VaRoma 3

¹Ko muJudha unopfuvura vamwe neiko? Kana kudzingiswa kunobatsireiko?What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?

²Zvizhinji, nemitovo yose: Pakutanga, kuti ndivo vakapiwa mashoko aMwari.Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.

³Nokuti zvinodiniko kana vamwe vasinokutenda? Ko kusatenda kwavo kuchakonesa kutendeka kwaMwari here?For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?

⁴Haiswa! Mwari ngaave wazvokwadi, asi vanhu vose vave venhema; sezvazvakanyorwa. Zvichinzi: Kuti mururamiswe pamashoko enyu, Mukunde pakutonga kwenyu.God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

⁵Asi kana kusarurama kwedu kuchiratidza kururama kwaMwari, tichatiiko? Kuti Mwari haana kururama here, zvaanoita nehasha?(Ndinotaura nokutaura kwomunhu.)But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)

⁶Haisva! Mwari ungagozotonga nyika seiko?God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?

⁷Zvino kana zvokwadi yaMwari yawanzwa nenhema dzangu, iye akakudzwa nazvo ko neni vo ndichatongerwei somutadzi?For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

⁸Ticharegereiko kutaura (sezvatinopomerwa, vuye sezvinoreva vamwe vachiti tinodaro), tichiti: Ngatiite zvakaipa, kuti zvakanaka zvibudepo? Kutongwa kwavo kwakarurama.And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.

⁹Zvino todiniko? Tinovapfuvura here? Kwete napaduku; nokuti tambopa vose mhosva, vaJudha navaGiriki, tichiti vose vakasungwa nezvivi;What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;

¹⁰sezvazvakanyorwa, zvichinzi: Hakuna wakarurama, kunyange nomumwe.As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

¹¹Hakuna unonzwisisa.Hakuna unotsvaka Mwari;There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

¹²Vakatsauka vose, vakava vanhu vasinamaturo, Hakuna unoita zvakanaka, kunyange nomumwe chete;They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

¹³Huro dzavo bwiro bwakashama; Vakanyengera nendimi dzavo;Vuturu bwenyoka bwuri mumiromo yavo;Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:

¹⁴Muromo wavo uzere nokutuka nokuvava;Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

¹⁵Tsoka dzavo dzinokurumidza kutevura ropa;Their feet are swift to shed blood:

¹⁶Kuparadza nenhamo zviri munzira dzavo;Destruction and misery are in their ways:

¹⁷Nenzira yorugare havana kuiziva.And the way of peace have they not known:

¹⁸Kutya Mwari hakupo pamberi pavo,There is no fear of God before their eyes.

¹⁹Zvino tinoziva kuti zvose zvinorebwa nomurairo, unozvireva kunavose vari pasi pomurairo; kuti miromo yose idzivirwe, nenyika yose ive nemhosva pamberi paMwari.Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

²⁰Nokuti hakunenyama ingaruramiswa pamberi pake namabasa omurairo; nokuti zvivi zvinoziviswa nomurairo.Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

²¹Asi zvino kururama kwaMwari kwakaratidzwa kunze kwomurairo, kuchipupurirwa nomurairo navaporofita;But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

²²ndiko kururama kwaMwari kunovuya nokutenda kunaJesu Kristu kunavose vanotenda; nokuti havasiyani,Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:

²³nokuti vose vakatadza vakasasvika pakubwinya kwaMwari.For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

²⁴Vanongoruramiswa nenyasha dzake nokudzikinura kuri munaKristu Jesu.Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

²⁵Iye wakagadzwa naMwari, kuti ave muyananiso nokutenda muropa rake, kuti kururama kwake kuratidzwe, nokuti zvivi zvakaitwa kare zvakaregerwa, Mwari achivaitira moyo murefu;Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

²⁶kuti kururama kwake kuratidzwe, nenguva ino, kuti arurame iye amene, vuye aruramise uyo unotenda kunaJesu.To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

²⁷Zvino kuzvikudza kuripiko? Kwabviswa, Nomurairo upiko? Wamabasa here? Kwete, asi nomurairo wokutenda.Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.

²⁸Naizvozvo tinoti, munhu unoruramiswa nokutenda kunze kwamabasa omurairo.Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

²⁹Ko Mwari ndiye wavaJudha voga here? Haazi wavahedheni vo here? Hongu, wavahedheni vo.Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:

³⁰Mwari zvaari mumwe chete, ucharuramisa vakadzingiswa pamsoro pokutenda, navasina kudzingiswa nokutenda.Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.

³¹Zvino tinokonesa murairo nokutenda here? Haiswa! Asi tinosimbisa murairo.Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.