1 Johani 4
1 Shamwari dzinodikanwa, musatenda mweya yose yose, asi edzai mweya kuti muone kana ichibva kuna Mwari, nokuti vaprofita vazhinji venhema vakapinda munyika.
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.
2 Aya ndiwo maziviro amungaita Mweya waMwari: mweya mumwe nomumwe unopupura kuti Jesu Kristu akauya munyama unobva kuna Mwari,
In this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses Jesus Christ having come in the flesh, it is of God,
3 asi mweya wose usingapupuri Jesu haubvi kuna Mwari. Ndiwo mweya waandikristu, wamakanzwa kuti uri kuuya uye kunyange iye zvino watova munyika.
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.
4 Imi, vana vanodikanwa, munobva kuna Mwari uye makavakunda, nokuti ari mamuri mukuru kuna iye ari munyika.
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.
5 Ivo ndevenyika, naizvozvo vanotaura sevenyika, uye nyika inovanzwa.
They are of the world, because they speak of this from the world, and the world hears them;
6 Isu tinobva kuna Mwari, uye ani naani anoziva Mwari anotinzwa; asi ani naani asingabvi kuna Mwari haatinzwi. Izvi ndizvo zvinoita kuti tizive mweya wechokwadi nomweya wenhema.
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.
7 Shamwari dzinodikanwa, ngatidananei, nokuti rudo runobva kuna Mwari. Mumwe nomumwe anoda akaberekwa naMwari uye anoziva Mwari.
Beloved, may we love one another, because love is of God, and everyone loving has been begotten of God, and knows God;
8 Ani naani asingadi haazivi Mwari, nokuti Mwari rudo.
he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.
9 Mwari akaratidza rudo rwake pakati pedu sezvizvi: Akatuma Mwanakomana wake mumwe woga munyika kuti tive noupenyu kubudikidza naye.
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;
10 Urwu ndirwo rudo: kwete kuti isu takada Mwari, asi kuti iye akatida uye akatuma Mwanakomana wake kuti ave chibayiro chinoyananisa zvivi zvedu.
in this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son [as] the propitiation for our sins.
11 Shamwari dzinodikanwa, sezvo Mwari akatida zvakadai, isu tinofanirawo kudanana.
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another;
12 Hakuna munhu akatongoona Mwari; asi kana tichidanana, Mwari anogara matiri, uye rudo rwake runokwaniswa matiri.
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;
13 Tinoziva kuti tinogara maari uye iye matiri, nokuti akatipa zvoMweya wake.
in this we know that we remain in Him, and He in us, because of His Spirit He has given us.
14 Uye takaona uye tikapupura kuti Baba vakatuma Mwanakomana wavo kuti ave Muponesi wenyika.
And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son [as] Savior of the world;
15 Kana munhu akapupura kuti Jesu ndiye Mwanakomana waMwari, Mwari anogara maari uye iye muna Mwari.
whoever may confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God;
16 Nokudaro tinoziva uye tinovimba norudo rwaMwari kwatiri. Mwari rudo. Ani naani anogara murudo anogara muna Mwari, uye Mwari maari.
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.
17 Naizvozvo, rudo runokwaniswa pakati pedu kuitira kuti tigova nokuvimba pazuva rokutongwa, nokuti munyika ino takafanana naye.
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.
18 Murudo hamuna kutya. Asi rudo rwakakwana runodzinga kutya, nokuti kutya kune chokuita nokurangwa. Munhu anotya haana kukwaniswa murudo.
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;
19 Tinomuda nokuti iye akatanga kutida.
we love Him, because He first loved us;
20 Kana munhu achiti, “Ndinoda Mwari,” asingadi hama yake, murevi wenhema. Nokuti ani naani asingadi hama yake yaakaona, haagoni kuda Mwari, waasina kumboona.
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?
21 Uye akatipa murayiro uyu: Ani naani anoda Mwari anofanirawo kuda hama yake.
And this [is] the command we have from Him, that he who is loving God, may also love his brother.
