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

¹But there arose false prophets also among the people, as among you also there shall be false teachers, who shall privily bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.

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

²And many shall follow their lascivious doings; by reason 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 shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose sentence now from of old lingereth not, and their destruction slumbereth not.

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

⁴For if God spared not angels when they sinned, but cast them down to hell, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

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

⁵and spared not the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;

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

⁶and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, having made them an example unto those that should live ungodly;

⁷akasunungura Roti wakarurama, wakazvidya moyo nemafambiro anonyangadza evakaipa.

⁷and delivered righteous Lot, sore distressed by the lascivious life of the wicked

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

⁸(for that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed [his] righteous soul from day to day with [their] lawless deeds):

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

⁹the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment unto the day of judgment;

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

¹⁰but chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement, and despise dominion. Daring, self-willed, they tremble not to rail at dignities:

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

¹¹whereas angels, though greater in might and power, bring not a railing judgment against them before the Lord.

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

¹²But these, as creatures without reason, born mere animals to be taken and destroyed, railing in matters whereof they are ignorant, shall in their destroying surely be destroyed,

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

¹³suffering wrong as the hire of wrong-doing; [men] that count it pleasure to revel in the day-time, spots and blemishes, revelling in their deceivings while they feast with you;

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

¹⁴having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; enticing unstedfast souls; having a heart exercised in covetousness; children of cursing;

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

¹⁵forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the [son] of Beor, who loved the hire of wrong-doing;

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

¹⁶but he was rebuked for his own transgression: a dumb ass spake with man's voice and stayed the madness of the prophet.

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

¹⁷These are springs without water, and mists driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness hath been reserved.

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

¹⁸For, uttering great swelling [words] of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousness, those who are just escaping from them that live in error;

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

¹⁹promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he also brought into bondage.

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

²⁰For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the last state is become worse with them than the first.

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

²¹For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

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

²²It has happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog turning to his own vomit again, and the sow that had washed to wallowing in the mire.