¹Nenguva iyi yechitatu ndinouya kwamuri; mumiromo yezvapupu zviviri kana zvitatu shoko roga roga richasimbiswa.

¹This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.

²Ndakambokuudzai, uye ndinogara ndakuudzai, sendakange ndiripo rwechipiri, ikozvino ndisipo, ndinovanyorera avo vakatadza, nekune vamwe vose kuti kana ndikauyazve, handingavaregererizve.

²I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare:

³Sezvo muchitsvaka uchapupu hwaKristu unotaura mandiri, iye usingashaiwi simba kwamuri, asi une simba mamuri.

³Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.

⁴Nekuti kunyange akarovererwa pamuchinjikwa neutera, asi unorarama nesimba raMwari. Nekuti isuwo hatina simba maari asi tichararama pamwe naye nesimba raMwari kwamuri.

⁴For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.

⁵Zviongororei kana muri parutendo; zvinzverei mumene, Hamuzivi here imwi mumene kuti Jesu Kristu uri mamuri sei? Kunze kwekuti zvirokwazvo muri vakarashwa.

⁵Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?

⁶Asi ndinovimba kuti muchaziva kuti hatisi vakarashwa.

⁶But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.

⁷Zvino ndinonyengetera kuna Mwari kuti musaita chakaipa; kwete kuti isu tiratidzike setakatendeka, asi kuti imwi muite zvakarurama, kunyange isu takaita savakarashwa.

⁷Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.

⁸Nekuti hatigoni kuita chinhu chinopesana nechokwadi, asi chechokwadi.

⁸For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.

⁹Nekuti tinofara kana isu tine utera asi imwi makasimba; uye izvi tinozvinyengetererawo, kuzadziswa kwenyu.

⁹For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.

¹⁰Saka ndinonyora zvinhu izvi ndisipo, zvimwe kana ndiripo ndingashandisa hasha, zvichienderana nesimba randakapiwa naIshe rekusimbisa, kwete rekuputsa.

¹⁰Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.

¹¹Pakupedzisira, hama, farai, muzadziswe, munyaradzwe, muve vemoyo umwe, garai murugare; uye Mwari werudo nerugare uchava nemwi.

¹¹Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.

¹²Kwazisanai nekutsvoda kutsvene.

¹²Greet one another with an holy kiss.

¹³Vatsvene vose vanokukwazisai.

¹³All the saints salute you.

¹⁴Nyasha dzaIshe Jesu Kristu, nerudo rwaMwari, nekudyidzana kweMweya Mutsvene, ngazvive nemwi mose. Ameni.

¹⁴The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.