¹Pauro muapositori waJesu Kristu nechido chaMwari, naTimotio hama, kukereke yaMwari iri paKorinde, pamwe nevatsvene vose vari muAkaya yose:

¹Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, through the will of God, and Timotheus the brother, to the assembly of God that is in Corinth, with all the saints who are in all Achaia:

²Nyasha kwamuri nerugare runobva kuna Mwari Baba vedu nekuna Ishe Jesu Kristu.

²Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ!

³Ngaavongwe Mwari, ivo Baba vaIshe wedu Jesu Kristu Baba vetsitsi, uye Mwari wenyaradzo yose;

³Blessed [is] God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the mercies, and God of all comfort,

⁴unotinyaradza padambudziko redu rose, kuti tigone kunyaradza avo vari mukutambudzika kupi nekupi, nenyaradzo yatinonyaradzwa nayo tomene naMwari;

⁴who is comforting us in all our tribulation, for our being able to comfort those in any tribulation through the comfort with which we are comforted ourselves by God;

⁵nekuti matambudziko aKristu sezvaakawedzerwa matiri, saizvozvovo nyaradzo yeduwo yakawedzerwa naKristu.

⁵because, as the sufferings of the Christ do abound to us, so through the Christ doth abound also our comfort;

⁶Zvino kunyange tichirwadziwa, ndezvenyaradzo neruponeso rwenyu zvinobudirira mukutsungirira mumatambudziko mamwewo atakatambudzikawo, kana kunyage tichinyaradzwa, ndezvenyaradzo neruponeso rwenyu.

⁶and whether we be in tribulation, [it is] for your comfort and salvation, that is wrought in the enduring of the same sufferings that we also suffer; whether we are comforted, [it is] for your comfort and salvation;

⁷Uye tariro yedu pamusoro penyu yakasimba, tichiziva kuti sezvamuri vagovani vematambudziko, saizvozvovo venyaradzo.

⁷and our hope [is] stedfast for you, knowing that even as ye are partakers of the sufferings — so also of the comfort.

⁸Nekuti hatidi kuti musaziva, hama, dambudziko redu rakatiwira paAsia, kuti takadzvanyiwa zvisingaverengeki kukunda simba redu, zvekuti takarasha tariro kunyange yeupenyu;

⁸For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of our tribulation that happened to us in Asia, that we were exceedingly burdened above [our] power, so that we despaired even of life;

⁹asi takanga tine mutongo werufu matiri, kuti tirege kuzvivimba, asi Mwari unomutsa vakafa;

⁹but we ourselves in ourselves the sentence of the death have had, that we may not be trusting on ourselves, but on God, who is raising the dead,

¹⁰wakatinunura parufu rukuru rwakadai, uye unonunura; watinovimba maari kuti uchatinunura;

¹⁰who out of so great a death did deliver us, and doth deliver, in whom we have hoped that even yet He will deliver;

¹¹nemwiwo muchitishandira pamwe nemukumbiro, kuti nekuda kwechipo pamusoro pedu nenzira yevanhu vazhinji, kuvonga kupiwe vazhinji vakatimiririra.

¹¹ye working together also for us by your supplication, that the gift through many persons to us, through many may be thankfully acknowledged for us.

¹²Nekuti kuzvikudza kwedu ndikoku: Kupupura kwehana yedu, kuti muumwe neuzvokwadi hwaMwari, kwete neuchenjeri hwenyama, asi nenyasha dzaMwari, takazvibata panyika zvikuru maererano nemwi.

¹²For our glorying is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we did conduct ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you;

¹³Nekuti hatinyori zvimwe zvinhu kwamuri, asi izvo zvamunoverenga nezvamunogamuchira; uye ndinovimba kuti muchazvigamuchira kusvika pakuguma;

¹³for no other things do we write to you, but what ye either do read or also acknowledge, and I hope that also unto the end ye shall acknowledge,

¹⁴sezvamakatigamuchirawo muchidimbu, kuti tiri rumbidzo yenyu, semwiwo vedu nezuva raIshe Jesu.

¹⁴according as also ye did acknowledge us in part, that your glory we are, even as also ye [are] ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus;

¹⁵Zvino muchivimbo ichi, ndaishuva kutanga kuuya kwamuri kuti muve nenyasha dzechipiri;

¹⁵and in this confidence I was purposing to come unto you before, that a second favour ye might have,

¹⁶nekupfuura nekwamuri ndichienda Makedhonia, nekudzoka kwamuri ndichibva Makedhonia, ndiperekedzwe nemwi kuJudhiya.

¹⁶and through you to pass to Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come unto you, and by you to be sent forward to Judea.

¹⁷Naizvozvo ndichifunga saizvozvo, ndakaita nekusasimbisa moyo here, kana zvandinozvipira ndinozvipira zvinoenderana nenyama here? Kuti kwandiri zvive hongu, hongu; uye kwete, kwete?

¹⁷This, therefore, counselling, did I then use the lightness; or the things that I counsel, according to the flesh do I counsel, that it may be with me Yes, yes, and No, no?

¹⁸Asi Mwari wakatendeka, kuti shoko redu kwamuri harina kuva hongu nakwete.

¹⁸and God [is] faithful, that our word unto you became not Yes and No,

¹⁹Nekuti Mwanakomana waMwari Jesu Kristu uyo wakaparidzwa pakati penyu nesu, neni naSirivhano naTimotio, wakange asiri hongu nakwete, asi maari maiva hongu.

¹⁹for the Son of God, Jesus Christ, among you through us having been preached — through me and Silvanus and Timotheus — did not become Yes and No, but in him it hath become Yes;

²⁰Nekuti zvose zvipikirwa zvaMwari, nemaari ndihongu; nemaari ndiAmeni, kuti Mwari akudzwe kubudikidzwa nesu.

²⁰for as many as [are] promises of God, in him [are] the Yes, and in him the Amen, for glory to God through us;

²¹Zvino unotisimbisa pamwe nemwi muna Kristu nekutizodza ndiMwari,

²¹and He who is confirming you with us into Christ, and did anoint us, [is] God,

²²wakatiisawo mucherechedzo, akapa rubatso rweMweya mumoyo yedu.

²²who also sealed us, and gave the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

²³Asi ini ndinodana Mwari kuti ave chapupu pamweya wangu, kuti ndikuregererei handina kuzouya Korinde.

²³And I for a witness on God do call upon my soul, that sparing you, I came not yet to Corinth;

²⁴Hazvirevi kuti tinotonga pamusoro perutendo rwenyu, asi tiri vabatsiri vemufaro wenyu; nekuti mumire nerutendo.

²⁴not that we are lords over your faith, but we are workers together with your joy, for by the faith ye stand.