1Dai muchindiitira moyo murefu zvishoma paupenzi hwangu; asi nemwi zvirokwazvo munondiitira moyo murefu.
1Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.
2Nekuti ndine godo pamusoro penyu negodo reuMwari; nekuti ndakakuwanisai kumurume umwe, kuti ndikukumikidzei semhandara yakachena kuna Mwari.
2For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
3Asi ndinotya kuti zvimwe neimwe nzira nyoka sezvayakanyengera Eva nemano ayo, saizvozvo ndangariro dzenyu dzingasvibiswa dzitsauke pakururama kuri muna Kristu.
3But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
4Nekuti kana uyo unosvika achiparidza umwe Jesu watisina kuparidza, kana kugamuchira mumwe mweya wamusina kugamuchira kana imwe evhangeri yamusina kugamuchira, zvino momuitira moyo murefu kwazvo.
4For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.
5Nekuti ndinoona ndisingatairi nepaduku kuvaapositori vakurusa.
5For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
6Zvino kunyange ndisina kudzidza pakutaura, asi kwete paruzivo; asi takaratidzwa zvirokwazvo kwamuri muzvinhu zvose.
6But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.
7Ndakaita chivi here pakuzvininipisa kuti mukudzwe, nekuti ndakaparidza kwamuri evhangeri yaMwari pasina muripo?
7Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?
8Ndakapamba dzimwe kereke, ndichireva mibairo kuti ndikuyamurei.
8I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service.
9Uye pandakanga ndiripo nemwi ndichishaiwa, handina kuremedza munhu; nekuti zvandaishaiwa, hama dzaibva Makedhonia dzakapa; uye pazvose ndakachenjera kuti ndirege kuva mutoro kwamuri, uye ndicharamba ndichichenjera.
9And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.
10sezvo chokwadi chaKristu chiri mandiri, hakuna munhu ungandikonesa kuzvikudza kumatunhu eAkaya.
10As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
11Nemhaka yei? Nekuti handikudiyi here? Mwari unoziva.
11Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.
12Asi chandinoita, icho ndichaita, kuti ndigure mukana kune vanoshuva mukana; kuti mune izvo zvavanozvirumbidza nazvo vawanikwe vakaita sesu.
12But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.
13Nekuti vakadaro vaapositori venhema, vabati vanonyengera, vanozvishandura kuva vaapositori vaKristu.
13For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
14Naizvozvo hazvishamisi; nekuti kunyange Satani amene unozvishandura kuva mutumwa wechiedza.
14And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
15Naizvozvo hachizi chinhu chikuru kana vashumiri vakevo vachizvishandura, sevashumiri vekururama; kuguma kwawo kuchaenderana nemabasa avo.
15Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
16Ndinotizve: Munhu ngaarege kufunga kuti ndiri benzi; kana zvakadaro, sebenzi ndigamuchirei, kuti ndizvirumbidze zvishoma.
16I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.
17Izvo zvandinotaura, handizvitauri maererano naIshe, asi sepaupenzi, pachivimbo ichi chekuzvikudza.
17That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
18Sezvo vazhinji vachizvikudza panyama, iniwo ndichazvikudza.
18Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
19Nekuti munoitira mapenzi moyo murefu nemufaro, imwi muri vakachenjera;
19For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.
20Nekuti munoita moyo murefu kana munhu achikuisai muuranda, kana ani nani achikuparadzai, kana ani nani achikutapai, kana ani nani achizvikudza, kana ani nani achikurovai kumeso.
20For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.
21Ndinoreva semaererano nekushoora, sezvinenge takanga tine utera. Zvino kana kune munhu une ushingi (ndinotaura paupenzi), ini ndine ushingiwo.
21I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.
22VaHebheru here? Neniwo. VaIsraeri here? Neniwo. Vana vaAbhurahamu here? Neniwo.
22Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.
23Vashumiri vaKristu here? (Ndinotaura semupengo), ndiri iye, zvikuru pamabasa ndinopamhidzira, pamavanga kupfuura chipimo, mumajere kakadzokororwa, parufu kazhinji.
23Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
24KuvaJudha ndakagamuchira kashanu, shamhu dzine makumi mana kusiya imwe.
24Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.
25Katatu ndakarohwa netsvimbo, kamwe ndakatakwa nemabwe, katatu ndakaputsikirwa nechikepe usiku hwumwe nemasikati ndakange ndiri makadzika megungwa;
25Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;
26panzendo kazhinji, panjodzi dzenzizi, panjodzi dzemakororo, panjodzi dzevekwangu, panjodzi dzevahedheni, panjodzi muguta, panjodzi murenje, panjodzi mugungwa, panjodzi pakati pehama dzenhema;
26In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;
27pakuchama nepakurwadziwa, pakusavata kazhinji, panzara nenyota, pakutsanya kazhinji, pachando nepakushama.
27In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
28kunze kwezvinhu izvi zviri panze, ndinoremedzwa zuva rimwe nerimwe nekurangarira kereke dzose.
28Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.
29Ndiani une utera, neni ndikasava neutera? Ndiani unogumburwa, neni ndikasatsva?
29Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?
30Kana zvakafanira kuzvirumbidza, ndichazvirumbidza nezvinhu zveutera hwangu.
30If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.
31Mwari naBaba vaIshe wedu Jesu Kristu, unorumbidzwa kusvikira rinhi narinhi, unoziva kuti handirevi nhema.
31The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.
32PaDhamasiko mutungamiriri waishe Areta wakarinda guta raveDhamasiko achitsvaka kundibata;
32In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:
33uye ndakaburuswa nepawindo ndiri mudengu nepamudhuri, ndikatiza pamaoko ake.
33And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.