¹Ko muJudha uri nani nei? Kana kudzingiswa kune mubairo wei?

¹What advantage then hath the Jew? or what is the profit of circumcision?

²Zvizhinji nemitoo yose; nekuti pakutanga kuti vakabatiswa mashoko aMwari.

²Much every way: first of all, that they were intrusted with the oracles of God.

³Zvino kana vamwe vasina rutendo? Kusatenda kwavo kuchashayisa kutendeka kwaMwari maturo here?

³For what if some were without faith? shall their want of faith make of none effect the faithfulness of God?

⁴Ngazvisadaro! asi Mwari ngaave wechokwadi, asi munhu wose murevi wenhema; sezvazvakanyorwa zvichinzi: Kuti mururamiswe pamashoko enyu, uye mukunde pakutongwa kwenyu.

⁴God forbid: yea, let God be found true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, And mightest prevail when thou comest into judgment.

⁵Asi kana kusarurama kwedu kuchiratidza kururama kwaMwari, tichatii? Kuti Mwari haana kururama here, zvaanodurura hasha?(Ndinotaura semunhu.)

⁵But if our righteousness commendeth the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who visiteth with wrath? (I speak after the manner of men.)

⁶Ngazvisadaro! kana zvikasadaro Mwari ungagozotonga nyika sei?

⁶God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?

⁷Zvino kana chokwadi chaMwari chawanzwa kubudikidza nenhema dzangu parumbidzo yake, ko iniwo ndichiri kutongerwei semutadzi?

⁷But if the truth of God through my lie abounded unto his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

⁸Uye kana zvikadai, tichapomerwa zvakaipa uye sezvinopupura vamwe vachiti tinoti: Ngatiite zvakaipa kuti zvakanaka zviuye? Kurashwa kwavo kuve kwekururama.

⁸and why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), Let us do evil, that good may come? whose condemnation is just.

⁹Ko zvino-ke? Tiri nani here? Kwete nepaduku pose; nekuti tambopa vose mhosva, vaJudha nevaGiriki, kuti vose vari pasi pechivi;

⁹What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we before laid to the charge both of Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin;

¹⁰sezvazvakanyorwa, zvichinzi: Hakuna wakarurama, kwete kunyange neumwe;

¹⁰as it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one;

¹¹hakuna unonzwisisa; hakuna unotsvaka Mwari;

¹¹There is none that understandeth, There is none that seeketh after God;

¹²vose vakatsauka, vakava pamwe vasina maturo, Hakuna unoita zvakanaka, kwete kunyange neumwe;

¹²They have all turned aside, they are together become unprofitable; There is none that doeth good, no, not, so much as one:

¹³Huro yavo iguva rakashama; nendimi dzavo vakanyengera; uturu hwemhungu hwuri pasi pemiromo yavo;

¹³Their throat is an open sepulchre; With their tongues they have used deceit: The poison of asps is under their lips:

¹⁴Muromo wavo uzere nekutuka nekuvava;

¹⁴Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

¹⁵tsoka dzavo dzinokurumidza kuteura ropa;

¹⁵Their feet are swift to shed blood;

¹⁶Kuparadza nekutambudzika zviri munzira dzavo;

¹⁶Destruction and misery are in their ways;

¹⁷uye nzira yerugare havana kuiziva;

¹⁷And the way of peace have they not known:

¹⁸kutya Mwari hakupo pamberi pemeso avo.

¹⁸There is no fear of God before their eyes.

¹⁹Zvino toziva kuti zvinhu zvose zvinorehwa nemurairo zvinoreva kune vose vari pasi pomurairo; kuti miromo yose idzivirwe, nenyika yose ive nemhosva pamberi paMwari.

¹⁹Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it speaketh to them that are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God:

²⁰Naizvozvo kubudikidza nemabasa emurairo, hakuna nyama inganzi yakarurama pamberi pake; nekuti zvivi zvinoziviswa nemurairo.

²⁰because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for through the law [cometh] the knowledge of sin.

²¹Asi zvino kururama kwaMwari kwakaratidzwa pasina murairo, kuchipupurwa nezvako nemurairo nevaporofita;

²¹But now apart from the law a righteousness of God hath been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

²²kunyange kururama kwaMwari nerutendo rwaJesu Kristu kune vose nepamusoro pevose vanotenda; nekuti hapana musiyano;

²²even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ unto all them that believe; for there is no distinction;

²³nekuti vose vakatadza vakataira pakubwinya kwaMwari.

²³for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

²⁴Vachinzi havana mhosva pachena nenyasha dzake kubudikidza nerudzikunuro rwuri muna Kristu Jesu.

²⁴being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

²⁵Iye wakagadzwa naMwari, kuva mumiririri kubudikidza nerutendo muropa rake, kuratidza kururama kwake, nekusarangarira zvivi zvakaitwa kare mukuva nemoyo murefu kwaMwari;

²⁵whom God set forth [to be] a propitiation, through faith, in his blood, to show his righteousness because of the passing over of the sins done aforetime, in the forbearance of God;

²⁶kuti chive chiratidzo chekururama kwake panguva ino, kuti ave wakarurama uye mururamisi werutendo rwaJesu.

²⁶for the showing, [I say], of his righteousness at this present season: that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him that hath faith in Jesus.

²⁷Zvino kuzvikudza kuripi? Kwasiiwa kunze. Nemurairo upi? Wemabasa here? Kwete, asi nemurairo werutendo.

²⁷Where then is the glorying? It is excluded. By what manner of law? of works? Nay: but by a law of faith.

²⁸Naizvozvo tinogura kuti munhu unoruramiswa nerutendo pasina mabasa emurairo.

²⁸We reckon therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

²⁹NdiMwari wevaJudha voga here? Haasi wevahedheniwo here? Hongu, wevahedheniwo;

²⁹Or is God [the God] of Jews only? is he not [the God] of Gentiles also? Yea, of Gentiles also:

³⁰Mwari zvaari mumwe, ucharuramisa kudzingiswa kubudikidza nerutendo, nekusadzingiswa kubudikidza nerutendo.

³⁰if so be that God is one, and he shall justify the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through faith.

³¹Zvino tinoshayisa maturo murairo nerutendo here? Ngazvisadaro! Asi tinosimbisa murairo.

³¹Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: nay, we establish the law.