1 Johani 4

¹Vadikanwa, musatenda mweya yose, asi muidze mweya, kuti muvone kana yakabva kunaMwari; nokuti vaporofita vazhinji venhema vakabudira munyika.Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

²Ndizvo zvamunoziva nazvo Mweya waMwari: Mweya mumwe nomumwe unopupura kuti Jesu Kristu wakavuya munyama, ndowaMwari.Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:

³Mweya mumwe nomumwe usingapupuri kuti Jesu Kristu wakavuya panyama, hauzi waMwari; iwo ndowaantikristu, wamakanzwa kuti unovuya' nazvino watova panyika.And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.

⁴Vana vaduku, imi, muri vaMwari, makavakunda, nokuti uyo, uri mamuri, mukuru kunaiye, uri munyika.Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

⁵Ivo ndovenyika, naizvozvo vanotaura savenyika, nenyika inovanzwa.They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.

⁶Isu tiri vaMwari; unoziva Mwari, unotinzwa; usi waMwari, haatinzwi. Ndizvo zvatinoziva nazvo Mweya wazvokwadi, nomweya wokutsauka.We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

⁷Vadikanwa, ngatidane; nokuti rudo runobva kunaMwari, mumwe nomumwe, unoda, wakaberekwa naMwari, unoziva Mwari.Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

⁸Usingadi, haazivi Mwari, nokuti Mwari rudo.He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

⁹Rudo rwaMwari rwakaratidzwa kwatiri nechinhu ichi, kuti Mwari wakatuma Mwanakomana wake, wakaberekwa ari mumwe chete, munyika, kuti tive novupenyu naye.In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

¹⁰Rudo ruri pachinhu ichi, kuti hatizisu takada Mwari, asi kuti ndiye wakatida, akatuma Mwanakomana wake kuti ave rudzikinuro rwezvivi zvedu.Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

¹¹Vadikanwa, kana Mwari akatida saizvozvo, nesu vo tinofanira kudana.Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

¹²Hakuno munhu wakambovona Mwari; kana tichidana, Mwari unogara matiri, norudo rwake runokwaniswa matiri.No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

¹³Ndizvo zvatinoziva nazvo kuti tinogara maari, naiye matiri, nokuti wakatipa zvoMweya wake.Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.

¹⁴Isu takavona, vuye tinopupura kuti Baba vakatuma Mwanakomana, kuti ave Muponesi wenyika.And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.

¹⁵Aninani unopupura kuti Jesu ndiye Mwanakomana waMwari, Mwari unogara maari, naiye munaMwari.Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.

¹⁶Nesu takaziva, tikatenda rudo urwu, Mwari rwaanarwo kwatiri. Mwari rudo; unogara murudo, unogara munaMwari, naMwari maari.And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

¹⁷Rudo rwakakwaniswa matiri pachinhu ichi, kuti tirege kutya nezuva rokutongwa; nokuti sezvaakaita iye, ndizvo zvatakaita vo panyika ino.Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.

¹⁸Hakunokutya murudo; asi rudo, rwakakwana, runodzinga kutya, nokuti kutya kunorobwa; munhu, unotya, haana kukwaniswa parudo.There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

¹⁹Isu tinoda, nokuti iye wakatanga kutida.We love him, because he first loved us.

²⁰Kana munhu achiti, ndinoda Mwari, achivenga hama yake, murevi wenhema; nokuti usingadi hama yake yaakavona, ungada seiko Mwari, waasina kuvona?If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?

²¹Iwoyu murairo wakabva kwaari, tinawo, wokuti unoda Mwari, ngaade vo hama yake.And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.