¹Nekuti nemwi hama, munoziva kupinda kwedu kwamuri kuti hakuna kuva pasina.

¹For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn’t in vain,

²Asi kunyange takambotambudzika pakutanga nekuitirwa zvinonyadzisa sezvamunoziva paFiripi, takatsunga muna Mwari wedu kutaura kwamuri evhangeri yaMwari nekupikiswa kukuru.

²but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell you the Good News of God in much conflict.

³Nekuti kurudziro yedu haina kubva pakunyengera, kana kubva patsvina, kana pamano mano;

³For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.

⁴asi sezvatakatendewa naMwari, kuti tibatiswe evhangeri, saizvozo tinotaura; kwete sekufadza vanhu, asi Mwari unoidza moyo yedu.

⁴But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.

⁵Nekuti chero nguva hatina kutongoreva nemashoko ekubata kumeso sezvamunoziva, kana namano-mano ekuchiva; Mwari chapupu;

⁵For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),

⁶kana kutsvaka rukudzo kuvanhu kana rwenyu, kana rwevamwe, kunyange taigona kukuremedzai sevaapositori vaKristu.

⁶nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.

⁷Asi takanga tiri vanyoro pakati penyu, semureri kana achifumbatira vana vake;

⁷But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.

⁸saizvozvo takakushuvai kwazvo, taida zvikuru kuti tigovane nemwi kwete evhangeri yaMwari chete, asi mweya yeduwo, nekuti makanga muri vadikamwi kwatiri.

⁸Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.

⁹Nekuti munorangarira, hama, kushingaira nekurwa kwedu; taibata usiku nemasikati, kuti tisava mutoro kune umwe wenyu, takakuparidzirai evhangeri yaMwari.

⁹For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.

¹⁰Imwi muri zvapupu, naMwari, kuti taifamba neutsvene nekururama tisina chatingapomerwa kwamuri imwi vanotenda.

¹⁰You are witnesses with God, how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.

¹¹Sezvamunoziva kuti umwe neumwe wenyu sababa kuvana vavo, takakukurudzirai sei nekunyaradza nekupupura,

¹¹As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,

¹²kuti mufambe zvakafanira Mwari, unokudanirai kuushe hwake nekubwinya.

¹²to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.

¹³Nekuda kwaizvozviwo tinoramba tichivonga Mwari, kuti pamakagamuchira shoko raMwari ramakanzwa kubva kwatiri, hamuna kurigamuchira seshoko revanhu, asi sechokwadi shoko raMwari, rinoshandawo mukati menyu imwi munotenda.

¹³For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.

¹⁴Nekuti imwi, hama, makava vateveri vekereke dzaMwari dziri muJudhiya muna Kristu Jesu; nekuti imwiwo makatambudzika nezvinhu zvakadaro kune vekwenyu, sezvavakatambudzwa ivo nevaJudha,

¹⁴For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews;

¹⁵Ndivo zvose vakauraya Ishe Jesu nevaporofita vavo vomene, vakatishusha isu, vasingafadzi Mwari, vachipesana nevanhu vose.

¹⁵who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and didn’t please God, and are contrary to all men;

¹⁶vachitidzivisa kuparidzira vahedheni kuti vaponeswe; kuti varambe vachizadzisa zvivi zvavo; asi hasha dzakaburukira pamusoro pavo kusvikira pakuguma.

¹⁶forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.

¹⁷Zvino isu, hama, zvatakaparadzaniswa nemwi kwechinguvana pazviso, kwete pamoyo, takashingairira zvikuru nechishuwo chikuru kuti tione chiso chenyu.

¹⁷But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short season, in presence, not in heart, tried even harder to see your face with great desire,

¹⁸Naizvozvo taida kuuya kwamuri, zvikuru Pauro, kamwe nekudzokorora, asi Satani wakatidzivisa.

¹⁸because we wanted to come to you—indeed, I, Paul, once and again—but Satan hindered us.

¹⁹Nekuti tariro yedu chii, kana mufaro, kana korona yekuzvirumbidza? Hamuzi imwi here pamberi paIshe wedu Jesu Kristu pakuuya kwake?

¹⁹For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus TR adds “Christ” at his coming?

²⁰Nekuti imwi muri kubwinya nemufaro wedu.

²⁰For you are our glory and our joy.