¹Nekuti tinoziva kuti kana imba yedu yenyika, yedumba ichiputswa, tine chivakwa chinobva kuna Mwari, imba isina kuvakwa nemaoko, yekusingaperi iri kumatenga.

¹For we know that if our earthly tabernacle house be destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

²Nekuti mune iyi tinogomera, tichishuva nemoyo wose kuti tifukidzwe neimba yedu inobva kudenga;

²For indeed in this we groan, ardently desiring to have put on our house which [is] from heaven;

³kana zvikadaro hatingawanikwi tisina chatakafuka.

³if indeed being also clothed we shall not be found naked.

⁴Nekuti nesu tiri mutende tinogomera tichiremerwa; tisingadi kuti tikururwe, asi kufukidzwa, kuti chinofa chimedzwe neupenyu.

⁴For indeed we who are in the tabernacle groan, being burdened; while yet we do not wish to be unclothed, but clothed, that [what is] mortal may be swallowed up by life.

⁵Zvino uyo wakatigadzirira chinhu ichochi ndiMwari, wakatipawo rubatso rwoMweya.

⁵Now he that has wrought us for this very thing [is] God, who also has given to us the earnest of the Spirit.

⁶Naizvozvo tine ushingi nguva dzose, tichiziva kuti kana tiri kumusha mumuviri hatisi kuna Ishe;

⁶Therefore [we are] always confident, and know that while present in the body we are absent from the Lord,

⁷Nekuti tinofamba nerutendo kwete nekuona;

⁷(for we walk by faith, not by sight;)

⁸naizvozvo tine ushingi, tichishuva kuti zviri nani kusava pamuviri, asi kuva kuna Ishe.

⁸we are confident, I say, and pleased rather to be absent from the body and present with the Lord.

⁹Naizvozvo tinoshingaira kuti kunyange tiri pamusha kana kure nemusha kwaari.

⁹Wherefore also we are zealous, whether present or absent, to be agreeable to him.

¹⁰Nekuti tose tinofanira kuonekwa pamberi pechigaro chekutonga chaKristu; kuti umwe neumwe agamuchire zvinhu zvaakaita pamuviri, zvichienderana nezvaakaita, kana zvakanaka kana zvakaipa.

¹⁰For we must all be manifested before the judgment-seat of the Christ, that each may receive the things [done] in the body, according to those he has done, whether [it be] good or evil.

¹¹Naizvozvo zvatinoziva kutyisa kw aIshe, tinonyengetedza vanhu; asi tinoratidzwa kuna Mwari; uye ndine chivimbo kuti tiratidzwe pahana dzenyu.

¹¹Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord we persuade men, but have been manifested to God, and I hope also that we have been manifested in your consciences.

¹²Hatizvirumbidzizve kwamuri, asi tinokupai mukana wekurumbidza nekuda kwedu, kuti mugone kumirisana navo vanozvirumbidza pachiso kwete pamoyo.

¹²[For] we do not again commend ourselves to you, but [we are] giving to you occasion of boast in our behalf, that ye may have [such] with those boasting in countenance, and not in heart.

¹³Nekuti kana tichipenga, ndezve kuna Mwari; kana tiri vanhu kwavo, ndezve kwamuri.

¹³For whether we are beside ourselves, [it is] to God; or are sober, [it is] for you.

¹⁴Nekuti rudo rwaKristu runotimanikidza; nekuti tinoona saizvozvo kuti kana mumwe akafira vose, zvino vose vakafa;

¹⁴For the love of the Christ constrains us, having judged this: that one died for all, then all have died;

¹⁵zvino iye wakafira vose, kuti avo vanorarama vachirega kuzozviraramira ivo, asi iye wakavafira nekumukazve.

¹⁵and he died for all, that they who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who died for them and has been raised.

¹⁶Naizvozvo kubvira zvino hatizivi munhu panyama; uye kunyange takaziva Kristu panyama, kubvira zvino hatichamuzivi saizvozvo.

¹⁶So that *we* henceforth know no one according to flesh; but if even we have known Christ according to flesh, yet now we know [him thus] no longer.

¹⁷Kuti kana munhu ari muna Kristu, wava chisikwa chitsva, zvinhu zvekare zvapfuura, tarirai zvose zvava zvitsva.

¹⁷So if any one [be] in Christ, [there is] a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold all things have become new:

¹⁸Uye zvinhu zvose zvakabva kuna Mwari, wakatiyananisa naye naJesu Kristu, uye wakatipa kushumira kweyananiso;

¹⁸and all things [are] of the God who has reconciled us to himself by [Jesus] Christ, and given to us the ministry of that reconciliation:

¹⁹sezvinonzi Mwari wakange ari muna Kristu achiyananisa nyika kwaari, asingavaverengeri kudarika kwavo, akakumikidza kwatiri shoko rekuyananisa.

¹⁹how that God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their offences; and putting in us the word of that reconciliation.

²⁰Naizvozvo tiri nhumwa nekuda kwaKristu, Mwari saanenge achikukumbirisai, nesu tinokukumbirisaiwo pachinzvimbo chaKristu tichiti: Yananiswai naMwari.

²⁰We are ambassadors therefore for Christ, God as [it were] beseeching by us, we entreat for Christ, Be reconciled to God.

²¹Nekuti uyo wakange asingazivi chivi, wakamuita chivi pachinzvimbo chedu; kuti isu tive kururama kwaMwari maari.

²¹Him who knew not sin he has made sin for us, that *we* might become God's righteousness in him.