¹We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.

¹Zvino zvatinobatawo pamwe, tinokumbira zvikuruwo kuti musagamuchira nyasha dzaMwari pasina.

²(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)

²Nekuti unoti: Nenguva yakafanira ndakakunzwa, uye nepazuva reruponeso ndakakubatsira; tarirai, zvino nguva yakafanira; tarirai ikozvino zuva rekuponeswa.

³Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:

³Hatigumbusi nechinhu, kuti kushumira kurege kumhurwa;

⁴But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

⁴asi pazvose tinozviratidza savashumiri vaMwari, pakutsungirira kukuru, pamanikidzo, pakushaiwa, pakumanikidzwa,

⁵In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;

⁵pakurohwa, pakusungwa, pamabongozozo, pamabasa, pakusavata, pakutsanya,

⁶By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,

⁶pautsvene, paruzivo, pamoyo murefu, paunyoro, paMweya Mutsvene, parudo rusinganyepedzeri;

⁷By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

⁷pashoko rechokwadi, pasimba raMwari, pazvombo zvekururama, kurudyi nekuruboshwe,

⁸By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;

⁸nekukudzwa nekuzvidzwa, neguhu rakaipa neguhu rakanaka; sevanyepedzeri, asi tiri vechokwadi;

⁹As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;

⁹sevasingazikamwi, asi tichizikamwa zvikuru; sevanofa, asi tarirai, tiri vapenyu; sevanorohwa, asi tisingaurawi;

¹⁰As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

¹⁰sevanoshungurudzwa, asi tichigara tichifara; sevarombo, asi tichifumisa vazhinji; savasine chinhu, asi tine zvose.

¹¹O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.

¹¹Imwi veKorinde, muromo wedu wakashama kwamuri, moyo wedu wakuriswa.

¹²Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.

¹²Hamumanikidzwi matiri, asi munomanikidzwa mumoyo menyu.

¹³Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged.

¹³Zvino pakutsiva kwakadaro, ndinotaura sekune vana vangu, imwiwo mukuriswe.

¹⁴Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

¹⁴Musasungwa zvisina kufanira pajoko pamwe nevasingatendi; nekuti kururama kungava nekudyidzana kwei nekusarurama? Chiedza chingabatana sei nerima?

¹⁵And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?

¹⁵Kristu unokunzwana kwei naBeriari? Unotenda ungava nemugove wei neusingatendi?

¹⁶And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

¹⁶Tembere yaMwari ine chitenderano chei nezvifananidzo? Nekuti imwi muri tembere yaMwari mupenyu, Mwari sezvaakareva achiti: Ndichagara mavari, nekufamba mavari; ndichava Mwari wavo, uye ivo vachava vanhu vangu.

¹⁷Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.

¹⁷Naizvozvo budai pakati pavo, muraurwe, ndizvo zvinotaura Ishe, uye musabata chine tsvina; uye ini ndichakugamuchirai,

¹⁸And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

¹⁸Uye ndichava Baba kwamuri, nemwi muchava vanakomana nevanasikana vangu, ndizvo zvinotaura Ishe Wemasimbaose.