¹Nemhaka yeizvi, ini Pauro, musungwa waKristu Jesu nekuda kwenyu vahedheni,

¹For this cause, I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you the nations,

²kana makanzwa nezvekushandiswa kwenyasha dzaMwari dzakapiwa kwandiri pamusoro penyu,

²if, indeed, ye did hear of the dispensation of the grace of God that was given to me in regard to you,

³kuti sechakazarurwa wakandizivisa chakavanzika, sezvandakambokunyorerai namashoko mashoma;

³that by revelation He made known to me the secret, according as I wrote before in few [words] —

⁴naizvozvo kana muchirava iwo, munganzwisisa ruzivo rwangu muchakavanzika chaKristu;

⁴in regard to which ye are able, reading [it], to understand my knowledge in the secret of the Christ,

⁵icho pane mamwe mazera chisina kuziviswa kuvanakomana vevanhu, sezvachakanga chozarurirwa kuvaapositori vatsvene, nevaporofita neMweya;

⁵which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it was now revealed to His holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit —

⁶Kuti vahedheni vave vadyi venhaka pamwe nesu uye vemuviri umwe nevagovani vechivimbiso chake muna Kristu neevhangeri,

⁶that the nations be fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of His promise in the Christ, through the good news,

⁷yandakaitwa nayo mushumiri zvichienderana nechipo chenyasha dzaMwari chakapiwa kwandiri nekubata kwesimba rake.

⁷of which I became a ministrant, according to the gift of the grace of God that was given to me, according to the working of His power;

⁸Kwandiri ndiri muduku kumudukusa wevatsvene vose, nyasha idzi dzakapiwa, kuti ndiparidze pakati pevahedheni fuma isinganzvereki yaKristu,

⁸to me — the less than the least of all the saints — was given this grace, among the nations to proclaim good news — the untraceable riches of the Christ,

⁹nekuita kuti vose vaone kuti kudyidzana kwakadiniko kwechakavanzika chakanga chakavigwa muna Mwari kubva pakuvamba kwenyika, wakasika zvinhu zvose naKristu Jesu,

⁹and to cause all to see what [is] the fellowship of the secret that hath been hid from the ages in God, who the all things did create by Jesus Christ,

¹⁰kuti zvino paushe nepamasimba panzvimbo dzekudenga kudenga, kuchenjera kukuru kwaMwari kuziviswe nekereke;

¹⁰that there might be made known now to the principalities and the authorities in the heavenly [places], through the assembly, the manifold wisdom of God,

¹¹sechiga chekusingaperi chaakatema muna Kristu Jesu Ishe wedu;

¹¹according to a purpose of the ages, which He made in Christ Jesus our Lord,

¹²maari matine kutsunga nekupinda tine chivimbo, nerutendo rwake.

¹²in whom we have the freedom and the access in confidence through the faith of him,

¹³Naizvozvo ndinokumbira kuti murege kuora moyo pakukutambudzikirai kwangu; ndiko kurumbidzwa kwenyu.

¹³wherefore, I ask [you] not to faint in my tribulations for you, which is your glory.

¹⁴Nemhaka iyi ndinofugama nemabvi angu kuna Baba vaIshe wedu Jesu Kristu,

¹⁴For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

¹⁵avo rudzi rwose rwuri kumatenga nepanyika rwunodaidzwa nezita ravo,

¹⁵of whom the whole family in the heavens and on earth is named,

¹⁶kuti vakupei zvichienderana nefuma yeushe hwavo ukuru, kuti musimbiswe nesimba neMweya wake mumunhu wemukati;

¹⁶that He may give to you, according to the riches of His glory, with might to be strengthened through His Spirit, in regard to the inner man,

¹⁷kuti Kristu agare pamoyo yenyu nerutendo; kuti imwi mune midzi nenheyo murudo,

¹⁷that the Christ may dwell through the faith in your hearts, in love having been rooted and founded,

¹⁸muve nesimba rekunzwisisa nevatsvene vose, kuti kufara, nekureba, nekukwirira, nekudzika chii,

¹⁸that ye may be in strength to comprehend, with all the saints, what [is] the breadth, and length, and depth, and height,

¹⁹nokuziva rudo rwaKristu, runopfuura ruzivo, kuti muzadzwe nekuzara kose kwaMwari.

¹⁹to know also the love of the Christ that is exceeding the knowledge, that ye may be filled — to all the fulness of God;

²⁰Zvino kune une simba rekuita zvikuru kwazvo zvinopfuura zvose zvatinokumbira kana kufunga maererano nesimba rinobata matiri,

²⁰and to Him who is able above all things to do exceeding abundantly what we ask or think, according to the power that is working in us,

²¹kwaari ngakuve nekubwinya mukereke naKristu Jesu kusvikira kumarudzi ose nokusingaperi-peri, Ameni.

²¹to Him [is] the glory in the assembly in Christ Jesus, to all the generations of the age of the ages. Amen.