¹Nemhaka yeizvi, ini Pauro, musungwa waKristu Jesu nekuda kwenyu vahedheni,

¹For this reason *I* Paul, prisoner of the Christ Jesus for you nations,

²kana makanzwa nezvekushandiswa kwenyasha dzaMwari dzakapiwa kwandiri pamusoro penyu,

²(if indeed ye have heard of the administration of the grace of God which has been given to me towards you,

³kuti sechakazarurwa wakandizivisa chakavanzika, sezvandakambokunyorerai namashoko mashoma;

³that by revelation the mystery has been made known to me, (according as I have written before briefly,

⁴naizvozvo kana muchirava iwo, munganzwisisa ruzivo rwangu muchakavanzika chaKristu;

⁴by which, in reading it, ye can understand my intelligence in the mystery of the Christ,)

⁵icho pane mamwe mazera chisina kuziviswa kuvanakomana vevanhu, sezvachakanga chozarurirwa kuvaapositori vatsvene, nevaporofita neMweya;

⁵which in other generations has not been made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in [the power of the] Spirit,

⁶Kuti vahedheni vave vadyi venhaka pamwe nesu uye vemuviri umwe nevagovani vechivimbiso chake muna Kristu neevhangeri,

⁶that [they who are of] the nations should be joint heirs, and a joint body, and joint partakers of [his] promise in Christ Jesus by the glad tidings;

⁷yandakaitwa nayo mushumiri zvichienderana nechipo chenyasha dzaMwari chakapiwa kwandiri nekubata kwesimba rake.

⁷of which I am become minister according to the gift of the grace of God given to me, according to the working of his power.

⁸Kwandiri ndiri muduku kumudukusa wevatsvene vose, nyasha idzi dzakapiwa, kuti ndiparidze pakati pevahedheni fuma isinganzvereki yaKristu,

⁸To me, less than the least of all saints, has this grace been given, to announce among the nations the glad tidings of the unsearchable riches of the Christ,

⁹nekuita kuti vose vaone kuti kudyidzana kwakadiniko kwechakavanzika chakanga chakavigwa muna Mwari kubva pakuvamba kwenyika, wakasika zvinhu zvose naKristu Jesu,

⁹and to enlighten all [with the knowledge of] what is the administration of the mystery hidden throughout the ages in God, who has created all things,

¹⁰kuti zvino paushe nepamasimba panzvimbo dzekudenga kudenga, kuchenjera kukuru kwaMwari kuziviswe nekereke;

¹⁰in order that now to the principalities and authorities in the heavenlies might be made known through the assembly the all-various wisdom of God,

¹¹sechiga chekusingaperi chaakatema muna Kristu Jesu Ishe wedu;

¹¹according to [the] purpose of the ages, which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord,

¹²maari matine kutsunga nekupinda tine chivimbo, nerutendo rwake.

¹²in whom we have boldness and access in confidence by the faith of him.

¹³Naizvozvo ndinokumbira kuti murege kuora moyo pakukutambudzikirai kwangu; ndiko kurumbidzwa kwenyu.

¹³Wherefore I beseech [you] not to faint through my tribulations for you, which is your glory.

¹⁴Nemhaka iyi ndinofugama nemabvi angu kuna Baba vaIshe wedu Jesu Kristu,

¹⁴For this reason I bow my knees to the Father [of our Lord Jesus Christ],

¹⁵avo rudzi rwose rwuri kumatenga nepanyika rwunodaidzwa nezita ravo,

¹⁵of whom every family in [the] heavens and on earth is named,

¹⁶kuti vakupei zvichienderana nefuma yeushe hwavo ukuru, kuti musimbiswe nesimba neMweya wake mumunhu wemukati;

¹⁶in order that he may give you according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with power by his Spirit in the inner man;

¹⁷kuti Kristu agare pamoyo yenyu nerutendo; kuti imwi mune midzi nenheyo murudo,

¹⁷that the Christ may dwell, through faith, in your hearts, being rooted and founded in love,

¹⁸muve nesimba rekunzwisisa nevatsvene vose, kuti kufara, nekureba, nekukwirira, nekudzika chii,

¹⁸in order that ye may be fully able to apprehend with all the saints what [is] the breadth and length and depth and height;

¹⁹nokuziva rudo rwaKristu, runopfuura ruzivo, kuti muzadzwe nekuzara kose kwaMwari.

¹⁹and to know the love of the Christ which surpasses knowledge; that ye may be filled [even] to all the fulness of God.

²⁰Zvino kune une simba rekuita zvikuru kwazvo zvinopfuura zvose zvatinokumbira kana kufunga maererano nesimba rinobata matiri,

²⁰But to him that is able to do far exceedingly above all which we ask or think, according to the power which works in us,

²¹kwaari ngakuve nekubwinya mukereke naKristu Jesu kusvikira kumarudzi ose nokusingaperi-peri, Ameni.

²¹to him be glory in the assembly in Christ Jesus unto all generations of the age of ages. Amen).