¹Munhu ngaatirangarire sezvizvi, sevaranda vaKristu, nevachengetedzi vezvakavanzika zvaMwari.

¹So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries.

²Pamusoro pazvo zvinotarisirwa kuti pavatariri, kuti munhu awanikwe akatendeka.

²Here, moreover, it is required of stewards, that they be found faithful.

³Asi kwandiri chinhu chiduku-duku kuti nditongwe nemwi, kana nekutonga kwemunhu; asi neni handizvitongi.

³But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man’s judgment. Yes, I don’t judge my own self.

⁴Nekuti handirangariri chinhu kwandiri, zvakadaro handiruramiswi neizvozvo; Asi unonditonga ndiIshe.

⁴For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

⁵Naizvozvo regai kutonga chinhu nguva isati yasvika, kusvikira Ishe auya, iye zvose uchabudisa pachena zvinhu zvakavanzika zverima, uye ucharatidza mazano emoyo; uye ipapo munhu umwe neumwe ucharumbidzwa naMwari.

⁵Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

⁶Zvino zvinhu izvi, hama, ndinozvifananidzira neni naAporo nekuda kwenyu, kuti mudzidze kwatiri kuti musafunga kupfuura izvo zvakanyorwa, kuti umwe arege kuzvikudza achitsaura umwe kune umwe.

⁶Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.

⁷Nekuti ndiani wakaita kuti musiyane? Uye chii chaunacho chausina kupiwa? Zvino kana wakapiwa, unozvikudzirei seusina kupiwa?

⁷For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

⁸Matoguta, matofuma, matotonga kunze kwedu; ndinodawo kuti mutonge, kuti isuwo titonge pamwe nemwi.

⁸You are already filled. You have already become rich. You have come to reign without us. Yes, and I wish that you did reign, that we also might reign with you.

⁹Nekuti ndinofunga kuti Mwari wakatigadza isu vaapositori vekupedzisira, sevakatemerwa rufu; nekuti takaitwa chivokero kunyika, nekuvatumwa nekuvanhu.

⁹For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

¹⁰Isu tiri mapenzi nekuda kwaKristu, asi imwi makachenjera muna Kristu; isu tine utera, asi imwi makasimba; imwi munokudzwa, asi isu tinozvidzwa.

¹⁰We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

¹¹Kunyange kusvikira nguva ino tine nzara, uye tine nyota, takashama, tinorohwa netsiva, uye tiri vambeyi;

¹¹Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.

¹²tinochama, tichishanda nemaoko edu; kana tichinyombwa tinoropafadza, kana tichishushwa tinotsunga moyo;

¹²We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.

¹³kana tichinyeyewa tinonyengerera; tinoitwa setsvina yenyika, marara ezvinhu zvose, kusvikira zvino.

¹³Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.

¹⁴Handinyoreri zvinhu izvi kuti ndikunyadzisei, asi savana vangu vanodikamwa ndinokunyeverai.

¹⁴I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

¹⁵Nekuti kunyange mune vadzidzisi zvuru gumi muna Kristu, zvakadaro hamuna madzibaba mazhinji; nekuti muna Kristu Jesu ini ndakakuberekai kubudikidza neevhangeri.

¹⁵For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.

¹⁶Naizvozvo ndinokukumbirisai: Ivai vatevedzeri vangu.

¹⁶I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.

¹⁷Nemhaka iyi ndakatuma Timotio kwamuri, unova mwana wangu unodikamwa, uye wakatendeka muna Ishe; iye uchakuyeuchidzai mitoo yangu iri muna Kristu, sezvandinodzidzisa kose pakereke dzose.

¹⁷Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.

¹⁸Zvino vamwe vanozvikudza sezvinonzi handingauyi kwamuri.

¹⁸Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.

¹⁹Asi ndichauya kwamuri nekukurumidza, kana Ishe achida, uye ndichaziva, kwete shoko revanozvikudza, asi simba.

¹⁹But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is willing. And I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.

²⁰Nekuti ushe hwaMwari hahwuzi pashoko asi pasimba.

²⁰For the Kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.

²¹Munodei? Ndiuye kwamuri netsvimbo here kana murudo nemweya weuyoro?

²¹What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?