¹Tarirai kuti rudo rwakadini Baba rwavakatipa, kuti tinzi vanakomana vaMwari; nekuda kwaizvozvi nyika haitizivi, nekuti haina kumuziva iye.

¹See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him;

²Vadiwa, ikozvino tiri vana vaMwari, uye zvichigere kuonekwa kuti tichazovei. Asi tinoziva kuti kana achizoonekwa isu tichafanana naye; nekuti tichamuona sezvaakaita.

²beloved, now, children of God are we, and it was not yet manifested what we shall be, and we have known that if he may be manifested, like him we shall be, because we shall see him as he is;

³Uye umwe neumwe une tariro iyi maari, unozvichenesa sezvaakachena iye.

³and every one who is having this hope on him, doth purify himself, even as he is pure.

⁴Umwe neumwe unoita chivi unodarika nomurairowo; nekuti chivi ndiko kudarika murairo.

⁴Every one who is doing the sin, the lawlessness also he doth do, and the sin is the lawlessness,

⁵Munoziva kuti iye wakaratidzwa kuti abvise zvivi zvedu; uye maari hamuna zvivi.

⁵and ye have known that he was manifested that our sins he may take away, and sin is not in him;

⁶Ani nani unogara maari haatadzi; ani nani unotadza haana kumuona kana kumuziva.

⁶every one who is remaining in him doth not sin; every one who is sinning, hath not seen him, nor known him.

⁷Vana vaduku, ngakurege kuva neunokunyengerai; uyo unoita kururama wakarurama, saiye akarurama.

⁷Little children, let no one lead you astray; he who is doing the righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous,

⁸Uyo unoita chivi unobva kuna dhiabhorosi, nekuti dhiabhorosi unotadza kubva pakutanga. Mwanakomana waMwari wakaratidzwa nemhaka iyi kuti aparadze mabasa adhiabhorosi.

⁸he who is doing the sin, of the devil he is, because from the beginning the devil doth sin; for this was the Son of God manifested, that he may break up the works of the devil;

⁹Umwe neumwe wakaberekwa naMwari haaiti chivi, nekuti mbeu yake inogara maari, saka haangatadzi, nekuti wakaberekwa naMwari.

⁹every one who hath been begotten of God, sin he doth not, because his seed in him doth remain, and he is not able to sin, because of God he hath been begotten.

¹⁰Muna izvozvi vana vaMwari navana vadhiabhorosi vanoratidzwa; umwe neumwe usingaiti zvakarurama haabvi kuna Mwari, naiyewo usingadi hama yake.

¹⁰In this manifest are the children of God, and the children of the devil; every one who is not doing righteousness, is not of God, and he who is not loving his brother,

¹¹Nekuti iri ndiro shoko ramakanzwa kubva pakutanga, kuti tidanane;

¹¹because this is the message that ye did hear from the beginning, that we may love one another,

¹²kwete saKaini, wakabva kuna iye wakaipa, akaponda munin'ina wake. Ko wakamuponderei? Nekuti mabasa ake akanga akaipa, asi omunin'ina wake akarurama.

¹²not as Cain — of the evil one he was, and he did slay his brother, and wherefore did he slay him? because his works were evil, and those of his brother righteous.

¹³Musashamisika hama dzangu, kana nyika ichikuvengai.

¹³Do not wonder, my brethren, if the world doth hate you;

¹⁴Tinoziva kuti takabva murufu tikapinda muupenyu, nekuti tinoda hama. Uyo, usingadi hama yake unogara murufu.

¹⁴we — we have known that we have passed out of the death to the life, because we love the brethren; he who is not loving the brother doth remain in the death.

¹⁵Umwe neumwe unovenga hama yake imhondi; uye munoziva kuti hakuna mhondi ine upenyu hwusingaperi hwunogara mairi.

¹⁵Every one who is hating his brother — a man-killer he is, and ye have known that no man-killer hath life age-during in him remaining,

¹⁶Ndizvo zvatinoziva nazvo rudo, nekuti wakatiradzikira upenyu hwake; nesu tinofanira kuradzikira hama upenyu.

¹⁶in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down;

¹⁷Asi ani nani ane fuma yenyika ino asi achiona hama yake ichishaiwa, akamupfigira tsitsi dzake, rudo rwaMwari runogara seiko maari?

¹⁷and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him — how doth the love of God remain in him?

¹⁸Vana vangu vaduku, ngatirege kuda neshoko kana norurimi, asi muzviito nemuchokwadi.

¹⁸My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!

¹⁹Ndizvo zvatinoziva nazvo kuti tiri vechokwadi, tigosimbisa moyo yedu pamberi pake.

¹⁹and in this we know that of the truth we are, and before Him we shall assure our hearts,

²⁰Nekuti kana moyo yedu ichitipa mhosva, Mwari mukuru kumoyo wedu, uye unoziva zvinhu zvose.

²⁰because if our heart may condemn — because greater is God than our heart, and He doth know all things.

²¹Vadiwa, kana moyo wedu usingatipi mhosva, tine ushingi pamberi paMwari;

²¹Beloved, if our heart may not condemn us, we have boldness toward God,

²²uye zvose zvatinokumbira tinogamuchira kubva kwaari, nekuti tinochengeta mirairo yake, tichiita zvinhu zvinofadza pamberi pake.

²²and whatever we may ask, we receive from Him, because His commands we keep, and the things pleasing before Him we do,

²³Uye uyu ndiwo murairo wake, kuti titende kuzita roMwanakomana wake Jesu Kristu, uye tidanane, sezvaakatipa murairo.

²³and this is His command, that we may believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and may love one another, even as He did give command to us,

²⁴Uye uyo unochengeta mirairo yake unogara maari, naiye maari. Ndizvo zvatinoziva nazvo kuti unogara matiri nomweya waakatipa.

²⁴and he who is keeping His commands, in Him he doth remain, and He in him; and in this we know that He doth remain in us, from the Spirit that He gave us.