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

¹For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

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

²For verily in this we groan, longing to be clothed upon with our habitation which is from heaven:

³kana zvikadaro hatingawanikwi tisina chatakafuka.

³if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.

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

⁴For indeed we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened; not for that we would be unclothed, but that we would be clothed upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up of life.

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

⁵Now he that wrought us for this very thing is God, who gave unto us the earnest of the Spirit.

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

⁶Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord

⁷Nekuti tinofamba nerutendo kwete nekuona;

⁷(for we walk by faith, not by sight);

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

⁸we are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

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

⁹Wherefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well-pleasing unto him.

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

¹⁰For we must all be made manifest before the judgment-seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things [done] in the body, according to what he hath done, whether [it be] good or bad.

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

¹¹Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are made manifest unto God; and I hope that we are made manifest also in your consciences.

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

¹²We are not again commending ourselves unto you, but [speak] as giving you occasion of glorying on our behalf, that ye may have wherewith to answer them that glory in appearance, and not in heart.

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

¹³For whether we are beside ourselves, it is unto God; or whether we are of sober mind, it is unto you.

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

¹⁴For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that one died for all, therefore all died;

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

¹⁵and he died for all, that they that live should no longer live unto themselves, but unto him who for their sakes died and rose again.

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

¹⁶Wherefore we henceforth know no man after the flesh: even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know [him so] no more.

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

¹⁷Wherefore if any man is in Christ, [he is] a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new.

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

¹⁸But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and gave unto us the ministry of reconciliation;

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

¹⁹to wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not reckoning unto them their trespasses, and having committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

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

²⁰We are ambassadors therefore on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beseech [you] on behalf of Christ, be ye reconciled to God.

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

²¹Him who knew no sin he made [to be] sin on our behalf; that we might become the righteousness of God in him.