¹Nekuti tinoziva kuti kana imba yedu yenyika, yedumba ichiputswa, tine chivakwa chinobva kuna Mwari, imba isina kuvakwa nemaoko, yekusingaperi iri kumatenga.

¹For we have known that if our earthly house of the tabernacle may be thrown down, a building from God we have, an house not made with hands — age-during — in the heavens,

²Nekuti mune iyi tinogomera, tichishuva nemoyo wose kuti tifukidzwe neimba yedu inobva kudenga;

²for also in this we groan, with our dwelling that is from heaven earnestly desiring to clothe ourselves,

³kana zvikadaro hatingawanikwi tisina chatakafuka.

³if so be that, having clothed ourselves, we shall not be found naked,

⁴Nekuti nesu tiri mutende tinogomera tichiremerwa; tisingadi kuti tikururwe, asi kufukidzwa, kuti chinofa chimedzwe neupenyu.

⁴for we also who are in the tabernacle do groan, being burdened, seeing we wish not to unclothe ourselves, but to clothe ourselves, that the mortal may be swallowed up of the life.

⁵Zvino uyo wakatigadzirira chinhu ichochi ndiMwari, wakatipawo rubatso rwoMweya.

⁵And He who did work us to this self-same thing [is] God, who also did give to us the earnest of the Spirit;

⁶Naizvozvo tine ushingi nguva dzose, tichiziva kuti kana tiri kumusha mumuviri hatisi kuna Ishe;

⁶having courage, then, at all times, and knowing that being at home in the body, we are away from home from the Lord, —

⁷Nekuti tinofamba nerutendo kwete nekuona;

⁷for through faith we walk, not through sight —

⁸naizvozvo tine ushingi, tichishuva kuti zviri nani kusava pamuviri, asi kuva kuna Ishe.

⁸we have courage, and are well pleased rather to be away from the home of the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

⁹Naizvozvo tinoshingaira kuti kunyange tiri pamusha kana kure nemusha kwaari.

⁹Wherefore also we are ambitious, whether at home or away from home, to be well pleasing to him,

¹⁰Nekuti tose tinofanira kuonekwa pamberi pechigaro chekutonga chaKristu; kuti umwe neumwe agamuchire zvinhu zvaakaita pamuviri, zvichienderana nezvaakaita, kana zvakanaka kana zvakaipa.

¹⁰for all of us it behoveth to be manifested before the tribunal of the Christ, that each one may receive the things [done] through the body, in reference to the things that he did, whether good or evil;

¹¹Naizvozvo zvatinoziva kutyisa kw aIshe, tinonyengetedza vanhu; asi tinoratidzwa kuna Mwari; uye ndine chivimbo kuti tiratidzwe pahana dzenyu.

¹¹having known, therefore, the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, and to God we are manifested, and I hope also in your consciences to have been manifested;

¹²Hatizvirumbidzizve kwamuri, asi tinokupai mukana wekurumbidza nekuda kwedu, kuti mugone kumirisana navo vanozvirumbidza pachiso kwete pamoyo.

¹²for not again ourselves do we recommend to you, but we are giving occasion to you of glorifying in our behalf, that ye may have [something] in reference to those glorifying in face and not in heart;

¹³Nekuti kana tichipenga, ndezve kuna Mwari; kana tiri vanhu kwavo, ndezve kwamuri.

¹³for whether we were beside ourselves, [it was] to God; whether we be of sound mind — [it is] to you,

¹⁴Nekuti rudo rwaKristu runotimanikidza; nekuti tinoona saizvozvo kuti kana mumwe akafira vose, zvino vose vakafa;

¹⁴for the love of the Christ doth constrain us, having judged thus: that if one for all died, then the whole died,

¹⁵zvino iye wakafira vose, kuti avo vanorarama vachirega kuzozviraramira ivo, asi iye wakavafira nekumukazve.

¹⁵and for all he died, that those living, no more to themselves may live, but to him who died for them, and was raised again.

¹⁶Naizvozvo kubvira zvino hatizivi munhu panyama; uye kunyange takaziva Kristu panyama, kubvira zvino hatichamuzivi saizvozvo.

¹⁶So that we henceforth have known no one according to the flesh, and even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him no more;

¹⁷Kuti kana munhu ari muna Kristu, wava chisikwa chitsva, zvinhu zvekare zvapfuura, tarirai zvose zvava zvitsva.

¹⁷so that if any one [is] in Christ — [he is] a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things.

¹⁸Uye zvinhu zvose zvakabva kuna Mwari, wakatiyananisa naye naJesu Kristu, uye wakatipa kushumira kweyananiso;

¹⁸And the all things [are] of God, who reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and did give to us the ministration of the reconciliation,

¹⁹sezvinonzi Mwari wakange ari muna Kristu achiyananisa nyika kwaari, asingavaverengeri kudarika kwavo, akakumikidza kwatiri shoko rekuyananisa.

¹⁹how that God was in Christ — a world reconciling to Himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses; and having put in us the word of the reconciliation,

²⁰Naizvozvo tiri nhumwa nekuda kwaKristu, Mwari saanenge achikukumbirisai, nesu tinokukumbirisaiwo pachinzvimbo chaKristu tichiti: Yananiswai naMwari.

²⁰in behalf of Christ, then, we are ambassadors, as if God were calling through us, we beseech, in behalf of Christ, `Be ye reconciled to God;`

²¹Nekuti uyo wakange asingazivi chivi, wakamuita chivi pachinzvimbo chedu; kuti isu tive kururama kwaMwari maari.

²¹for him who did not know sin, in our behalf He did make sin, that we may become the righteousness of God in him.