¹Asi kwaiva nevaporofita venhemawo pakati pevanhu, sezvakuchavapowo vadzidzisi venhema pakati penyu, vachapinza pachivande dzidziso dzakatsauka dzinoparadza, vachiramba naiye Ishe wakavatenga, vachizviwisira kuparara kunokurumidza,

¹But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

²zvino vazhinji vachatevera kuparadzwa kwavo; nekuda kwavo nzira yechokwadi ichanyombwa,

²Many will follow their immoral TR reads “destructive” instead of “immoral” ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.

³uye pakuchiva vachakubatai namashoko emano mano; kutongwa kwavo kwakatarwa kare vachita mubairo nei, kutongwa kwavo kwekare hakunonoki, nekuparadzwa kwavo hakutsumwairi.

³In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

⁴Nekuti kana Mwari asina kurega vatumwa vakatadza, asi wakavakandira mugehena nekuvakumikidza kumaketeni erima kuti vachengeterwe mutongo;

⁴For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus Tartarus is another name for Hell , and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;

⁵uye haana kurega nyika yekare, asi wakachengetedza Nowa wechisere muparidzi wekururama, paakauyisa mafashame panyika yevasingadi Mwari;

⁵and didn’t spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;

⁶akashandura maguta eSodhoma neGomora kuita madota, akaatongera kuparadzwa, akaaita chive chiratidzo kune vachagara vasingadi Mwari;

⁶and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly;

⁷akasunungura Roti wakarurama, wakazvidya moyo nemafambiro anonyangadza evakaipa.

⁷and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked

⁸Nekuti munhu uyo wakarurama, agere pakati pavo, pakuona nekunzwa, wakarwadzisa mweya wake wakarurama zuva rimwe nerimwe nemabasa asina murairo.

⁸(for that righteous man dwelling among them, was tormented in his righteous soul from day to day with seeing and hearing lawless deeds):

⁹Ishe unoziva kusunungura vanonamata Mwari pamiidzo, nekuchengetera vasakarurama kusvika pazuva rekutongwa vachirangwa;

⁹the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;

¹⁰asi zvikuru ivo vanofamba nemutowo wenyama paruchiva rwetsvina nekuzvidza utongi. Vasina hanya, vane nharo, vasingatyi kutuka utongi;

¹⁰but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement, and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;

¹¹izvo vatumwa, vanopfuura pasimba neukuru, havauyi nemutongo wekunyomba pamberi paIshe.

¹¹whereas angels, though greater in might and power, don’t bring a railing judgment against them before the Lord.

¹²Asi ava vakaita semhuka pachizvarigo dzisina murangariro, dzakaberekerwa kubatwa nekuparadzwa vanotuka zvavasingazivi, naivo vachaparadzwa kwazvo pakuora kwavo,

¹²But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,

¹³uye vachagamuchira mubayiro wokusarurama vanoti mafaro kuita umbozha masikati, ivo makwapa nemavara, vanofara mukunyengera kwavo kana vari pamafundo nemwi,

¹³receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;

¹⁴vane meso azere neupombwe, vasingaregi chivi, vanonyengera mweya isina simba; nemoyo wakarovedzwa kuchiva; vana verushambwa;

¹⁴having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;

¹⁵vakasiya nzira yakarurama vakatsauka, vachitevera nzira yaBharami waBhosori wakada mibairo yekusarurama

¹⁵forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;

¹⁶asi wakatsiurwa pakudarika kwake, chimumumu chembongoro chichitaura nenzwi remunhu chikadzivisa upengo hwemuporofita.

¹⁶but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A mute donkey spoke with a man’s voice and stopped the madness of the prophet.

¹⁷Ivava zvitubu zvisina mvura, makore anosundwa nemhepo; ivo vakachengeterwa mhute yerima nekusingaperi.

¹⁷These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

¹⁸Nekuti nokutaura kwavo kukuru kwekuzvikudza kusina maturo, vanonyengera neruchiva rwenyama neunzenza, avo vachangopukunyuka kuna vanogara pakutsauka;

¹⁸For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;

¹⁹vachivavimbisa rusununguko, ivo vomene varanda vekuora; nekuti munhu waakundwa naye, ndiye waanoitwa muranda wake.

¹⁹promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.

²⁰Nekuti kana vapukunyuka patsvina yenyika kubudikidza neruzivo rwaIshe neMuponesi Jesu Kristu vanobatwa nokukundwazve nazvo, kuguma kwavo kwaipa kupfuura kutanga.

²⁰For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

²¹Nekuti zvaiva nani kwavari kana vasaiziva nzira yekururama, pakuti vamboziva vadzoke pamurairo mutsvene wakakumikidzwa kwavari.

²¹For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

²²Asi zvakaitika kwavari zvedimikira rechokwadi zvinoti: Imbwa yakadzokera kumarutsi ayozve, nehadzi yenguruve yakanga yashamba, kukuvumburuka mumatope.

²²But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, “The dog turns to his own vomit again,” Proverbs 26:11 and “the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire.”