¹Pakupedzisira, hama dzangu, farai muna Ishe. Kukunyoreraizve zvinhu zvimwechetezvo, ini hazvindinetesi, asi zvinokusimbisai imwi.

¹For the rest, my brethren, rejoice in [the] Lord: to write the same things to you, to me [is] not irksome, and for you safe.

²Chenjererai imbwa, ngwarirai vabati vakaipa, ongororai vekucheka;

²See to dogs, see to evil workmen, see to the concision.

³Nekuti tisu kudzingiswa, vanoshumira Mwari muMweya, tichizvirumbidza muna Kristu Jesu, tisina chivimbo munyama;

³For *we* are the circumcision, who worship by [the] Spirit of God, and boast in Christ Jesus, and do not trust in flesh.

⁴kunyange ndingavawo nechivimbo munyama; kana kune umwe munhu unofunga kuvimba nenyama, zvikuru ini.

⁴Though *I* have [my] trust even in flesh; if any other think to trust in flesh, *I* rather:

⁵Ndakadzingiswa nezuva rerusere, ndiri werudzi rwaIsraeri weimba yaBenjamini, muHebheru wevaHebheru; zviri zvemurairo ndiri muFarisi;

⁵as to circumcision, [I received it] the eighth day; of [the] race of Israel, of [the] tribe of Benjamin, Hebrew of Hebrews; as to [the] law, a Pharisee;

⁶maererano nekushingaira, ndichitambudza kereke; maererano nekururama kuri mumurairo ndisina chandingapomerwa.

⁶as to zeal, persecuting the assembly; as to righteousness which [is] in [the] law, found blameless;

⁷Asi zvinhu zvaiva fuma kwandiri, ndizvo zvandakati kurashikirwa nekuda kwaKristu.

⁷but what things were gain to me these I counted, on account of Christ, loss.

⁸Hongu zvirokwazvo, ndinoverenga zvinhu zvose kurashikirwa nekuda kwekunakisisa kweruzivo rwaKristu Jesu Ishe wangu, wandakarashikirwa nezvinhu zvose nekuda kwake, ndikazviidza marara, kuti ndiwane Kristu;

⁸But surely I count also all things to be loss on account of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, on account of whom I have suffered the loss of all, and count them to be filth, that I may gain Christ;

⁹uye ndiwanikwe maari, ndisina kururama kwangu kunobva kumurairo, asi uko kuri kubudikidza nerutendo kuna Kristu, kururama kunobva kuna Mwari nerutendo;

⁹and that I may be found in him, not having my righteousness, which [would be] on the principle of law, but that which is by faith of Christ, the righteousness which [is] of God through faith,

¹⁰kuti ndimuzive iye, nesimba rekumuka kwake, nekudyidzana kwematambudziko ake, nditodze kufa kwake,

¹⁰to know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,

¹¹kana zvingagoneka ndisvike pakumuka kwevakafa.

¹¹if any way I arrive at the resurrection from among [the] dead.

¹²Handirevi kuti ndakatochiwana, kana ndatokwaniswa, asi ndinotevera, kuti zvimwe ndichibate, icho Kristu Jesu chaakambondibatira.

¹²Not that I have already obtained [the prize], or am already perfected; but I pursue, if also I may get possession [of it], seeing that also I have been taken possession of by Christ [Jesus].

¹³Hama, ini handizviverengi kuti ndatochibata, asi ndinoita chinhu chandinoita: ndichikangamwa zvinhu zviri shure, ndichinanavira zvinhu zviri mberi,

¹³Brethren, *I* do not count to have got possession myself; but one thing -- forgetting the things behind, and stretching out to the things before,

¹⁴ndinoshingairira kuchinangwa, kumubairo wekudana kwekumusoro kwaMwari, muna Kristu Jesu.

¹⁴I pursue, [looking] towards [the] goal, for the prize of the calling on high of God in Christ Jesus.

¹⁵Naizvozvo isu tose takakwana ngative nemufungo wakadaro; kana zvimwe imwi mune umwe mufungo, Mwari uchakuratidzai kunyange izvi.

¹⁵As many therefore as [are] perfect, let us be thus minded; and if ye are any otherwise minded, this also God shall reveal to you.

¹⁶Asi pane patasvika, ngatifambe nemurairo wakadaro tifunge chinhu chimwe.

¹⁶But whereto we have attained, [let us] walk in the same steps.

¹⁷Hama, ivai vateveri vangu makabatana, natsai kutarira avo vanofamba saizvozvo sezvatakava muenzaniso.

¹⁷Be imitators [all] together of me, brethren, and fix your eyes on those walking thus as you have us for a model;

¹⁸Nekuti vazhinji vanofamba vandakakuvudzai nezvavo kazhinji, nazvino ndinokuvudzaiwo kunyange nekuchema, vavengi vemuchinjikwa waKristu;

¹⁸(for many walk of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they [are] the enemies of the cross of Christ:

¹⁹kuguma kwavo kuparadzwa, mwari wavo idumbu ravo, uye kurumbidzwa kwavo kuri mukunyadzwa, vanofunga zvenyika.

¹⁹whose end [is] destruction, whose god [is] the belly, and [their] glory in their shame, who mind earthly things:)

²⁰Nekuti ubwo hwedu hwuri kumatenga, uko kwatakataririrakowo kuuya kwemuponesi Ishe Jesu Kristu;

²⁰for *our* commonwealth has its existence in [the] heavens, from which also we await the Lord Jesus Christ [as] Saviour,

²¹uyo uchavandudza muviri wekuninipiswa kwedu, kuti ufananidzwe nemuviri wekubwinya kwake, nesimba iro raanogonawo naro kuisa zvinhu zvose pasi pake.

²¹who shall transform our body of humiliation into conformity to his body of glory, according to the working of [the] power which he has even to subdue all things to himself.