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

¹Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not tiresome, but for you it is safe.

²Chenjererai imbwa, ngwarirai vabati vakaipa, ongororai vekucheka;

²Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the false circumcision.

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

³For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;

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

⁴though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, I yet more:

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

⁵circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;

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

⁶concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.

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

⁷However, what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ.

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

⁸Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, 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 be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;

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

¹⁰that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death;

¹¹kana zvingagoneka ndisvike pakumuka kwevakafa.

¹¹if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

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

¹²Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

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

¹³Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,

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

¹⁴I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

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

¹⁵Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.

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

¹⁶Nevertheless, to the extent that we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule. Let us be of the same mind.

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

¹⁷Brothers, be imitators together of me, and note those who walk this way, even as you have us for an example.

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

¹⁸For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as 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 whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

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

²⁰For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;

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

²¹who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.