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¹Asi ndakati mumoyo mangu, kuti handidi kuvuya zve kwamuri nokuchema.But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.

²Nokuti kana ndichikuchemedzai, ndianiko uchandifadza, kana asiri iye wakachemedzwa neni?For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?

³Zvino ndakanyora chinhu ichi kuti kana ndasvika, ndirege kuchemedzwa naivo vaifanira kundifadza; ndichikutendai mose, kuti kufara kwangu ndokwenyu mose.And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

⁴Nokuti ndakunyorerai nemisodzi mizhinji pakutambudzika kukuru nenhamo yomoyo; ndisingati muchemedzwe, asi kuti muzive rudo rukuru rwandinokudai narwo.For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.

⁵Zvino kana mumwe akachemedza hake, haana kundichemedza ini, asi ndingati zvimwe ndirege kunyanyisaimi mose.But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.

⁶Kurova uku kwavanhu vazhinji kunoringana munhu wakadai.Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many.

⁷Naizvozvo zvirinani kuti mumukanganwire nokumunyaradza, kuti arege kuvodzwa moyo kwazvo neshungu huru.So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.

⁸Naizvozvo ndinokumbira zvikuru kwamuri kuti musimbise rudo rwenyu kwaari.Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.

⁹Nokuti ndakanyora vo izvi, kuti ndikuidzei, ndizive kana muchiteerera pazvinhu zvose.For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.

¹⁰Zvino iye wamunokanganwira, neni ndinomukanganwira vo; nokuti izvo zvandakanganwira ini, kana ndinenge ndakakanganwira chinhu, ndakazviita nokuda kwenyu pamberi paKristu;To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ;

¹¹kuti tirege kunyengerwa naSatani; nokuti hatizi vasingazivi mano ake.Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.

¹²Zvino, ndakati ndichisvika paTroasi kuparidza Evhangeri yaKristu, ndichizarurirwa mukova munaKristu,Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ’s gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord,

¹³ndakanga ndisinezororo pamweya wangu, nokuti handina kuwanapo Tito, hama yangu; asi ndakawonekana navo, ndikaenda Makedhonia.I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia.

¹⁴Asi Mwari ngaavongwe, unotikundisa nguva dzose munaKristu, unoratidza nesu kwose-kwose bwema bwokuziva kwake.Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.

¹⁵Nokuti isu tiri bwema bwakanaka bwaKristu kunaMwari, pakati paivo vanoponeswa navanoparara.For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:

¹⁶Kunavamwe tiri bwema bworufu bwunoisa kurufu; kuna vamwe bwema bwovupenyu bwunoisa kuvupenyu. Zvino ndianiko ungakwanisa zvinhu zvakadai?To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

¹⁷Nokuti hatifanani navamwe vazhinji vanokanganisa shoko raMwari; asi tinotaura munaKristu nezvokwadi, sezvinobva kunaMwari, pamberi paMwari.For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.