¹Zvino tichati Abhurahamu baba vedu wakawanei panyama?

¹What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?

²Nekuti dai Abhurahamu akanzi wakarurama nemabasa ake, une kuzvikudza; asi kwete pamberi paMwari.

²For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.

³Nekuti Rugwaro runoti kudini? Runoti: Abhurahamu wakatenda Mwari, zvikaverengwa kwaari kuti kururama.

³For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.

⁴Asi kune unoshanda, mubairo hautorwi sowenyasha, asi wengava.

⁴Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.

⁵Asi kune usingashandi, asi unotenda kuna iye unoruramisa usingadi Mwari, rutendo rwake rwunoverengerwa kuti kururama.

⁵But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.

⁶SaDhavhidhiwo achitsanangura kuropafadzwa kwemunhu unoverengwa naMwari sewakarurama kunze kwemabasa, achiti:

⁶Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,

⁷Vakaropafadzwa vakakangamwirwa zvakaipa zvavo, vane zvivi zvakafukidzirwa;

⁷Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.

⁸Wakaropafadzwa munhu Ishe waasingaverengeri chivi.

⁸Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.

⁹Zvino kuropafadzwa uku kuri pamusoro pokudzingiswa here kana pamusoro pokusadzingiswawo? Nekuti tinoti rutendo rwakaverengwa kuna Abhurahamu kuti kururama.

⁹Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.

¹⁰Zvino kwakaverengwa sei? Ari mukudzingiswa here kana mukusadzingiswa? kwete mukudzingiswa, asi mukusadzingiswa.

¹⁰How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

¹¹Zvino wakagamuchira chiratidzo chekudzingiswa, chive chisimbiso chekururama kwerutendo, rwaakanga anarwo asati adzingiswa; kuti ave baba vevose avo vanotenda, kunyange vasina kudzingiswa, kuti kururama kuverengerwe kwavariwo;

¹¹And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:

¹²uye baba vekudzingiswa kune avo vasiri vekudzingiswa chete, asi vanofambawo mumakwara erutendo rwababa vedu Abhurahamu, kwevaiva nako vasati vadzingiswa.

¹²And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.

¹³Nekuti hakusi kubudikidza nemurairo kwakava nechivimbiso kuna Abhurahamu kana kumbeu yake chekuva mugari wenhaka yenyika, asi kubudikidza nekururama kwerutendo.

¹³For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

¹⁴Nekuti kana ivo vari vemurairo, vari vagari venhaka, rutendo rwunoshaiswa maturo, nechivimbiso chinoshaiswa basa;

¹⁴For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:

¹⁵nekuti murairo unouyisa kutsamwa; nekuti pasina murairo hapana kudarika.

¹⁵Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.

¹⁶Naizvozvo ndezverutendo kuti zvive zvenyasha; kuti chivimbiso chisimbiswe kumbeu yake yese; chisati chiri chemurairo chete, asi neicho cherutendo rwaAbhurahamuwo, unova baba vedu tose,

¹⁶Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,

¹⁷(sezvazvakanyorwa, zvichinzi: Ndakakugadza uve baba vemarudzi mazhinji) pamberi paiye waakatenda, iye Mwari unomutsa vakafa, nekudana zvisipo sekunge zviripo.

¹⁷(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.

¹⁸Iye pasina tariro wakatenda kutariro, kuti uchava baba vemarudzi mazhinji maererano nezvakanga zvataurwa, ndizvo zvichaita mbeu yako.

¹⁸Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.

¹⁹Uye haana kushaiwa simba parutendo, akasarangarira muviri wake zvino wakange wafa, nekuti akange ava nemakore anenge zana, kana kufa kwechizvaro chaSara;

¹⁹And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb:

²⁰Asi haana kukahadzika pachivimbiso chaMwari kubudikidza nekusatenda, asi wakasimbiswa parutendo, achipa rumbidzo kuna Mwari,

²⁰He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;

²¹achipwisa zvakazara kuti icho chaakavimbisa, wakange achigonawo kuchiita.

²¹And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.

²²Saka zvakaverengerwa kwaari kuti kururama.

²²And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.

²³Zvino zvakanga zvisina kunyorwa nekuda kwake oga, kuti zvakaverengerwa kwaari;

²³Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him;

²⁴asi nekuda kweduwo; tichaverengerwa icho, tinotenda kune wakamutsa Jesu Ishe wedu kuvakafa,

²⁴But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;

²⁵wakakumikidzwa kurufu nekuda kwemhosva dzedu, akamutswazve kuti tinzi takarurama.

²⁵Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.