VaHebheru 3

¹Naizvozvo, hama tsvene, vagoverani neni pakudanwa kunobva kudenga, fungai zvakanaka Muapostora noMuPirisita mukuru wokupupura kwedu, iye Jesu Kristu,Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;

²wakanga akatendeka kunaiye wakamugadza, saMosesi vo muimba yake yose.Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.

³Nokuti uyu wakanzi wakafanira kukudzwa kupfuvura Mosesi, muvaki weimba sezvaanokudzwa kupfuvura imba;For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.

⁴nokuti imba imwe neimwe inovakwa nomunhu, asi iye, wakavaka zvose, ndiye Mwari.For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.

⁵Zvino Mosesi wakanga akatendeka muimba yake yose somuranda, kuti ave chapupu chezvinhu zvinofanira kuzotaurwa,And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;

⁶asi Kristu soMwanakomana, wakaiswa pamusoro peimba yake; iye, tiri imba yake isu, kana tikabatisisa kusvika pakuguma kusatya kwedu netariro yatinozvirumbidza pamusoro payo.But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.

⁷Naizvozvo, sezvinotaura Mweya Mutsvene, achiti: Nhasi, kana muchinzwa inzwi rake,Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,

⁸Musawomese moyo yenyu, sapanguva yokutsamwiswa, nezuva rokuidzwa murenjeHarden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

⁹Pandakaidzwa namadzibaba enyu, vachindinetsa, Vakavona mabasa angu makore Anamakumi mana.When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

¹⁰Naizvozvo ndakanzwa shungu pamusoro porudzi urwu, Ndikati: Vanogara vachitsauka Pamoyo yavo; Asi havana kuziva nzira dzangu;Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.

¹¹Naizvozvo ndakapika pakutsamwa kwangu, ndikati: Havangapindi pazororo rangu. Vanotenda voga ndivo vanopinda pazororo.So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)

¹²Hama dzangu, chenjerai kuti mukati momumwe wenyu murege kuva nomoyo wakashata usingatendi, mutsauke muchibva kunaMwari mupenyu,Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

¹³asi simbisanai zuva rimwe nerimwe, kana kuchinzi Nhasi; kuti kurege kuva nomumwe wenyu unowomeswa nokunyengera kwezvivi.But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

¹⁴Nokuti tava vagoverani pamwe chete naKristu, kana tichibatisisa kuvamba kwokutenda kwedu kusvikira pakuguma;For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;

¹⁵zvichinzi: Nhasi, kana muchinzwa inzwi rake, Musawomesa moyo yenyu, sapanguva yokutsamwisa.While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

¹⁶Nokuti ndivanani vakanzwa, vakamutsamwisa? Havazi ivo vose vakabva Ijipiti naMosesi here?For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

¹⁷Wakanzwa shungu makore anamakumi mana pamusoro pavanani? Havazi ivo vakatadza, mitumbu yavo ikawira murenje here?But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

¹⁸Wakapika pamusoro pavanani kuti havangapindi pazororo rake? Havazi ivo vasina kutenda here?And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?

¹⁹Zvino tinovona kuti vakanga vasingagoni kupinda nokusatenda kwavo.So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.