¹Pakupedzisira, hama dzangu, farai muna Ishe. Kukunyoreraizve zvinhu zvimwechetezvo, ini hazvindinetesi, asi zvinokusimbisai imwi.

¹As to the rest, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord; the same things to write to you to me indeed is not tiresome, and for you [is] sure;

²Chenjererai imbwa, ngwarirai vabati vakaipa, ongororai vekucheka;

²look to the dogs, look to the evil-workers, look to the concision;

³Nekuti tisu kudzingiswa, vanoshumira Mwari muMweya, tichizvirumbidza muna Kristu Jesu, tisina chivimbo munyama;

³for we are the circumcision, who by the Spirit are serving God, and glorying in Christ Jesus, and in flesh having no trust,

⁴kunyange ndingavawo nechivimbo munyama; kana kune umwe munhu unofunga kuvimba nenyama, zvikuru ini.

⁴though I also have [cause of] trust in flesh. If any other one doth think to have trust in flesh, I more;

⁵Ndakadzingiswa nezuva rerusere, ndiri werudzi rwaIsraeri weimba yaBenjamini, muHebheru wevaHebheru; zviri zvemurairo ndiri muFarisi;

⁵circumcision on the eighth day! of the race of Israel! of the tribe of Benjamin! a Hebrew of Hebrews! according to law a Pharisee!

⁶maererano nekushingaira, ndichitambudza kereke; maererano nekururama kuri mumurairo ndisina chandingapomerwa.

⁶according to zeal persecuting the assembly! according to righteousness that is in law becoming blameless!

⁷Asi zvinhu zvaiva fuma kwandiri, ndizvo zvandakati kurashikirwa nekuda kwaKristu.

⁷But what things were to me gains, these I have counted, because of the Christ, loss;

⁸Hongu zvirokwazvo, ndinoverenga zvinhu zvose kurashikirwa nekuda kwekunakisisa kweruzivo rwaKristu Jesu Ishe wangu, wandakarashikirwa nezvinhu zvose nekuda kwake, ndikazviidza marara, kuti ndiwane Kristu;

⁸yes, indeed, and I count all things to be loss, because of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom of the all things I suffered loss, and do count them to be refuse, that Christ I may gain, and be found in him,

⁹uye ndiwanikwe maari, ndisina kururama kwangu kunobva kumurairo, asi uko kuri kubudikidza nerutendo kuna Kristu, kururama kunobva kuna Mwari nerutendo;

⁹not having my righteousness, which [is] of law, but that which [is] through faith of Christ — the righteousness that is of God by the faith,

¹⁰kuti ndimuzive iye, nesimba rekumuka kwake, nekudyidzana kwematambudziko ake, nditodze kufa kwake,

¹⁰to know him, and the power of his rising again, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,

¹¹kana zvingagoneka ndisvike pakumuka kwevakafa.

¹¹if anyhow I may attain to the rising again of the dead.

¹²Handirevi kuti ndakatochiwana, kana ndatokwaniswa, asi ndinotevera, kuti zvimwe ndichibate, icho Kristu Jesu chaakambondibatira.

¹²Not that I did already obtain, or have been already perfected; but I pursue, if also I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by the Christ Jesus;

¹³Hama, ini handizviverengi kuti ndatochibata, asi ndinoita chinhu chandinoita: ndichikangamwa zvinhu zviri shure, ndichinanavira zvinhu zviri mberi,

¹³brethren, I do not reckon myself to have laid hold; and one thing — the things behind indeed forgetting, and to the things before stretching forth —

¹⁴ndinoshingairira kuchinangwa, kumubairo wekudana kwekumusoro kwaMwari, muna Kristu Jesu.

¹⁴to the mark I pursue for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

¹⁵Naizvozvo isu tose takakwana ngative nemufungo wakadaro; kana zvimwe imwi mune umwe mufungo, Mwari uchakuratidzai kunyange izvi.

¹⁵As many, therefore, as [are] perfect — let us think this, and if [in] anything ye think otherwise, this also shall God reveal to you,

¹⁶Asi pane patasvika, ngatifambe nemurairo wakadaro tifunge chinhu chimwe.

¹⁶but to what we have come — by the same rule walk, the same thing think;

¹⁷Hama, ivai vateveri vangu makabatana, natsai kutarira avo vanofamba saizvozvo sezvatakava muenzaniso.

¹⁷become followers together of me, brethren, and observe those thus walking, according as ye have us — a pattern;

¹⁸Nekuti vazhinji vanofamba vandakakuvudzai nezvavo kazhinji, nazvino ndinokuvudzaiwo kunyange nekuchema, vavengi vemuchinjikwa waKristu;

¹⁸for many walk of whom many times I told you — and now also weeping tell — the enemies of the cross of the Christ!

¹⁹kuguma kwavo kuparadzwa, mwari wavo idumbu ravo, uye kurumbidzwa kwavo kuri mukunyadzwa, vanofunga zvenyika.

¹⁹whose end [is] destruction, whose god [is] the belly, and whose glory [is] in their shame, who the things on earth are minding.

²⁰Nekuti ubwo hwedu hwuri kumatenga, uko kwatakataririrakowo kuuya kwemuponesi Ishe Jesu Kristu;

²⁰For our citizenship is in the heavens, whence also a Saviour we await — the Lord Jesus Christ —

²¹uyo uchavandudza muviri wekuninipiswa kwedu, kuti ufananidzwe nemuviri wekubwinya kwake, nesimba iro raanogonawo naro kuisa zvinhu zvose pasi pake.

²¹who shall transform the body of our humiliation to its becoming conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working of his power, even to subject to himself the all things.