1 John 4
1 Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
Vadikanwi, musatenda mweya umwe neumwe, asi muidze mweya, kana yakabva kuna Mwari; nokuti vazhinji vaporofita venhema vakabudira munyika.
2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,
Neizvi munoziva Mweya waMwari: Wese mweya unobvuma kuti Jesu Kristu wakauya panyama, unobva muna Mwari.
3 and every spirit who doesn’t confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God; and this is the spirit of the Antichrist, of whom you have heard that it comes. Now it is in the world already.
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 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. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.
Ivo vanobva munyika; naizvozvo vanotaura zvinobva munyika, uye nyika inovanzwa.
6 We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn’t listen to us. By 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, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born 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 doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.
Asingadi, haazivi Mwari, nokuti Mwari rudo.
9 By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his only born Son into the world that we might 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 atoning sacrifice 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 loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.
Vadikanwi, kana Mwari akatida saizvozvo, nesu tinofanira kudanana.
12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.
Hakuna wakamboona Mwari; kana tichidanana, Mwari anogara matiri, uye rudo rwake rwunoperedzerwa matiri.
13 By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
Pane izvi tinoziva kuti tinogara maari, naiye matiri, nokuti wakatipa zvinobva paMweya wake.
14 We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.
Isuwo takaona uye tinopupura kuti Baba vakatuma Mwanakomana kuva Muponesi wenyika.
15 Whoever confesses 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 We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains 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 made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so we 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 has punishment. He who fears is not 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 a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he 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 This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.
Uye murairo uyu tinawo kubva kwaari, kuti anoda Mwari ngaadewo hama yake.
