¹Zvino ndinoti, mudyi wenhaka, kana achingori mwana chete, haatongosiyani nemuranda, kunyange ari ishe wezvose;

¹Now I say, As long as the heir is a child, he differs nothing from a bondman, though he be lord of all;

²asi uri pasi pevarairidzi nevatariri kusvikira panguva yakatarwa nababa.

²but he is under guardians and stewards until the period fixed by the father.

³Saizvozvo nesu, apo takanga tichiri vana, taiva muuranda pasi pedzidziso dzekutanga dzenyika;

³So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the principles of the world;

⁴Asi apo kuzara kwenguva kwakati kwasvika, Mwari wakatuma Mwanakomana wake, wakaitwa nemukadzi, wakaitwa pasi pemurairo,

⁴but when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, come of woman, come under law,

⁵kuti adzikunure vari pasi pemurairo, kuti tigamuchire kuitwa vanakomana.

⁵that he might redeem those under law, that we might receive sonship.

⁶Uye nekuti muri vanakomana, Mwari wakatuma Mweya weMwanakomana wake mumoyo yenyu, achidanidzira achiti: Abha*, Baba!

⁶But because ye are sons, God has sent out the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

⁷Saka iwe hausisiri muranda, asi mwanakomana; kana wava mwanakomana, wava mudyi wenhaka yaMwari kubudikidza naKristu.

⁷So thou art no longer bondman, but son; but if son, heir also through God.

⁸Asi nenguva iyo, musati maziva Mwari, maiva varanda vaivo vasati vari vamwari pachisikigo;

⁸But then indeed, not knowing God, ye were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods;

⁹asi ikozvino sezvo moziva Mwari, zvikuru zvamunozikamwa naMwari modzokerazve sei kuurongwa hwusina simba hweurombo, hwamunoshuvazve kuva muuranda hwahwo?

⁹but now, knowing God, but rather being known by God, how do ye turn again to the weak and beggarly principles to which ye desire to be again anew in bondage?

¹⁰Munochengetedza misi, nemwedzi, nenguva, nemakore.

¹⁰Ye observe days and months and times and years.

¹¹Ndinokutyirai, zvimwe ndakashingairira pasina kwamuri.

¹¹I am afraid of you, lest indeed I have laboured in vain as to you.

¹²Ivai seni, nekuti ini ndakaitawo semwi, hama, ndinokukumbirisai. Hamuna kutombonditadzira chinhu;

¹²Be as *I* [am], for *I* also [am] as *ye*, brethren, I beseech you: ye have not at all wronged me.

¹³zvino munoziva kuti nemuundonda panyama, ndakaparidza evhangeri kwamuri pakutanga,

¹³But ye know that in weakness of the flesh I announced the glad tidings to you at the first;

¹⁴nemuedzo wangu waiva panyama yangu hamuna kuzvidza kana kuramba; asi makandigamuchira semutumwa waMwari, saKristu Jesu.

¹⁴and my temptation, which [was] in my flesh, ye did not slight nor reject with contempt; but ye received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.

¹⁵Zvino kuropafadza kwenyu ndekupi? Nekuti ndinopupura nezvenyu, kuti kana zvichibvira, mutumbure meso enyu muape kwandiri.

¹⁵What then [was] your blessedness? for I bear you witness that, if possible, plucking out your own eyes ye would have given [them] to me.

¹⁶Zvino ndava muvengi wenyu nekukuuudzai chokwadi here?

¹⁶So I have become your enemy in speaking the truth to you?

¹⁷Vanokushingairirai nemutowo usakanaka; asi vanoda kukusiyai kunze, kuti imwi muvashingairire.

¹⁷They are not rightly zealous after you, but desire to shut you out [from us], that ye may be zealous after them.

¹⁸Asi zvakanaka kushingaira pachinhu chakanaka nguva dzose, uye kwete kana ndiripo nemwi chete.

¹⁸But [it is] right to be zealous at all times in what is right, and not only when I am present with you --

¹⁹Vana vangu vaduku, vandinorwadziwazve nemimba pakubereka, kusvikira Kristu aumbwa mamuri.

¹⁹my children, of whom I again travail in birth until Christ shall have been formed in you:

²⁰Ndinoshuva kuvapo nemwi ikozvino, uye kushandura inzwi rangu; nekuti ndiri mukukahadzika pamusoro penyu.

²⁰and I should wish to be present with you now, and change my voice, for I am perplexed as to you.

²¹Ndiudzei, imwi munoshuva kuva pasi pemurairo, hamunzwi murairo here?

²¹Tell me, ye who are desirous of being under law, do ye not listen to the law?

²²Nekuti kwakanyorwa kuti Abhurahamu wakange ane vanakomana vaviri, umwe nemurandakadzi, umwe nemukadzi wakasununguka.

²²For it is written that Abraham had two sons; one of the maid servant, and one of the free woman.

²³Asi wemurandakadzi wakaberekwa nenzira yenyama; asi wemukadzi wakasununguka nechivimbiso.

²³But he [that was] of the maid servant was born according to flesh, and he [that was] of the free woman through the promise.

²⁴Zvinhu izvi zvinofananidzira; nekuti ava isungano mbiri; imwe inobva pagomo reSinai, inobereka vana vevuranda, inova Agari.

²⁴Which things have an allegorical sense; for these are two covenants: one from mount Sinai, gendering to bondage, which is Hagar.

²⁵Zvino Agari uyu ndiro gomo reSinai muArabhiya, rinomiririra Jerusarema razvino uye riri pauranda pamwe nevana varo.

²⁵For Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which [is] now, for she is in bondage with her children;

²⁶Zvino Jerusarema riri kumusoro rakasununguka rinova mai vedu tose.

²⁶but the Jerusalem above is free, which is our mother.

²⁷Nekuti kwakanyorwa kuchinzi: Fara, iwe mhanje, usingazvari, Pururudza, udanidzire, iwe usingarwadziwi nemimba, nekuti musiiwa unavana vazhinji kunovaiye unomurume.

²⁷For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break out and cry, thou that travailest not; because the children of the desolate are more numerous than [those] of her that has a husband.

²⁸Zvino isu, hama, saIsaka tiri vana vechivimbiso.

²⁸But *ye*, brethren, after the pattern of Isaac, are children of promise.

²⁹Asi sepanguva iyo, uyo wakaberekwa nemutowo wenyama wakamutambudza iye wemutovo weMweya, zvakadaro kunyange ikozvino.

²⁹But as then he that was born according to flesh persecuted him [that was born] according to Spirit, so also [it is] now.

³⁰Asi rugwaro runoti kudini? Dzinga murandakadzi nemwanakomana wake; nekuti mwanakomana wemurandakadzi haangavi mudyi wenhaka pamwe nemwanakomana wewakasununguka.

³⁰But what says the scripture? Cast out the maid servant and her son; for the son of the maid servant shall not inherit with the son of the free woman.

³¹Naizvozvo, hama, hatizi vana vemurandakadzi, asi vewakasununguka.

³¹So then, brethren, we are not maid servant's children, but [children] of the free woman.