¹Zvino ini Pauro ndomene ndinokukumbirisai neunyoro nokugadzikana kwaKristu wakaninipiswa pakati penyu ndiripo, asi kana ndisipo ndine chivimbo kwamuri;

¹But I myself, Paul, entreat you by the meekness and gentleness of the Christ, who, as to appearance, [when present] [am] mean among you, but absent am bold towards you;

²asi ndinokumbirisa kwamuri, kuti ndirege kuva neushingi kana ndiripo nechivimbo chakadai chandinacho kumirisana nevamwe vanofunga kuti tinofamba zvinoenderana nenyama.

²but I beseech that present I may not be bold with the confidence with which I think to be daring towards some who think of us as walking according to flesh.

³Nekuti kunyangwe tichifamba munyama, hatirwi nemitoo yenyama;

³For walking in flesh, we do not war according to flesh.

⁴Nekuti zvombo zvehondo yedu hazvisi zvenyama, asi zvakasimba kubudikidza naMwari pakuputsa nhare;

⁴For the arms of our warfare [are] not fleshly, but powerful according to God to [the] overthrow of strongholds;

⁵tichiwisira pasi mirangariro, nechose chakakwirira chinozvikwiridza chichipesana neruzivo rwaMwari, nekuisa muutapwa, mirangariro yose pakuteerera Kristu.

⁵overthrowing reasonings and every high thing that lifts itself up against the knowledge of God, and leading captive every thought into the obedience of the Christ;

⁶takazvigadzira kutsiva kusateerera kose, kana kuteerera kwenyu kwazadziswa.

⁶and having in readiness to avenge all disobedience when your obedience shall have been fulfilled.

⁷Imwi munotarira zvinhu nemutovo wemamiriro okunze. Kana munhu achizvivimba kuti ndewaKristu ngaazvirangarirezve, kuti sezvaari waKristu, saizvozvo isuwo tiri vaKristu.

⁷Do ye look at what concerns appearance? If any one has confidence in himself that he is of Christ, let him think this again in himself, that even as he [is] of Christ, so also [are] we.

⁸Nekuti kunyange ndichizvikudza nezvinhu zvizhinji, ndaifanira kunyanyisa maererano nesimba redu ratakapiwa naIshe rekusimbisa, uye kwete rekukuputsirai pasi, handinganyadziswi;

⁸For and if I should boast even somewhat more abundantly of our authority, which the Lord has given [to us] for building up and not for your overthrowing, I shall not be put to shame;

⁹kuti ndirege kuita sendinokutyityidzirai netsamba.

⁹that I may not seem as if I was frightening you by letters:

¹⁰Nekuti vanoti: Tsamba dzake dzinorema uye dzine simba, asi kuvapo kwake pamuviri, unoutera nepakutaura une kuzvidzwa.

¹⁰because his letters, he says, [are] weighty and strong, but his presence in the body weak, and his speech naught.

¹¹Regai wakadaro arangarire ichi, kuti sezvatakadaro pashoko nepatsamba kana tisipo saizvozvowo pakuita kwedu kana tiripo.

¹¹Let such a one think this, that such as we are in word by letters [when] absent, such also present in deed.

¹²Nekuti hatina ushingi hwekuzviverenga nekuzvifananidza nevamwe vanozvikudza; asi ivo pakati pavo vanozvienzanisa navo nokuzvifananidza pachavo, havana kuchenjera.

¹²For we dare not class ourselves or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves; but these, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are not intelligent.

¹³Asi isu hatingazvirumbidzi nezvinhu zvisina chipimo, asi zvinoenderana nechipimo chemuganhu wekuyera Mwari waakatitemera chipimo chekusvika nekwamuriwo.

¹³Now *we* will not boast out of measure, but according to the measure of the rule which the God of measure has apportioned to us, to reach to you also.

¹⁴Nekuti hatizvitambanudzi kupfuurikidza, setisingasvikiri kwamuri; nekuti nekwamuriwo takasvika neevhangeri yaKristu;

¹⁴For we do not, as not reaching to you, overstretch ourselves, (for we have come to you also in the glad tidings of the Christ;)

¹⁵tisingazvikudzi kupfuurikidza chipimo pamusoro pemabasa evamwe; asi tine tariro, kuti kana rutendo rwenyu rwuchiwanzwa, isu tichakuriswa nemwi zvinoenderana nechipimo chedu nekupfuurisa,

¹⁵not boasting out of measure in other people's labours, but having hope, your faith increasing, to be enlarged amongst you, according to our rule, yet more abundantly

¹⁶kuparidza evhangeri pamatunhu ari mhiri kwenyu, kwete kuzvirumbidza pachipimo cheumwe pamusoro pezvatogadzirwa.

¹⁶to announce the glad tidings to that [which is] beyond you, not to be boasting in another's rule of things made ready to hand.

¹⁷Asi unozvirumbidza, ngaazvirumbidze muna Ishe.

¹⁷But he that boasts, let him boast in the Lord.

¹⁸Nekuti haasi uyo unozvirumbidza unogamuchirwa, asi unorumbidzwa naIshe.

¹⁸For not *he* that commends himself is approved, but whom the Lord commends.