¹Nekuti murairo zvaune mumvuri wezvinhu zvakanaka zvinouya usati uri mufananidzo chaiwo wezvinhu izvozvo, haungatongogoni kuperedzera avo vanoswedera gore rimwe nerimwe naizvozvo zvibayiro zvavanoramba vachibayira.

¹For the law having a shadow of the coming good things — not the very image of the matters, every year, by the same sacrifices that they offer continually, is never able to make perfect those coming near,

²Dai zvakanga zvakadaro zvingadai zvisina kupera kubayirwa here? nekuti vashumiri, kana vakange vanatswa kamwe chete vangadai vasingazivi zvivi zvavo.

²since, would they not have ceased to be offered, because of those serving having no more conscience of sins, having once been purified?

³Asi kuzvibayiro izvozvo vanoyeudzirwa zvivi gore rimwe nerimwe.

³but in those [sacrifices] is a remembrance of sins every year,

⁴Nekuti hazvibviri kuti ropa rehando nerembudzi ribvise zvivi.

⁴for it is impossible for blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

⁵saka paanosvika panyika, unoti: Chibayiro nechipiriso hamuna kuzvida, asi makandigadzirira muviri;

⁵Wherefore, coming into the world, he saith, `Sacrifice and offering Thou didst not will, and a body Thou didst prepare for me,

⁶pazvibayiro zvinopiswa, nezvechivi hamuna kuzvifarira;

⁶in burnt-offerings, and concerning sin-offerings, Thou didst not delight,

⁷Zvino ndikati: Tarirai ndauya (Murugwaro rwakapetwa makanyorwa pamusoro pangu) Kuita chido chenyu, Mwari.

⁷then I said, Lo, I come, (in a volume of the book it hath been written concerning me,) to do, O God, Thy will;`

⁸Zvaanoti pakutanga: Zvibayiro nezvipiriso, nezvibayiro zvinopiswa, nezvibayiro zvechivi hamuna kuzvida kana kufadzwa nazvo izvo zvinobayirwa sezvinoreva murairo),

⁸saying above — `Sacrifice, and offering, and burnt-offerings, and concerning sin-offering Thou didst not will, nor delight in,` — which according to the law are offered —

⁹ndokuzoti: Tarira, ndinovuya kuzoita chido chenyu imwi Mwari. Unobvisa chekutanga kuti amise chechipiri.

⁹then he said, `Lo, I come to do, O God, Thy will;` he doth take away the first that the second he may establish;

¹⁰Nekuda ikoku takaitwa vatsvene kubudikidza nekubayirwa kwemuviri waJesu Kristu kamwe.

¹⁰in the which will we are having been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once,

¹¹Mupristi umwe neumwe unomira zuva rimwe nerimwe achishumira, nekubayira kazhinji zvibayiro izvozvo zvisingatongogoni kubvisa zvivi;

¹¹and every priest, indeed, hath stood daily serving, and the same sacrifices many times offering, that are never able to take away sins.

¹²asi murume uyu wakati abayira chibayiro chimwe nekuda kwezvivi nekusingaperi, akagara pasi kuruoko rwerudyi rwaMwari;

¹²And He, for sin one sacrifice having offered — to the end, did sit down on the right hand of God, —

¹³kubva zvino achitarisira kusvikira vavengi vake vaitwa chitsiko chetsoka dzake.

¹³as to the rest, expecting till He may place his enemies [as] his footstool,

¹⁴Nekuti nechibayiro chimwe chete wakaperedzera nekusingaperi avo vanoitwa vatsvene.

¹⁴for by one offering he hath perfected to the end those sanctified;

¹⁵Mweya Mutsvenewo unotipupurira; nekuti pakutanga wakange amboti:

¹⁵and testify to us also doth the Holy Spirit, for after that He hath said before,

¹⁶Iyi ndiyo sungano yandichaita navo shure kwemazuva iwayo, ndizo zvinotaura Ishe, Ndichaisa mirairo yangu mumoyo yavo, nokuinyora mufungwa dzavo.

¹⁶`This [is] the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, giving My laws on their hearts, and upon their minds I will write them,`

¹⁷Nezvivi zvavo nekuipa kwavo handichatongozvirangaririzve.

¹⁷and `their sins and their lawlessness I will remember no more;`

¹⁸Zvino apo pane kangamwiro yezvizvi, hapachina kubayirwa kwechivi.

¹⁸and where forgiveness of these [is], there is no more offering for sin.

¹⁹Naizvozvo, hama, zvatingatsunga kupinda panzvimbo tsvene neropa raJesu,

¹⁹Having, therefore, brethren, boldness for the entrance into the holy places, in the blood of Jesus,

²⁰nenzira itsva mhenyu, yaakatizarurira kubudikidza nemuvheiri, ndiyo nyama yake;

²⁰which way he did initiate for us — new and living, through the vail, that is, his flesh —

²¹uye tine mupristi mukuru pamusoro peimba yaMwari,

²¹and a high priest over the house of God,

²²ngatiswedere nemoyo wechokwadi, nechivimbo chakazara cherutendo, moyo yedu yasaswa pahana yakaipa, nemiviri yedu yakashambidzwa nemvura yakachena.

²²may we draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having the hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having the body bathed with pure water;

²³Ngatibatisise chitendero chetariro yedu, tisingazungunuki; nekuti iye wakavimbisa wakatendeka;

²³may we hold fast the unwavering profession of the hope, (for faithful [is] He who did promise),

²⁴uye ngatirangariranei pakumutsirana rudo namabasa akanaka,

²⁴and may we consider one another to provoke to love and to good works,

²⁵tisarega kuungana kwedu, setsika yevamwe, asi tichikurudzirana; zvikuru zvamunovona zuva richiswedera.

²⁵not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as a custom of certain [is], but exhorting, and so much the more as ye see the day coming nigh.

²⁶Nekuti kana tichitadza maune, tambogamuchira ruzivo rwechokwadi, hakusisina chibayiro pamusoro pezvivi,

²⁶For we — willfully sinning after the receiving the full knowledge of the truth — no more for sins doth there remain a sacrifice,

²⁷asi kumwe kumirira tichitya kutongwa nekutsamwa kunopfuta moto, kuchapedza vevengi.

²⁷but a certain fearful looking for of judgment, and fiery zeal, about to devour the opposers;

²⁸Munhu unozvidza murairo waMozisi unofa kunze kwetsitsi nezvapupu zviviri kana zvitatu;

²⁸any one who did set at nought a law of Moses, apart from mercies, by two or three witnesses, doth die,

²⁹zvino unofunga kuti uchanzi wakafanira kurangwa zvinorwadza sei, wakatsikira pasi Mwanakomana waMwari, uye ukatora ropa resungano, raakaitwa mutsvene naro serisina maturo, uye akazvidza Mweya wenyasha?

²⁹of how much sorer punishment shall he be counted worthy who the Son of God did trample on, and the blood of the covenant did count a common thing, in which he was sanctified, and to the Spirit of the grace did despite?

³⁰Nekuti tinomuziva iye wakati: Kutsiva ndekwangu, ini ndicharipira, ndizvo zvinotaura Ishe, uyezve unoti: Ishe uchatonga vanhu vake.

³⁰for we have known Him who is saying, `Vengeance [is] Mine, I will recompense, saith the Lord;` and again, `The Lord shall judge His people;` —

³¹Zvinotyisa kuwira mumaoko aMwari mupenyu.

³¹fearful [is] the falling into the hands of a living God.

³²Asi rangarirai mazuva akare, amakati mavhenekerwa maari mukatsunga pakurwa kukuru kwematambudziko;

³²And call to your remembrance the former days, in which, having been enlightened, ye did endure much conflict of sufferings,

³³pamwe nekuti makaitwa chiokero zvose nekunyombwa nematambudziko; pamwe nekuti makagovanawo naivo vakaitirwa izvozvo.

³³partly both with reproaches and tribulations being made spectacles, and partly having become partners of those so living,

³⁴Nekuti makanzwira tsitsi zvisungo zvangu, makagamuchira nemufaro kupambwa kwenhumbi dzenyu, muchiziva mukati menyu kuti imwi mune fuma yakapfuura nekunaka, inogara iri kumatenga.

³⁴for also with my bonds ye sympathised, and the robbery of your goods with joy ye did receive, knowing that ye have in yourselves a better substance in the heavens, and an enduring one.

³⁵Naizvozvo regai kurasha kushinga kwenyu, kune muripo mukuru wemubayiro.

³⁵Ye may not cast away, then, your boldness, which hath great recompense of reward,

³⁶Nekuti munoshaiwa moyo murefu, zvokuti, kana maita kuda kwaMwari, mugamuchire chivimbiso.

³⁶for of patience ye have need, that the will of God having done, ye may receive the promise,

³⁷Nekuti pachine kanguva kaduku-duku, uye unouya uchauya, uye haanganonoki.

³⁷for yet a very very little, He who is coming will come, and will not tarry;

³⁸Asi wakarurama uchararama nerutendo; zvino kana akadzokera shure, mweya wangu haungafari naye.

³⁸and `the righteous by faith shall live,` and `if he may draw back, My soul hath no pleasure in him,`

³⁹Zvino isu hatizi veavo vanodzokera shure kukuparadzwa; asi veavo vanotenda kukuponeswa kwemweya.

³⁹and we are not of those drawing back to destruction, but of those believing to a preserving of soul.