyasha, hazvisati zvichiri zvemabasa; asi kana zvisakadaro, nyasha hadzisisiri nyasha. Asi kana zvichibva kumabasa hazvisati zvichiri zvenyasha; kana zvisakadaro basa harizati richibasa.

⁷What [is it] then? What Israel seeks for, that he has not obtained; but the election has obtained, and the rest have been blinded,

⁷Ko zvino? Israeri haana kuwana zvaakanga achitsvaka, asi vasanangurwa vakazviwana; vamwe vakawomeswa,

⁸according as it is written, God has given to them a spirit of slumber, eyes not to see, and ears not to hear, unto this day.

⁸maererano sezvazvakanyorwa, zvichinzi: Mwari wakavapa mweya wekutsumwaira; meso kuti varege kuona; nenzeve kuti varege kunzwa, kusvikira zuva ranhasi.

⁹And David says, Let their table be for a snare, and for a gin, and for a fall-trap, and for a recompense to them:

⁹NaDhavhidhi unoti: Tafura yavo ngaiitwe rudzingi, nemusungo nechigumbuso nekutsiva kwavari;

¹⁰let their eyes be darkened not to see, and bow down their back alway.

¹⁰meso avo ngaasvibirwe kuti varege kuona; uye mukotamise musana wavo nokusingaperi.

¹¹I say then, Have they stumbled in order that they might fall? Far be the thought: but by their fall [there is] salvation to the nations to provoke them to jealousy.

¹¹Zvino ndinoti: Vakagumbuswa kuti vawe here? Ngazvisadaro! Asi kubudikidza nokuwa kwavo ruponeso rwakasvika kuvahedheni, kuvamutsira godo.

¹²But if their fall [be the] world's wealth, and their loss [the] wealth of [the] nations, how much rather their fulness?

¹²Zvino kana kuwa kwavo kuri fuma yenyika, nekutapudzika kwavo fuma yevahedheni, zvikuru sei kuzara kwavo?

¹³For I speak to you, the nations, inasmuch as *I* am apostle of nations, I glorify my ministry;

¹³Nekuti ndinotaura kwamuri vahedheni; sezvandiri muapositori wevahedheni, ndinokudza basa rangu.

¹⁴if by any means I shall provoke to jealousy [them which are] my flesh, and shall save some from among them.

¹⁴Kuti zvimwe ndingamutsira godo venyama yangu, ndiponese vamwe vavo.

¹⁵For if their casting away [be the] world's reconciliation, what [their] reception but life from among [the] dead?

¹⁵Nekuti kana kurashwa kwavo kuri kuyananiswa kwenyika, kugamuchirwa kwavo kuchaveiko, kunze kweupenyu hunobva kuvakafa?

¹⁶Now if the first-fruit [be] holy, the lump also; and if the root [be] holy, the branches also.

¹⁶Zvino kana chibereko chekutanga chiri chitsvene, bunduwo rakadaro; kana mudzi uri mutsvene, matavi akadarowo;

¹⁷Now if some of the branches have been broken out, and *thou*, being a wild olive tree, hast been grafted in amongst them, and hast become a fellow-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree,

¹⁷Zvino kana mamwe amatavi akavhuniwa, iwe uri muorivhi wekudondo ukabatanidzwa pakati pavo, ukava nemugove pamwe nawo pamudzi nepamafuta emuorivhi;

¹⁸boast not against the branches; but if thou boast, [it is] not *thou* bearest the root, but the root thee.

¹⁸usazvikudza pamusoro pematavi; asi kana uchizvikudza hausi iwe unotakura mudzi, asi mudzi unokutakura iwe.

¹⁹Thou wilt say then, The branches have been broken out in order that *I* might be grafted in.

¹⁹Zvino uchati: Matavi akavhuniwa, kuti ini ndibatanidzwe.

²⁰Right: they have been broken out through unbelief, and *thou* standest through faith. Be not high-minded, but fear:

²⁰Zvakanaka; nekusatenda vakavhuniwa, iwe unomira nerutendo. Usazvikudza, asi utye;

²¹if God indeed has not spared the natural branches; lest it might be he spare not thee either.

²¹nekuti kana Mwari asina kurega matavi echisikigo, zvimwe haangakuregi iwewo.

²²Behold then [the] goodness and severity of God: upon them who have fallen, severity; upon thee goodness of God, if thou shalt abide in goodness, since [otherwise] *thou* also wilt be cut away.

²²Zvino tarira unyoro nekuomarara kwaMwari, kune vanowa kuomarara; asi kwauri unyoro, kana uchigara paunyoro hwake; zvimwe newewo ungatemwa.

²³And *they* too, if they abide not in unbelief, shall be grafted in; for God is able again to graft them in.

²³Naivowo, kana vasingagari pakusatenda, vachabatanidzwa, nekuti Mwari unogona kuvabatanidzazve.

²⁴For if *thou* hast been cut out of the olive tree wild by nature, and, contrary to nature, hast been grafted into the good olive tree, how much rather shall they, who are according to nature be grafted into their own olive tree?

²⁴Nekuti kana iwe wakatemwa kumuorivhi uri wekudondo pachisikigo, ukabatanidzwa pamuorivhi wakanaka, zvichipesana nechisikigo chawo, vangabatanidzwa zvikuru sei avo vari matavi echisikigo pamuti wavo wemuorivhi?

²⁵For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of this mystery, that ye may not be wise in your own conceits, that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the nations be come in;

²⁵Nekuti handidi hama kuti musaziva chakavanzika ichi, kuti murege kungwara mumanyawi enyu; kuti kuwomeswa kwemoyo kwakaitika pamusoro pevamwe vevaIsraeri kusvikira kuzara kwavahedheni kwapinda;

²⁶and so all Israel shall be saved. According as it is written, The deliverer shall come out of Zion; he shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob.

²⁶saizvozvo Israeri wose uchaponeswa; sezvazvakanyorwa zvichinzi: PaZiyoni pachabuda Musununguri; uchabvisa kusada Mwari kuna Jakobho;

²⁷And this is the covenant from me to them, when I shall have taken away their sins.

²⁷Uye iyi isungano yangu kwavari, pandichabvisa zvivi zvavo.

²⁸As regards the glad tidings, [they are] enemies on your account; but as regards election, beloved on account of the fathers.

²⁸Zvino maererano neevhangeri, vavengi nekuda kwenyu; asi maererano nekusanangura, vadikamwa nekuda kwemadzibaba.

²⁹For the gifts and the calling of God [are] not subject to repentance.

²⁹Nekuti zvipo nekudana kwaMwari hazvishanduki.

³⁰For as indeed *ye* [also] once have not believed in God, but now have been objects of mercy through the unbelief of *these*;

³⁰Nekuti semwiwo kare makanga musina kuteerera Mwari, asi zvino makagamuchira tsitsi kubudikidza nekusateerera kwavo;

³¹so these also have now not believed in your mercy, in order that *they* also may be objects of mercy.

³¹saizvozvo naivava ikozvino havana kuteerera, kuti kubudikidza netsitsi dzenyu naivo vawanewo tsitsi;

³²For God hath shut up together all in unbelief, in order that he might shew mercy to all.

³²nekuti Mwari wakavapfigira vose mukusateera kwavo, kuti ave netsitsi pane vose.

³³O depth of riches both of [the] wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable his judgments, and untraceable his ways!

³³Haiwa kudzika kwefuma, zvose yeuchenjeri neruzivo rwaMwari! Kutonga kwake hakunzverwi zvakadini, nenzira dzake hadzingarondwi!

³⁴For who has known [the] mind of [the] Lord, or who has been his counsellor?

³⁴Nekuti ndiani wakaziva fungwa yaMwari kana ndiani wakange ari murairidzi wake?

³⁵or who has first given to him, and it shall be rendered to him?

³⁵Ndiani wakatanga kupa kwaari, uye zvicharipirwazve kwaari?

³⁶For of him, and through him, and for him [are] all things: to him be glory for ever. Amen.

³⁶Nekuti zvimwe zvose zvinobva kwaari kubudikidza naye, zvinoenda kwaari; umambo ngahuve kwaari nokusingaperi. Ameni.