¹Naizvozvo isuwo zvatakakomberedzwa negore guru rakadai rezvapupu, ngatibvisei mitoro yose nechivi chinongotinamatira, ngatimhanye nemoyo murefu nhangemutange yakaiswa mberi kwedu,

¹Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

²tichitarira kuna Jesu, muvambi nemupedzeredzi werutendo rwedu, iye nekuda kwemufaro wakaiswa pamberi pake wakatsunga pamuchinjikwa, achizvidza kunyadziswa kwawo, akagara kuruoko rwerudyi rwechigaro cheushe chaMwari.

²looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

³Nekuti cherekedzai uyo wakatsunga pagakava rakadai revatadzi vachimirisana naye, kuti imwi murege kuneta nekupera simba pamweya yenyu.

³For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

⁴Muchigere kupikisa kusvikira muropa muchirwa nechivi;

⁴You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin;

⁵uye makakangamwa kurudziro inotaura kwamuri kwazvo sekuvana, kuchiti: Mwanakomana wangu, usazvidza kuranga kwaIshe, kana kupera moyo kana uchitsiurwa naye;

⁵and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;

⁶Nekuti Ishe waanoda unomuranga, nekuzvambaradza mwanakomana umwe neumwe waanogamuchira.

⁶For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.” Proverbs 3:11-12

⁷Kana muchitsunga pakurangwa, Mwari unokubatai sevanakomana; nekuti mwanakomana ndeupi usingarangwi nababa?

⁷It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?

⁸Asi kana musingarangwi sezvinoitirwa vagovani vose, muri vana veupombwe, kwete vanakomana.

⁸But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children.

⁹uyezve isu takambova nemadzibaba enyama yedu aidzora uye tikavakudza; ko hatingazviisi zvikuru pasi paBaba vemweya kuti tirarame here?

⁹Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

¹⁰Nekuti ivo zvirokwazvo vakatiranga mazuva mashoma pamadiro avo: asi iye unotiranga kuti tibatsirwe, tigogoverwa utsvene hwake.

¹⁰For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

¹¹Zvino hakuna kuranga kwazvino kunoratidza kufadza, asi kushungurudza zvakadaro pashure kunobereka zvibereko zverugare zvakarurama kune vanorovedzwa mazviri.

¹¹All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.

¹²Saka simbisai maoko akaremberera pasi, nemabvi akarengwezeka;

¹²Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees, Isaiah 35:3

¹³gadzirirai tsoka dzenyu nzira dzakarurama, kuti icho chinokamhina chirege kushodoka, asi panzvimbo yeizvozvo chiporeswe.

¹³and make straight paths for your feet, Proverbs 4:26 so that which is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.

¹⁴Tevererai rugare nevose, neutsvene, nokuti kunze kwahwo hakuna munhu uchaona Ishe;

¹⁴Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

¹⁵Muchichenjerera kuti kurege kuva nemunhu unokundikana panyasha dzaMwari; kuti zvimwe mudzi wekuvava urege kumutsa dambudziko ukutambudzei vazhinji vagosvibiswa;

¹⁵looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it;

¹⁶kurege kuva nemhombwe kana munhu usina hanya naMwari, saEsau wakatengesa udangwe hwake nekudya kumwe.

¹⁶lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.

¹⁷Nekuti munoziva kuti pashure achizoda hake kugara nhaka yekuropafadzwa, wakarambwa; nekuti haana kuwana nzvimbo yekutendeuka, kunyange akaitsvaka zvikuru nemisodzi.

¹⁷For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.

¹⁸Nekuti hamuna kuswedera kugomo ringabatwa, rinopfuta moto, uye kurima nekusviba, nekudutu guru remhepo,

¹⁸For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,

¹⁹uye kurira kwehwamanda, nenzwi remashoko; iro ivo vakarinzwa vakakumbira kuti shoko rimwe rirege kuzotaurwa kwavarizve;

¹⁹the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them,

²⁰Nekuti vakakoniwa kutevera icho chakanga charairwa, chekuti: Kana zvakadaro nemhuka kana ikabata gomo, ichatakwa nemabwe; kana kufurwa nemuseve.

²⁰for they could not stand that which was commanded, “If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned TR adds “or shot with an arrow” [see Exodus 19:12-13] ”; Exodus 19:12-13

²¹icho chakaonekwa chaityisa zvekuti Mozisi wakati: Ndinotya kwazvo, ndinodedera.

²¹and so fearful was the appearance, that Moses said, “I am terrified and trembling.” Deuteronomy 9:19

²²Asi imwi mauya kugomo reZiyoni, nekuguta raMwari mupenyu, Jerusarema rekudenga, nekumazana evatumwa vasingaverengeki,

²²But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,

²³kuungano huru nekereke yematangwe akanyorwa kumatenga, nekuna Mwari mutongi wevose, nekumweya yevakarurama vakapereredzwa,

²³to the general assembly and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,

²⁴nekuna Jesu murevereri wesungno itsva, nekuropa rekusasa, rinotaura zvinhu zviri nani pane zvaAbhero.

²⁴to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, Jeremiah 31:31 and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.

²⁵Chenjerai kuti murege kuramba uyo unotaura; nekuti dai vasina kupukunyuka iye wakataura panyika, zvikuru sei isu kana tichifuratira iye unobva kumatenga;

²⁵See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,

²⁶inzwi rake rakazungunusa nyika nguva iyo asi zvino wakavimbisa achiti: Kamwe chetezve ndichazungunusa kwete nyika chete, asi dengawo.

²⁶whose voice shook the earth then, but now he has promised, saying, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens.” Haggai 2:6

²⁷Zvino izvi zvekuti: Kamwe zvekare, zvinoratidza kubviswa kwezvinhu zvinozununguka, sezvinhu zvakaitwa, kuti izvo zvisingagoni kuzungunuka zvigare.

²⁷This phrase, “Yet once more,” signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain.

²⁸Naizvozvo zvatinogamuchira ushe hwusingazununguswi, ngative nenyasha dzatingagona kushumira nadzo Mwari zvinogamuchirika nekukudza nekutya Mwari.

²⁸Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let us have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,

²⁹Nekuti Mwari wedu moto unoparadza.

²⁹for our God is a consuming fire. Deuteronomy 4:24