¹Usajinyura mukuru, asi umugamuchire sababa, vaduku sevanin'ina,

¹An aged person thou mayest not rebuke, but be entreating as a father; younger persons as brethren;

²vakadzi vakuru sanamai, vaduku sehanzvadzi neutsvene hwose.

²aged women as mothers, younger ones as sisters — in all purity;

³Kudza chirikadzi dziri chirikadzi zvirokwazvo.

³honour widows who are really widows;

⁴Asi kana chero chirikadzi ipi ine vana kana vazukuru, ngavatange ivo kudzidza rukudzo kumba, vadzosere zvakafanira kuvabereki vavo nekuti ndizvo zvakanaka zvinogamuchirwa pamberi paMwari.

⁴and if any widow have children or grandchildren, let them learn first to their own house to show piety, and to give back a recompense to the parents, for this is right and acceptable before God.

⁵Zvino uyo uri chirikadzi zvirokwazvo yakasiiwa yoga, inovimba naMwari, inogara pamikumbiro neminyengetero siku nesikati.

⁵And she who is really a widow and desolate, hath hoped upon God, and doth remain in the supplications and in the prayers night and day,

⁶Asi iyo inoraramira kuzvifadza yakafa ichiri mhenyu.

⁶and she who is given to luxury, living — hath died;

⁷Uye raira zvinhu izvi, kuti varege kuva nechavangapomerwa.

⁷and these things charge, that they may be blameless;

⁸Asi kana munhu asingachengeti vekwake, zvikuru veimba yake, waramba kutenda, wakaipa kukunda usingatendi.

⁸and if any one for his own — and especially for those of the household — doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.

⁹Chirikadzi ngairege kuverengwa iri pasi pemakore makumi matanhatu, yaiva mukadzi wemurume umwe,

⁹A widow — let her not be enrolled under sixty years of age, having been a wife of one husband,

¹⁰inopupurirwa mabasa akanaka, kana yakarera vana, kana yaigamuchira vaeni, kana yaishambidza tsoka dzevatsvene, kana yaibatsira vari mumatambudziko, kana yaichenjerera mabasa ose akanaka.

¹⁰in good works being testified to: if she brought up children, if she entertained strangers, if saints` feet she washed, if those in tribulation she relieved, if every good work she followed after;

¹¹Asi chirikadzi duku urambe, nekuti kana dzochiva zvinopesana naKristu, dzinoda kuwanikwa;

¹¹and younger widows be refusing, for when they may revel against the Christ, they wish to marry,

¹²dzava nemhosva, nekuti dzarasa rutendo rwadzo rwekutanga;

¹²having judgment, because the first faith they did cast away,

¹³uye ipapo dzinodzidza usimbe dzichipotedza dzimba; uye hadzizi simbe chete, asi vaitiwo vemakuhwa, vashereketi, vachitaura zvavasingafaniri.

¹³and at the same time also, they learn [to be] idle, going about the houses; and not only idle, but also tattlers and busybodies, speaking the things they ought not;

¹⁴Naizvozvo ndinoda kuti chirikadzi duku dziwanikwe, dzibereke vana, dzichengete dzimba dzadzo, dzirege kutongopa muvengi mukana wekupomera nawo.

¹⁴I wish, therefore, younger ones to marry, to bear children, to be mistress of the house, to give no occasion to the opposer to reviling;

¹⁵Nekuti vamwe vatotsauka vachitevera Satani.

¹⁵for already certain did turn aside after the Adversary.

¹⁶Kana murume upi neupi kana mukadzi unotenda ane chirikadzi, ngaadzibatsire, kereke irege kuremedzwa, kuti igobatsira chirikadzi chaidzo.

¹⁶If any believing man or believing woman have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the assembly be burdened, that those really widows it may relieve.

¹⁷Vakuru vanobata zvakanaka ngavaverengerwe sevanofanirwa nekukudzwa kwakapetwa kaviri, zvikuru avo vanobata pashoko nepadzidziso.

¹⁷The well-leading elders of double honour let them be counted worthy, especially those labouring in word and teaching,

¹⁸Nekuti rugwaro rwunoti: Usasunga muromo wenzombe inopura; uye: Mushandi wakafanirwa nemubairo wake.

¹⁸for the Writing saith, `An ox treading out thou shalt not muzzle,` and `Worthy [is] the workman of his reward.`

¹⁹Usangogamuchira mhaka inopomerwa mukuru, kunze kwemberi kwezvapupu zviviri kana zvitatu.

¹⁹Against an elder an accusation receive not, except upon two or three witnesses.

²⁰Vanotadza uvatsiure pamberi pevose, kuti vamwewo vave nekutya.

²⁰Those sinning, reprove before all, that the others also may have fear;

²¹Ndinokurairisa kwazvo pamberi paMwari naIshe Jesu Kristu, nevatumwa vakasanangurwa, kuti uchengete zvinhu izvi usingagari watotonga, kana kuita chinhu uchitsaura vanhu.

²¹I testify fully, before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the choice messengers, that these things thou mayest keep, without forejudging, doing nothing by partiality.

²²Usakurumidza kuisa maoko pamusoro pemunhu, kana kugovana pazvivi zvevamwe; uzvichengete uri mutsvene.

²²Be laying hands quickly on no one, nor be having fellowship with sins of others; be keeping thyself pure;

²³Usachiramba uchingomwa mvura, asi ushandise waini shoma nekuda kwemudumbu mako neundonda hwako hwekazhinji.

²³no longer be drinking water, but a little wine be using, because of thy stomach and of thine often infirmities;

²⁴Zvivi zvevamwe vanhu zvinogara zvaonekwa pachena, zvinotungamirira kukutongwa; zvavamwe zvichitevera,

²⁴of certain men the sins are manifest beforehand, leading before to judgment, and certain also they follow after;

²⁵Saizvozvowo mabasa akanaka anogara aonekwa pachena, neasina kudaro haangavanzwi.

²⁵in like manner also the right works are manifest beforehand, and those that are otherwise are not able to be hid.