¹Tinotangazve kuzvipupurira here? Tinotsvaka here, sevamwe tsamba dzekutipupurira kwamuri, kana dzokupupura kunobva kwamuri?

¹Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?

²Imwi muri tsamba yedu, yakanyorwa mumoyo yedu, inozikamwa nekuverengwa nevanhu vose;

²Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:

³muchiratidza kuti muri tsamba yaKristu inoshumirwa nesu; yakanyorwa kwete neingi, asi neMweya waMwari mupenyu; kwete pamahwandefa emabwe, asi pamahwandefa enyama yemoyo.

³Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.

⁴Chivimbo chakadai tinacho kubudikidza naKristu kuna Mwari;

⁴And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:

⁵kwete kuti tinozvikwanisa isu pachedu, kufunga pamusoro pechimwe chinhu pachedu, asi kukwaniswa kwedu kunobva kuna Mwari;

⁵Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;

⁶iye wakatigonesa kuva vashumiri vesungano itsva, kwete yezvakanyorwa asi yeMweya; nekuti chakanyorwa chinouraya, asi Mweya unopa upenyu.

⁶Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

⁷Asi kana ushumiri hwekufa, pamashoko akavezwa pamabwe hwakasvikira mukubwinya, zvekuti vana vaIsraeri vakakoniwa kutarisisa chiso chaMozisi nekuda kwekubwinya kwechiso chake kwakange kuchizopedzwa,

⁷But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:

⁸ko kushumira kweMweya kungakona nei kubwinya zvikuru?

⁸How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?

⁹Nekuti kana kushumira kwekupiwa mhosva kuri kubwinya, kushumira kwekururama kuchakunda zvikuru sei mukubwinya.

⁹For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

¹⁰Nekuti kunyange naicho chakabwinyiswa hachina kubwinyiswa nenzira iyi nekuda kwekubwinya uku kwakanyanyisa.

¹⁰For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.

¹¹Nekuti kana icho chinopfuudzwa chaiva nekubwinya, zvikuru sei icho chinogara pakubwinya.

¹¹For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.

¹²Zvatine tariro yakadai, tinoshandisa ushingi ukuru hwekutaura,

¹²Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:

¹³uye kwete saMozisi waiisa chifukidziro pachiso chake, kuti vana vaIsraeri varege kutarisisa kuguma kwezvinopedzwa.

¹³And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:

¹⁴Asi fungwa dzavo dzakapofumadzwa, nekuti kusvikira zuva rino chifukidziro ichochi chichiripo chisina kubviswa pakuverengwa kwetesitamende yekare, chakapedzwa muna Kristu.

¹⁴But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.

¹⁵Asi kunyange kusvikira zuva rino, kana Mozisi achiverengwa, chifukidziro chiri pamoyo wavo.

¹⁵But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.

¹⁶Chero rinhi kana achidzokera kuna Ishe, chifukidziro chinobviswa.

¹⁶Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.

¹⁷Zvino Ishe ndiye Mweya uyo; uye pane Mweya waIshe pane rusununguko.

¹⁷Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

¹⁸Asi isu tose nechiso chakashama tichitarisa sapachionioni kubwinya kwaIshe, tinoshandurirwa kumufananidzo iwoyo kubva pakubwinya kuenda pakubwinya, sezvinobva kuMweya waIshe

¹⁸But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.