¹Zvino zvatine zvivimbiso izvi vadikamwa, ngatizvinatse patsvina dzose dzenyama nemweya, tikwanise utsvene mukutya Mwari.

¹Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

²Tigamuchirei; hatina kutadzira munhu, hatina kutadzisa munhu, hatina kubiridzira munhu.

²Open your hearts to us. We wronged no one. We corrupted no one. We took advantage of no one.

³Handitauriri kupa mhosva; nekuti ndamboreva kuti imwi muri mumoyo medu, kuti tife nekurarama pamwe.

³I say this not to condemn you, for I have said before, that you are in our hearts to die together and live together.

⁴Ushingi hwekutaura kwangu kwamuri hwukuru, kuzvirumbidza kwangu kukuru pamusoro penyu; ndakazadzwa nenyaradzo, ndinofara zvikurusa pamatambudziko edu ose.

⁴Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.

⁵Nekuti takati tasvika Makedhonia, nyama yedu haina kuva nezororo, asi takatambudzwa pamativi ose; kunze kukakavara, mukati kutya.

⁵For even when we had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on every side. Fightings were outside. Fear was inside.

⁶Asi Mwari, unonyaradza vakasuruvadzwa, wakatinyaradza nekusvika kwaTito;

⁶Nevertheless, he who comforts the lowly, God, comforted us by the coming of Titus;

⁷uye kwete nekusvika kwake chete, asiwo nekunyaradzwa kwaakanyaradzwa nako pamusoro penyu, paakatiudza zvechishuwo chenyu chemoyo wose, kuchema kwenyu, kushingaira kwenyu pamusoro pangu, zvekuti ndakanyanya kufara.

⁷and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you, while he told us of your longing, your mourning, and your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced still more.

⁸Nekuti kunyange ndakakushungurudzai netsamba, handizvidyi moyo; kunyange ndichizvidya moyo; nekuti ndinoona kuti tsamba iyoyo yakakushungurudzai, asi yakanga iri nguva duku.

⁸For though I made you sorry with my letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it. For I see that my letter made you sorry, though just for a while.

⁹Zvino ndinofara, kwete nekuti makashungurudzwa, asi kuti makashungurudzika mukatendeuka; nekuti makashungurudzwa sezvinoda Mwari, kuti murege kurashikirwa nechinhu nekuda kwedu.

⁹I now rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that you were made sorry to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly way, that you might suffer loss by us in nothing.

¹⁰Nekuti kuchema kweuMwari kunouyisa kutendeukira kuruponeso, kwete kuzvidya moyo nako; asi kushungurudzika kwenyika kunouyisa rufu.

¹⁰For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world works death.

¹¹Nekuti tarirai chinhu chimwe ichocho chekuti makashungurudzika nenzira yeuMwari, chakauyisa mukati menyu kunanzerera kwakadini, hongu nekuzvichenura, hongu kutsamwa, hongu kutya, hongu chishuvo chakasimba, hongu kurwadza moyo, hongu kutsiva. Pazvinhu zvose makazviratidza kuti makachena pachinhu ichi.

¹¹For behold, this same thing, that you were made sorry in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vengeance! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.

¹²Naizvozvo kunyange ndakakunyorerai, ndakazviita kwete nekuda kwaiye wakaita zvisakarurama, kana nekuda kwaiye wakaitirwa zvisakarurama, asi kuti kushingaira kwedu nekuda kwenyu kuonekwe nemwi pamberi paMwari.

¹²So although I wrote to you, I wrote not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be revealed in you in the sight of God.

¹³Nemhaka iyi takanyaradzwa panyaradzo yenyu asi takafara zvikuru kwazvo pamusoro pemufaro waTito, nekuti mweya wake wakavandudzwa nemwi mose.

¹³Therefore we have been comforted. In our comfort we rejoiced the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.

¹⁴Nekuti kana ndakazvikudza nechinhu kwaari pamusoro penyu, handinyadziswi; asi sezvatakataura zvinhu zvose kwamuri muchokwadi, saizvozvowo kuzvikudza kwedu kuri pamberi paTito kwakavonekwa kuri chokwadi.

¹⁴For if in anything I have boasted to him on your behalf, I was not disappointed. But as we spoke all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.

¹⁵Nehanya dzake dzawedzerwa kwamuri, achirangarira kuteerera kwenyu mose, kuti makamugachira sei nekutya nekudedera.

¹⁵His affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembers all of your obedience, how with fear and trembling you received him.

¹⁶Ndinofara naizvozvo kuti pazvose ndine chivimbo nemwi.

¹⁶I rejoice that in everything I am confident concerning you.