1 John 4
1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but prove the spirits, if they are of God, because many false prophets have gone forth into the world.
Vadikanwi, musatenda mweya umwe neumwe, asi muidze mweya, kana yakabva kuna Mwari; nokuti vazhinji vaporofita venhema vakabudira munyika.
2 In this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses Jesus Christ having come in the flesh, it is of God,
Neizvi munoziva Mweya waMwari: Wese mweya unobvuma kuti Jesu Kristu wakauya panyama, unobva muna Mwari.
3 and every spirit that does not confess Jesus Christ having come in the flesh, it is not of God; and this is that of the antichrist, which you heard that it comes, and now it is already in the world.
Zvino mweya wese usingabvumi kuti Jesu Kristu wakauya panyama, haubvi muna Mwari; uye uyu ndiye wemupikisi waKristu, wamakanzwa kuti anouya, naikozvino watova panyika.
4 You are of God, little children, and you have overcome them; because greater is He who [is] in you, than he who is in the world.
Imwi munobva muna Mwari, vana vadiki, uye makavakunda; nokuti ari mamuri mukuru kune ari munyika.
5 They are of the world, because they speak of this from the world, and the world hears them;
Ivo vanobva munyika; naizvozvo vanotaura zvinobva munyika, uye nyika inovanzwa.
6 we are of God; he who is knowing God hears us; he who is not of God, does not hear us; from this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
Isu tinobva muna Mwari; uyo anoziva Mwari, anotinzwa; asingabvi muna Mwari, haatinzwi. Kubva pane izvi tinoziva mweya wechokwadi nemweya wekutsauka.
7 Beloved, may we love one another, because love is of God, and everyone loving has been begotten of God, and knows God;
Vadikanwi, ngatidanane; nokuti rudo rwunobva muna Mwari, uye umwe neumwe anoda wakaberekwa kubva muna Mwari, uye anoziva Mwari.
8 he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.
Asingadi, haazivi Mwari, nokuti Mwari rudo.
9 In this was revealed the love of God in us, because God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we may live through Him;
Pane izvi rudo rwaMwari rwakaratidzwa matiri, kuti Mwari wakatuma Mwanakomana wake wakaberekwa umwe wega munyika, kuti tirarame kubudikidza naye.
10 in this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son [as] the propitiation for our sins.
Rudo rwuri pachinhu ichi, kwete kuti isu takada Mwari, asi kuti iye wakatida, akatuma Mwanakomana wake kuti ave muripo wekuyananisa maererano nezvivi zvedu.
11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another;
Vadikanwi, kana Mwari akatida saizvozvo, nesu tinofanira kudanana.
12 no one has ever seen God; if we may love one another, God remains in us, and His love is having been perfected in us;
Hakuna wakamboona Mwari; kana tichidanana, Mwari anogara matiri, uye rudo rwake rwunoperedzerwa matiri.
13 in this we know that we remain in Him, and He in us, because of His Spirit He has given us.
Pane izvi tinoziva kuti tinogara maari, naiye matiri, nokuti wakatipa zvinobva paMweya wake.
14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son [as] Savior of the world;
Isuwo takaona uye tinopupura kuti Baba vakatuma Mwanakomana kuva Muponesi wenyika.
15 whoever may confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God;
Ani nani anobvuma kuti Jesu Mwanakomana waMwari, Mwari anogara maari, naiye muna Mwari.
16 and we have known and believed the love that God has in us; God is love, and he who is remaining in love, remains in God, and God in him.
Nesu takaziva uye takatenda rudo Mwari rwaanarwo kwatiri. Mwari rudo, uye anogara murudo anogara muna Mwari, naMwari maari.
17 In this, love has been perfected with us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because even as He is, we also are in this world.
Pane izvi rudo rwakapedzeredzwa nesu, kuti tive neushingi nezuva rekutonga, nokuti sezvaari iye, nesu takadaro kunyika ino.
18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and he who is fearing has not been made perfect in love;
Hakuna kutya murudo, asi rudo rwakaperera rwunodzingira kunze kutya, nokuti kutya kune marwadzo; anotya haana kuperedzerwa parudo.
19 we love Him, because He first loved us;
Isu tinomuda, nokuti iye wakatanga kutida.
20 if anyone may say, “I love God,” and may hate his brother, he is a liar; for he who is not loving his brother whom he has seen, how is he able to love God whom he has not seen?
Kana umwe achitaura kuti: Ndinoda Mwari, asi achivenga hama yake, murevi wenhema; nokuti uyo asingadi hama yake yaakaona, anogona sei kuda Mwari waasina kuona?
21 And this [is] the command we have from Him, that he who is loving God, may also love his brother.
Uye murairo uyu tinawo kubva kwaari, kuti anoda Mwari ngaadewo hama yake.
