VaGaratiya 4

¹Zvino ndinoti, mudyi wenhaka, kana achiri mwana, haatongosiyani nomuranda, kunyange ari ishe wazvose;Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;

²asi uri pasi pavatariri navachengeti kusvikira panguva yakatarwa nababa.But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.

³Saizvozvo nesu vo, tichiri vana, takanga takasungwa pasi pezvokuvamba zvenyika;Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:

⁴zvino nguva yakati yazara kwazvo, Mwari akatuma Mwanakomana wake, wakaberekwa nomukadzi, wakaberekwa pasi pomurairo,But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

⁵kuti adzikinure vari pasi pomurairo, kuti tipiwe vumwana bwedu.To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

⁶Zvino zvamuri vanakomana, Mwari wakatuma Mweya woMwanakomana wake mumoyo menyu, unodana, achiti: Aba, Baba!And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

⁷Saka iwe hauchiri muranda, asi mwanakomana; kana wava mwanakomana, wava mudyi wenhaka yaMwari muna Kristu.Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

⁸Asi nenguva iyo, zvamakanga musingazivi Mwari, maiva varanda vavamwari vasati vari vezvokwadi;Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.

⁹asi zvino, zvamunoziva Mwari, zvikuru zvamunozikamwa naMwari modzokerazve seiko kune zvokuvamba zvisine simba, zvovurombo, muchida zve kutanga kuva varanda vazvo?But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?

¹⁰Munochengeta misi nemwedzi, nenguva namakore.Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.

¹¹Ndinotya pamsoro penyu, kuti zvimwe ndakabate-basa kwamuri pasina.I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.

¹²Ndinokumbira kwamuri, hama dzangu, kuti muve seni, nokuti ini ndakaita semi. Hamuna kundiitira chinhu chimwe chisakarurama;Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all.

¹³zvino munoziva kuti ndakakuparidzirai Evhangeri pakutanga nokuda kwokurwara panyama;Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.

¹⁴nechinhu icho panyama yangu, chakanga chiri muidzo kwamuri, hamuna kuchizvidza, kana kuchisema; asi makandigamuchira somutumwa waMwari, saiye Kristu Jesu.And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

¹⁵Zvino kufara kwenyu kuripiko? Nokuti ndinokupupurirai, kuti kana maigona, maitumbura meso enyu mukandipa iwo.Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.

¹⁶Zvino ndava muvengi wenyu, zvandakakuvudzai zvokwadi here?Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

¹⁷Vanokushingairirai nomutovo usakanaka; asi vanoda kukupfigirai kunze, kuti imi muvashingairire.They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.

¹⁸Zvino zvakanaka kuti pachinhu chakanaka kushingairirwe nguva dzose, zvirege kuitwa kana ndiri kwamuri bedzi.But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.

¹⁹Vana vangu vaduku, vandinotamburira zve kubereka, kusvikira Kristu avumbwa mukati menyu.My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,

²⁰Ndaida kuti ndive nemi zvino, ndishandure inzwi rangu; nokuti ndinokanganiswa nokuda kwenyu.I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.

²¹Ndivudzei, imi munoda kuva pasi pomurairo, hamutereri murairo here?Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?

²²Nokuti kwakanyorwa kuti Abhurahamu wakanga anavanakomana vaviri, mumwe womurandakadzi, mumwe womukadzi wakasununguka.For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.

²³Zvino womurandakadzi wakaberekwa nenzira yenyama; asi womukadzi wakasununguka wakaberekwa sezvaakapikirwa.But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.

²⁴Zvinhu izvi zvinofananidzira; nokuti vakadzi ava vaviri isungano mbiri; imwe inobva pagomo reSinai inobereka vana vovuranda ndiye Agari;Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.

²⁵zvino Agari ndiro gomo reSinai muArAbhiya, rakaenzana neJerusarema razvino nokuti uri pavuranda iye navana vakeFor this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.

²⁶Zvino Jerusarema riri kumusoro rakasununguka ndivo mai vedu.But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

²⁷nokuti kwakanyorwa kuchinzi: Fara, iwe usingabereki, usingazvari, Pururudza, udanidzire, iwe usingatamburi nokubereka, Nokuti vana vomusiyiwa vazhinji kunowaiye unomurume.For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.

²⁸Zvino imi, hama dzangu, muri vana vokupikirwa saIsaka.Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.

²⁹Asi sapanguva iyo, uyo wakaberekwa nenzira yenyama wakatambudza wakaberekwa nenzira yoMweya, zvakadaro vo nazvino.But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.

³⁰Asi Rugwaro runotiyiko? Dzinga murandakadzi nomwanakomana wake; nokuti mwanakomana womurandakadzi haangadyi nhaka pamwe chete nomwanakomana wowakasununguka.Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the free woman.

³¹Saka, hama dzangu, hatizi vana vomurandakadzi, asi vowakasununguka.So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.