¹Vadiwa, musatenda mweya yose yose, asi muidze mweya, kuti yakabva kuna Mwari here; nekuti vaporofita vazhinji venhema vakabudira munyika.

¹Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

²Ndizvo zvamunoziva nazvo Mweya waMwari: Mweya umwe neumwe unobvuma kuti Jesu Kristu wakauya munyama unobva kuna Mwari.

²By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,

³Mweya umwe neumwe usingabvumi kuti Jesu Kristu wakauya panyama, haubvi kuna Mwari; uye uyu ndiye uya womupikisi waKristu wamakanzwa kuti unouya nazvino watova panyika.

³and every spirit who doesn’t confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God, and this is the spirit of the Antichrist, of whom you have heard that it comes. Now it is in the world already.

⁴Imwi muri vaMwari vana vaduku, uye makavakunda, nekuti uyo uri mamuri mukuru kuna iye uri munyika.

⁴You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

⁵Ivo ndevenyika; naizvozvo vanotaura zvinobva kunyika, uye nyika inovanzwa.

⁵They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

⁶Isu tiri vaMwari; uyo unoziva Mwari unotinzwa; usi waMwari haatinzwi. Ndizvo zvatinoziva nazvo Mweya wechokwadi nomweya wokutsauka.

⁶We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn’t listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

⁷Vadiwa, ngatidanane; nekuti rudo runobva kuna Mwari, uye umwe neumwe unoda wakaberekwa naMwari, zvekare unoziva Mwari.

⁷Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God.

⁸Usingadi, haazivi Mwari, nekuti Mwari rudo.

⁸He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

⁹Naizvozvi rudo rwaMwari rwakaratidzwa kwatiri, kuti Mwari wakatuma Mwanakomana wake wakaberekwa umwe woga munyika, kuti tirarame kubudikidza naye.

⁹By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

¹⁰Rudo ruri pachinhu ichi, kwete kuti takada Mwari, asi kuti iye wakatida, akatuma Mwanakomana wake kuti ave rudzikunuro rwezvivi zvedu.

¹⁰In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice “atoning sacrifice” is from the Greek “hilasmos,” an appeasing, propitiating, or the means of appeasement or propitiation—the sacrifice that turns away God’s wrath because of our sin. for our sins.

¹¹Vadiwa, kana Mwari akatida saizvozvo, nesu tinofanirawo kudanana.

¹¹Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.

¹²Hakuna munhu wakamboona Mwari; kana tichidanana, Mwari unogara matiri uye norudo rwake rwunoperedzerwa matiri.

¹²No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

¹³Ndizvo zvatinoziva nazvo kuti tinogara maari, naiye matiri, nekuti wakatipa zvemweya wake.

¹³By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

¹⁴Isu takaona uye tinopupura kuti Baba vakatuma Mwanakomana, kuti ave Muponesi wenyika.

¹⁴We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.

¹⁵Ani nani unobvuma kuti Jesu ndiye Mwanakomana waMwari, Mwari unogara maari, naiye muna Mwari.

¹⁵Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God.

¹⁶Nesu takaziva tikatenda rudo urwu Mwari rwaanarwo kwatiri. Mwari rudo; uye unogara murudo unogara muna Mwari, naMwari maari.

¹⁶We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

¹⁷Rudo rwakapedzeredzwa nesu pachinhu ichi, kuti tive neushingi nezuva rekutongwa; nekuti sezvaari iye, ndizvo zvatiriwo panyika ino.

¹⁷In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so are we in this world.

¹⁸Hakuna kutya murudo, asi rudo rwakaperera runodzinga kutya, nekuti kutya kune marwadzo, unotya haana kuperedzerwa parudo.

¹⁸There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

¹⁹Isu tinomuda, nekuti iye wakatanga kutida.

¹⁹We love him, because he first loved us.

²⁰Kana munhu achiti: Ndinoda Mwari asi achivenga hama yake, murevi wenhema; nekuti uyo usingadi hama yake yaakaona, ungada seiko Mwari waasina kuona?

²⁰If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

²¹Iwoyu murairo tinawo unobva kwaari, kuti unoda Mwari ngaadewo hama yake.

²¹This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.