¹Asi ndakazvipira izvi mandiri kusauya kwamuri nekushungurudza.

¹But I determined this for myself, that I would not come again to you with sorrow.

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

²For if I make you sorry, who then is he that maketh me glad but he that 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 this very thing, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is [the joy] 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 affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly unto you.

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

⁵But if any hath caused sorrow, he hath caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I press not too heavily) to you all.

⁶Kuranga uku kwakakwanira wakadai ndiko kwevazhinji.

⁶Sufficient to such a one is this punishment which was [inflicted] by the many;

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

⁷so that contrariwise ye should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his overmuch sorrow.

⁸Naizvozvo ndinokukumbirisai kuti musimbise rudo kwaari.

⁸Wherefore I beseech you to confirm [your] love toward him.

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

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

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

¹⁰But to whom ye forgive anything, I [forgive] also: for what I also have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, for your sakes [have I forgiven it] in the presence of Christ;

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

¹¹that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan: for we are not ignorant of his devices.

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

¹²Now when I came to Troas for the gospel of Christ, and when a door was opened unto me in the Lord,

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

¹³I had no relief for my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went forth into Macedonia.

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

¹⁴But thanks be unto God, who always leadeth us in triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest through us the savor of his knowledge in every place.

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

¹⁵For we are a sweet savor of Christ unto God, in them that are saved, and in them that perish;

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

¹⁶to the one a savor from death unto death; to the other a savor from life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

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, corrupting the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, speak we in Christ.