2 Petro 2

¹Asi kwakanga kunavaporofita venhema pakati pavanhu, sezvavachavapo pakati penyu vo vadzidzisi venhema, vachapinza pakavanda dzidziso dzakatsauka dzinoparadza, vachiramba naiye Tenzi wakavatenga, vachizviwisira kuparadzwa kunokurumidza.But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.

²Vazhinji vachatevera vutere bwavo; nokuda kwavo nzira yezvokwadi ichazvidzwa.And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

³pakukarira kwavo mari vachakunyengerai namashoko amano-mano; kutongwa kwavo, kwakatarwa kare, hakunonoki, nokuparadzwa kwavo hakukotsiri.And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

⁴Nokuti kana Mwari asina kurega vatumwa vakatadza, asi wakavakandira muTartaro nokuvaisa kumakomba erima, kuti vachengeterwe kutongwa;For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

⁵akasarega vo nyika yekare, asi wakaponesa Noa muparidzi wokururama pamwe chete navamwe vanomwe, nguva yaakavuyisa mvura zhinji panyika yavanhu vakanga vasingadi Mwari;And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

⁶akashandura maguta eSodhoma neGomora akaaita madota, akaatongera kuti aparadzwe, akaaita chive chiratidzo kunaivo vachagara vasingadi Mwari;And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;

⁷akasunungura Roti, wakanga akarurama, wakazvidya moyo nokuda kwomufambiro wakasviba wavakashata.And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:

⁸(nokuti munhu uyu wakarurama, agere pakati pavo achivona nokunzwa, wakarwadzisa mweya wake wakarurama zuva rimwe nerimwe namabasa avo akanga asina kururama).(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)

⁹Ishe unoziva kusunungura pamiidzo vanonamata Mwari, nokuchengeta vasakarurama vave pakurobwa kusvikira pazuva rokutongwa;The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:

¹⁰zvikuru ivo vanofamba nomutovo wenyama pakuchiva kunosvibisa nokuzvidza vakuru; vanotsunga, vachiita nokuda kwavo, asingatyi kutuka avo vanokubwinya;But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.

¹¹vatumwa, kunyange vanovapfuvura nesimba novukuru, havavuyi pamberi paShe nemhosva yokuvapomera nayo.Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.

¹²Asi ava zvavanotuka zvavasingazivi, vakaita semhuka dzisinomurangariro, dzakaberekwa kuti dzibatwe, dziparadzwe, naivo vachaparadzwa pakuvora kwavo,But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;

¹³vachiitirwa zvisakarurama, uri mubairo wokusarurama kwavo; savaya vanoti, mafaro kuita zvakaipa masikati, ivo makwapa namavara, vanofara nokunyengera kwavo kana vachidya nemi;And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the daytime. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;

¹⁴vanameso azere novupombwe, asingaregi kutadza; vanonyengera vanhu vasinesimba; vanomoyo wakadzidziswa kuchiva; ivo vana vokutukwa;Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:

¹⁵vakasiya nzira yakarurama, vakatsauka, vakatevera nzira yaBharami, mwanakomana waBheori, wakada mubairo wokusarurama;Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

¹⁶asi wakarairwa pamusoro pokudarika kwake, nokuti mbongoro, isingagoni kutaura, yakataura nenzwi romunhu, ikadzivisa kupenga kwomuporofita.But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man’s voice forbad the madness of the prophet.

¹⁷Ivava matsime asinemvura, mhute inodzingwa nemhepo; ivo vakachengeterwa kusviba kwerima nokusingaperi peri.These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.

¹⁸Nokuti nokutaura kwavo mashoko mazhinji okuzvikudza asinamaturo, vanonyengera pakuchiva kwenyama novutere, avo vachangotiza vachibva kunavanogara pakutsauka;For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.

¹⁹vachivapikira kusunungurwa, nyamba ivo vamene varanda vokuvora; nokuti waakundwa naye, munhu unoitwa muranda wake.While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

²⁰Nokuti ivo, kana nenzira yokuziva Ishe, Muponesi Jesu Kristu, vambotiza havo zvinosvibisa zvenyika, kana vakabatwa nokukundwa zve nazvo, kuguma kwavo kwaipa kupfuvura kutanga kwavo.For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.

²¹Nokuti zvaiva nani kwavari kana vasaiziva nzira yokururama, pakuti vadzoke pamurairo mutsvene wavakapiwa, wavakanga vambouziva havo.For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

²²Zvinorebwa neshumo yazvokwadi ndizvo zvakaitwa kwavari, zvinoti: Imbwa yakadzokera kumarutsi ayo, nenguruve yakanga yashambidzwa, kukuvumburuka mumatope.But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.