¹Zvino tichati Abhurahamu baba vedu wakawanei panyama?

¹What shall we say then that Abraham our father according to flesh has found?

²Nekuti dai Abhurahamu akanzi wakarurama nemabasa ake, une kuzvikudza; asi kwete pamberi paMwari.

²For if Abraham has been justified on the principle of works, he has whereof to boast: but not before God;

³Nekuti Rugwaro runoti kudini? Runoti: Abhurahamu wakatenda Mwari, zvikaverengwa kwaari kuti kururama.

³for what does the scripture say? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.

⁴Asi kune unoshanda, mubairo hautorwi sowenyasha, asi wengava.

⁴Now to him that works the reward is not reckoned as of grace, but of debt:

⁵Asi kune usingashandi, asi unotenda kuna iye unoruramisa usingadi Mwari, rutendo rwake rwunoverengerwa kuti kururama.

⁵but to him who does not work, but believes on him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is reckoned as righteousness.

⁶SaDhavhidhiwo achitsanangura kuropafadzwa kwemunhu unoverengwa naMwari sewakarurama kunze kwemabasa, achiti:

⁶Even as David also declares the blessedness of the man to whom God reckons righteousness without works:

⁷Vakaropafadzwa vakakangamwirwa zvakaipa zvavo, vane zvivi zvakafukidzirwa;

⁷Blessed [they] whose lawlessnesses have been forgiven, and whose sins have been covered:

⁸Wakaropafadzwa munhu Ishe waasingaverengeri chivi.

⁸blessed [the] man to whom [the] Lord shall not at all reckon sin.

⁹Zvino kuropafadzwa uku kuri pamusoro pokudzingiswa here kana pamusoro pokusadzingiswawo? Nekuti tinoti rutendo rwakaverengwa kuna Abhurahamu kuti kururama.

⁹[Does] this blessedness then [rest] on the circumcision, or also on the uncircumcision? For we say that faith has been reckoned to Abraham as righteousness.

¹⁰Zvino kwakaverengwa sei? Ari mukudzingiswa here kana mukusadzingiswa? kwete mukudzingiswa, asi mukusadzingiswa.

¹⁰How then has it been reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

¹¹Zvino wakagamuchira chiratidzo chekudzingiswa, chive chisimbiso chekururama kwerutendo, rwaakanga anarwo asati adzingiswa; kuti ave baba vevose avo vanotenda, kunyange vasina kudzingiswa, kuti kururama kuverengerwe kwavariwo;

¹¹And he received [the] sign of circumcision [as] seal of the righteousness of faith which [he had] being in uncircumcision, that he might be [the] father of all them that believe being in uncircumcision, that righteousness might be reckoned to them also;

¹²uye baba vekudzingiswa kune avo vasiri vekudzingiswa chete, asi vanofambawo mumakwara erutendo rwababa vedu Abhurahamu, kwevaiva nako vasati vadzingiswa.

¹²and father of circumcision, not only to those who are of [the] circumcision, but to those also who walk in the steps of the faith, during uncircumcision, of our father Abraham.

¹³Nekuti hakusi kubudikidza nemurairo kwakava nechivimbiso kuna Abhurahamu kana kumbeu yake chekuva mugari wenhaka yenyika, asi kubudikidza nekururama kwerutendo.

¹³For [it was] not by law that the promise was to Abraham, or to his seed, that he should be heir of [the] world, but by righteousness of faith.

¹⁴Nekuti kana ivo vari vemurairo, vari vagari venhaka, rutendo rwunoshaiswa maturo, nechivimbiso chinoshaiswa basa;

¹⁴For if they which [are] of law be heirs, faith is made vain, and the promise made of no effect.

¹⁵nekuti murairo unouyisa kutsamwa; nekuti pasina murairo hapana kudarika.

¹⁵For law works wrath; but where no law is neither [is there] transgression.

¹⁶Naizvozvo ndezverutendo kuti zvive zvenyasha; kuti chivimbiso chisimbiswe kumbeu yake yese; chisati chiri chemurairo chete, asi neicho cherutendo rwaAbhurahamuwo, unova baba vedu tose,

¹⁶Therefore [it is] on the principle of faith, that [it might be] according to grace, in order to the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that only which [is] of the law, but to that also which [is] of Abraham's faith, who is father of us all,

¹⁷(sezvazvakanyorwa, zvichinzi: Ndakakugadza uve baba vemarudzi mazhinji) pamberi paiye waakatenda, iye Mwari unomutsa vakafa, nekudana zvisipo sekunge zviripo.

¹⁷(according as it is written, I have made thee father of many nations,) before the God whom he believed, who quickens the dead, and calls the things which be not as being;

¹⁸Iye pasina tariro wakatenda kutariro, kuti uchava baba vemarudzi mazhinji maererano nezvakanga zvataurwa, ndizvo zvichaita mbeu yako.

¹⁸who against hope believed in hope to his becoming father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be:

¹⁹Uye haana kushaiwa simba parutendo, akasarangarira muviri wake zvino wakange wafa, nekuti akange ava nemakore anenge zana, kana kufa kwechizvaro chaSara;

¹⁹and not being weak in faith, he considered not his own body already become dead, being about a hundred years old, and the deadening of Sarah's womb,

²⁰Asi haana kukahadzika pachivimbiso chaMwari kubudikidza nekusatenda, asi wakasimbiswa parutendo, achipa rumbidzo kuna Mwari,

²⁰and hesitated not at the promise of God through unbelief; but found strength in faith, giving glory to God;

²¹achipwisa zvakazara kuti icho chaakavimbisa, wakange achigonawo kuchiita.

²¹and being fully persuaded that what he has promised he is able also to do;

²²Saka zvakaverengerwa kwaari kuti kururama.

²²wherefore also it was reckoned to him as righteousness.

²³Zvino zvakanga zvisina kunyorwa nekuda kwake oga, kuti zvakaverengerwa kwaari;

²³Now it was not written on his account alone that it was reckoned to him,

²⁴asi nekuda kweduwo; tichaverengerwa icho, tinotenda kune wakamutsa Jesu Ishe wedu kuvakafa,

²⁴but on ours also, to whom, believing on him who has raised from among [the] dead Jesus our Lord,

²⁵wakakumikidzwa kurufu nekuda kwemhosva dzedu, akamutswazve kuti tinzi takarurama.

²⁵who has been delivered for our offences and has been raised for our justification, it will be reckoned.