¹Kuzvikudza zvirokwazvo hakubatsiri kwandiri nekuti ndichasvika pazviratidzo nezvakazarurwa zvaIshe.

¹It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

²Ndinoziva munhu uri muna Kristu makore gumi nemana apfuura (kana zvakaitwa mumuviri, handizivi, kana zvimwe kunze kwemuviri, handizivi, Mwari unoziva), wakadai wakakwidzwa kudenga rechitatu.

²I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.

³uye ndinoziva munhu wakadai (kana mumuviri kana kunze kwemuviri, handizivi; Mwari unoziva),

³And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)

⁴kuti wakakwidzwa akaiswa muparadhiso, akanzwa mashoko asingatauriki, asingatenderwi munhu kutaura.

⁴How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.

⁵Pamusoro pewakadai ndichazvikudza; asi pamusoro pangu handizvikudzi; asi pautera hwangu.

⁵Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities.

⁶Nekuti kunyange ndichida kuzvikudza, handingavi benzi; nekuti ndichareva chokwadi; asi ndinorega, zvimwe umwe munhu ungandifungira kuva mukuru kune zvaakavona kana zvaakanzwa kwandiri,

⁶For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.

⁷uye kuti ini ndirege kukudzwa kupfuuridza chipimo kubudikidza nekuwanda kwezvakazarurwa, ndakapiwa munzwa munyama, nhume yaSatani kuti indirove, kuti ndirege kukudzwa kupfuura chipimo.

⁷And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.

⁸Nekuda kwechinhu ichi, ndakakumbirisa Ishe katatu kuti chibve kwandiri.

⁸For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.

⁹Zvino akati kwandiri: Nyasha dzangu dzakakuringanai; nekuti simba rangu rinozadziswa muutera. Naizvozvo ndichazvirumbidza nemufaro mukuru uye utera hwangu, kuti simba raKristu rigare pamusoro pangu.

⁹And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

¹⁰Naizvozvo ndinofara muutera, mukunyombwa, mukushaiwa, murushusho, mukushungurudzwa nekuda kwaKristu; nekuti kana ndine utera, ipapo ndine simba.

¹⁰Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

¹¹Ndava benzi ndichizvikudza; ndimwi makandimanikidza; nekuti ini ndaifanira kukudzwa nemwi; nekuti handizi muduku nepaduku kuvaapositori vanopfuura vose kunyange ndisi chinhu.

¹¹I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.

¹²Zvirokwazvo zviratidzo zvemuapositori zvakaitwa pakati penyu mukutsungirira kose, muzviratidzo nezvishamiso, nemabasa esimba.

¹²Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.

¹³Nekuti makapfuurwa papi nedzimwe kereke, kunze kwekuti ini handina kuva mutoro kwamuri? Ndikangamwirei kusarurama uku.

¹³For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.

¹⁴Tarirai, ndakazvigadzirira kuuya kwamuri rwechitatu, uye handidi kuva mutoro kwamuri; nekuti handitsvaki zvenyu, asi imwi; nekuti vana havafaniri kuchengetera vabereki, asi vabereki vana.

¹⁴Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not your's but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

¹⁵Uye ndinoda nemufaro mukuru kuparadza, nekuparadzirwa mweya yenyu, kunyange ndichikudai zvakapamhidzirwa zvikuru, ndinodikamwa zvishoma?

¹⁵And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.

¹⁶Asi ngazvive saizvozvo, ini handina kukuremedzai; asi zvandakanga ndine mano, ndakakubatai nekunyengera.

¹⁶But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.

¹⁷Ndakakutsvatai here neumwe waivo vandakatuma kwamuri?

¹⁷Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?

¹⁸Ndakakumbira Tito, ndikatuma hama naye; ko Tito wakakutsvatai here? Hatina kufamba nemumweya umwe here? uye nemumakwara mamwe here?

¹⁸I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same steps?

¹⁹Uye munofunga kuti tinozvidzivirira kwamuri here? Tinotaura pamberi paMwari muna Kristu; asi tinotaura zvinhu zvose vadikamwa kuti musimbiswe.

¹⁹Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.

²⁰Nekuti ndinotya kuti zvimwe kana ndichisvika, ndingakuwanai musina kuita sezvandinoda, neni ndingawanikwa nemwi ndakaita sezvamusingadi; zvimwe makakava, godo, hasha, kupesana, kucherana, makuhwa, manyawi, mabongozozo;

²⁰For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

²¹zvimwe kana ndichisvikazve, Mwari wangu andininipise pakati penyu, ndichachemera vazhinji vaavo vakatombotadza vakasatendeuka pakusachena kwavo neupomhwe neunzenza hwavakaita.

²¹And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.