¹Zvino iwe taura zvinhu zvakafanira dzidziso mhenyu.

¹And thou -- be speaking what doth become the sound teaching;

²Varume vakuru kuti vave vakadzikama, vanokudzwa, vakangwara, vapenyu parutendo, parudo, pakutsungirira;

²aged men to be temperate, grave, sober, sound in the faith, in the love, in the endurance;

³saizvozvowo vakadzi vakuru, kuti pamafambiro vave sezvakafanira utsvene, kwete vacheri, kana vanokarira waini zhinji, vadzidzisi vezvinhu zvakanaka,

³aged women, in like manner, in deportment as doth become sacred persons, not false accusers, to much wine not enslaved, of good things teachers,

⁴kuti vadzidzise vakadzi vaduku kusvinura mufungwa, kuda varume vavo, nekuda vana vavo,

⁴that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of [their] husbands, lovers of [their] children,

⁵vakachenjera, vakachena, vachengeti vemisha, vakanaka, vanoteerera varume vavo, kuti shoko raMwari rirege kunyombwa.

⁵sober, pure, keepers of [their own] houses, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.

⁶Varume vaduku saizvozvo ukurudzire kuti vave vakasvinura;

⁶The younger men, in like manner, be exhorting to be sober-minded;

⁷pazvinhu zvose iwe uzviratidze semufananidzo wamabasa akanaka, padzidziso isakasvibiswa, nemugariro unokudzwa nekuvimbika,

⁷concerning all things thyself showing a pattern of good works; in the teaching uncorruptedness, gravity, incorruptibility,

⁸nhauro yakagwinya isingagoni kushoorwa, kuti uyo wedivi rinopikisa anyare, asina chinhu chakaipa chaangareva pamusoro penyu.

⁸discourse sound, irreprehensible, that he who is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say concerning you.

⁹Kurudzira varanda kuzviisa pasi pavatenzi vavo, kuti vafadze pazvose, vasingakakavari,

⁹Servants -- to their own masters [are] to be subject, in all things to be well-pleasing, not gainsaying,

¹⁰vasingabi, asi varatidze kutendeka kwakanaka kose, kuti vashongedze dzidziso yaMwari Muponesi wedu pazvinhu zvose.

¹⁰not purloining, but showing all good stedfastness, that the teaching of God our Saviour they may adorn in all things.

¹¹Nekuti nyasha dzaMwari dzinoponesa dzakaratidzwa kuvanhu vose,

¹¹For the saving grace of God was manifested to all men,

¹²Dzichitidzidzisa kuti, tichiramba kusava neuMwari nekuchiva kwenyika, tirarame nekusvinura, kururama neuMwari panyika yazvino,

¹²teaching us, that denying the impiety and the worldly desires, soberly and righteously and piously we may live in the present age,

¹³tichimirira tariro yakaropafadzwa, nekuratidzwa kwekubwinya kwaMwari mukuru neMuponesi wedu Jesu Kristu.

¹³waiting for the blessed hope and manifestation of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ,

¹⁴wakazvipa nekuda kwedu, kuti atidzikinure pakuipa kose, kuti azvinatsire vanhu vakasanangurwa, vanoshingairira mabasa akanaka.

¹⁴who did give himself for us, that he might ransom us from all lawlessness, and might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works;

¹⁵Taura zvinhu izvi, ukurudzire, utsiure nesimba rose; kurege kuva nomunhu unokuzvidza.

¹⁵these things be speaking, and exhorting, and convicting, with all charge; let no one despise thee!