¹Saka zvatakanga tisisagoni kutsunga, takati zvakanaka kuti tisiiwe tiri toga paAtene;

¹Therefore when we couldn’t stand it any longer, we thought it good to be left behind at Athens alone,

²tikatuma Timotio hama yedu nemushumiri waMwari nemushandi pamwe nesu muevhangeri yaKristu, kuti akusimbisei, nekukunyaradzai parutendo rwenyu;

²and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith;

³kuti kurege kuva neumwe unozununguswa nematambudziko awa, nekuti munoziva mumene kuti takagadzirwa izvozvi.

³that no one be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

⁴Nekuti kunyange tichinemwi takagara takuudzai kuti tava kuzotambudzwa; kunyange sezvazvakaitika, nemwi munoziva.

⁴For most certainly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know.

⁵Nekuda kwaizvozvi zvandakanga ndisingachagoni kutsunga, ndakamutuma kuti ndizive rutendo rwenyu, zvimwe neumwe mutowo muidzi wakakuidzai, basa redu rikava pasina.

⁵For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.

⁶Asi zvino Timotio wakati asvika kwatiri achibva kwamuri, akatipira mashoko akanaka erutendo rwenyu nerudo, uye kuti mune murangariro wakanaka pamusoro pedu nguva dzose muchishuva zvikuru kutiona isu, sesuwo imwi;

⁶But when Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you;

⁷nekuda kwezvizvi, takanyaradzwa, hama, pamusoro penyu pakutambudzika kwedu kose nenhamo nerutendo rwenyu;

⁷for this cause, brothers, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith.

⁸Nekuti ikozvino tinorarama, kana imwi mumire makasimba muna Ishe.

⁸For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.

⁹Nekuti kuvonga kwakadini kwatingaripira kuna Mwari pamusoro penyu, nemufaro wose watinofara nawo nekuda kwenyu pamberi paMwari wedu?

⁹For what thanksgiving can we render again to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God;

¹⁰Siku nesikati tichikumbira zvikuru kuti tione chiso chenyu, tizadzise zvakataira parutendo rwenyu?

¹⁰night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

¹¹Zvino iye Mwari pachake naBaba vedu naIshe wedu Jesu Kristu, ngaaruramisire nzira yedu kwamuri;

¹¹Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you;

¹²uye ishe akukurisei nekukuwanzirai rudo umwe kune umwe nekune vose, sesu kwamuri,

¹²and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,

¹³kuti asimbise moyo yenyu isamhurika pautsvene pamberi paMwari, uye Baba vedu, pakuuya kwaIshe wedu Jesu Kristu pamwe nevatsvene vake vose.

¹³to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.