VaFiripi 3

¹Pakupedzisira, hama dzangu, farai munaShe. Ini handinetswi nokukunyorerai zve zvinhu zviya, asi zvinokusimbisai imi.Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.

²Ityai imbwa, ityai vabati vakaipa, ityai vokucheka;Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.

³nokuti isu tiri vokudzingiswa, tinonamata Mwari muMweya, tinozvirumbidza munaKristu Jesu, tisingavimbi nenyama,For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.

⁴kunyange ini hangu ndingavimba nenyama; kana kunomumwe munhu unoti ndinovimba nenyama, zvikuru ini.Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more:

⁵Ndakadzingiswa nomusi worusere, ndiri worudzi rwavaIsraeri veimba yaBenjamini, muHebheru wavaHebheru; pamurairo ndiri muFarise;Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;

⁶pakushingaira kwangu, ndaitambudza kereke; pakururama kunorebwa nomurairo ndakanga ndisina chandingapomerwa.Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.

⁷Asi izvozvo, zvaiva fuma kwandiri, ndakati ndiko kurashikirwa hako nokuda kwaKristu.But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.

⁸Hongu, zvirokwazvo, ndinototi zvinhu zvose kurashikirwa hako nokuda kwokunaka kwokuziva Kristu Jesu, Ishe wangu,wandakarashikirwa nezvinhu zvose nokuda kwake, ndikazviidza marara, kuti ndiwane Kristu;Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,

⁹ndiwanikwe maari, ndisina kururama kwangu kuri kwomurairo, asi kuri kwokutenda kunaKristu, ndiko kururama kunobva kunaMwari nenzira yokutendaAnd be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

¹⁰kuti ndimuzive iye, nesimba rokumuka kwake, nokusongana naye pamadambudziko ake, ndifanane naye pakufa kwake;That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;

¹¹kuti zvimwe ndisvike pakumuka kwavakafa.If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.

¹²Handiti ndatochiwana, kana ndatokwaniswa, asi ndinoshingairira 'ko, kuti zvimwe ndichibate, icho Kristu Jesu chaakambondibatira.Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.

¹³Hama dzangu, ini handiti ndatochibata, asi ndinoita chinhu chimwe: ndinokanganwa zviri shure, ndichinanavira kunezviri mberi.Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

¹⁴ndinoshingairira kunharidzano, kuti ndipiwe mubairo wokudana kwaMwari kunobva kudenga, munaKristu Jesu.I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

¹⁵Naizvozvo isu tose, takakwana, ngative nomoyo wakadaro; kana imi muno mumwe moyo, Mwari uchakuratidzai naizvozvo vo.Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.

¹⁶Asi, apo patasvika ngatirambe tichifamba bedzi nomurairo iwoyu tifunge chinhu chimwe.Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.

¹⁷Hama dzangu, ivai vateveri vangu mose; natsai kutarira avo vanofamba saizvozvo sezvatakakutungamirirai su.Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.

¹⁸Nokuti vazhinji, vandakakuvudzai kazhinji, nazvino ndinokuvudzai vo nokuchema, vanofamba vari vavengi vomuchinjikwa waKristu;(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:

¹⁹kuguma kwavo ndiko kuparadzwa, mwari wavo idumbu ravo, vanozvirumbidza pamusoro pezvinonyadzisa zvavo, vanofunga zvenyika.Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)

²⁰Nokuti nyika yedu iri kudenga, uko kwatakatarira kuvuya kwoMuponesi Ishe Jesu Kristu;For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

²¹uyo uchavandudza muviri wokuninipiswa kwedu, kuti ufanane nomuviri wokubwinya kwake, nesimba iro raanogona vo naro kuzviisira zvose pasi pake.Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.