¹Zvino rutendo ndirwo rusimbiso rwezvinhu zvatinotarisira, umbowo hwezvinhu zvisingaonekwi.

¹And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction,

²Nekuti naiko vanhu vakuru vakapupurirwa zvakanaka.

²for in this were the elders testified of;

³Kubudikidza nerutendo tinonzwisisa kuti nyika dzakanyatsoumbwa neshoko raMwari, zvekuti zvinhu zvinoonekwa hazvibvi kuzvinhu zvinoonekera.

³by faith we understand the ages to have been prepared by a saying of God, in regard to the things seen not having come out of things appearing;

⁴Nerutendo Abheri wakabayira kuna Mwari chibayiro chakanakisisa kupfuura Kaini; chaakawana nacho uchapupu kuti wakange akarurama, Mwari achipupurira zvipo zvake; naicho kunyange afa hake, uchiri kungotaura.

⁴by faith a better sacrifice did Abel offer to God than Cain, through which he was testified to be righteous, God testifying of his gifts, and through it, he being dead, doth yet speak.

⁵Norutendo Enoki wakatamiswa kuti arege kuona rufu, akasawanikwa nekuti Mwari wakange amutamisa; nekuti asati atamiswa wakapupurirwa kuti wakange afadza Mwari.

⁵By faith Enoch was translated — not to see death, and was not found, because God did translate him; for before his translation he had been testified to — that he had pleased God well,

⁶Kunze kwerutendo hazvibviri kumufadza; nekuti unouya kuna Mwari, unofanira kutenda kuti iye uripo, uye mupi wemubayiro wevanomutsvaka nemoyo wose.

⁶and apart from faith it is impossible to please well, for it behoveth him who is coming to God to believe that He is, and to those seeking Him He becometh a rewarder.

⁷Nerutendo Nowa wakati ayambirwa naMwari pamusoro pezvinhu zvichigere kuonekwa, nekutya akagadzira areka yeruponeso rwemhuri yake; akapa nyika mhosva nazvo, akava mudyi wenhaka yekururama kunouya nerutendo.

⁷By faith Noah, having been divinely warned concerning the things not yet seen, having feared, did prepare an ark to the salvation of his house, through which he did condemn the world, and of the righteousness according to faith he became heir.

⁸Nerutendo Abhurahamu wakati adamwa kuti abude, aende kunzvimbo yaakanzi uchazoigamuchira ive nhaka akateerera, akabuda akaenda, asingazivi kwaanoenda.

⁸By faith Abraham, being called, did obey, to go forth to the place that he was about to receive for an inheritance, and he went forth, not knowing whither he doth go;

⁹Nerutendo wakagara semutorwa munyika yechivimbiso senyika yeutorwa, achigara mumatende naIsaka naJakobho, vadyi venhaka yechivimbiso chimwecho pamwe naye;

⁹by faith he did sojourn in the land of the promise as a strange country, in tabernacles having dwelt with Isaac and Jacob, fellow-heirs of the same promise,

¹⁰Nekuti wakange achitarisira guta rine nheyo, Mwari ari mhizha nemuvaki waro.

¹⁰for he was looking for the city having the foundations, whose artificer and constructor [is] God.

¹¹Nerutendowo Sara pachake wakapiwa simba rekugamuchira mbeu akazvara mwana, apfuura zera, nekuti wakati iye wamuvimbisa wakatendeka.

¹¹By faith also Sarah herself did receive power to conceive seed, and she bare after the time of life, seeing she did judge Him faithful who did promise;

¹²Naizvozvo vakaberekwa neumwe zvichibva kune wakafa vakaita senyeredzi dzekudenga pakuwanda, uye sejecha riri pamahombekombe egungwa risingaverengeki.

¹²wherefore, also from one were begotten — and that of one who had become dead — as the stars of the heaven in multitude, and as sand that [is] by the sea-shore — the innumerable.

¹³Ivava vose vakafira murutendo, vasina kugamuchira zvivimbiso, asi vakazviona zviri kure, vakagutsikana nazvo, vakazvimbundikira vakabvuma kuti vaeni nevapfuuri panyika.

¹³In faith died all these, not having received the promises, but from afar having seen them, and having been persuaded, and having saluted [them], and having confessed that strangers and sojourners they are upon the earth,

¹⁴Nekuti ivo vanotaura zvinhu zvakadaro, vanoratidza pachena kuti vanotsvaka nyika yekwavo.

¹⁴for those saying such things make manifest that they seek a country;

¹⁵Nekuti kana zvirokwazvo vaifungisisa zvenyika iyo yavakabva kwairi, vangadai vakawana mukana wekudzokera.

¹⁵and if, indeed, they had been mindful of that from which they came forth, they might have had an opportunity to return,

¹⁶Asi zvino vanoshuva yakanaka kuipfuura, ndiyo yekudenga; naizvozvo Mwari haana nyadzi pamusoro pavo kuti aidzwe Mwari wavo; nekuti wakavagadzirira guta.

¹⁶but now they long for a better, that is, an heavenly, wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for He did prepare for them a city.

¹⁷Nerutendo Abhurahamu paakaidzwa wakabayira Isaka, uye iye wakange agamuchira zvivimbiso akabayira mwana wake wakaberekwa umwe woga;

¹⁷By faith Abraham hath offered up Isaac, being tried, and the only begotten he did offer up who did receive the promises,

¹⁸wakanzi pamusoro pake: Muna Isaka vana vako vachatumidzwa;

¹⁸of whom it was said — `In Isaac shall a seed be called to thee;`

¹⁹nekurangarira kuti Mwari unogona kumutsa kunyange kuvakafa; ndipapowo paakamugamuchira mumufananidzo.

¹⁹reckoning that even out of the dead God is able to raise up, whence also in a figure he did receive [him].

²⁰Nerutendo Isaka wakaropafadza Jakobho naEsau pamusoro pezvinhu zvinouya.

²⁰By faith, concerning coming things, Isaac did bless Jacob and Esau;

²¹Nerutendo Jakobho ofa wakaropafadza mwanakomana umwe neumwe waJosefa; akanamata akasendamira pamusoro pemudonzvo wake.

²¹by faith Jacob dying — each of the sons of Joseph did bless, and did bow down upon the top of his staff;

²²Nerutendo Josefa ava kufa wakataura zvekubuda kwevana vaIsraeri, akaraira pamusoro pemafupa ake.

²²by faith, Joseph dying, concerning the outgoing of the sons of Israel did make mention, and concerning his bones did give command.

²³Nerutendo Mozisi aberekwa wakavanzwa mwedzi mitatu nevabereki vake, nekuti vakavona kuti mwana wakanaka; uye havana kutya murairo wamambo.

²³By faith Moses, having been born, was hid three months by his parents, because they saw the child comely, and were not afraid of the decree of the king;

²⁴Nerutendo Mozisi akura wakaramba kunzi mwanakomana wemukunda waFarao,

²⁴by faith Moses, having become great, did refuse to be called a son of the daughter of Pharaoh,

²⁵pachinzvimbo chaizvozvo wakasarudza kuitirwa zvakaipa pamwe nevanhu vaMwari pane kuva mumufaro wezvivi kwechinguvana;

²⁵having chosen rather to be afflicted with the people of God, than to have sin`s pleasure for a season,

²⁶akati kunyombwa kwaKristu ifuma huru pakufuma kose kweEgipita; nekuti wakarangarira muripo wemubayiro.

²⁶greater wealth having reckoned the reproach of the Christ than the treasures in Egypt, for he did look to the recompense of reward;

²⁷Nerutendo wakasiya Egipita, asingatyi kutsamwa kwamambo; nekuti wakatsungirira seunomuona iye usingaonekwi.

²⁷by faith he left Egypt behind, not having been afraid of the wrath of the king, for, as seeing the Invisible One — he endured;

²⁸Nerutendo wakachengetedza pasika nekusaswa kweropa, kuti unouraya matangwe arege kuvabata.

²⁸by faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that He who is destroying the first-born might not touch them.

²⁹Nerutendo vakagura Gungwa Dzvuku sepavhu rakawoma; vaEgipita vachizviidza vakabitirirwa.

²⁹By faith they did pass through the Red Sea as through dry land, which the Egyptians having received a trial of, were swallowed up;

³⁰Nerutendo masvingo eJeriko akawira pasi, apoteredzwa mazuva manomwe.

³⁰by faith the walls of Jericho did fall, having been surrounded for seven days;

³¹Nerutendo Rakabhi chifeve haana kuparara pamwe nevasina rutendo, paakanga agamuchira vashori nerugare.

³¹by faith Rahab the harlot did not perish with those who disbelieved, having received the spies with peace.

³²Zvino ndichataurirei zvimwe? Nekuti ndichapererwa nenguva ndichitaura zvaGidhioni, naBharaki, naSamusoni, naJefita, Dhavhidhiwo, naSamueri, nevaporofita;

³²And what shall I yet say? for the time will fail me recounting about Gideon, Barak also, and Samson, and Jephthah, David also, and Samuel, and the prophets,

³³avo kubudikidza nerutendo vakakunda ushe, vakaita kururama, vakawana zvivimbiso, vakadzivira miromo yeshumba,

³³who through faith did subdue kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped mouths of lions,

³⁴vakadzima simba remoto, vakapukunyuka kwakapinza kwemunondo, vakasimbiswa pautera, vakava nesimba pakurwa, vakadzinga hondo dzemamwe marudzi.

³⁴quenched the power of fire, escaped the mouth of the sword, were made powerful out of infirmities, became strong in battle, caused to give way camps of the aliens.

³⁵Vakadzi vakagamuchirazve vakafa vavo vachimukazve; vamwe vakashungurudzwa, vasingagamuchiri kudzikunungurwa, kuti vawane kumuka kuri nani;

³⁵Women received by a rising again their dead, and others were tortured, not accepting the redemption, that a better rising again they might receive,

³⁶vamwewo vakaidzwa nekuitwa chiseko, nekuzvambaradzwa, uyezve nezvisungo nemujere;

³⁶and others of mockings and scourgings did receive trial, and yet of bonds and imprisonment;

³⁷vakatakwa nembwe, vakatsemurwa nepakati, vakaidzwa, vakashinjwa nemunondo; vakadzungaira vakafuka matehwe emakwai nematehwe embudzi; vari nhoronhondo, vachitambudzika, vachishungurudzwa,

³⁷they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tried; in the killing of the sword they died; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins — being destitute, afflicted, injuriously treated,

³⁸(nyika haina kuvafanira), vachidzungaira mumagwenga, nemakomo, nemapako, nemakomba enyika.

³⁸of whom the world was not worthy; in deserts wandering, and [in] mountains, and [in] caves, and [in] the holes of the earth;

³⁹Naivava vose vapupurirwa zvakanaka kubudikidza nerutendo havana kugamuchira zvivimbiso,

³⁹and these all, having been testified to through the faith, did not receive the promise,

⁴⁰Nekuti Mwari wakange atigadzirira chinhu chiri nani, kuti ivo varege kupedzeredzwa pasina isu.

⁴⁰God for us something better having provided, that apart from us they might not be made perfect.