¹Nekuti maererano nekubatsira vatsvene, zvakanyanyisisa kuti ndikunyorerei;

¹For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:

²Nekuti ndinoziva kushingaira kwendangariro dzenyu, dzandinozvirumbidza pamusoro penyu kune veMakedhonia, kuti Akaya yakanga vazvigadzirira kubvira makei; nokushingaira kwenyu kwakamutsa vazhinji.

²For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many.

³Zvakadaro ndakatuma hama, zvimwe kuzvirumbidza kwedu pamusoro penyu kungava pasina pachinhu ichi, kuti sezvandakareva, muzvigadzirire;

³Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready:

⁴zvimwe kuti kana vamwe veMakedhonia vachiuya neni, vakakuwanai musina kuzvigadzirira, isu tinganyadziswa pakuvimba kwedu tichizvikudza.

⁴Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.

⁵Naizvozvo ndakaona zvakafanira kukurudzira hama idzi, kuti vatange kuenda kwamuri, vatange kugadzira chipo chenyu chekuvonga chamakagara mapikira, kuti ichochi chigare chakagadzirwa chiri chipo chekuvonga asi kwete chinhu chatorwa nesimba,

⁵Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of covetousness.

⁶Asi izvi kuti: Unodzvara zvishoma, unokohwawo zvishoma; neunodzvara zvizhinji, uchakohwawo zvizhinji.

⁶But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.

⁷Umwe neumwe ngaaite semadiro omoyo wake; kwete nekuchema, kana nekurovererwa; nekuti Mwari unoda unopa nemufaro.

⁷Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

⁸Uye Mwari unogona kuwanza nyasha dzose kwamuri kuti nguva dzose muve nekuringana kose pazvose, muwanze pabasa rose rakanaka;

⁸And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:

⁹sezvazvakanyorwa zvichinzi: Iye wakaparadzira, wakapa kuvarombo; kururama kwake kunogara nekusingaperi.

⁹(As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever.

¹⁰Zvino iye unopa mbeu kumudzvari, zvose chingwa chekudya nekuwanza mbeu dzenyu dzakadzvarwa, nekuwedzera zvibereko zvekururama kwenyu;

¹⁰Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)

¹¹muchifumiswa pazvinhu zvose pakupana kose, zvinokonzera kubudikidza nesu kuvonga kuna Mwari.

¹¹Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God.

¹²Nekuti basa rekushumira uku harizadzisi kushaiwa kwevatsvene chete, asi kunowanzisawo kuvonga kuzhinji kuna Mwari;

¹²For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God;

¹³nekuda kweuchapupu hwekushumira uku vanorumbidza Mwari pamusoro pekupupura kwenyu kwakazviisa pasi peevhangeri yaKristu, nepamusoro pekupa kwenyu zvakawanda kwavari nekune vose.

¹³Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men;

¹⁴Uye nemunyengetero wavo kwamuri, vachikushuvai nekuda kwenyasha huru-huru dzaMwari pamusoro penyu.

¹⁴And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you.

¹⁵Mwari ngaavongwe nekuda kwechipo chake chisingarondedzereki.

¹⁵Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.