¹Pauro, muapositori waJesu Kristu nekuraira kwaMwari Muponesi wedu, nekwaIshe Jesu Kristu, tariro yedu,

¹Paul, apostle of Jesus Christ, according to [the] command of God our Saviour, and of Christ Jesus our hope,

²kuna Timotio mwana wangu chaiye parutendo: Nyasha, tsitsi, nerugare zvinobva kuna Mwari Baba vedu naJesu Kristu Ishe wedu.

²to Timotheus, [my] true child in faith: grace, mercy, peace, from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

³Sezvandakakukurudzira kuti ugare paEfeso, ndichienda Makedhonia, kuti uraire vamwe kuti varege kudzidzisa dzimwe dzidziso,

³Even as I begged thee to remain in Ephesus, [when I was] going to Macedonia, that thou mightest enjoin some not to teach other doctrines,

⁴kana kurangarira ngano nenhoroondo dzamazita emadzibaba dzisingaperi, zvinomutsa gakava pane kutsigisa kwaMwari kuri murutendo.

⁴nor to turn their minds to fables and interminable genealogies, which bring questionings rather than [further] God's dispensation, which [is] in faith.

⁵Asi chinangwa chemurairo rudo rwunobva pamoyo wakachena nehana yakanaka nerutendo rwusinganyepedzeri;

⁵But the end of what is enjoined is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and unfeigned faith;

⁶pane izvozvi vamwe vakatsvedza vakatsaukira kukutaura kusina maturo;

⁶which [things] some having missed, have turned aside to vain discourse,

⁷vachishuva kuva vadzidzisi vemurairo, vasingazivi zvavanoreva kana zvavanosimbisa.

⁷desiring to be law-teachers, not understanding either what they say or concerning what they [so] strenuously affirm.

⁸Asi tinoziva kuti murairo wakanaka, kana munhu achiushandisa zviri pamurairo,

⁸Now we know that the law [is] good if any one uses it lawfully,

⁹achiziva izvi, kuti murairo hauna kuitirwa munhu wakarurama, asi vasina murairo nevasingateereri, vasingadi Mwari nevatadzi, vasiri vatsvene, nevasingatendi, nemhondi dzemadzibaba, nemhondi dzana amai, vanoponda vanhu;

⁹knowing this, that law has not its application to a righteous person, but to [the] lawless and insubordinate, to [the] impious and sinful, to [the] unholy and profane, to smiters of fathers and smiters of mothers; to murderers,

¹⁰mhombwe, ngochani, nevanopamba vanhu, varevi venhema, vaputsi vemhiko, uye kana chimwe chiriko chinopesana nedzidziso mhenyu;

¹⁰fornicators, sodomites, kidnappers, liars, perjurers; and if any other thing is opposed to sound teaching,

¹¹sezvinoreva evhangeri yekubwinya kwaMwari wakaropafadzwa, yakakumikidzwa kwandiri.

¹¹according to the glad tidings of the glory of the blessed God, with which *I* have been entrusted.

¹²Uye ndinomuvonga Kristu Jesu Ishe wedu wakandigonesa, nekuti wakati ndakatendeka, akandiisa paushumiri,

¹²[And] I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me power, that he has counted me faithful, appointing to ministry him

¹³Ini ndaimbova munyombii nemushushi nemutuki; asi ndakawana tsitsi nekuti ndakaita nekusaziva pakusatenda;

¹³who before was a blasphemer and persecutor, and an insolent overbearing [man]: but mercy was shewn me because I did it ignorantly, in unbelief.

¹⁴asi nyasha dzaIshe wedu dzakawedzeresa nerutendo, nerudo rwuri muna Kristu Jesu.

¹⁴But the grace of our Lord surpassingly over-abounded with faith and love, which [is] in Christ Jesus.

¹⁵Ishoko rakatendeka rinofanira kugamuchirwa chose, kuti Kristu Jesu wakavuya munyika kuzoponesa vatadzi, avo vandiri mukuru wavo;

¹⁵Faithful [is] the word, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom *I* am [the] first.

¹⁶asi nekuda kwaizvozvi ndakawana tsitsi, kuti mandiri ini mukuru Jesu Kristu aratidze moyo murefu wose, uve muenzaniso kuna vanozotenda kwaari, paupenyu hwusingaperi.

¹⁶But for this reason mercy was shewn me, that in me, [the] first, Jesus Christ might display the whole long-suffering, for a delineation of those about to believe on him to life eternal.

¹⁷Zvino kuna iye Ishe wekusingaperi, usingafi, usingavonekwi, Mwari woga wakachenjera ngakuve nekukudzwa nekubwinya kusvikira rinhi narinhi. Ameni.

¹⁷Now to the King of the ages, [the] incorruptible, invisible, only God, honour and glory to the ages of ages. Amen.

¹⁸Murairo uyu ndinokumikidza kwauri, Timotio mwana wangu, sezviporofita zvakatanga kuitika pamusoro pako, kuti nazvo urwe kurwa kwakanaka;

¹⁸This charge, [my] child Timotheus, I commit to thee, according to the prophecies as to thee preceding, in order that thou mightest war by them the good warfare,

¹⁹wakabata rutendo nehana yakanaka, iyo vamwe vakati vairasa zvichienderana nerutendo vakaputsikirwa nechikepe;

¹⁹maintaining faith and a good conscience; which [last] some, having put away, have made shipwreck as to faith;

²⁰vamwe vavo ndiHimenio naArekizandro, vandakakumikidza kuna Satani, kuti vadzidze kusanyomba.

²⁰of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have delivered to Satan, that they may be taught by discipline not to blaspheme.