¹Teverai rudo; mushuve zvikuru zveMweya, asi zvikuru kuti muporofite.

¹Pursue the love, and seek earnestly the spiritual things, and rather that ye may prophecy,

²Nekuti unotaura nerumwe rurimi haatauri kuvanhu, asi kuna Mwari; nekuti hakuna unomunzwisisa; asi muMweya unotaura zvakavanzika.

²for he who is speaking in an [unknown] tongue — to men he doth not speak, but to God, for no one doth hearken, and in spirit he doth speak secrets;

³Asi uyo unoporofita unotaura kuvanhu kuvaka nekurudziro nenyaradzo.

³and he who is prophesying to men doth speak edification, and exhortation, and comfort;

⁴Unotaura nerurimi unozvivaka iye; asi unoporofita unovaka kereke.

⁴he who is speaking in an [unknown] tongue, himself doth edify, and he who is prophesying, an assembly doth edify;

⁵Uye ndinoda kuti imwi mose mutaure nendimi, asi zvikuru kuti muporofite; nekuti unoporofita mukuru kune unotaura nendimi, kunze kwekuti achidudzira, kuti kereke iwane kurudziro.

⁵and I wish you all to speak with tongues, and more that ye may prophecy, for greater is he who is prophesying than he who is speaking with tongues, except one may interpret, that the assembly may receive edification.

⁶Asi ikozvino, hama, kana ndichiuya kwamuri ndichitaura nendimi, ndichakubatsirai nei kunze kwekuti ndichitaura nemwi mukuzarurirwa, kana muruzivo, kana mukuporofita, kana mudzidziso?

⁶And now, brethren, if I may come unto you speaking tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either in revelation, or in knowledge, or in prophesying, or in teaching?

⁷Uye kunyange zvinhu zvisina upenyu zvinorira, kana nyere, kana rudimbwa, kana zvisingapi musiyano pamaririro, zvingazikamwa seiko chinoridzwa nyere kana rudimbwa?

⁷yet the things without life giving sound — whether pipe or harp — if a difference in the sounds they may not give, how shall be known that which is piped or that which is harped?

⁸Nekuti kana hwamanda ichipa maungira asinganzwisisiki, ndiani ungazvigadzira kundorwa?

⁸for if also an uncertain sound a trumpet may give, who shall prepare himself for battle?

⁹Saizvozvowo imwi, kana musingatauri nerurimi mashoko akareruka kunzwisiswa, zvinotaurwa zvichazikamwa sei? Nekuti muchataura kumhepo.

⁹so also ye, if through the tongue, speech easily understood ye may not give — how shall that which is spoken be known? for ye shall be speaking to air.

¹⁰Kune, kana zvingadaro, manzwi ane marudzi mazhinji panyika, hakuna rimwe rawo risingarevi chinhu.

¹⁰There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is unmeaning,

¹¹Naizvozvo kana ndisingazivi zvinoreva inzwi, ndichava semunhu werumwe rurimi kune unotaura, neunotaura semunhu werumwe rurimi kwandiri.

¹¹if, then, I do not know the power of the voice, I shall be to him who is speaking a foreigner, and he who is speaking, is to me a foreigner;

¹²Saizvozvo imwiwo, sezvamunoshingairira zvipo zveMweya, tsvakai zvikuru kuti mupfuurise pakuvaka kereke.

¹²so also ye, since ye are earnestly desirous of spiritual gifts, for the building up of the assembly seek that ye may abound;

¹³Naizvozvo unotaura nerumwe rurimi ngaanyengetere kuti adudzire.

¹³wherefore he who is speaking in an [unknown] tongue — let him pray that he may interpret;

¹⁴Nekuti kana ndichinyengetera nerumwe rurimi, mweya wangu unonyengetera, asi fungwa dzangu dzinoshaiwa chibereko.

¹⁴for if I pray in an [unknown] tongue, my spirit doth pray, and my understanding is unfruitful.

¹⁵Zvino chii? Ndichanyengetera nemweya uye ndichanyengetera nefungwawo; ndichaimba nemweya, uye ndichaimba nefungwawo.

¹⁵What then is it? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray also with the understanding; I will sing psalms with the spirit, and I will sing psalms also with the understanding;

¹⁶Kana zvisakadaro, kana iwe uchivonga nemweya, ko uyo ugere pachigaro cheusina kudzidza uchati Ameni sei pakuvonga kwako, zvaasingazivi chaunotaura?

¹⁶since, if thou mayest bless with the spirit, he who is filling the place of the unlearned, how shall he say the Amen at thy giving of thanks, since what thou dost say he hath not known?

¹⁷Nekuti zvirokwazvo iwe unovonga zvakanaka, asi umwe haasimbiswi.

¹⁷for thou, indeed, dost give thanks well, but the other is not built up!

¹⁸Ndinovonga Mwari wangu, kuti ndinotaura nendimi kupfuura imwi mose;

¹⁸I give thanks to my God — more than you all with tongues speaking —

¹⁹asi mukereke ndinoda kutaura mashoko mashanu nefungwa dzangu, kuti ndidzidzise vamwewo, pamashoko zvuru gumi nendimi.

¹⁹but in an assembly I wish to speak five words through my understanding, that others also I may instruct, rather than myriads of words in an [unknown] tongue.

²⁰Hama, musava vacheche pafungwa, asi pazvakaipa muve vacheche, asi pakuziva muve vakuru.

²⁰Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect;

²¹Pamurairo pakanyorwa kuti: Nedzimwe ndimi uye nemimwe miromo ndichataura kurudzi urwu; kunyange zvakadaro havanganditeereri, ndizvo zvinoreva Ishe.

²¹in the law it hath been written, that, `With other tongues and with other lips I will speak to this people, and not even so will they hear Me, saith the Lord;`

²²Saka ndimi ndedzechiratidzo kwete kune vanotenda, asi kune vasingatendi; asi chiporofita hachisi chavasingatendi, asi chavanotenda.

²²so that the tongues are for a sign, not to the believing, but to the unbelieving; and the prophesy [is] not for the unbelieving, but for the believing,

²³Naizvozvo kana kereke yose yaungana panzvimbo imwe, vose vakataura nendimi, vasina kudzidza kana vasina rutendo vakapinda havati munopenga here?

²³If, therefore, the whole assembly may come together, to the same place, and all may speak with tongues, and there may come in unlearned or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?

²⁴Asi kana vose vakaporofita, mumwe usingatendi kana usina kudzidza akapinda, uchatendiswa nevose, aongororwe nevose;

²⁴and if all may prophecy, and any one may come in, an unbeliever or unlearned, he is convicted by all, he is discerned by all,

²⁵saizvozvo zvakavanzika zvemoyo wake zvinozarurwa; saizvozvo uchawa nechiso achinamata Mwari, nokupupura kuti Mwari uri pakati penyu zvirokwazvo.

²⁵and so the secrets of his heart become manifest, and so having fallen upon [his] face, he will bow before God, declaring that God really is among you.

²⁶Zvino chii, hama? Poga poga pamunoungana, umwe neumwe wenyu ane pisarema, ane dzidziso, ane rumwe rurimi ane chakazarurwa, ane dudziro. Zvinhu zvose ngazviitirwe kuvaka.

²⁶What then is it, brethren? whenever ye may come together, each of you hath a psalm, hath a teaching, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation? let all things be for building up;

²⁷Kana mumwe achitaura nerumwe rurimi, ngazviitwe nevaviri, kana varege kupfuura vatatu, uye vachiravana, neumwe ngaadudzire.

²⁷if an [unknown] tongue any one do speak, by two, or at the most, by three, and in turn, and let one interpret;

²⁸Asi kana pasina unodudzira, ngaanyarare mukereke; ngaazvitaurire iye nekuna Mwari.

²⁸and if there may be no interpreter, let him be silent in an assembly, and to himself let him speak, and to God.

²⁹Vaporofita ngavataure vaviri kana vatatu, nevamwe ngavanzvere.

²⁹And prophets — let two or three speak, and let the others discern,

³⁰Asi kana zvakazarurirwa mumwe ugerepo, wekutanga ngaanyarare.

³⁰and if to another sitting [anything] may be revealed, let the first be silent;

³¹Nekuti mose mungaporofita muchiita umwe-umwe, kuti vose vadzidze, uye vose vakurudzirwe.

³¹for ye are able, one by one, all to prophesy, that all may learn, and all may be exhorted,

³²Nemweya yevaporofita inozviisa pasi pevaporofita.

³²and the spiritual gift of prophets to prophets are subject,

³³Nekuti Mwari haazi wenyonganyonga, asi werugare, sapakereke dzose dzevatsvene.

³³for God is not [a God] of tumult, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.

³⁴Vanhukadzi venyu ngavanyarare mudzikereke; nekuti havatenderwi kutaura; asi kuzviisa pasi, sezvinorevawo murairo.

³⁴Your women in the assemblies let them be silent, for it hath not been permitted to them to speak, but to be subject, as also the law saith;

³⁵Kana vachida kudzidza chinhu, ngavabvunze varume vavo kumba; nekuti chinyadzo kuti vanhukadzi vataure mukereke.

³⁵and if they wish to learn anything, at home their own husbands let them question, for it is a shame to women to speak in an assembly.

³⁶Ko shoko raMwari rakabva kwamuri here? Kana rakasvika kwamuri moga here?

³⁶From you did the word of God come forth? or to you alone did it come?

³⁷Kana munhu achifunga kuti muporofita, kana wemweya, ngaatende kuti izvo zvandinokunyorerai murairo waIshe;

³⁷if any one doth think to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge the things that I write to you — that of the Lord they are commands;

³⁸Asi kana munhu asingazivi, ngaave usingazivi.

³⁸and if any one is ignorant — let him be ignorant;

³⁹Saka, hama, shingairirai kuporofita, musingadzivisi kutaura nendimi.

³⁹so that, brethren, earnestly desire to prophesy, and to speak with tongues do not forbid;

⁴⁰Asi zinhu zvose ngazviitwe nemutowo wakafanira zvichitevedzana.

⁴⁰let all things be done decently and in order.