¹Naizvozvo hama tsvene, vagovani vekudamwa kwekudenga, rangarirai muapositori nomupristi mukuru wokupupura kwedu, iye Jesu Kristu,

¹Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the apostle and chief priest of our profession, Christ Jesus,

²wakange akatendeka kuna iye wakamugadza, saMozisiwo muimba yake yose.

²being stedfast to Him who did appoint him, as also Moses in all his house,

³Nekuti uyu wakanzi wakafanira rukudzo rwunopfuura rwaMozisi, muvaki weimba sezvaanokudzwa kupfuura imba;

³for of more glory than Moses hath this one been counted worthy, inasmuch as more honour than the house hath he who doth build it,

⁴Nekuti imba imwe neimwe inovakwa neumwe, asi unovaka zvose ndiMwari.

⁴for every house is builded by some one, and He who the all things did build [is] God,

⁵Zvino Mozisi zvirokwazvo wakanga akatendeka muimba yake yose semuranda, kuti ave chapupu chezvinhu izvo zvaifanira kuzotaurwa,

⁵and Moses indeed [was] stedfast in all his house, as an attendant, for a testimony of those things that were to be spoken,

⁶asi Kristu seMwanakomana pamusoro peimba yake; iye isu tiri imba yake kana tikabatisisa kusatya netariro yatinozvirumbidza pamusoro payo kusvika pakuguma.

⁶and Christ, as a Son over his house, whose house are we, if the boldness and the rejoicing of the hope unto the end we hold fast.

⁷Naizvozvo sezvinotaura Mweya Mutsvene, achiti: Nhasi kana muchinzwa inzwi rake,

⁷Wherefore, (as the Holy Spirit saith, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear —

⁸musawomesa moyo yenyu sepakutsamwisa, nezuva rekuidzwa murenje.

⁸ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of the temptation in the wilderness,

⁹Apo madzibaba enyu akandiidza, vachindinzvera, vakaona mabasa angu makore makumi mana.

⁹in which tempt Me did your fathers, they did prove Me, and saw My works forty years;

¹⁰Naizvozvo ndakatsamwiswa nezera iro, ndikati: Vanogara vachitsauka pamoyo wavo; uye havana kuziva nzira dzangu;

¹⁰wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, Always do they go astray in heart, and these have not known My ways;

¹¹Naizvozvo ndakapika pakutsamwa kwangu, ndikati: Havangapindi pazororo rangu.

¹¹so I sware in My anger, If they shall enter into My rest — !`)

¹²Chenjererai hama, kuti kusava neumwe wenyu ane nemoyo wakashata wekusatenda, pakutsauka kubva kuna Mwari mupenyu,

¹²See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in the falling away from the living God,

¹³asi kurudziranai zuva nezuva, kana kuchanzi: Nhasi; kuti kurege kuva neumwe wenyu unowomeswa kubudikidza nekunyengera kwechivi.

¹³but exhort ye one another every day, while the To-day is called, that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of the sin,

¹⁴Nekuti tava vagovani vaKristu, kana tichibatisisa kuvamba kwechivimbo chedu kusvikira pakuguma;

¹⁴for partakers we have become of the Christ, if the beginning of the confidence unto the end we may hold fast,

¹⁵kana zvichanzi: Nhasi kana muchinzwa inzwi rake, musawomesa moyo yenyu, sepakutsamwisa.

¹⁵in its being said, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear, ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation,`

¹⁶Nekuti vamwe vakati vanzwa, vakamutsamwisa, asi havazi ivo vose vakabva Egipita naMozisi.

¹⁶for certain having heard did provoke, but not all who did come out of Egypt through Moses;

¹⁷Asi wakatsamwiswa nani makore makumi mana? Havazi ivo vakatadza vane mitumbu yakawira murenje here?

¹⁷but with whom was He grieved forty years? was it not with those who did sin, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?

¹⁸Uye ndivanaani vaakapikira kuti havangapindi pazororo rake, kunze kwaivo vasina kutenda?

¹⁸and to whom did He swear that they shall not enter into His rest, except to those who did not believe? —

¹⁹Zvino tinovona kuti vakanga vasingagoni kupinda nekuda kwekusatenda.

¹⁹and we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.