¹Wakakumutsai, imwiwo makanga makafa mukudarika nemuzvivi,

¹and *you*, being dead in your offences and sins --

²izvo zvamaifamba mazviri kare nemutowo wenyika ino, nenzira dzemutungamiriri wesimba redenga, dzemweya unobata zvino muvana vekusateerera;

²in which ye once walked according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience:

³vataifamba tose pakati pavo kare mukuchiva kwenyama yedu, tichiita kuda kwenyama nekwefungwa, nepachisikigo chedu isu taiva vana vekutsamwirwa sevamwewo.

³among whom *we* also all once had our conversation in the lusts of our flesh, doing what the flesh and the thoughts willed to do, and were children, by nature, of wrath, even as the rest:

⁴Asi Mwari wakafuma panyasha, nekuda kwerudo rwake rukuru rwaakatida narwo,

⁴but God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love wherewith he loved us,

⁵kunyange takange takafa mukudarika, wakatimutsa pamwe naKristu (makaponeswa nenyasha);

⁵(we too being dead in offences,) has quickened us with the Christ, (ye are saved by grace,)

⁶akatimutsa pamwe naye, akatigarisa pamwe naye kunzvimbo dzekumatenga, muna Kristu Jesu;

⁶and has raised [us] up together, and has made [us] sit down together in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus,

⁷kuti nenguva dzinovuya aratidze fuma hurusa yenyasha dzake muunyoro kwatiri muna Kristu Jesu;

⁷that he might display in the coming ages the surpassing riches of his grace in kindness towards us in Christ Jesus.

⁸Nekuti nenyasha makaponeswa nerutendo, uye izvi hazvibvi kwamuri, asi chipo chaMwari;

⁸For ye are saved by grace, through faith; and this not of yourselves; it is God's gift:

⁹hazvibvi pamabasa, kuti kusava neunozvikudza.

⁹not on the principle of works, that no one might boast.

¹⁰Nekuti tiri basa rake, takasikirwa mabasa akanaka muna Kristu Jesu, akagara agadzirwa naMwari kuti tifambe maari.

¹⁰For we are his workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God has before prepared that we should walk in them.

¹¹Naizvozvo rangarirai kuti imwi panguva dzakapfuura, maiva vahedheni munyama, vanonzi kusadzingiswa naivo vanonzi vekudzingiswa munyama kunoitwa nemaoko;

¹¹Wherefore remember that *ye*, once nations in [the] flesh, who [are] called uncircumcision by that called circumcision in [the] flesh done with the hand;

¹²kuti panguva iyo makange musina Kristu, muri vatorwa paubwo hwevaIsraeri, nevatorwa pasungano dzechivimbiso, musina tariro, uye musina Mwari panyika.

¹²that ye were at that time without Christ, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:

¹³Asi zvino muna Kristu Jesu, imwi maimbova kure, munoswededzwa neropa raKristu.

¹³but now in Christ Jesus *ye* who once were afar off are become nigh by the blood of the Christ.

¹⁴Nekuti ndiye rugare rwedu, iye wakaita zviviri zvive chimwe, akaputsa mudhuri wapakati wokuparadzanisa;

¹⁴For *he* is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of enclosure,

¹⁵aparadza munyama yake ruvengo, iwo mutemo wemirairo pazviga; kuti asike maari pavaviri munhu umwe mutsva, aite rugare,

¹⁵having annulled the enmity in his flesh, the law of commandments in ordinances, that he might form the two in himself into one new man, making peace;

¹⁶uye kuti ayananise vaviri kuna Mwari, mumuviri umwe nemuchinjikwa, auraya ruvengo nawo;

¹⁶and might reconcile both in one body to God by the cross, having by it slain the enmity;

¹⁷uye wakasvika akaparidza rugare kwamuri, imwi maiva kure, nekune avo vaiva pedo;

¹⁷and, coming, he has preached the glad tidings of peace to you who [were] afar off, and [the glad tidings of] peace to those [who were] nigh.

¹⁸nekuti kubudikidza naye isu tose tine mapindiro neMweya mumwe kuna Baba.

¹⁸For through him we have both access by one Spirit to the Father.

¹⁹Naizvozvo, zvino hamusisiri vaeni nevatorwa, asi vebwo pamwe nevatsvene neveimba yaMwari.

¹⁹So then ye are no longer strangers and foreigners, but ye are fellow-citizens of the saints, and of the household of God,

²⁰Makavakwa pamusoro penheyo dzevaapositori nevaporofita, Jesu Kristu amene ari mbiru yepakona.

²⁰being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the corner-stone,

²¹Maari imba yose yakabatanidzwa, ikure ive tembere tsvene muna Ishe.

²¹in whom all [the] building fitted together increases to a holy temple in the Lord;

²²Maari nemwiwo makavakwa pamwe, kuti muve ugaro hwaMwari kubudikidza neMweya.

²²in whom *ye* also are built together for a habitation of God in [the] Spirit.