¹Naizvozvo hauna manzvengero, iwe munhu, upi neupi unotonga; nekuti pachinhu icho chaunotonga mumwe, unozvipa mhosva iwe, nekuti iwe unotonga unoita zvinhu zvakangodaro.

¹Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

²Asi tinoziva kuti kutonga kwaMwari kunoenderana nechokwadi pamusoro pevanoita zvinhu izvozvo.

²We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.

³Zvino unofunga izvi here, iwe munhu unotonga avo vanoita zvinhu zvakadai, uchiitawo zvakadaro, kuti ungatiza kutonga kwaMwari?

³Do you think this, O man who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?

⁴Kana unozvidza ufumi hwenyasha dzake nemoyo murefu, nemoyo munyoro; usingazivi kuti nyasha dzaMwari dzinokuisa pakutendeuka?

⁴Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

⁵Asi neukukutu hwako, nemoyo usingatendeuki, unozviunganidzira hasha nezuva rekutsamwa nekuzarurwa kwekutonga kwakarurama kwaMwari;

⁵But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

⁶iye uchapa kune umwe neumwe maererano nemabasa ake;

⁶who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:” Psalm 62:12; Proverbs 24:12

⁷kuna ivo vane moyo mirefu vanorambira mumabasa akanaka vachitsvaka kubwinya, nokukudzwa, nokusafa, uchavapa upenyu husingaperi.

⁷to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;

⁸Asi kuna vane nharo, vasingateereri chokwadi, asi vanoteerera kusarurama, kuchavapo hasha nokutsamwa;

⁸but to those who are self-seeking, and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath and indignation,

⁹kutambudzika nenhamo pamusoro pemweya umwe neumwe wemunhu unoita zvakaipa, pakutanga wemuJudha, newemuGiriki;

⁹oppression and anguish, on every soul of man who works evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

¹⁰asi kubwinya nokukudzwa, nerugare kune umwe neumwe unoita zvakanaka, kumuJudha pakutanga, nekumuGirikiwo.

¹⁰But glory, honor, and peace go to every man who works good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

¹¹Nekuti hakuna rusarura gomunhu kuna Mwari.

¹¹For there is no partiality with God.

¹²Nekuti vose vakatadza vakatadza vasina murairo; vachaparara vasina murairo; uye vose vakatadza mumurairo, vachatongwa nemurairo;

¹²For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

¹³nekuti havasi vanzwi vemurairo vakarurama pamberi paMwari, asi vaiti vemurairo ndivo vachanzi vakarurama;

¹³For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified

¹⁴nekuti kana vahedheni vasina murairo vachiita pachisikirwo zvinhu zviri mumurairo, ava vasina murairo ndivo murairo wavo vamene;

¹⁴(for when Gentiles who don’t have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,

¹⁵vanoratidza basa remurairo wakanyorwa mumoyo yavo, hana yavo ichipupurawo, nemirangariro panguva iyi ichipa mhosva kana kurwira pakati pavo;

¹⁵in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)

¹⁶nezuva iro Mwari paachatonga zvakavanzika zvevanhu, naJesu Kristu, maererano neevhangeri yangu.

¹⁶in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.

¹⁷Tarira iwe unonzi muJudha, unozembera pamurairo, unozvikudza pamusoro paMwari,

¹⁷Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, and rest on the law, and glory in God,

¹⁸unoziva chido nekugamuchira zvakanakisisa, uchidzidziswa nemurairo,

¹⁸and know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,

¹⁹unozvivimba kuti iwe uri mutungamiriri wemapofu, chiedza chevari murima,

¹⁹and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

²⁰murairi wemapenzi, mudzidzisi wevacheche, une chimiro cheruzivo nechechokwadi mumurairo;

²⁰a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.

²¹Naizvozvo iwe unodzidzisa mumwe, hauzvidzidzisi here? Iwe unoparidza kuti munhu arege kuba, iwe haubi here?

²¹You therefore who teach another, don’t you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn’t steal, do you steal?

²²Iwe unoti usapombwe, unoita upombwe here? Iwe unosema zvifananidzo, unopamba tembere dzavo here?

²²You who say a man shouldn’t commit adultery. Do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

²³Iwe unozvirumbidza nemurairo, unoshoora Mwari nekudarika murairo here?

²³You who glory in the law, through your disobedience of the law do you dishonor God?

²⁴Nekuti zita raMwari rinonyombwa pakati pevahedheni kubudikidza nemwi sezvazvakanyorwa.

²⁴For “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” Isaiah 52:5; Ezekiel 36:22 just as it is written.

²⁵Nekuti kudzingiswa kunobatsira zvirokwazvo, kana uchichengeta murairo; asi kana uri mudariki wemurairo, kudzingiswa kwako kunoitwa kusadzingiswa.

²⁵For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

²⁶Naizvozvo kana kusadzingiswa kuchichengeta zviga zvemurairo, ko kusadzingiswa kwake hakuveregwi sekudzingiswa here?

²⁶If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won’t his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?

²⁷Nekusadzingiswa kwepachizvarigo, achizadzisa murairo, haangakutongi here iwe mudariki wemurairo nemagwaro uye kudzingiswa?

²⁷Won’t the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?

²⁸Nekuti haazi muJudha, uri muJudha gokunze; hakuzi kudzingiswa kuri kwekunze panyama;

²⁸For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;

²⁹asi iye muJudha uri iye nechomukati; nekudzingiswa ndekwemoyo mumweya, kwete mumagwaro; kurumbidzwa kwake hakubvi kuvanhu asi kuna Mwari.

²⁹but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.