¹Simioni Petro, muranda nemuapositori waJesu Kristu, kune avo vakawana rutendo rwunokosha rwakafanana nerwedu kubudikidza nekururama kwaMwari neMuponesi wedu Jesu Kristu:

¹Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:

²Nyasha nerugare kwamuri ngazviwanzwe paruzivo rwaMwari nerwaJesu Ishe wedu;

²Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,

³sesimba rake reuMwari raakapa kwatiri zvinhu zvose zveupenyu neuMwari kubudikidza neruzivo rwaiye wakatidanira kubwinya nekunaka;

³According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:

⁴akatipa nazvo zvivimbiso zvikurusa uye zvinokosha; kuti nazvo muve vagovani vechimiro cheuMwari, matiza kuora kuri panyika kubudikidza nekuchiva.

⁴Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

⁵Zvino pasina izvozvi muchishingaira kwazvo wedzerai parutendo rwenyu kunaka, nepakunaka ruzivo,

⁵And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

⁶neparuzivo kuzvidzora, nepakuzvidzora kutsungirira, nepakutsungirira umwari,

⁶And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;

⁷nepauMwari rudo rwehama, neparudo rwehama, rudo.

⁷And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

⁸Nekuti kana zvinhu izvi zviri mamuri, uye zvichiwanda zvichakuitai vanhu vasina usimbe navasingashaiwi zvibereko paruziva Ishe wedu, Jesu Kristu.

⁸For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁹Asi usina zvinhu izvi ibofu, unoonera pedo, uye wakangamwa kuti wakasukwa pazvivi zvake zvakare.

⁹But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

¹⁰Naizvozvo, hama, zviri nani mushingaire kwazvo kuti musimbise kudamwa nekusanangurwa kwenyu; nekuti kana muchiita zvinhu izvi hamungatongogumburwi.

¹⁰Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:

¹¹Nekuti saizvozvo muchawedzerwa nekufumiswa pakupinda muushe hwusingaperi hwaIshe wedu neMuponesi Jesu Kristu.

¹¹For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

¹²Saka handingashaiwi hanya nekukuyeudzirai zvinhu izvi nguva dzose, kunyange muchizviziva, uye makasimba pachokwadi chiripo.

¹²Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.

¹³Uye ndinofunga zvakanaka kuti kana ndichingori mutende rino chete ndikumutsei nechiyeudziro;

¹³Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;

¹⁴ndichiziva kuti kunokurumidza kubviswa kwetende rangu, Ishe wedu Jesu Kristu sezvaakandiraira.

¹⁴Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.

¹⁵Zvino neni ndichashingaira kuti nguva dzose shure kwekuenda kwangu muve nechirangaridzo chezvinhu izvi.

¹⁵Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.

¹⁶Nekuti hatina kutevera ngano dzemano mano patakakuzivisai simba nekuuya kwaIshe wedu Jesu Kristu, asi takanga tiri vakazvionera ukuru hwake.

¹⁶For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

¹⁷Nekuti wakagamuchira rukudzo nekubwinya kubva kuna Mwari Baba panguva iya yakauya inzwi rakadai kwaari richibva kukubwinya kukurukuru richiti: Uyu ndiye Mwanakomana wangu unodika, wandinofara maari.

¹⁷For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

¹⁸Uye inzwi iri isu ratakanzwa richibva kudenga pataiva naye mugomo dzvene.

¹⁸And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.

¹⁹uye tine shoko rakasimba kwazvo rechiporofita, ramunoita zvakanaka muchiriteerera semwenje unovhenekera panzvimbo ine rima, kusvikira utonga hwuchitsuka, nenyamasase ichibudira mumoyo yenyu;

¹⁹We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:

²⁰muchiziva izvi pakutanga, kuti hakuna chiporofita cherugwaro chinobva mududziro yewakazvimiririra;

²⁰Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.

²¹Nekuti chiporofita hachina kuuyiswa panguva pedare nekuda kwemunhu, asi vanhu vatswene vaMwari vakataura, vachisundwa neMweya Mutsvene.

²¹For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.