¹Zvino tichatiyi? Ticharambira muchivi kuti nyasha dziwande here?

¹What, then, shall we say? shall we continue in the sin that the grace may abound?

²Ngazvisadaro! Isu takafa kuchivi, ticharamba tichirarama sei machiri?

²let it not be! we who died to the sin — how shall we still live in it?

³Ko hamuzivi here kuti isu tose takabhabhatidzwa muna Kristu Jesu, takabhabhatidzwa murufu rwake?

³are ye ignorant that we, as many as were baptized to Christ Jesus, to his death were baptized?

⁴Naizvozvo takavigwa pamwe naye murufu pakubhabhatidzwa; kuti saiye Kristu akamutswa kuvakafa nokubwinya kwaBaba, saizvozvo nesuwo tifambe pautsva hweupenyu.

⁴we were buried together, then, with him through the baptism to the death, that even as Christ was raised up out of the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we in newness of life might walk.

⁵Nekuti kana takasimwa pamwe pakufanana korufu rwake, tichadarowo pakumuka;

⁵For, if we have become planted together to the likeness of his death, [so] also we shall be of the rising again;

⁶tichiziva izvi, kuti munhu wedu wekare wakarovererwa pamuchinjikwa pamwe naye, kuti muviri wechivi uparadzwe kuti tisachiva tinoshumira chivi;

⁶this knowing, that our old man was crucified with [him], that the body of the sin may be made useless, for our no longer serving the sin;

⁷nekuti uyo wakafa wasunungurwa pachivi.

⁷for he who hath died hath been set free from the sin.

⁸Zvino kana takafa pamwe naKristu, tinotenda kuti tichararamawo pamwe naye;

⁸And if we died with Christ, we believe that we also shall live with him,

⁹tichiziva kuti Kristu amutswa kuvakafa haachazofizve; rufu haruchazovi nesimba pamusoro pake.

⁹knowing that Christ, having been raised up out of the dead, doth no more die, death over him hath no more lordship;

¹⁰Nekuti pane izvi wakafa, wakafa kamwe kuchivi; zvino pakuti mupenyu, mupenyu kuna Mwari.

¹⁰for in that he died, to the sin he died once, and in that he liveth, he liveth to God;

¹¹Saizvozvo nemwiwo muzviverenge semakafa zvirokwazvo kuchivi, asi vapenyu kuna Mwari kubudikidza naKristu Jesu Ishe wedu.

¹¹so also ye, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to the sin, and living to God in Jesus Christ our Lord.

¹²Naizvozvo chivi ngachirege kutonga mumuviri wenyu unofa, kuti muteerere kuchiva kwawo;

¹²Let not then the sin reign in your mortal body, to obey it in its desires;

¹³kana kupa mitezo yenyu ive midziyo yekusarurama kuchivi; asi muzvipe imwi kuna Mwari, sevapenyu kuvakafa, nemitezo yenyu ive midziyo yekururama kuna Mwari.

¹³neither present ye your members instruments of unrighteousness to the sin, but present yourselves to God as living out of the dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God;

¹⁴Nekuti chivi hachitongi pamusoro penyu; nekuti hamusi pasi pemurairo, asi pasi penyasha.

¹⁴for sin over you shall not have lordship, for ye are not under law, but under grace.

¹⁵Zvino tichatiyi? Tichatadza here, nekuti hatisi pasi pemurairo, asi pasi penyasha? Ngazvisadaro!

¹⁵What then? shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? let it not be!

¹⁶Hamuzivi here kuti uyo wamunozvipa kwaari muve varanda vekumuteerera, muri varanda vaiye wamunoteerera; kana vechivi chinoisa kurufu, kana vekuteerera kunoisa kukururama?

¹⁶have ye not known that to whom ye present yourselves servants for obedience, servants ye are to him to whom ye obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

¹⁷Asi Mwari ngaavongwe, kuti imwi maiva varanda vechivi, asi mava kuteerera kubva pamoyo rudzi urwu rwedzidziso yamakakumikidzwa kwairi,

¹⁷and thanks to God, that ye were servants of the sin, and — were obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which ye were delivered up;

¹⁸uye masunungurwa kubva pachivi, makava varanda vekururama.

¹⁸and having been freed from the sin, ye became servants to the righteousness.

¹⁹Ndinotaura semutauriro wevanhu, nekuda kweutera hwenyama yenyu; nekuti sezvamakapa mitezo yenyu kuva varanda kutsvina, neuipi zvinoisa kune zvakaipa, saizvozvo zvino ipai mitezo yenyu ive varanda vekururama kunoisa kuutsvene.

¹⁹In the manner of men I speak, because of the weakness of your flesh, for even as ye did present your members servants to the uncleanness and to the lawlessness — to the lawlessness, so now present your members servants to the righteousness — to sanctification,

²⁰Nekuti pamaiva varanda vechivi, makange makasununguka pakururama.

²⁰for when ye were servants of the sin, ye were free from the righteousness,

²¹Zvino maiva nezvibereko zvei pazvinhu izvo zvamava kunyadziswa nazvo zvino? Nekuti kuguma kwezvinhu izvo rufu.

²¹what fruit, therefore, were ye having then, in the things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those [is] death.

²²Asi zvino zvamakasunungurwa pachivi, mukava varanda kuna Mwari, mune chibereko chenyu chinoisa kuutsvene, uye kuguma kwazvo upenyu hwusingaperi.

²²And now, having been freed from the sin, and having become servants to God, ye have your fruit — to sanctification, and the end life age-during;

²³Nekuti mubairo wechivi rufu; asi chipo chenyasha chaMwari upenyu hwusingaperi kubudikidza naKristu Jesu Ishe wedu.

²³for the wages of the sin [is] death, and the gift of God [is] life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.