¹Zvino tichati Abhurahamu baba vedu wakawanei panyama?

¹What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?

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

²For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.

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

³For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” Genesis 15:6

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

⁴Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed.

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

⁵But to him who doesn’t work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.

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

⁶Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works,

⁷Vakaropafadzwa vakakangamwirwa zvakaipa zvavo, vane zvivi zvakafukidzirwa;

⁷“Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, whose sins are covered.

⁸Wakaropafadzwa munhu Ishe waasingaverengeri chivi.

⁸Blessed is the man whom the Lord will by no means charge with sin.” Psalm 32:1-2

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

⁹Is this blessing then pronounced on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.

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

¹⁰How then was it counted? 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;

¹¹He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they might be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them.

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

¹²He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.

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

¹³For the promise to Abraham and to his seed that he should be heir of the world wasn’t through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

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

¹⁴For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect.

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

¹⁵For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.

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

¹⁶For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

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

¹⁷As it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations.” Genesis 17:5 This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.

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

¹⁸Who in hope believed against hope, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, “So will your seed be.” Genesis 15:5

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

¹⁹Without being weakened in faith, he didn’t consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.

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

²⁰Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn’t waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God,

²¹achipwisa zvakazara kuti icho chaakavimbisa, wakange achigonawo kuchiita.

²¹and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform.

²²Saka zvakaverengerwa kwaari kuti kururama.

²²Therefore it also was “reckoned to him for righteousness.” Genesis 15:6

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

²³Now it was not written that it was accounted to him for his sake alone,

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

²⁴but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus, our Lord, from the dead,

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

²⁵who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.