¹Pamusoro pazvo zvino, hama, tinokukumbirisai, nekukurudzira naIshe Jesu, kuti sezvamakadzidza kwatiri kuti munofanira kufamba nekufadza Mwari sei, muwanze nekuwanzisisa pane izvozvo.

¹As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more,

²Nekuti munoziva mirairo yatakakupai naIshe Jesu.

²for ye have known what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus,

³Nekuti ichi ndicho chido chaMwari, kuitwa vatsvene kwenyu, kuti murege upombwe;

³for this is the will of God — your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom,

⁴kuti umwe neumwe wenyu azive kuzviwanira mudziyo wake mukuitwa mutsvene nerukudzo,

⁴that each of you know his own vessel to possess in sanctification and honour,

⁵asingaiti nekuchiva kwechishuwo, kunyange sevahedheni vasingazivi Mwari;

⁵not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God,

⁶kusava neunopfuurikidza akanyengera hama yake pamhaka, nekuti Ishe ndiye mutsivi wezvose izvi, sezvatakagara takuudzaiwo nekukupupurirai kwazvo.

⁶that no one go beyond and defraud in the matter his brother, because an avenger [is] the Lord of all these, as also we spake before to you and testified,

⁷Nekuti Mwari haana kutidanira kutsvina, asi kuutsvene.

⁷for God did not call us on uncleanness, but in sanctification;

⁸Naizvozvo unozvidza, haazvidzi munhu, asi Mwari unotipawo Mweya wake, Mutsvene.

⁸he, therefore, who is despising — doth not despise man, but God, who also did give His Holy Spirit to us.

⁹Zvino, kana ruri rudo rweukama, hamufaniri kuti ndikunyorerei, nekuti imwi mumene makadzidziswa naMwari kuti mudanane;

⁹And concerning the brotherly love, ye have no need of [my] writing to you, for ye yourselves are God-taught to love one another,

¹⁰Nekuti nemwi munozviita kuhama dzose dziri paMakedhonia yose asi tinokukurudzirai, hama, kuti muwanze nekuwanzisisa;

¹⁰for ye do it also to all the brethren who [are] in all Macedonia; and we call upon you, brethren, to abound still more,

¹¹uye kuti mushingairire kuva nerunyararo, nekuita basa renyu pachenyu, muchishanda nemaoko enyu, sezvatakakurairai;

¹¹and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we did command you,

¹²kuti mufambe nemutowo wakafanira kune vari kunze, uye musashaya chinhu.

¹²that ye may walk becomingly unto those without, and may have lack of nothing.

¹³Asi handidi kuti mushaiwe ruzivo, hama, maererano nevarere, kuti murege kushungurudzika sevamwe vasina tariro.

¹³And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, that ye may not sorrow, as also the rest who have not hope,

¹⁴Nekuti kana tichitenda kuti Jesu wakafa akamukazve, saizvozvo avowo vakarara muna Jesu, Mwari uchavavuyisa pamwe naye.

¹⁴for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also God those asleep through Jesus he will bring with him,

¹⁵Nekuti izvi tinokuudzai neshoko raIshe, kuti isu vapenyu, tinosara kusvikira pakuuya kwaIshe, hatingatongotangiri vakarara.

¹⁵for this to you we say in the word of the Lord, that we who are living — who do remain over to the presence of the Lord — may not precede those asleep,

¹⁶Nekuti Ishe amene uchaburuka kubva kudenga nekudanidzira, nenzwi remutumwa mukuru, nehwamanda yaMwari; zvino vakafa muna Kristu vachatanga kumuka;

¹⁶because the Lord himself, in a shout, in the voice of a chief-messenger, and in the trump of God, shall come down from heaven, and the dead in Christ shall rise first,

¹⁷zvino isu vapenyu vakasara, tichabvutwa pamwe navo mumakore, kuti tichingamidze Ishe mumhepo; naizvozvo tichava naIshe nekusingaperi.

¹⁷then we who are living, who are remaining over, together with them shall be caught away in clouds to meet the Lord in air, and so always with the Lord we shall be;

¹⁸Naizvozvo nyaradzanai nemashoko awa.

¹⁸so, then, comfort ye one another in these words.