¹Zvino zvatine zvivimbiso izvi vadikamwa, ngatizvinatse patsvina dzose dzenyama nemweya, tikwanise utsvene mukutya Mwari.

¹Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us purify ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in God's fear.

²Tigamuchirei; hatina kutadzira munhu, hatina kutadzisa munhu, hatina kubiridzira munhu.

²Receive us: we have injured no one, we have ruined no one, we have made gain of no one.

³Handitauriri kupa mhosva; nekuti ndamboreva kuti imwi muri mumoyo medu, kuti tife nekurarama pamwe.

³I do not speak for condemnation, for I have already said that ye are in our hearts, to die together, and live together.

⁴Ushingi hwekutaura kwangu kwamuri hwukuru, kuzvirumbidza kwangu kukuru pamusoro penyu; ndakazadzwa nenyaradzo, ndinofara zvikurusa pamatambudziko edu ose.

⁴Great [is] my boldness towards you, great my exulting in respect of you; I am filled with encouragement; I overabound in joy under all our affliction.

⁵Nekuti takati tasvika Makedhonia, nyama yedu haina kuva nezororo, asi takatambudzwa pamativi ose; kunze kukakavara, mukati kutya.

⁵For indeed, when we came into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but [we were] afflicted in every way; without combats, within fears.

⁶Asi Mwari, unonyaradza vakasuruvadzwa, wakatinyaradza nekusvika kwaTito;

⁶But he who encourages those that are [brought] low, [even] God, encouraged us by the coming of Titus;

⁷uye kwete nekusvika kwake chete, asiwo nekunyaradzwa kwaakanyaradzwa nako pamusoro penyu, paakatiudza zvechishuwo chenyu chemoyo wose, kuchema kwenyu, kushingaira kwenyu pamusoro pangu, zvekuti ndakanyanya kufara.

⁷and not by his coming only, but also through the encouragement with which he was encouraged as to you; relating to us your ardent desire, your mourning, your zeal for me; so that I the more rejoiced.

⁸Nekuti kunyange ndakakushungurudzai netsamba, handizvidyi moyo; kunyange ndichizvidya moyo; nekuti ndinoona kuti tsamba iyoyo yakakushungurudzai, asi yakanga iri nguva duku.

⁸For if also I grieved you in the letter, I do not regret [it], if even I have regretted it; for I see that that letter, if even [it were] only for a time, grieved you.

⁹Zvino ndinofara, kwete nekuti makashungurudzwa, asi kuti makashungurudzika mukatendeuka; nekuti makashungurudzwa sezvinoda Mwari, kuti murege kurashikirwa nechinhu nekuda kwedu.

⁹Now I rejoice, not that ye have been grieved, but that ye have been grieved to repentance; for ye have been grieved according to God, that in nothing ye might be injured by us.

¹⁰Nekuti kuchema kweuMwari kunouyisa kutendeukira kuruponeso, kwete kuzvidya moyo nako; asi kushungurudzika kwenyika kunouyisa rufu.

¹⁰For grief according to God works repentance to salvation, never to be regretted; but the grief of the world works death.

¹¹Nekuti tarirai chinhu chimwe ichocho chekuti makashungurudzika nenzira yeuMwari, chakauyisa mukati menyu kunanzerera kwakadini, hongu nekuzvichenura, hongu kutsamwa, hongu kutya, hongu chishuvo chakasimba, hongu kurwadza moyo, hongu kutsiva. Pazvinhu zvose makazviratidza kuti makachena pachinhu ichi.

¹¹For, behold, this same thing, your being grieved according to God, how much diligence it wrought in *you*, but [what] excusing [of yourselves], but [what] indignation, but [what] fear, but [what] ardent desire, but [what] zeal, but [what] vengeance: in every way ye have proved yourselves to be pure in the matter.

¹²Naizvozvo kunyange ndakakunyorerai, ndakazviita kwete nekuda kwaiye wakaita zvisakarurama, kana nekuda kwaiye wakaitirwa zvisakarurama, asi kuti kushingaira kwedu nekuda kwenyu kuonekwe nemwi pamberi paMwari.

¹²So then, if also I wrote to you, [it was] not for the sake of him that injured, nor for the sake of him that was injured, but for the sake of our diligent zeal for you being manifested to you before God.

¹³Nemhaka iyi takanyaradzwa panyaradzo yenyu asi takafara zvikuru kwazvo pamusoro pemufaro waTito, nekuti mweya wake wakavandudzwa nemwi mose.

¹³For this reason we have been encouraged. And we the rather rejoiced in our encouragement more abundantly by reason of the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.

¹⁴Nekuti kana ndakazvikudza nechinhu kwaari pamusoro penyu, handinyadziswi; asi sezvatakataura zvinhu zvose kwamuri muchokwadi, saizvozvowo kuzvikudza kwedu kuri pamberi paTito kwakavonekwa kuri chokwadi.

¹⁴Because if I boasted to him anything about you, I have not been put to shame; but as we have spoken to you all things in truth, so also our boasting to Titus has been [the] truth;

¹⁵Nehanya dzake dzawedzerwa kwamuri, achirangarira kuteerera kwenyu mose, kuti makamugachira sei nekutya nekudedera.

¹⁵and his affections are more abundantly towards you, calling to mind the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.

¹⁶Ndinofara naizvozvo kuti pazvose ndine chivimbo nemwi.

¹⁶I rejoice that in everything I am confident as to you.