¹Ivai vateveri vangu, seniwo ndiri waKristu.

¹Be my imitators, even as *I* also [am] of Christ.

²Zvino ndinokurumbidzai hama, kuti munondirangarira pazvinhu zvose, muchichengetedza zvimiso, sezvandakakumikidza kwamuri.

²Now I praise you, that in all things ye are mindful of me; and that as I have directed you, ye keep the directions.

³Asi ndinoda kuti muzive kuti musoro wemurume umwe neumwe ndiKristu; uye musoro womukadzi murume; uye musoro waKristu ndiMwari.

³But I wish you to know that the Christ is the head of every man, but woman's head [is] the man, and the Christ's head God.

⁴Murume umwe neumwe unonyengetera kana kuporofita ane musoro wakafukidzwa unozvidza musoro wake.

⁴Every man praying or prophesying, having [anything] on his head, puts his head to shame.

⁵Asi mukadzi umwe neumwe unonyengetera kana kuporofita nemusoro usina kufukidzwa, unozvidza musoro wake; nekuti ndizvo zvimwe nokuveurwa.

⁵But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered puts her own head to shame; for it is one and the same as a shaved [woman].

⁶Nekuti kana mukadzi asingafukidzwi ngaagerwewo; asi kana chiri chinyadzo kuti mukadzi agerwe kana kuveurwa, ngaafukidzwe.

⁶For if a woman be not covered, let her hair also be cut off. But if [it be] shameful to a woman to have her hair cut off or to be shaved, let her be covered.

⁷Nekuti murume zvirokwazvo haafaniri kufukidza musoro, sezvaari mufananidzo nekubwinya kwaMwari; asi mukadzi kubwinya kwemurume.

⁷For man indeed ought not to have his head covered, being God's image and glory; but woman is man's glory.

⁸Nekuti murume haabvi kumukadzi; asi mukadzi unobva kumurume;

⁸For man is not of woman, but woman of man.

⁹kana murume haana kusikirwa mukadzi, asi mukadzi murume;

⁹For also man was not created for the sake of the woman, but woman for the sake of the man.

¹⁰nekuda kweizvozvi mukadzi unofanira kuva nesimba pamusoro wake, nekuda kwevatumwa.

¹⁰Therefore ought the woman to have authority on her head, on account of the angels.

¹¹Kunyange zvakadaro murume haazi kunze kwemukadzi nemukadzi haazi kunze kwemurume muna Ishe.

¹¹However, neither [is] woman without man, nor man without woman, in [the] Lord.

¹²Nekuti mukadzi sezvaanobva kumurume, saizvozvo murumewo unobva kumukadzi, asi zvinhu zvose zvinobva kuna Mwari.

¹²For as the woman [is] of the man, so also [is] the man by the woman, but all things of God.

¹³Zvienzanisei imwi, zvakafanira here kuti mukadzi anyengetere kuna Mwari asina kufukidzwa?

¹³Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman should pray to God uncovered?

¹⁴Kunyange chisikigo pachacho hachikudzidzisii here, kuti kana murume ane vhudzi refu, chinyadzo kwaari?

¹⁴Does not even nature itself teach you, that man, if he have long hair, it is a dishonour to him?

¹⁵Asi kana mukadzi ane vhudzi refu, rukudzo kwaari; nekuti vhudzi rakapiwa kwaari chive chifukidzo.

¹⁵But woman, if she have long hair, [it is] glory to her; for the long hair is given [to her] in lieu of a veil.

¹⁶Zvino kana mumwe achiratidza kuva negakava, isu hatina tsika yakadaro, kunyange kereke dzaMwari.

¹⁶But if any one think to be contentious, *we* have no such custom, nor the assemblies of God.

¹⁷Zvino mukuraira uku handirumbidzi, nekuti munounganira kwete zvakapfuura kunaka, asi zvakaipisisa.

¹⁷But [in] prescribing [to you on] this [which I now enter on], I do not praise, [namely,] that ye come together, not for the better, but for the worse.

¹⁸Nekuti chekutanga kana muchiungana mukereke, ndinonzwa kuti kupatsanurana kuripo pakati penyu; pamwe ndinozvitenda.

¹⁸For first, when ye come together in assembly, I hear there exist divisions among you, and I partly give credit [to it].

¹⁹Nekuti kupatsanuka kunofanira kuva pakati penyu, kuti avo vakatendeka vaonekwe pakati penyu.

¹⁹For there must also be sects among you, that the approved may become manifest among you.

²⁰Naizvozvo kana muchiungana panzvimbo imwe, uku hakusi kudya chirayiro chaIshe;

²⁰When ye come therefore together into one place, it is not to eat [the] Lord's supper.

²¹Nekuti pakudya umwe neumwe unotanga kutora chirayiro chake; uye umwe une nzara, uye umwe wakadhakwa.

²¹For each one in eating takes his *own* supper before [others], and one is hungry and another drinks to excess.

²²Ko hamuna dzimba dzekudyira nekumwira here? Kana munozvidza kereke yaMwari, muchinyadzisa avo vasina chinhu? Ndichatii kwamuri? Ndingakurumbidzai here pane izvi? Handingakurumbidziyi.

²²Have ye not then houses for eating and drinking? or do ye despise the assembly of God, and put to shame them who have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you? In this [point] I do not praise.

²³Nekuti ini ndakagamuchira kuna Ishe ichowo chandakagamuchidza kwamuri, kuti Ishe Jesu neusiku hwaakatengeswa wakatora chingwa,

²³For *I* received from the Lord, that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus, in the night in which he was delivered up, took bread,

²⁴zvino wakati avonga akamedura, akati: Torai, idyai, ichi muviri wangu unomedurirwa imwi; izvi itai muchindirangarira.

²⁴and having given thanks broke [it], and said, This is my body, which [is] for you: this do in remembrance of me.

²⁵Nenzira imwecheteyo mukombewo, shure kwekurayira, achiti: Mukombe uyu isungano itsva muropa rangu; izvi itai, nguva dzose kana muchimwa mukundirangarira.

²⁵In like manner also the cup, after having supped, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood: this do, as often as ye shall drink [it], in remembrance of me.

²⁶Nekuti nguva dzose kana muchidya chingwa ichi nekumwa mukombe uyu, munoparidza rufu rwaIshe kusvikira asvika.

²⁶For as often as ye shall eat this bread, and drink the cup, ye announce the death of the Lord, until he come.

²⁷Naizvozvo ani nani unodya chingwa ichi, kana kumwa mukombe waIshe zvisakafanira, uchava nemhosva yemuviri neropa raIshe.

²⁷So that whosoever shall eat the bread, or drink the cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty in respect of the body and of the blood of the Lord.

²⁸Zvino munhu ngaazviongorore, saizvozvo ngaadye zvechingwa nekumwa zvemukombe.

²⁸But let a man prove himself, and thus eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.

²⁹Nekuti unodya nokumwa zvisakafanira, unozvidyira nekuzvimwira kutongwa zvaasingatsauri muviri waIshe.

²⁹For [the] eater and drinker eats and drinks judgment to himself, not distinguishing the body.

³⁰Nemhaka iyi vazhinji pakati penyu indonda nevarwere, nevazhinji varere.

³⁰On this account many among you [are] weak and infirm, and a good many are fallen asleep.

³¹Nekuti dai taizvinzvera tomene, hatizaitongwa.

³¹But if we judged ourselves, so were we not judged.

³²Zvino kana tichitongwa, tinorangwa naIshe, kuti tirege kunzi tine mhosva pamwe nenyika.

³²But being judged, we are disciplined of [the] Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

³³Naizvozvo, hama dzangu, kana muchiungana kuti mudye, miriranai.

³³So that, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, wait for one another.

³⁴Uye kana umwe ane nzara, ngaadye kumba; kuti murege kuunganira kunzi mune mhosva. Zvasara ndichazvigadzira kana ndichisvika.

³⁴If any one be hungry, let him eat at home, that ye may not come together for judgment. But the other things, whenever I come, I will set in order.