¹I say [the] truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing witness with me in [the] Holy Spirit,

¹Ndinotaura chokwadi muna Kristu, handinyepi, hana yangu ichindipupurira muMweya Mutsvene,

²that I have great grief and uninterrupted pain in my heart,

²kuti ndinoshushikana kwazvo neshungu dzisingaperi mumoyo mangu.

³for I have wished, I myself, to be a curse from the Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen, according to flesh;

³Nekuti ndaishuva kuti ini ndomene ndipiwe rushambwa kuna Kristu nekuda kwehama dzangu, ivo verudzi rwangu panyama;

⁴who are Israelites; whose [is] the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the law-giving, and the service, and the promises;

⁴ndivo vaIsraeri vane kuitwa vana nekubwinya nesungano nekupiwa kwemurairo, neushumiri, nezvivimbiso;

⁵whose [are] the fathers; and of whom, as according to flesh, [is] the Christ, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.

⁵madzibaba ndeavo, naKristu wakabva kwavari panyama, iye uri pamusoro pezvose, Mwari unokudzwa narinhi. Ameni.

⁶Not however as though the word of God had failed; for not all [are] Israel which [are] of Israel;

⁶Kwete shoko raMwari serakakundikana. Nekuti havazi vaIsraeri vose vakabva kuvaIsraeri;

⁷nor because they are seed of Abraham [are] all children: but, In Isaac shall a seed be called to thee.

⁷Kana nekuti imbeu yaAbhurahamu, vose vana, asi zvinonzi: Kuna Isaka ndiko kuchatumidzwa mbeu yako.

⁸That is, [they that are] the children of the flesh, these [are] not the children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned as seed.

⁸Ndiko kuti: Avo vari vana venyama, ava havasi vana vaMwari; asi vana vechivimbiso vanoverengerwa kumbeu.

⁹For this word [is] of promise, According to this time I will come, and there shall be a son to Sarah.

⁹Nekuti iri ishoko rechivimbiso rinoti: Nenguva ino ndichauya, uye Sara uchava nemwanakomana.

¹⁰And not only [that], but Rebecca having conceived by one, Isaac our father,

¹⁰Handizvo chete; asi Ribhekawo wakati ava nemimba kune umwe, iye Isaka baba vedu;

¹¹[the children] indeed being not yet born, or having done anything good or worthless (that the purpose of God according to election might abide, not of works, but of him that calls),

¹¹nekuti vana vasati vaberekwa, kana kumboita chakanaka kana chakaipa kuti zano raMwari maererano nesananguro risimbiswe, kwete namabasa, asi naiye unodana,

¹²it was said to her, The greater shall serve the less:

¹²zvakanzi kwaari: Mukuru uchashumira mudoko,

¹³according as it is written, I have loved Jacob, and I have hated Esau.

¹³Sezvazvakanyorwa zvichinzi: Jakobho ndakamuda, asi Esau ndakamuvenga.

¹⁴What shall we say then? [Is there] unrighteousness with God? Far be the thought.

¹⁴Zvino tichatiyi? Kusarurama kuriko kuna Mwari here? Ngazvisadaro!

¹⁵For he says to Moses, I will shew mercy to whom I will shew mercy, and I will feel compassion for whom I will feel compassion.

¹⁵Nekuti unoti kuna Mozisi: Ndichava netsitsi kune wandichava netsitsi naye, ndichava netsitsi kune wandinetsitsi naye.

¹⁶So then [it is] not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that shews mercy.

¹⁶Naizvozvo zvino hazvisi zveunoda, kana unomhanya, asi zvaMwari unonzwira tsitsi.

¹⁷For the scripture says to Pharaoh, For this very thing I have raised thee up from amongst [men], that I might thus shew in thee my power, and so that my name should be declared in all the earth.

¹⁷Nekuti Rugwaro runoti kuna Farao: Ndizvozvi zvandakakumutsira, kuti ndiratidze simba rangu mauri, uye kuti zita rangu riparidzwe panyika yose.

¹⁸So then, to whom he will he shews mercy, and whom he will he hardens.

¹⁸Naizvozvo unonzwira tsitsi iye waanoda; uye unowomesa moyo wewaanoda.

¹⁹Thou wilt say to me then, Why does he yet find fault? for who resists his purpose?

¹⁹Zvino iwe uchati kwandiri: Iye uchawanirei mhosva? Nekuti ndiani ungapikisa kuda kwake?

²⁰Aye, but thou, O man, who art *thou* that answerest again to God? Shall the thing formed say to him that has formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

²⁰Haiwa, asi iwe munhu ndiwe ani unokakavadzana naMwari? Ko chinhu chakaumbiwa chingati here kune wakaumba: Wandiitirei sezvizvi?

²¹Or has not the potter authority over the clay, out of the same lump to make one vessel to honour, and another to dishonour?

²¹Ko muumbi haana simba pamusoro pevhu here, kuti nebundu rimwe aite mudziyo umwe unokudzwa, neumwe unozvidzwa?

²²And if God, minded to shew his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering vessels of wrath fitted for destruction;

²²Zvino kana Mwari achida kuratidza kutsamwa kwake, nekuita kuti simba rake rizikamwe, atakura nemoyo murefu midziyo yekutsamwirwa yakagadzirirwa kuparadzwa;

²³and that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he had before prepared for glory,

²³uye kuti azivise fuma yokubwinya kwake pamidziyo yetsitsi, yaakagara agadzirira kubwinya,

²⁴us, whom he has also called, not only from amongst [the] Jews, but also from amongst [the] nations?

²⁴yaakadanawo uye yatiri isu, kusiri kuvaJudha chete, asi nekuvahedheni?

²⁵As he says also in Hosea, I will call not-my-people My people; and the-not-beloved Beloved.

²⁵Sezvaanorevawo kuna Hosiya achiti: Vakange vasi vanhu vangu ndichavaidza vanhu vangu; naiye wakange asingadikamwi mudikamwa.

²⁶And it shall be, in the place where it was said to them, *Ye* [are] not my people, there shall they be called Sons of [the] living God.

²⁶Zvino zvichaitika kuti panzvimbo pakanzi kwavari: Hamuzi vanhu vangu, ipapo vachaidzwa vana vaMwari mupenyu.

²⁷But Esaias cries concerning Israel, Should the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be saved:

²⁷Isaya unodanidzirawo maererano naIsraeri achiti: Kunyange uwandu hwevana vaIsraeri hukaita sejecha regungwa, vakasara vachaponeswa;

²⁸for [he] is bringing the matter to an end, and [cutting [it] short in righteousness; because] a cutting short of the matter will [the] Lord accomplish upon the earth.

²⁸nekuti uchapedza basa nekugurisira mukururama nekuti basa rakagurisirwa richaitwa naMwari panyika.

²⁹And according as Esaias said before, Unless [the] Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we had been as Sodom, and made like even as Gomorrha.

²⁹Sezvaakagara zvareva Isaya, achiti: Kunze kwekuti Ishe wehondo atisiira mbeu, tingadai takaitwa seSodhoma, takaitwa vakafanana neGomora.

³⁰What then shall we say? That [they of the] nations, who did not follow after righteousness, have attained righteousness, but [the] righteousness that is on the principle of faith.

³⁰Zvino tichatiyi? Kuti vahedheni vasingatsvaki kururama, ndivo vakawana kururama, iko kururama kwerutendo;

³¹But Israel, pursuing after a law of righteousness, has not attained to [that] law.

³¹asi Israeri achitsvakisisa murairo wekururama, haana kusvika pamurairo wekururama.

³²Wherefore? Because [it was] not on the principle of faith, but as of works. They have stumbled at the stumblingstone,

³²Nei? Nekuti havana kutsvaka nerutendo, asi nezvainge namabasa emurairo, nekuti vakagumburwa nebwe rinogumbura.

³³according as it is written, Behold, I place in Zion a stone of stumbling and rock of offence: and he that believes on him shall not be ashamed.

³³Sezvazvakanyorwa, zvichinzi: Tarira, ndinogadza paZiyoni ibwe rekugumbura, nedombo rekupinganidza; uye ani nani unotenda kwaari haanganyadziswi.