¹Nekuti nemwi hama, munoziva kupinda kwedu kwamuri kuti hakuna kuva pasina.

¹For yourselves, brethren, know our entering in unto you, that it hath not been found vain:

²Asi kunyange takambotambudzika pakutanga nekuitirwa zvinonyadzisa sezvamunoziva paFiripi, takatsunga muna Mwari wedu kutaura kwamuri evhangeri yaMwari nekupikiswa kukuru.

²but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as ye know, at Philippi, we waxed bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God in much conflict.

³Nekuti kurudziro yedu haina kubva pakunyengera, kana kubva patsvina, kana pamano mano;

³For our exhortation [is] not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:

⁴asi sezvatakatendewa naMwari, kuti tibatiswe evhangeri, saizvozo tinotaura; kwete sekufadza vanhu, asi Mwari unoidza moyo yedu.

⁴but even as we have been approved of God to be intrusted with the gospel, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God who proveth our hearts.

⁵Nekuti chero nguva hatina kutongoreva nemashoko ekubata kumeso sezvamunoziva, kana namano-mano ekuchiva; Mwari chapupu;

⁵For neither at any time were we found using words of flattery, as ye know, nor a cloak of covetousness, God is witness;

⁶kana kutsvaka rukudzo kuvanhu kana rwenyu, kana rwevamwe, kunyange taigona kukuremedzai sevaapositori vaKristu.

⁶nor seeking glory of men, neither from you nor from others, when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.

⁷Asi takanga tiri vanyoro pakati penyu, semureri kana achifumbatira vana vake;

⁷But we were gentle in the midst of you, as when a nurse cherisheth her own children:

⁸saizvozvo takakushuvai kwazvo, taida zvikuru kuti tigovane nemwi kwete evhangeri yaMwari chete, asi mweya yeduwo, nekuti makanga muri vadikamwi kwatiri.

⁸even so, being affectionately desirous of you, we were well pleased to impart unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were become very dear to us.

⁹Nekuti munorangarira, hama, kushingaira nekurwa kwedu; taibata usiku nemasikati, kuti tisava mutoro kune umwe wenyu, takakuparidzirai evhangeri yaMwari.

⁹For ye remember, brethren, our labor and travail: working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

¹⁰Imwi muri zvapupu, naMwari, kuti taifamba neutsvene nekururama tisina chatingapomerwa kwamuri imwi vanotenda.

¹⁰Ye are witnesses, and God [also], how holily and righteously and unblameably we behaved ourselves toward you that believe:

¹¹Sezvamunoziva kuti umwe neumwe wenyu sababa kuvana vavo, takakukurudzirai sei nekunyaradza nekupupura,

¹¹as ye know how we [dealt with] each one of you, as a father with his own children, exhorting you, and encouraging [you], and testifying,

¹²kuti mufambe zvakafanira Mwari, unokudanirai kuushe hwake nekubwinya.

¹²to the end that ye should walk worthily of God, who calleth you into his own kingdom and glory.

¹³Nekuda kwaizvozviwo tinoramba tichivonga Mwari, kuti pamakagamuchira shoko raMwari ramakanzwa kubva kwatiri, hamuna kurigamuchira seshoko revanhu, asi sechokwadi shoko raMwari, rinoshandawo mukati menyu imwi munotenda.

¹³And for this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when ye received from us the word of the message, [even the word] of God, ye accepted [it] not [as] the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also worketh in you that believe.

¹⁴Nekuti imwi, hama, makava vateveri vekereke dzaMwari dziri muJudhiya muna Kristu Jesu; nekuti imwiwo makatambudzika nezvinhu zvakadaro kune vekwenyu, sezvavakatambudzwa ivo nevaJudha,

¹⁴For ye, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus: for ye also suffered the same things of your own countrymen, even as they did of the Jews;

¹⁵Ndivo zvose vakauraya Ishe Jesu nevaporofita vavo vomene, vakatishusha isu, vasingafadzi Mwari, vachipesana nevanhu vose.

¹⁵who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove out us, and pleased not God, and are contrary to all men;

¹⁶vachitidzivisa kuparidzira vahedheni kuti vaponeswe; kuti varambe vachizadzisa zvivi zvavo; asi hasha dzakaburukira pamusoro pavo kusvikira pakuguma.

¹⁶forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always: but the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.

¹⁷Zvino isu, hama, zvatakaparadzaniswa nemwi kwechinguvana pazviso, kwete pamoyo, takashingairira zvikuru nechishuwo chikuru kuti tione chiso chenyu.

¹⁷But we, brethren, being bereaved of you for a short season, in presence not in heart, endeavored the more exceedingly to see your face with great desire:

¹⁸Naizvozvo taida kuuya kwamuri, zvikuru Pauro, kamwe nekudzokorora, asi Satani wakatidzivisa.

¹⁸because we would fain have come unto you, I Paul once and again; and Satan hindered us.

¹⁹Nekuti tariro yedu chii, kana mufaro, kana korona yekuzvirumbidza? Hamuzi imwi here pamberi paIshe wedu Jesu Kristu pakuuya kwake?

¹⁹For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of glorying? Are not even ye, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

²⁰Nekuti imwi muri kubwinya nemufaro wedu.

²⁰For ye are our glory and our joy.