¹Asi ndakazvipira izvi mandiri kusauya kwamuri nekushungurudza.

¹And I decided this to myself, not again to come in sorrow unto you,

²Nekuti kana ndichikushungurudzai, ndiani zvino uchandifadza, kunze kwaiye wakashungurudzwa neni?

²for if I make you sorry, then who is he who is making me glad, except he who is made sorry by me?

³Zvino ndakakunyorerai chinhu chakadai kuti zvimwe kana ndasvika, ndirege kushungurudzwa naivo vanofanira kundifadza; ndine chivimbo mamuri mose, kuti mufaro wangu ndewenyu mose.

³and I wrote to you this same thing, that having come, I may not have sorrow from them of whom it behoved me to have joy, having confidence in you all, that my joy is of you all,

⁴Nekuti mudambudziko guru nekushungurudzika kwemoyo ndakakunyorerai nemisodzi mizhinji, kwete kuti murwadziswe, asi kuti muzive rudo rukuru rwandinokudai narwo.

⁴for out of much tribulation and pressure of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not that ye might be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly toward you.

⁵Zvino kana umwe akarwadzisa, haana kurwadzisa ini, asi muchidimbu (kuti ndirege kukuremedzai) mose.

⁵And if any one hath caused sorrow, he hath not caused sorrow to me, but in part, that I may not burden you all;

⁶Kuranga uku kwakakwanira wakadai ndiko kwevazhinji.

⁶sufficient to such a one is this punishment, that [is] by the more part,

⁷Kuti panzvimbo yaizvozvi zviri nani kuti mumukangamwire nokunyaradza, kuti wakadaro arege kuodzwa moyo kwazvo neshungu zvinji.

⁷so that, on the contrary, [it is] rather for you to forgive and to comfort, lest by over abundant sorrow such a one may be swallowed up;

⁸Naizvozvo ndinokukumbirisai kuti musimbise rudo kwaari.

⁸wherefore, I call upon you to confirm love to him,

⁹Nekuti ndakanyorerawo izvi, kuti ndizive kuidzwa kwenyu kana muchiteerera pazvinhu zvose.

⁹for, for this also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether in regard to all things ye are obedient.

¹⁰Zvino iye wamunokangamwira chinhu, neni ndinomukangamwira; nekuti kana ini ndichikangamwira chinhu, uyo wandinenge ndakakangamwira, ndinozviita nekuda kwenyu pamberi paKristu;

¹⁰And to whom ye forgive anything — I also; for I also, if I have forgiven anything, to whom I have forgiven [it], because of you — in the person of Christ — [I forgive it,]

¹¹zvimwe Satani ungatora mukana wedu; nekuti hatizi vasingazivi mano ake.

¹¹that we may not be over-reached by the Adversary, for of his devices we are not ignorant.

¹²Zvino ndakati ndichisvika paTroasi neevhangeri yaKristu, ndazarurirwa mukova muna Kristu,

¹²And having come to Troas for the good news of the Christ, and a door to me having been opened in the Lord,

¹³handina kuwana zororo pamweya wangu, nekuti handina kuwana Tito hama yangu; asi ndakawonekana navo ndikabvapo ndikaenda Makedhonia.

¹³I have not had rest to my spirit, on my not finding Titus my brother, but having taken leave of them, I went forth to Macedonia;

¹⁴Asi ngaavongwe Mwari, unotikundisa nguva dzose muna Kristu, uye unoratidza nesu kose-kose hwema hweruzivo rwake.

¹⁴and to God [are] thanks, who at all times is leading us in triumph in the Christ, and the fragrance of His knowledge He is manifesting through us in every place,

¹⁵Nekuti tiri hwema hwunonhuwira hwaKristu kuna Mwari, pane ivo vanoponeswa nepane ivo vanoparara.

¹⁵because of Christ a sweet fragrance we are to God, in those being saved, and in those being lost;

¹⁶Kune vamwe hwema hworufu mukufa; nekune vamwe hwema hweupenyu muupenyu. Zvino ndiani ungakwanira zvinhu izvi?

¹⁶to the one, indeed, a fragrance of death to death, and to the other, a fragrance of life to life; and for these things who is sufficient?

¹⁷Nekuti hatifanani nevazhinji vanokanganisa shoko raMwari; asi seveuchokwadi, uye sezvinobva kuna Mwari pachiso chaMwari tinotaura tiri muna Kristu.

¹⁷for we are not as the many, adulterating the word of God, but as of sincerity — but as of God; in the presence of God, in Christ we do speak.