¹Wakakumutsai, imwiwo makanga makafa mukudarika nemuzvivi,

¹Also you — being dead in the trespasses and the sins,

²izvo zvamaifamba mazviri kare nemutowo wenyika ino, nenzira dzemutungamiriri wesimba redenga, dzemweya unobata zvino muvana vekusateerera;

²in which once ye did walk according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience,

³vataifamba tose pakati pavo kare mukuchiva kwenyama yedu, tichiita kuda kwenyama nekwefungwa, nepachisikigo chedu isu taiva vana vekutsamwirwa sevamwewo.

³among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath — as also the others,

⁴Asi Mwari wakafuma panyasha, nekuda kwerudo rwake rukuru rwaakatida narwo,

⁴and God, being rich in kindness, because of His great love with which He loved us,

⁵kunyange takange takafa mukudarika, wakatimutsa pamwe naKristu (makaponeswa nenyasha);

⁵even being dead in the trespasses, did make us to live together with the Christ, (by grace ye are having been saved,)

⁶akatimutsa pamwe naye, akatigarisa pamwe naye kunzvimbo dzekumatenga, muna Kristu Jesu;

⁶and did raise [us] up together, and did seat [us] together in the heavenly [places] in Christ Jesus,

⁷kuti nenguva dzinovuya aratidze fuma hurusa yenyasha dzake muunyoro kwatiri muna Kristu Jesu;

⁷that He might show, in the ages that are coming, the exceeding riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus,

⁸Nekuti nenyasha makaponeswa nerutendo, uye izvi hazvibvi kwamuri, asi chipo chaMwari;

⁸for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you — of God the gift,

⁹hazvibvi pamabasa, kuti kusava neunozvikudza.

⁹not of works, that no one may boast;

¹⁰Nekuti tiri basa rake, takasikirwa mabasa akanaka muna Kristu Jesu, akagara agadzirwa naMwari kuti tifambe maari.

¹⁰for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

¹¹Naizvozvo rangarirai kuti imwi panguva dzakapfuura, maiva vahedheni munyama, vanonzi kusadzingiswa naivo vanonzi vekudzingiswa munyama kunoitwa nemaoko;

¹¹Wherefore, remember, that ye [were] once the nations in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that called Circumcision in the flesh made by hands,

¹²kuti panguva iyo makange musina Kristu, muri vatorwa paubwo hwevaIsraeri, nevatorwa pasungano dzechivimbiso, musina tariro, uye musina Mwari panyika.

¹²that ye were at that time apart from Christ, having been alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, having no hope, and without God, in the world;

¹³Asi zvino muna Kristu Jesu, imwi maimbova kure, munoswededzwa neropa raKristu.

¹³and now, in Christ Jesus, ye being once afar off became nigh in the blood of the Christ,

¹⁴Nekuti ndiye rugare rwedu, iye wakaita zviviri zvive chimwe, akaputsa mudhuri wapakati wokuparadzanisa;

¹⁴for he is our peace, who did make both one, and the middle wall of the enclosure did break down,

¹⁵aparadza munyama yake ruvengo, iwo mutemo wemirairo pazviga; kuti asike maari pavaviri munhu umwe mutsva, aite rugare,

¹⁵the enmity in his flesh, the law of the commands in ordinances having done away, that the two he might create in himself into one new man, making peace,

¹⁶uye kuti ayananise vaviri kuna Mwari, mumuviri umwe nemuchinjikwa, auraya ruvengo nawo;

¹⁶and might reconcile both in one body to God through the cross, having slain the enmity in it,

¹⁷uye wakasvika akaparidza rugare kwamuri, imwi maiva kure, nekune avo vaiva pedo;

¹⁷and having come, he did proclaim good news — peace to you — the far-off and the nigh,

¹⁸nekuti kubudikidza naye isu tose tine mapindiro neMweya mumwe kuna Baba.

¹⁸because through him we have the access — we both — in one Spirit unto the Father.

¹⁹Naizvozvo, zvino hamusisiri vaeni nevatorwa, asi vebwo pamwe nevatsvene neveimba yaMwari.

¹⁹Then, therefore, ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens of the saints, and of the household of God,

²⁰Makavakwa pamusoro penheyo dzevaapositori nevaporofita, Jesu Kristu amene ari mbiru yepakona.

²⁰being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being chief corner-[stone],

²¹Maari imba yose yakabatanidzwa, ikure ive tembere tsvene muna Ishe.

²¹in whom all the building fitly framed together doth increase to an holy sanctuary in the Lord,

²²Maari nemwiwo makavakwa pamwe, kuti muve ugaro hwaMwari kubudikidza neMweya.

²²in whom also ye are builded together, for a habitation of God in the Spirit.