¹Asi kwaiva nevaporofita venhemawo pakati pevanhu, sezvakuchavapowo vadzidzisi venhema pakati penyu, vachapinza pachivande dzidziso dzakatsauka dzinoparadza, vachiramba naiye Ishe wakavatenga, vachizviwisira kuparara kunokurumidza,

¹And there did come also false prophets among the people, as also among you there shall be false teachers, who shall bring in besides destructive sects, and the Master who bought them denying, bringing to themselves quick destruction,

²zvino vazhinji vachatevera kuparadzwa kwavo; nekuda kwavo nzira yechokwadi ichanyombwa,

²and many shall follow out their destructive ways, because of whom the way of the truth shall be evil spoken of,

³uye pakuchiva vachakubatai namashoko emano mano; kutongwa kwavo kwakatarwa kare vachita mubairo nei, kutongwa kwavo kwekare hakunonoki, nekuparadzwa kwavo hakutsumwairi.

³and in covetousness, with moulded words, of you they shall make merchandise, whose judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction doth not slumber.

⁴Nekuti kana Mwari asina kurega vatumwa vakatadza, asi wakavakandira mugehena nekuvakumikidza kumaketeni erima kuti vachengeterwe mutongo;

⁴For if God messengers who sinned did not spare, but with chains of thick gloom, having cast [them] down to Tartarus, did deliver [them] to judgment, having been reserved,

⁵uye haana kurega nyika yekare, asi wakachengetedza Nowa wechisere muparidzi wekururama, paakauyisa mafashame panyika yevasingadi Mwari;

⁵and the old world did not spare, but the eighth person, Noah, of righteousness a preacher, did keep, a flood on the world of the impious having brought,

⁶akashandura maguta eSodhoma neGomora kuita madota, akaatongera kuparadzwa, akaaita chive chiratidzo kune vachagara vasingadi Mwari;

⁶and the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah having turned to ashes, with an overthrow did condemn, an example to those about to be impious having set [them];

⁷akasunungura Roti wakarurama, wakazvidya moyo nemafambiro anonyangadza evakaipa.

⁷and righteous Lot, worn down by the conduct in lasciviousness of the impious, He did rescue,

⁸Nekuti munhu uyo wakarurama, agere pakati pavo, pakuona nekunzwa, wakarwadzisa mweya wake wakarurama zuva rimwe nerimwe nemabasa asina murairo.

⁸for in seeing and hearing, the righteous man, dwelling among them, day by day the righteous soul with unlawful works was harassing.

⁹Ishe unoziva kusunungura vanonamata Mwari pamiidzo, nekuchengetera vasakarurama kusvika pazuva rekutongwa vachirangwa;

⁹The Lord hath known to rescue pious ones out of temptation, and unrighteous ones to a day of judgment, being punished, to keep,

¹⁰asi zvikuru ivo vanofamba nemutowo wenyama paruchiva rwetsvina nekuzvidza utongi. Vasina hanya, vane nharo, vasingatyi kutuka utongi;

¹⁰and chiefly those going behind the flesh in desire of uncleanness, and lordship despising; presumptuous, self-complacent, dignities they are not afraid to speak evil of,

¹¹izvo vatumwa, vanopfuura pasimba neukuru, havauyi nemutongo wekunyomba pamberi paIshe.

¹¹whereas messengers, in strength and power being greater, do not bear against them before the Lord an evil speaking judgment;

¹²Asi ava vakaita semhuka pachizvarigo dzisina murangariro, dzakaberekerwa kubatwa nekuparadzwa vanotuka zvavasingazivi, naivo vachaparadzwa kwazvo pakuora kwavo,

¹²and these, as irrational natural beasts, made to be caught and destroyed — in what things they are ignorant of, speaking evil — in their destruction shall be destroyed,

¹³uye vachagamuchira mubayiro wokusarurama vanoti mafaro kuita umbozha masikati, ivo makwapa nemavara, vanofara mukunyengera kwavo kana vari pamafundo nemwi,

¹³about to receive a reward of unrighteousness, pleasures counting the luxury in the day, spots and blemishes, luxuriating in their deceits, feasting with you,

¹⁴vane meso azere neupombwe, vasingaregi chivi, vanonyengera mweya isina simba; nemoyo wakarovedzwa kuchiva; vana verushambwa;

¹⁴having eyes full of adultery, and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having an heart exercised in covetousnesses, children of a curse,

¹⁵vakasiya nzira yakarurama vakatsauka, vachitevera nzira yaBharami waBhosori wakada mibairo yekusarurama

¹⁵having forsaken a right way, they did go astray, having followed in the way of Balaam the [son] of Bosor, who a reward of unrighteousness did love,

¹⁶asi wakatsiurwa pakudarika kwake, chimumumu chembongoro chichitaura nenzwi remunhu chikadzivisa upengo hwemuporofita.

¹⁶and had a rebuke of his own iniquity — a dumb ass, in man`s voice having spoken, did forbid the madness of the prophet.

¹⁷Ivava zvitubu zvisina mvura, makore anosundwa nemhepo; ivo vakachengeterwa mhute yerima nekusingaperi.

¹⁷These are wells without water, and clouds by a tempest driven, to whom the thick gloom of the darkness to the age hath been kept;

¹⁸Nekuti nokutaura kwavo kukuru kwekuzvikudza kusina maturo, vanonyengera neruchiva rwenyama neunzenza, avo vachangopukunyuka kuna vanogara pakutsauka;

¹⁸for overswellings of vanity speaking, they do entice in desires of the flesh — lasciviousnesses, those who had truly escaped from those conducting themselves in error,

¹⁹vachivavimbisa rusununguko, ivo vomene varanda vekuora; nekuti munhu waakundwa naye, ndiye waanoitwa muranda wake.

¹⁹liberty to them promising, themselves being servants of the corruption, for by whom any one hath been overcome, to this one also he hath been brought to servitude,

²⁰Nekuti kana vapukunyuka patsvina yenyika kubudikidza neruzivo rwaIshe neMuponesi Jesu Kristu vanobatwa nokukundwazve nazvo, kuguma kwavo kwaipa kupfuura kutanga.

²⁰for, if having escaped from the pollutions of the world, in the acknowledging of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and by these again being entangled, they have been overcome, become to them hath the last things worse than the first,

²¹Nekuti zvaiva nani kwavari kana vasaiziva nzira yekururama, pakuti vamboziva vadzoke pamurairo mutsvene wakakumikidzwa kwavari.

²¹for it were better to them not to have acknowledged the way of the righteousness, than having acknowledged [it], to turn back from the holy command delivered to them,

²²Asi zvakaitika kwavari zvedimikira rechokwadi zvinoti: Imbwa yakadzokera kumarutsi ayozve, nehadzi yenguruve yakanga yashamba, kukuvumburuka mumatope.

²²and happened to them hath that of the true similitude; `A dog did turn back upon his own vomit,` and, `A sow having bathed herself — to rolling in mire.`