¹Naizvozvo hama tsvene, vagovani vekudamwa kwekudenga, rangarirai muapositori nomupristi mukuru wokupupura kwedu, iye Jesu Kristu,

¹Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;

²wakange akatendeka kuna iye wakamugadza, saMozisiwo muimba yake yose.

²Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.

³Nekuti uyu wakanzi wakafanira rukudzo rwunopfuura rwaMozisi, muvaki weimba sezvaanokudzwa kupfuura imba;

³For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.

⁴Nekuti imba imwe neimwe inovakwa neumwe, asi unovaka zvose ndiMwari.

⁴For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.

⁵Zvino Mozisi zvirokwazvo wakanga akatendeka muimba yake yose semuranda, kuti ave chapupu chezvinhu izvo zvaifanira kuzotaurwa,

⁵And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;

⁶asi Kristu seMwanakomana pamusoro peimba yake; iye isu tiri imba yake kana tikabatisisa kusatya netariro yatinozvirumbidza pamusoro payo kusvika pakuguma.

⁶But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.

⁷Naizvozvo sezvinotaura Mweya Mutsvene, achiti: Nhasi kana muchinzwa inzwi rake,

⁷Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,

⁸musawomesa moyo yenyu sepakutsamwisa, nezuva rekuidzwa murenje.

⁸Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

⁹Apo madzibaba enyu akandiidza, vachindinzvera, vakaona mabasa angu makore makumi mana.

⁹When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

¹⁰Naizvozvo ndakatsamwiswa nezera iro, ndikati: Vanogara vachitsauka pamoyo wavo; uye havana kuziva nzira dzangu;

¹⁰Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.

¹¹Naizvozvo ndakapika pakutsamwa kwangu, ndikati: Havangapindi pazororo rangu.

¹¹So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)

¹²Chenjererai hama, kuti kusava neumwe wenyu ane nemoyo wakashata wekusatenda, pakutsauka kubva kuna Mwari mupenyu,

¹²Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

¹³asi kurudziranai zuva nezuva, kana kuchanzi: Nhasi; kuti kurege kuva neumwe wenyu unowomeswa kubudikidza nekunyengera kwechivi.

¹³But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

¹⁴Nekuti tava vagovani vaKristu, kana tichibatisisa kuvamba kwechivimbo chedu kusvikira pakuguma;

¹⁴For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;

¹⁵kana zvichanzi: Nhasi kana muchinzwa inzwi rake, musawomesa moyo yenyu, sepakutsamwisa.

¹⁵While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

¹⁶Nekuti vamwe vakati vanzwa, vakamutsamwisa, asi havazi ivo vose vakabva Egipita naMozisi.

¹⁶For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

¹⁷Asi wakatsamwiswa nani makore makumi mana? Havazi ivo vakatadza vane mitumbu yakawira murenje here?

¹⁷But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

¹⁸Uye ndivanaani vaakapikira kuti havangapindi pazororo rake, kunze kwaivo vasina kutenda?

¹⁸And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?

¹⁹Zvino tinovona kuti vakanga vasingagoni kupinda nekuda kwekusatenda.

¹⁹So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.