1 Corinthians 4
1 So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants and stewards of God’s mysteries.
Munhu ngaatirangarire sezvizvi, sevabati vaKristu, nevachengeti vezvakavanzika zvaMwari.
2 Here, moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.
Uyezve, zvinotsvakwa pavachengeti, kuti ani nani awanikwe akatendeka.
3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by a human court. Yes, I don’t even judge my own self.
Asi kwandiri chinhu chidiki-diki kuti nditongeswe nemwi, kana nekutonga kwevanhu; asi neni handizvitongesi.
4 For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.
Nokuti handirangariri chinhu kwandiri, zvakadaro handinzi ndakarurama neizvozvo; asi anonditonga ndiIshe.
5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.
Naizvozvo regai kutonga chinhu nguva isati yasvika, kusvikira Ishe auya, iye achabudisawo pachena zvinhu zvakavanzika zverima, uye acharatidza mazano emoyo; uye ipapo munhu umwe neumwe acharumbidzwa naMwari.
6 Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.
Zvino zvinhu izvi, hama, ndinozvifananidzira neni naAporo nekuda kwenyu, kuti mudzidze kwatiri kuti musafunga kupfuura zvakanyorwa, kuti umwe arege kuzvikudza neumwe muchipikisa umwe.
7 For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?
Nokuti ndiani wakaita kuti usiyane nevamwe? Uye chii chaunacho chausina kugamuchira? Uye kanawo wakagamuchira, unozvikudzirei seusina kugamuchira?
8 You are already filled. You have already become rich. You have come to reign without us. Yes, and I wish that you did reign, that we also might reign with you!
Matoguta, matofuma, matonga kunze kwedu; ndinodawo kuti mutonge, kuti isuwo titonge pamwe nemwi.
9 For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.
Nokuti ndinofunga kuti Mwari wakatigadza isu vaapositori vekupedzisira, sevakatemerwa rufu; nokuti takaitwa chiokerwa kunyika, nekuvatumwa, nekuvanhu.
10 We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.
Isu tiri mapenzi nekuda kwaKristu, asi imwi makachenjera muna Kristu; isu tine utera, asi imwi makasimba; imwi munokudzwa, asi isu tinozvidzwa.
11 Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.
Kusvikira nguva ino tine nzarawo, uye tine nyota, uye takashama, uye tinorohwa netsiva, uye tiri vambeyi,
12 We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.
uye tinoshingaira tichishanda nemaoko edu pachedu; tinoti tichitukwa tinoropafadza, tinoti tichishushwa tinotsunga moyo;
13 Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.
kana tichinyeyewa tinonyengerera; tinoitwa setsvina yenyika, marara ezvinhu zvese, kusvikira ikozvino.
14 I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
Handinyoreri zvinhu izvi kuti ndikunyadzisei, asi savana vangu vanodikanwa ndinokunyeverai.
15 For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, you don’t have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.
Nokuti kunyange mune varairidzi zvuru gumi muna Kristu, zvakadaro hamuna madzibaba mazhinji; nokuti muna Kristu Jesu ini ndakakuberekai kubudikidza neevhangeri.
16 I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.
Naizvozvo ndinokukumbirisai: Ivai vatevedzeri vangu.
17 Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.
Nemhaka iyi ndatuma Timotio kwamuri, anova mwana wangu anodikanwa, uye wakatendeka muna Ishe, achakuyeuchidzai nzira dzangu dziri muna Kristu, sezvandinodzidzisa kwese pakereke imwe neimwe.
18 Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.
Zvino vamwe vakazvikudza sezvinonzi handiuyi kwamuri.
19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is willing. And I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.
Asi ndichauya kwamuri nekukurumidza, kana Ishe achida, uye ndichaziva, kwete shoko revanozvikudza, asi simba.
20 For God’s Kingdom is not in word, but in power.
Nokuti ushe hwaMwari hahuzi pashoko, asi pasimba.
21 What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?
Munodei? Ndiuye kwamuri netsvimbo here, kana murudo nemweya weunyoro?
