1 VaTesaronika 3
1 Saka patakanga tisingagoni kuramba takatsunga, takafunga kuti zvaiva nani kuti tisare toga paAtene.
Therefore, no longer covering over it, we preferred to be left behind in Athens alone.
2 Takatuma Timoti, anova ndiye hama yedu nomushandi waMwari pamwe chete nesu pakuparadzira vhangeri raKristu, kuti akusimbisei nokukukurudzirai mukutenda kwenyu,
And we sent Timothy, our brother, and a helper of God, and our fellow workman in the good news of the Christ, in order to establish you and to encourage you about your faith,
3 kuti parege kuva nomunhu anozungunutswa nemiedzo iyi. Munozviziva chose kuti takanga takanangana nayo.
for no man to be disturbed by these afflictions. For ye yourselves know that we are set for this.
4 Chokwadi ndechokuti, pataiva nemi, takaramba tichikuudzai kuti tichatambudzwa. Uye zvakabva zvaita saizvozvo, sezvamunoziva kwazvo.
For also when we were with you we foretold you that we were going to be oppressed, just as it also happened, and ye know.
5 Nokuda kwaizvozvo, pandakanga ndisisagoni kutsunga, ndakatuma shoko kuti ndizive nezvokutenda kwenyu. Ndakatya kuti zvimwe muedzi angadaro akakuedzai uye kubata kwedu kukava pasina.
Because of this, I too, no longer covering over it, sent in order to know your faith, lest somehow he who tempts was tempting you, and our labor became in vain.
6 Asi Timoti achangosvika kwatiri zvino achibva kwamuri uye akauya namashoko akanaka ezvokutenda kwenyu norudo rwenyu. Akatiudza kuti munogara muchifunga zvakanaka nezvedu uye kuti munoshuva kutiona, sezvatinoshuva nesuwo kukuonai.
But now of Timothy, having come to us from you, and having proclaimed good news to us of your faith and love, and that ye always have a good recollection of us, longing to see us, just as we also you,
7 Naizvozvo, hama, mukusuwa kwedu kwose uye nokutambudzwa kwedu, takakurudzirwa pamusoro penyu nokuda kwokutenda kwenyu.
because of this, brothers, we were encouraged toward you in all our affliction and necessity through your faith.
8 Nokuti zvino tiri vapenyu chose, sezvo imi mumire nesimba muna She.
Because now we live, if ye stand firm in the Lord.
9 Tichavonga Mwari zvizere sei nokuda kwenyu kuti tidzorere mufaro wose watinawo pamberi paMwari wedu nokuda kwenyu?
For what thanks can we repay God about you, for all the joy in which we rejoiced because of you before our God,
10 Usiku namasikati tinonyengetera zvikuru kuti tikuoneizve uye kuti tizadzise zvamusina pakutenda kwenyu.
praying night and day above extraordinary in order to see your face and to mend the deficiencies of your faith?
11 Zvino Mwari wedu, Baba pachavo naIshe wedu Jesu ngavatizarurire nzira kuti tiuye kwamuri.
Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you.
12 Ishe ngaakurise rudo rwenyu uye rupfachukire kuno mumwe nomumwe nokuvanhu vose, sezvinoita rwedu kwamuri.
And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love toward each other, and toward all men, just as also we toward you,
13 Ngaasimbise mwoyo yenyu kuitira kuti mushayiwe chamunopomerwa uye muve vatsvene pamberi paMwari wedu naBaba vedu, pakuuya kwaIshe wedu Jesu navatsvene vake vose.
in order to establish your hearts unblameable in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his sanctified.
