¹Pauro muapositori waJesu Kristu nechido chaMwari, naTimotio hama, kukereke yaMwari iri paKorinde, pamwe nevatsvene vose vari muAkaya yose:

¹Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:

²Nyasha kwamuri nerugare runobva kuna Mwari Baba vedu nekuna Ishe Jesu Kristu.

²Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

³Ngaavongwe Mwari, ivo Baba vaIshe wedu Jesu Kristu Baba vetsitsi, uye Mwari wenyaradzo yose;

³Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort;

⁴unotinyaradza padambudziko redu rose, kuti tigone kunyaradza avo vari mukutambudzika kupi nekupi, nenyaradzo yatinonyaradzwa nayo tomene naMwari;

⁴who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

⁵nekuti matambudziko aKristu sezvaakawedzerwa matiri, saizvozvovo nyaradzo yeduwo yakawedzerwa naKristu.

⁵For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.

⁶Zvino kunyange tichirwadziwa, ndezvenyaradzo neruponeso rwenyu zvinobudirira mukutsungirira mumatambudziko mamwewo atakatambudzikawo, kana kunyage tichinyaradzwa, ndezvenyaradzo neruponeso rwenyu.

⁶But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.

⁷Uye tariro yedu pamusoro penyu yakasimba, tichiziva kuti sezvamuri vagovani vematambudziko, saizvozvovo venyaradzo.

⁷Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so also are you of the comfort.

⁸Nekuti hatidi kuti musaziva, hama, dambudziko redu rakatiwira paAsia, kuti takadzvanyiwa zvisingaverengeki kukunda simba redu, zvekuti takarasha tariro kunyange yeupenyu;

⁸For we don’t desire to have you uninformed, brothers, The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.” concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.

⁹asi takanga tine mutongo werufu matiri, kuti tirege kuzvivimba, asi Mwari unomutsa vakafa;

⁹Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

¹⁰wakatinunura parufu rukuru rwakadai, uye unonunura; watinovimba maari kuti uchatinunura;

¹⁰who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver; on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;

¹¹nemwiwo muchitishandira pamwe nemukumbiro, kuti nekuda kwechipo pamusoro pedu nenzira yevanhu vazhinji, kuvonga kupiwe vazhinji vakatimiririra.

¹¹you also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift bestowed on us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on your behalf.

¹²Nekuti kuzvikudza kwedu ndikoku: Kupupura kwehana yedu, kuti muumwe neuzvokwadi hwaMwari, kwete neuchenjeri hwenyama, asi nenyasha dzaMwari, takazvibata panyika zvikuru maererano nemwi.

¹²For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

¹³Nekuti hatinyori zvimwe zvinhu kwamuri, asi izvo zvamunoverenga nezvamunogamuchira; uye ndinovimba kuti muchazvigamuchira kusvika pakuguma;

¹³For we write no other things to you, than what you read or even acknowledge, and I hope you will acknowledge to the end;

¹⁴sezvamakatigamuchirawo muchidimbu, kuti tiri rumbidzo yenyu, semwiwo vedu nezuva raIshe Jesu.

¹⁴as also you acknowledged us in part, that we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.

¹⁵Zvino muchivimbo ichi, ndaishuva kutanga kuuya kwamuri kuti muve nenyasha dzechipiri;

¹⁵In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit;

¹⁶nekupfuura nekwamuri ndichienda Makedhonia, nekudzoka kwamuri ndichibva Makedhonia, ndiperekedzwe nemwi kuJudhiya.

¹⁶and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be sent forward by you on my journey to Judea.

¹⁷Naizvozvo ndichifunga saizvozvo, ndakaita nekusasimbisa moyo here, kana zvandinozvipira ndinozvipira zvinoenderana nenyama here? Kuti kwandiri zvive hongu, hongu; uye kwete, kwete?

¹⁷When I therefore was thus determined, did I show fickleness? Or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the “Yes, yes” and the “No, no?”

¹⁸Asi Mwari wakatendeka, kuti shoko redu kwamuri harina kuva hongu nakwete.

¹⁸But as God is faithful, our word toward you was not “Yes and no.”

¹⁹Nekuti Mwanakomana waMwari Jesu Kristu uyo wakaparidzwa pakati penyu nesu, neni naSirivhano naTimotio, wakange asiri hongu nakwete, asi maari maiva hongu.

¹⁹For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, by me, Silvanus, and Timothy, was not “Yes and no,” but in him is “Yes.”

²⁰Nekuti zvose zvipikirwa zvaMwari, nemaari ndihongu; nemaari ndiAmeni, kuti Mwari akudzwe kubudikidzwa nesu.

²⁰For however many are the promises of God, in him is the “Yes.” Therefore also through him is the “Amen,” to the glory of God through us.

²¹Zvino unotisimbisa pamwe nemwi muna Kristu nekutizodza ndiMwari,

²¹Now he who establishes us with you in Christ, and anointed us, is God;

²²wakatiisawo mucherechedzo, akapa rubatso rweMweya mumoyo yedu.

²²who also sealed us, and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.

²³Asi ini ndinodana Mwari kuti ave chapupu pamweya wangu, kuti ndikuregererei handina kuzouya Korinde.

²³But I call God for a witness to my soul, that I didn’t come to Corinth to spare you.

²⁴Hazvirevi kuti tinotonga pamusoro perutendo rwenyu, asi tiri vabatsiri vemufaro wenyu; nekuti mumire nerutendo.

²⁴Not that we have lordship over your faith, but are fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith.