¹Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision?

¹Ko muJudha uri nani nei? Kana kudzingiswa kune mubairo wei?

²Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

²Zvizhinji nemitoo yose; nekuti pakutanga kuti vakabatiswa mashoko aMwari.

³For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?

³Zvino kana vamwe vasina rutendo? Kusatenda kwavo kuchashayisa kutendeka kwaMwari maturo here?

⁴May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, “That you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment.” Psalm 51:4

⁴Ngazvisadaro! asi Mwari ngaave wechokwadi, asi munhu wose murevi wenhema; sezvazvakanyorwa zvichinzi: Kuti mururamiswe pamashoko enyu, uye mukunde pakutongwa kwenyu.

⁵But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.

⁵Asi kana kusarurama kwedu kuchiratidza kururama kwaMwari, tichatii? Kuti Mwari haana kururama here, zvaanodurura hasha?(Ndinotaura semunhu.)

⁶May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?

⁶Ngazvisadaro! kana zvikasadaro Mwari ungagozotonga nyika sei?

⁷For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

⁷Zvino kana chokwadi chaMwari chawanzwa kubudikidza nenhema dzangu parumbidzo yake, ko iniwo ndichiri kutongerwei semutadzi?

⁸Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), “Let us do evil, that good may come?” Those who say so are justly condemned.

⁸Uye kana zvikadai, tichapomerwa zvakaipa uye sezvinopupura vamwe vachiti tinoti: Ngatiite zvakaipa kuti zvakanaka zviuye? Kurashwa kwavo kuve kwekururama.

⁹What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.

⁹Ko zvino-ke? Tiri nani here? Kwete nepaduku pose; nekuti tambopa vose mhosva, vaJudha nevaGiriki, kuti vose vari pasi pechivi;

¹⁰As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one.

¹⁰sezvazvakanyorwa, zvichinzi: Hakuna wakarurama, kwete kunyange neumwe;

¹¹There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.

¹¹hakuna unonzwisisa; hakuna unotsvaka Mwari;

¹²They have all turned aside. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not, so much as one.” Psalms 14:1-3; 53:1-3; Ecclesiastes 7:20

¹²vose vakatsauka, vakava pamwe vasina maturo, Hakuna unoita zvakanaka, kwete kunyange neumwe;

¹³“Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.” Psalm 5:9 “The poison of vipers is under their lips”; Psalm 140:3

¹³Huro yavo iguva rakashama; nendimi dzavo vakanyengera; uturu hwemhungu hwuri pasi pemiromo yavo;

¹⁴“whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.” Psalm 10:7

¹⁴Muromo wavo uzere nekutuka nekuvava;

¹⁵tsoka dzavo dzinokurumidza kuteura ropa;

¹⁶Kuparadza nekutambudzika zviri munzira dzavo;

¹⁷The way of peace, they haven’t known.” Isaiah 59:7-8

¹⁷uye nzira yerugare havana kuiziva;

¹⁸“There is no fear of God before their eyes.” Psalm 36:1

¹⁸kutya Mwari hakupo pamberi pemeso avo.

¹⁹Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

¹⁹Zvino toziva kuti zvinhu zvose zvinorehwa nemurairo zvinoreva kune vose vari pasi pomurairo; kuti miromo yose idzivirwe, nenyika yose ive nemhosva pamberi paMwari.

²⁰Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

²⁰Naizvozvo kubudikidza nemabasa emurairo, hakuna nyama inganzi yakarurama pamberi pake; nekuti zvivi zvinoziviswa nemurairo.

²¹But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets;

²¹Asi zvino kururama kwaMwari kwakaratidzwa pasina murairo, kuchipupurwa nezvako nemurairo nevaporofita;

²²even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,

²²kunyange kururama kwaMwari nerutendo rwaJesu Kristu kune vose nepamusoro pevose vanotenda; nekuti hapana musiyano;

²³for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

²³nekuti vose vakatadza vakataira pakubwinya kwaMwari.

²⁴being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;

²⁴Vachinzi havana mhosva pachena nenyasha dzake kubudikidza nerudzikunuro rwuri muna Kristu Jesu.

²⁵whom God set forth to be an atoning sacrifice or, a propitiation , through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;

²⁵Iye wakagadzwa naMwari, kuva mumiririri kubudikidza nerutendo muropa rake, kuratidza kururama kwake, nekusarangarira zvivi zvakaitwa kare mukuva nemoyo murefu kwaMwari;

²⁶to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.

²⁶kuti chive chiratidzo chekururama kwake panguva ino, kuti ave wakarurama uye mururamisi werutendo rwaJesu.

²⁷Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.

²⁷Zvino kuzvikudza kuripi? Kwasiiwa kunze. Nemurairo upi? Wemabasa here? Kwete, asi nemurairo werutendo.

²⁸We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

²⁸Naizvozvo tinogura kuti munhu unoruramiswa nerutendo pasina mabasa emurairo.

²⁹Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn’t he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,

²⁹NdiMwari wevaJudha voga here? Haasi wevahedheniwo here? Hongu, wevahedheniwo;

³⁰since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.

³⁰Mwari zvaari mumwe, ucharuramisa kudzingiswa kubudikidza nerutendo, nekusadzingiswa kubudikidza nerutendo.

³¹Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.

³¹Zvino tinoshayisa maturo murairo nerutendo here? Ngazvisadaro! Asi tinosimbisa murairo.