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

¹Do we begin again to recommend ourselves, except we need, as some, letters of recommendation unto you, or from you?

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

²our letter ye are, having been written in our hearts, known and read by all men,

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

³manifested that ye are a letter of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not in the tablets of stone, but in fleshy tablets of the heart,

⁴Chivimbo chakadai tinacho kubudikidza naKristu kuna Mwari;

⁴and such trust we have through the Christ toward God,

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 anything, 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 made us sufficient [to be] ministrants of a new covenant, not of letter, but of spirit; for the letter doth kill, and the spirit doth make alive.

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

⁷and if the ministration of the death, in letters, engraved in stones, came in glory, so that the sons of Israel were not able to look stedfastly to the face of Moses, because of the glory of his face — which was being made useless,

⁸ko kushumira kweMweya kungakona nei kubwinya zvikuru?

⁸how shall the ministration of the Spirit not be more in glory?

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

⁹for if the ministration of the condemnation [is] glory, much more doth the ministration of the righteousness abound in glory;

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

¹⁰for also even that which hath been glorious, hath not been glorious — in this respect, because of the superior glory;

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

¹¹for if that which is being made useless [is] through glory, much more that which is remaining [is] in glory.

¹²Zvatine tariro yakadai, tinoshandisa ushingi ukuru hwekutaura,

¹²Having, then, such hope, we use much freedom of speech,

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

¹³and [are] not as Moses, who was putting a vail upon his own face, for the sons of Israel not stedfastly to look to the end of that which is being made useless,

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

¹⁴but their minds were hardened, for unto this day the same vail at the reading of the Old Covenant doth remain unwithdrawn — which in Christ is being made useless —

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

¹⁵but till to-day, when Moses is read, a vail upon their heart doth lie,

¹⁶Chero rinhi kana achidzokera kuna Ishe, chifukidziro chinobviswa.

¹⁶and whenever they may turn unto the Lord, the vail is taken away.

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

¹⁷And the Lord is the 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

¹⁸and we all, with unvailed face, the glory of the Lord beholding in a mirror, to the same image are being transformed, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.