¹Nekuti nemwi hama, munoziva kupinda kwedu kwamuri kuti hakuna kuva pasina.

¹For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain:

²Asi kunyange takambotambudzika pakutanga nekuitirwa zvinonyadzisa sezvamunoziva paFiripi, takatsunga muna Mwari wedu kutaura kwamuri evhangeri yaMwari nekupikiswa kukuru.

²But even after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much contention.

³Nekuti kurudziro yedu haina kubva pakunyengera, kana kubva patsvina, kana pamano mano;

³For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:

⁴asi sezvatakatendewa naMwari, kuti tibatiswe evhangeri, saizvozo tinotaura; kwete sekufadza vanhu, asi Mwari unoidza moyo yedu.

⁴But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts.

⁵Nekuti chero nguva hatina kutongoreva nemashoko ekubata kumeso sezvamunoziva, kana namano-mano ekuchiva; Mwari chapupu;

⁵For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness:

⁶kana kutsvaka rukudzo kuvanhu kana rwenyu, kana rwevamwe, kunyange taigona kukuremedzai sevaapositori vaKristu.

⁶Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.

⁷Asi takanga tiri vanyoro pakati penyu, semureri kana achifumbatira vana vake;

⁷But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:

⁸saizvozvo takakushuvai kwazvo, taida zvikuru kuti tigovane nemwi kwete evhangeri yaMwari chete, asi mweya yeduwo, nekuti makanga muri vadikamwi kwatiri.

⁸So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.

⁹Nekuti munorangarira, hama, kushingaira nekurwa kwedu; taibata usiku nemasikati, kuti tisava mutoro kune umwe wenyu, takakuparidzirai evhangeri yaMwari.

⁹For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

¹⁰Imwi muri zvapupu, naMwari, kuti taifamba neutsvene nekururama tisina chatingapomerwa kwamuri imwi vanotenda.

¹⁰Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:

¹¹Sezvamunoziva kuti umwe neumwe wenyu sababa kuvana vavo, takakukurudzirai sei nekunyaradza nekupupura,

¹¹As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,

¹²kuti mufambe zvakafanira Mwari, unokudanirai kuushe hwake nekubwinya.

¹²That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.

¹³Nekuda kwaizvozviwo tinoramba tichivonga Mwari, kuti pamakagamuchira shoko raMwari ramakanzwa kubva kwatiri, hamuna kurigamuchira seshoko revanhu, asi sechokwadi shoko raMwari, rinoshandawo mukati menyu imwi munotenda.

¹³For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.

¹⁴Nekuti imwi, hama, makava vateveri vekereke dzaMwari dziri muJudhiya muna Kristu Jesu; nekuti imwiwo makatambudzika nezvinhu zvakadaro kune vekwenyu, sezvavakatambudzwa ivo nevaJudha,

¹⁴For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:

¹⁵Ndivo zvose vakauraya Ishe Jesu nevaporofita vavo vomene, vakatishusha isu, vasingafadzi Mwari, vachipesana nevanhu vose.

¹⁵Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:

¹⁶vachitidzivisa kuparidzira vahedheni kuti vaponeswe; kuti varambe vachizadzisa zvivi zvavo; asi hasha dzakaburukira pamusoro pavo kusvikira pakuguma.

¹⁶Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.

¹⁷Zvino isu, hama, zvatakaparadzaniswa nemwi kwechinguvana pazviso, kwete pamoyo, takashingairira zvikuru nechishuwo chikuru kuti tione chiso chenyu.

¹⁷But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to see your face with great desire.

¹⁸Naizvozvo taida kuuya kwamuri, zvikuru Pauro, kamwe nekudzokorora, asi Satani wakatidzivisa.

¹⁸Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us.

¹⁹Nekuti tariro yedu chii, kana mufaro, kana korona yekuzvirumbidza? Hamuzi imwi here pamberi paIshe wedu Jesu Kristu pakuuya kwake?

¹⁹For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?

²⁰Nekuti imwi muri kubwinya nemufaro wedu.

²⁰For ye are our glory and joy.