1Dai muchindiitira moyo murefu zvishoma paupenzi hwangu; asi nemwi zvirokwazvo munondiitira moyo murefu.
1I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.
2Nekuti ndine godo pamusoro penyu negodo reuMwari; nekuti ndakakuwanisai kumurume umwe, kuti ndikukumikidzei semhandara yakachena kuna Mwari.
2For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
3Asi ndinotya kuti zvimwe neimwe nzira nyoka sezvayakanyengera Eva nemano ayo, saizvozvo ndangariro dzenyu dzingasvibiswa dzitsauke pakururama kuri muna Kristu.
3But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
4Nekuti kana uyo unosvika achiparidza umwe Jesu watisina kuparidza, kana kugamuchira mumwe mweya wamusina kugamuchira kana imwe evhangeri yamusina kugamuchira, zvino momuitira moyo murefu kwazvo.
4For if he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or if you receive a different spirit, which you did not receive, or a different “good news”, which you did not accept, you put up with that well enough.
5Nekuti ndinoona ndisingatairi nepaduku kuvaapositori vakurusa.
5For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.
6Zvino kunyange ndisina kudzidza pakutaura, asi kwete paruzivo; asi takaratidzwa zvirokwazvo kwamuri muzvinhu zvose.
6But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things.
7Ndakaita chivi here pakuzvininipisa kuti mukudzwe, nekuti ndakaparidza kwamuri evhangeri yaMwari pasina muripo?
7Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God’s Good News free of charge?
8Ndakapamba dzimwe kereke, ndichireva mibairo kuti ndikuyamurei.
8I robbed other assemblies, taking wages from them that I might serve you.
9Uye pandakanga ndiripo nemwi ndichishaiwa, handina kuremedza munhu; nekuti zvandaishaiwa, hama dzaibva Makedhonia dzakapa; uye pazvose ndakachenjera kuti ndirege kuva mutoro kwamuri, uye ndicharamba ndichichenjera.
9When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn’t a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.
10sezvo chokwadi chaKristu chiri mandiri, hakuna munhu ungandikonesa kuzvikudza kumatunhu eAkaya.
10As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
11Nemhaka yei? Nekuti handikudiyi here? Mwari unoziva.
11Why? Because I don’t love you? God knows.
12Asi chandinoita, icho ndichaita, kuti ndigure mukana kune vanoshuva mukana; kuti mune izvo zvavanozvirumbidza nazvo vawanikwe vakaita sesu.
12But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.
13Nekuti vakadaro vaapositori venhema, vabati vanonyengera, vanozvishandura kuva vaapositori vaKristu.
13For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.
14Naizvozvo hazvishamisi; nekuti kunyange Satani amene unozvishandura kuva mutumwa wechiedza.
14And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.
15Naizvozvo hachizi chinhu chikuru kana vashumiri vakevo vachizvishandura, sevashumiri vekururama; kuguma kwawo kuchaenderana nemabasa avo.
15It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
16Ndinotizve: Munhu ngaarege kufunga kuti ndiri benzi; kana zvakadaro, sebenzi ndigamuchirei, kuti ndizvirumbidze zvishoma.
16I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little.
17Izvo zvandinotaura, handizvitauri maererano naIshe, asi sepaupenzi, pachivimbo ichi chekuzvikudza.
17That which I speak, I don’t speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.
18Sezvo vazhinji vachizvikudza panyama, iniwo ndichazvikudza.
18Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast.
19Nekuti munoitira mapenzi moyo murefu nemufaro, imwi muri vakachenjera;
19For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise.
20Nekuti munoita moyo murefu kana munhu achikuisai muuranda, kana ani nani achikuparadzai, kana ani nani achikutapai, kana ani nani achizvikudza, kana ani nani achikurovai kumeso.
20For you bear with a man, if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, if he strikes you on the face.
21Ndinoreva semaererano nekushoora, sezvinenge takanga tine utera. Zvino kana kune munhu une ushingi (ndinotaura paupenzi), ini ndine ushingiwo.
21I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet however any is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.
22VaHebheru here? Neniwo. VaIsraeri here? Neniwo. Vana vaAbhurahamu here? Neniwo.
22Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? So am I.
23Vashumiri vaKristu here? (Ndinotaura semupengo), ndiri iye, zvikuru pamabasa ndinopamhidzira, pamavanga kupfuura chipimo, mumajere kakadzokororwa, parufu kazhinji.
23Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.
24KuvaJudha ndakagamuchira kashanu, shamhu dzine makumi mana kusiya imwe.
24Five times from the Jews I received forty stripes minus one.
25Katatu ndakarohwa netsvimbo, kamwe ndakatakwa nemabwe, katatu ndakaputsikirwa nechikepe usiku hwumwe nemasikati ndakange ndiri makadzika megungwa;
25Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep.
26panzendo kazhinji, panjodzi dzenzizi, panjodzi dzemakororo, panjodzi dzevekwangu, panjodzi dzevahedheni, panjodzi muguta, panjodzi murenje, panjodzi mugungwa, panjodzi pakati pehama dzenhema;
26I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;
27pakuchama nepakurwadziwa, pakusavata kazhinji, panzara nenyota, pakutsanya kazhinji, pachando nepakushama.
27in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
28kunze kwezvinhu izvi zviri panze, ndinoremedzwa zuva rimwe nerimwe nekurangarira kereke dzose.
28Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily, anxiety for all the assemblies.
29Ndiani une utera, neni ndikasava neutera? Ndiani unogumburwa, neni ndikasatsva?
29Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don’t burn with indignation?
30Kana zvakafanira kuzvirumbidza, ndichazvirumbidza nezvinhu zveutera hwangu.
30If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.
31Mwari naBaba vaIshe wedu Jesu Kristu, unorumbidzwa kusvikira rinhi narinhi, unoziva kuti handirevi nhema.
31The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is blessed forevermore, knows that I don’t lie.
32PaDhamasiko mutungamiriri waishe Areta wakarinda guta raveDhamasiko achitsvaka kundibata;
32In Damascus the governor under King Aretas guarded the city of the Damascenes desiring to arrest me.
33uye ndakaburuswa nepawindo ndiri mudengu nepamudhuri, ndikatiza pamaoko ake.
33Through a window I was let down in a basket by the wall, and escaped his hands.