¹Zvino shure kwemakore gumi nemana ndakakwirazve kuJerusarema naBhanabhasi, ndikatorawo Titosi.

¹Then after a period of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me.

²Ndakakwira nekuzarurirwa, ndikarondedzera kwavari evhangeri yandinoparidza pakati pevahedheni, asi pachivande kune vakange vachikudzwa, kuti zvimwe neumwe mutowo ndingamhanya kana ndakatomhanyira pasina, kana kuti zvimwe ndatomhanyira pasina.

²I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.

³Asi kunyange Titosi waiva neni ari muGiriki, haana kurovererwa kuti adzingiswe;

³But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.

⁴uye nekuda kwehama dzenhema, vakange vapinzwa nekunyangira, vakange vapinda chinyararire kuzoshora kusununguka kwedu kwatinako muna Kristu Jesu, kuti vatiise muuranda;

⁴This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;

⁵vatisina kupa mukana nekuzviisa pasi kunyange kweawa; kuti chokwadi cheevhangeri chirambe chigere nemwi.

⁵to whom we gave no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, that the truth of the Good News might continue with you.

⁶Asi kana vari ivo vairatidza kuva chinhu (hazvinei kwandiri kuti vaiva vakadini; Mwari haagamuchiri chimiro chinoonekwa chemunhu), nekuti kana vari ivo vanokudzwa havana kundiwedzera chinhu;

⁶But from those who were reputed to be important (whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn’t show partiality to man)—they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me,

⁷asi nekusiyana ivo vakati vaona kuti evhangeri yavasakadzingiswa yakakumikidzwa kwandiri, seye vekudzingiswa kuna Petro,

⁷but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcision, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcision

⁸(nekuti iye wakasima nesimba kuna Petro vuapositori hwevakadzingiswa, ndiye wakapa kwandiri vuapositori kuvahedheni);

⁸(for he who appointed Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision appointed me also to the Gentiles);

⁹vakati vaziva nyasha dzakange dzapiwa kwandiri, Jakobho, naKefasi, naJohwani, vanokudzwa kuva mbiru, ruoko rwerudyi rwekudyidzana vakandipa, nekuna Bhanabhasi, kuti isu tiende kuvahedheni, ivo kuna vakadzingiswa;

⁹and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, they who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.

¹⁰chete kuti tirangarire varombo; chandakashingairirawo kuti ndichiite.

¹⁰They only asked us to remember the poor—which very thing I was also zealous to do.

¹¹Zvino Kefasi wakati asvika Andiyokiya, ndakamupikisa pachiso, nekuti waifanira kumhurwa.

¹¹But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned.

¹²Nekuti vasati vasvika vamwe vakange vabva kuna Jakobho, iye waidya nevahedheni; asi vakati vasvika akasuduruka, akazviraura, achitya avo vekudzingiswa.

¹²For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.

¹³Nevamwe vaJudha vakanyengera pamwe naye; zvekuti Bhanabhasiwo wakatorwa neunyepedzeri hwavo.

¹³And the rest of the Jews joined him in his hypocrisy; so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.

¹⁴Asi ndakati ndichiona kuti havafambi zvakarurama maererano nechokwadi cheevhangeri, ndakati kuna Petro pamberi pevose: Kana iwe uri muJudha, uchirarama nemutowo wevahedheni, uye kwete sezvinoita vaJudha, unoroverera sei vahedheni kuti vararame sevaJudha?

¹⁴But when I saw that they didn’t walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?

¹⁵Isu vaJudha pachisikirwo, uye kwete vatadzi vanobva kuvahedheni,

¹⁵“We, being Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners,

¹⁶tichiziva kuti munhu haanzi wakarurama nemabasa emurairo, asi nerutendo rwaJesu Kristu, kunyange isuwo takatenda kuna Kristu Jesu, kuti tinzi takarurama nerutendo rwaKristu, uye kwete nemabasa emurairo; nekuti nemabasa emurairo hakuna nyama ichanzi yakarurama.

¹⁶yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

¹⁷Asi kana isu, tinotsvaka kunzi takarurama kuna Kristu, isu tomenewo tiwanikwe tiri vatadzi, naizvozvo Kristu wava mushumiri wechivi here? Ngazvisadaro!

¹⁷But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not!

¹⁸Nekuti kana ndikavakazve zvinhu zvandaputsa, ndinozviita mudariki.

¹⁸For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker.

¹⁹Nekuti ini kubudikidza nemurairo ndakafa kumurairo, kuti ndirarame kuna Mwari,

¹⁹For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.

²⁰Ndakarovererwa pamuchinjikwa pamwe naKristu; asi ndinorarama; zvakadaro handisisiri ini, asi Kristu unorarama mandiri; ndiko kurarama kwandinorarama zvino panyama, ndinorarama nerutendo rweMwanakomana waMwari; wakandida akazvipa nekuda kwangu

²⁰I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

²¹Handishaisi nyasha dzaMwari maturo; nekuti kana kunzi wakarurama zvichibva kumurairo, saka Kristu wakafira pasina.

²¹I don’t make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!”