¹Pauro muapositori waJesu Kristu nechido chaMwari, naTimotio hama, kukereke yaMwari iri paKorinde, pamwe nevatsvene vose vari muAkaya yose:

¹Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia:

²Nyasha kwamuri nerugare runobva kuna Mwari Baba vedu nekuna Ishe Jesu Kristu.

²Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

³Ngaavongwe Mwari, ivo Baba vaIshe wedu Jesu Kristu Baba vetsitsi, uye Mwari wenyaradzo yose;

³Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;

⁴unotinyaradza padambudziko redu rose, kuti tigone kunyaradza avo vari mukutambudzika kupi nekupi, nenyaradzo yatinonyaradzwa nayo tomene naMwari;

⁴Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

⁵nekuti matambudziko aKristu sezvaakawedzerwa matiri, saizvozvovo nyaradzo yeduwo yakawedzerwa naKristu.

⁵For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.

⁶Zvino kunyange tichirwadziwa, ndezvenyaradzo neruponeso rwenyu zvinobudirira mukutsungirira mumatambudziko mamwewo atakatambudzikawo, kana kunyage tichinyaradzwa, ndezvenyaradzo neruponeso rwenyu.

⁶And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.

⁷Uye tariro yedu pamusoro penyu yakasimba, tichiziva kuti sezvamuri vagovani vematambudziko, saizvozvovo venyaradzo.

⁷And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.

⁸Nekuti hatidi kuti musaziva, hama, dambudziko redu rakatiwira paAsia, kuti takadzvanyiwa zvisingaverengeki kukunda simba redu, zvekuti takarasha tariro kunyange yeupenyu;

⁸For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:

⁹asi takanga tine mutongo werufu matiri, kuti tirege kuzvivimba, asi Mwari unomutsa vakafa;

⁹But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:

¹⁰wakatinunura parufu rukuru rwakadai, uye unonunura; watinovimba maari kuti uchatinunura;

¹⁰Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;

¹¹nemwiwo muchitishandira pamwe nemukumbiro, kuti nekuda kwechipo pamusoro pedu nenzira yevanhu vazhinji, kuvonga kupiwe vazhinji vakatimiririra.

¹¹Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf.

¹²Nekuti kuzvikudza kwedu ndikoku: Kupupura kwehana yedu, kuti muumwe neuzvokwadi hwaMwari, kwete neuchenjeri hwenyama, asi nenyasha dzaMwari, takazvibata panyika zvikuru maererano nemwi.

¹²For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

¹³Nekuti hatinyori zvimwe zvinhu kwamuri, asi izvo zvamunoverenga nezvamunogamuchira; uye ndinovimba kuti muchazvigamuchira kusvika pakuguma;

¹³For we write none other things unto you, than what ye read or acknowledge; and I trust ye shall acknowledge even to the end;

¹⁴sezvamakatigamuchirawo muchidimbu, kuti tiri rumbidzo yenyu, semwiwo vedu nezuva raIshe Jesu.

¹⁴As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are our's in the day of the Lord Jesus.

¹⁵Zvino muchivimbo ichi, ndaishuva kutanga kuuya kwamuri kuti muve nenyasha dzechipiri;

¹⁵And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit;

¹⁶nekupfuura nekwamuri ndichienda Makedhonia, nekudzoka kwamuri ndichibva Makedhonia, ndiperekedzwe nemwi kuJudhiya.

¹⁶And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia unto you, and of you to be brought on my way toward Judaea.

¹⁷Naizvozvo ndichifunga saizvozvo, ndakaita nekusasimbisa moyo here, kana zvandinozvipira ndinozvipira zvinoenderana nenyama here? Kuti kwandiri zvive hongu, hongu; uye kwete, kwete?

¹⁷When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay?

¹⁸Asi Mwari wakatendeka, kuti shoko redu kwamuri harina kuva hongu nakwete.

¹⁸But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay.

¹⁹Nekuti Mwanakomana waMwari Jesu Kristu uyo wakaparidzwa pakati penyu nesu, neni naSirivhano naTimotio, wakange asiri hongu nakwete, asi maari maiva hongu.

¹⁹For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea.

²⁰Nekuti zvose zvipikirwa zvaMwari, nemaari ndihongu; nemaari ndiAmeni, kuti Mwari akudzwe kubudikidzwa nesu.

²⁰For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.

²¹Zvino unotisimbisa pamwe nemwi muna Kristu nekutizodza ndiMwari,

²¹Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God;

²²wakatiisawo mucherechedzo, akapa rubatso rweMweya mumoyo yedu.

²²Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

²³Asi ini ndinodana Mwari kuti ave chapupu pamweya wangu, kuti ndikuregererei handina kuzouya Korinde.

²³Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.

²⁴Hazvirevi kuti tinotonga pamusoro perutendo rwenyu, asi tiri vabatsiri vemufaro wenyu; nekuti mumire nerutendo.

²⁴Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.