¹Nekuti nemwi hama, munoziva kupinda kwedu kwamuri kuti hakuna kuva pasina.

¹For yourselves have known, brethren, our entrance in unto you, that it did not become vain,

²Asi kunyange takambotambudzika pakutanga nekuitirwa zvinonyadzisa sezvamunoziva paFiripi, takatsunga muna Mwari wedu kutaura kwamuri evhangeri yaMwari nekupikiswa kukuru.

²but having both suffered before, and having been injuriously treated (as ye have known) in Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the good news of God in much conflict,

³Nekuti kurudziro yedu haina kubva pakunyengera, kana kubva patsvina, kana pamano mano;

³for our exhortation [is] not out of deceit, nor out of uncleanness, nor in guile,

⁴asi sezvatakatendewa naMwari, kuti tibatiswe evhangeri, saizvozo tinotaura; kwete sekufadza vanhu, asi Mwari unoidza moyo yedu.

⁴but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who is proving our hearts,

⁵Nekuti chero nguva hatina kutongoreva nemashoko ekubata kumeso sezvamunoziva, kana namano-mano ekuchiva; Mwari chapupu;

⁵for at no time did we come with speech of flattery, (as ye have known,) nor in a pretext for covetousness, (God [is] witness!)

⁶kana kutsvaka rukudzo kuvanhu kana rwenyu, kana rwevamwe, kunyange taigona kukuremedzai sevaapositori vaKristu.

⁶nor seeking of men glory, neither from you nor from others, being able to be burdensome, as Christ`s apostles.

⁷Asi takanga tiri vanyoro pakati penyu, semureri kana achifumbatira vana vake;

⁷But we became gentle in your midst, as a nurse may cherish her own children,

⁸saizvozvo takakushuvai kwazvo, taida zvikuru kuti tigovane nemwi kwete evhangeri yaMwari chete, asi mweya yeduwo, nekuti makanga muri vadikamwi kwatiri.

⁸so being desirous of you, we are well-pleased to impart to you not only the good news of God, but also our own souls, because beloved ye have become to us,

⁹Nekuti munorangarira, hama, kushingaira nekurwa kwedu; taibata usiku nemasikati, kuti tisava mutoro kune umwe wenyu, takakuparidzirai evhangeri yaMwari.

⁹for ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail, for, night and day working not to be a burden upon any of you, we did preach to you the good news of God;

¹⁰Imwi muri zvapupu, naMwari, kuti taifamba neutsvene nekururama tisina chatingapomerwa kwamuri imwi vanotenda.

¹⁰ye [are] witnesses — God also — how kindly and righteously, and blamelessly to you who believe we became,

¹¹Sezvamunoziva kuti umwe neumwe wenyu sababa kuvana vavo, takakukurudzirai sei nekunyaradza nekupupura,

¹¹even as ye have known, how each one of you, as a father his own children, we are exhorting you, and comforting, and testifying,

¹²kuti mufambe zvakafanira Mwari, unokudanirai kuushe hwake nekubwinya.

¹²for your walking worthily of God, who is calling you to His own reign and glory.

¹³Nekuda kwaizvozviwo tinoramba tichivonga Mwari, kuti pamakagamuchira shoko raMwari ramakanzwa kubva kwatiri, hamuna kurigamuchira seshoko revanhu, asi sechokwadi shoko raMwari, rinoshandawo mukati menyu imwi munotenda.

¹³Because of this also, we — we do give thanks to God continually, that, having received the word of hearing from us of God, ye accepted, not the word of man, but as it is truly, the word of God, who also doth work in you who believe;

¹⁴Nekuti imwi, hama, makava vateveri vekereke dzaMwari dziri muJudhiya muna Kristu Jesu; nekuti imwiwo makatambudzika nezvinhu zvakadaro kune vekwenyu, sezvavakatambudzwa ivo nevaJudha,

¹⁴for ye became imitators, brethren, of the assemblies of God that are in Judea in Christ Jesus, because such things ye suffered, even ye, from your own countrymen, as also they from the Jews,

¹⁵Ndivo zvose vakauraya Ishe Jesu nevaporofita vavo vomene, vakatishusha isu, vasingafadzi Mwari, vachipesana nevanhu vose.

¹⁵who did both put to death the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and did persecute us, and God they are not pleasing, and to all men [are] contrary,

¹⁶vachitidzivisa kuparidzira vahedheni kuti vaponeswe; kuti varambe vachizadzisa zvivi zvavo; asi hasha dzakaburukira pamusoro pavo kusvikira pakuguma.

¹⁶forbidding us to speak to the nations that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always, but the anger did come upon them — to the end!

¹⁷Zvino isu, hama, zvatakaparadzaniswa nemwi kwechinguvana pazviso, kwete pamoyo, takashingairira zvikuru nechishuwo chikuru kuti tione chiso chenyu.

¹⁷And we, brethren, having been taken from you for the space of an hour — in presence, not in heart — did hasten the more abundantly to see your face in much desire,

¹⁸Naizvozvo taida kuuya kwamuri, zvikuru Pauro, kamwe nekudzokorora, asi Satani wakatidzivisa.

¹⁸wherefore we wished to come unto you, (I indeed Paul,) both once and again, and the Adversary did hinder us;

¹⁹Nekuti tariro yedu chii, kana mufaro, kana korona yekuzvirumbidza? Hamuzi imwi here pamberi paIshe wedu Jesu Kristu pakuuya kwake?

¹⁹for what [is] our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? are not even ye before our Lord Jesus Christ in his presence?

²⁰Nekuti imwi muri kubwinya nemufaro wedu.

²⁰for ye are our glory and joy.