¹Zvino ndinoti: Ko Mwari wakarasa vanhu vake here? Ngazvisadaro! Nekuti iniwo ndiri muIsraeri, wembeu yaAbhurahamu, werudzi rwaBenjanimi.

¹I say then, Did God cast off his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

²Mwari haana kurasha vanhu vake vaakagara aziva. Ko hamuzivi kuti Rugwaro runoti kudini kuna Eria here? Kuti unoreverera sei kuna Mwari pamusoro pevaIsraeri, achiti:

²God did not cast off his people which he foreknew. Or know ye not what the scripture saith of Elijah? how he pleadeth with God against Israel:

³Ishe, vakauraya vaporofita venyu, vakaputsa aritari dzenyu, zvino ini ndasara ndoga, uye vanotsvaka upenyu hwangu.

³Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.

⁴Asi mhinduro yaMwari inoti kudii kwaari? Unoti: Ndakazvichengetera zvuru zvinomwe zvevarume, vasina kufugamira ibvi kuna Bhaari.

⁴But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have left for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal.

⁵Zvino saizvozvo nguva inowo variko vakasara maererano nesananguro yenyasha.

⁵Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

⁶Zvino kana zviri zvenyasha, hazvisati zvichiri zvemabasa; asi kana zvisakadaro, nyasha hadzisisiri nyasha. Asi kana zvichibva kumabasa hazvisati zvichiri zvenyasha; kana zvisakadaro basa harizati richibasa.

⁶But if it is by grace, it is no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace.

⁷Ko zvino? Israeri haana kuwana zvaakanga achitsvaka, asi vasanangurwa vakazviwana; vamwe vakawomeswa,

⁷What then? that which Israel seeketh for, that he obtained not; but the election obtained it, and the rest were hardened:

⁸maererano sezvazvakanyorwa, zvichinzi: Mwari wakavapa mweya wekutsumwaira; meso kuti varege kuona; nenzeve kuti varege kunzwa, kusvikira zuva ranhasi.

⁸according as it is written, God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, unto this very day.

⁹NaDhavhidhi unoti: Tafura yavo ngaiitwe rudzingi, nemusungo nechigumbuso nekutsiva kwavari;

⁹And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, And a stumblingblock, and a recompense unto them:

¹⁰meso avo ngaasvibirwe kuti varege kuona; uye mukotamise musana wavo nokusingaperi.

¹⁰Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, And bow thou down their back always.

¹¹Zvino ndinoti: Vakagumbuswa kuti vawe here? Ngazvisadaro! Asi kubudikidza nokuwa kwavo ruponeso rwakasvika kuvahedheni, kuvamutsira godo.

¹¹I say then, Did they stumble that they might fall? God forbid: but by their fall salvation [is come] unto the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.

¹²Zvino kana kuwa kwavo kuri fuma yenyika, nekutapudzika kwavo fuma yevahedheni, zvikuru sei kuzara kwavo?

¹²Now if their fall, is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?

¹³Nekuti ndinotaura kwamuri vahedheni; sezvandiri muapositori wevahedheni, ndinokudza basa rangu.

¹³But I speak to you that are Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle of Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;

¹⁴Kuti zvimwe ndingamutsira godo venyama yangu, ndiponese vamwe vavo.

¹⁴if by any means I may provoke to jealousy [them that are] my flesh, and may save some of them.

¹⁵Nekuti kana kurashwa kwavo kuri kuyananiswa kwenyika, kugamuchirwa kwavo kuchaveiko, kunze kweupenyu hunobva kuvakafa?

¹⁵For if the casting away of them [is] the reconciling of the world, what [shall] the receiving [of them be], but life from the dead?

¹⁶Zvino kana chibereko chekutanga chiri chitsvene, bunduwo rakadaro; kana mudzi uri mutsvene, matavi akadarowo;

¹⁶And if the firstfruit is holy, so is the lump: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

¹⁷Zvino kana mamwe amatavi akavhuniwa, iwe uri muorivhi wekudondo ukabatanidzwa pakati pavo, ukava nemugove pamwe nawo pamudzi nepamafuta emuorivhi;

¹⁷But if some of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive, wast grafted in among them, and didst become partaker with them of the root of the fatness of the olive tree;

¹⁸usazvikudza pamusoro pematavi; asi kana uchizvikudza hausi iwe unotakura mudzi, asi mudzi unokutakura iwe.

¹⁸glory not over the branches: but if thou gloriest, it is not thou that bearest the root, but the root thee.

¹⁹Zvino uchati: Matavi akavhuniwa, kuti ini ndibatanidzwe.

¹⁹Thou wilt say then, Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.

²⁰Zvakanaka; nekusatenda vakavhuniwa, iwe unomira nerutendo. Usazvikudza, asi utye;

²⁰Well; by their unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by thy faith. Be not highminded, but fear:

²¹nekuti kana Mwari asina kurega matavi echisikigo, zvimwe haangakuregi iwewo.

²¹for if God spared not the natural branches, neither will he spare thee.

²²Zvino tarira unyoro nekuomarara kwaMwari, kune vanowa kuomarara; asi kwauri unyoro, kana uchigara paunyoro hwake; zvimwe newewo ungatemwa.

²²Behold then the goodness and severity of God: toward them that fell, severity; but toward thee, God's goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.

²³Naivowo, kana vasingagari pakusatenda, vachabatanidzwa, nekuti Mwari unogona kuvabatanidzazve.

²³And they also, if they continue not in their unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.

²⁴Nekuti kana iwe wakatemwa kumuorivhi uri wekudondo pachisikigo, ukabatanidzwa pamuorivhi wakanaka, zvichipesana nechisikigo chawo, vangabatanidzwa zvikuru sei avo vari matavi echisikigo pamuti wavo wemuorivhi?

²⁴For if thou wast cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and wast grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree; how much more shall these, which are the natural [branches], be grafted into their own olive tree?

²⁵Nekuti handidi hama kuti musaziva chakavanzika ichi, kuti murege kungwara mumanyawi enyu; kuti kuwomeswa kwemoyo kwakaitika pamusoro pevamwe vevaIsraeri kusvikira kuzara kwavahedheni kwapinda;

²⁵For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant of this mystery, lest ye be wise in your own conceits, that a hardening in part hath befallen Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in;

²⁶saizvozvo Israeri wose uchaponeswa; sezvazvakanyorwa zvichinzi: PaZiyoni pachabuda Musununguri; uchabvisa kusada Mwari kuna Jakobho;

²⁶and so all Israel shall be saved: even as it is written, There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer; He shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:

²⁷Uye iyi isungano yangu kwavari, pandichabvisa zvivi zvavo.

²⁷And this is my covenant unto them, When I shall take away their sins.

²⁸Zvino maererano neevhangeri, vavengi nekuda kwenyu; asi maererano nekusanangura, vadikamwa nekuda kwemadzibaba.

²⁸As touching the gospel, they are enemies for your sake: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sake.

²⁹Nekuti zvipo nekudana kwaMwari hazvishanduki.

²⁹For the gifts and the calling of God are not repented of.

³⁰Nekuti semwiwo kare makanga musina kuteerera Mwari, asi zvino makagamuchira tsitsi kubudikidza nekusateerera kwavo;

³⁰For as ye in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience,

³¹saizvozvo naivava ikozvino havana kuteerera, kuti kubudikidza netsitsi dzenyu naivo vawanewo tsitsi;

³¹even so have these also now been disobedient, that by the mercy shown to you they also may now obtain mercy.

³²nekuti Mwari wakavapfigira vose mukusateera kwavo, kuti ave netsitsi pane vose.

³²For God hath shut up all unto disobedience, that he might have mercy upon all.

³³Haiwa kudzika kwefuma, zvose yeuchenjeri neruzivo rwaMwari! Kutonga kwake hakunzverwi zvakadini, nenzira dzake hadzingarondwi!

³³O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!

³⁴Nekuti ndiani wakaziva fungwa yaMwari kana ndiani wakange ari murairidzi wake?

³⁴For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?

³⁵Ndiani wakatanga kupa kwaari, uye zvicharipirwazve kwaari?

³⁵or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?

³⁶Nekuti zvimwe zvose zvinobva kwaari kubudikidza naye, zvinoenda kwaari; umambo ngahuve kwaari nokusingaperi. Ameni.

³⁶For of him, and through him, and unto him, are all things. To him [be] the glory for ever. Amen.