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

¹I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,

²kuti ndinoshushikana kwazvo neshungu dzisingaperi mumoyo mangu.

²That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.

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

³For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:

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

⁴Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;

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

⁵Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.

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

⁶Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:

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

⁷Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.

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

⁸That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.

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

⁹For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.

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

¹⁰And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;

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

¹¹(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)

¹²zvakanzi kwaari: Mukuru uchashumira mudoko,

¹²It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.

¹³Sezvazvakanyorwa zvichinzi: Jakobho ndakamuda, asi Esau ndakamuvenga.

¹³As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.

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

¹⁴What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.

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

¹⁵For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.

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

¹⁶So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.

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

¹⁷For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.

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

¹⁸Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.

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

¹⁹Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?

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

²⁰Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

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

²¹Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?

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

²²What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:

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

²³And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,

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

²⁴Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?

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

²⁵As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.

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

²⁶And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.

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

²⁷Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:

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

²⁸For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.

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

²⁹And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.

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

³⁰What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.

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

³¹But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.

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

³²Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;

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

³³As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.