¹Umwe neumwe unotenda kuti Jesu ndiye Kristu, wakaberekwa naMwari; umwe neumwe, unoda iye wakabereka unodawo wakaberekwa naye.

¹Every one that believes that Jesus is the Christ is begotten of God; and every one that loves him that has begotten loves also him that is begotten of him.

²Ndizvo zvatinoziva nazvo kuti tinoda vana vaMwari, kana tichida Mwari, zvekare tichichengeta mirairo yake.

²Hereby know we that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.

³Nekuti urwu rudo rwaMwari, kuti tichengete mirairo yake; zvakare mirairo yake hairemi.

³For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments; and his commandments are not grievous.

⁴Nekuti chipi nechipi chinoberekwa naMwari chinokunda nyika; uku ndiko kukunda kunokunda nyika, iko rutendo rwedu.

⁴For all that has been begotten of God gets the victory over the world; and this is the victory which has gotten the victory over the world, our faith.

⁵Ndianiko unokunda nyika, kunze kwaiye unotenda kuti Jesu Kristu ndiye mwanakomana waMwari?

⁵Who is he that gets the victory over the world, but he that believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

⁶ndiye wakavuya nemvura neropa, iye Jesu Kristu; kwete nemvura yoga, asi nemvura neropa. Zvakare Mweya ndiye unopupura nekuti Mweya ichokwadi

⁶This is he that came by water and blood, Jesus [the] Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that bears witness, for the Spirit is the truth.

⁷Nekuti kune vatatu vanopupura kudenga, Baba, Shoko naMweya Mutsvene, ava vatatu ndimumwe.

⁷For they that bear witness are three:

⁸Uye kune vatatu vanopupura panyika, Mweya, mvura neropa ava vatatu vanotenderana pachinhu chimwe.

⁸the Spirit, and the water, and the blood; and the three agree in one.

⁹Kana tichigamuchira uchapupu hwevanhu, uchapupu hwaMwari ukuru; nekuti uhwu ndihwo uchapupu hwaMwari ndihwo hwaakapupura pamusoro poMwanakomana wake.

⁹If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater. For this is the witness of God [which] he has witnessed concerning his Son.

¹⁰Uyo unotenda kuMwanakomana waMwari une uchapupu maari; usingatendi Mwari wakamuita murevi wenhema; nekuti haana kutenda uchapupu Mwari hwaakapupurira Mwanakomana wake.

¹⁰He that believes on the Son of God has the witness in himself; he that does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the witness which God has witnessed concerning his Son.

¹¹Uhwu ndihwo uchapupu, kuti Mwari wakatipa upenyu hwusingaperi; zvino upenyu uhwu hwuri muMwanakomana wake.

¹¹And this is the witness, that God has given to us eternal life; and this life is in his Son.

¹²Uyo une Mwanakomana une upenyu; usina Mwanakomana waMwari haana upenyu.

¹²He that has the Son has life: he that has not the Son of God has not life.

¹³Zvinhu izvi ndazvinyora kwamuri imwi munotenda kuzita roMwanakomanai waMwari kuti mugoziva kuti mune upenyu hwusingaperi uye kuti utende kuzita roMwanakomana waMwari.

¹³These things have I written to you that ye may know that ye have eternal life who believe on the name of the Son of God.

¹⁴Uhwu ndihwo ushingi hwatinahwo maari, kuti kana tichikumbira chinhu nekuda kwake, unotinzwa;

¹⁴And this is the boldness which we have towards him, that if we ask him anything according to his will he hears us.

¹⁵zvino kana tichiziva kuti unotinzwa pazvose zvatinokumbira, tinoziva kuti tapiwa zvichemo zvatakakumbira kwaari.

¹⁵And if we know that he hears us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.

¹⁶Kana munhu achiona hama yake ichitadza chivi chisati chiri cherufu, uchakumbira, iye agomupa upenyu hwunopiwa vasingaiti chivi cherufu. Chiripo chivi cherufu; handiti akumbire pamusoro pechichi.

¹⁶If any one see his brother sinning a sin not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life, for those that do not sin unto death. There is a sin to death: I do not say of that that he should make a request.

¹⁷Kusarurama kose chivi; zvekare chivi chiripo chisati chiri cherufu.

¹⁷Every unrighteousness is sin; and there is a sin not to death.

¹⁸Tinoziva kuti umwe neumwe wakaberekwa naMwari haatadzi; asi uyo wakaberekwa naMwari unozvichengeta, wakaipa uyo haangamubati.

¹⁸We know that every one begotten of God does not sin, but he that has been begotten of God keeps himself, and the wicked [one] does not touch him.

¹⁹Tinoziva kuti tiri vaMwari, nenyika yose ivete muzvakaipa.

¹⁹We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the wicked [one].

²⁰Uye tinoziva kuti mwanakomana waMwari wakauya akatipa kunzwisisa, kuti tizive iye wechokwadi; nesu tiri munaiye wechokwadi mumwanakomana wake Jesu Kristu. Uyu ndiye Mwari wechokwadi, neupenyu hwusingaperi.

²⁰And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding that we should know him that [is] true; and we are in him that [is] true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

²¹Vana vaduku, zvichengetedzei pazvifananidzo. Ameni.

²¹Children, keep yourselves from idols.