Timoti Anouya neMashoko Akanaka
Asingagoni kutsungirira kunyarara, Pauro akasara ari oga muAtene ndokutuma Timoti kuti aone kana kutenda kwavo kwakapona pakumanikidzwa. Timoti akadzoka nemashoko akanaka, uye kuzorora kwake kunonzwika: zvino tava kurarama. Anonyengetera kuti rudo rwavo rufashukire Jesu asati auya.
3 1Saka, patakanga tisisagoni kutsungirira, takasarudza kusara muAtene tiri toga, 2takatuma Timoti, hama yedu uye mushandi waBaba vedu muvhangeri raKristu, kuti akusimbisei nokukukurudzirai mukutenda kwenyu, 3kuti pasava nomumwe wenyu anozununguswa namatambudziko aya—imi pachenyu munoziva kuti ndizvo zvatakatarirwa. 4Patakanga tinemi, takambokuudzai zviri mberi kuti taizotambudzika—uye zvakazoitika, sezvamunoziva. 5Saka, ndisisagoni kuramba ndakamirira, ndakatuma kuti ndinzwe nezvokutenda kwenyu—ndichitya kuti zvimwe muedzi akanga akuedzai, uye basa redu rikava pasina.
6Asi Timoti achangosvika kwatiri achibva kwamuri, akauya nemashoko akanaka okutenda nerudo rwenyu—kuti munogara muchitifunga nomwoyo wakanaka, muchishuva kutiona sezvatinoshuvawo kukuonai. 7Saka, hama dzangu, mukushushikana kwedu kwose nenhamo, kutenda kwenyu kwakatinyaradza, 8nokuti zvino tinorarama, kana imi mumire makasimba muna Ishe. 9Kutenda kwakadini kwatingadzosera kuna Baba vedu pamusoro penyu, nokuda kwomufaro wose watinofara nawo pamberi paBaba vedu nokuda kwenyu? 10Usiku namasikati tinonyengetera zvikuru kuti tikuonei takatarisana uye tizadzise zvichiri kushayikwa pakutenda kwenyu?
11Zvino Baba vedu pachavo, naIshe wedu Jesu, ngavatungamirire nzira yedu kuti tisvike kwamuri. 12Ishe ngaakuitei kuti mukure uye mupfachukire norudo kune mumwe nomumwe nokuvanhu vose, sezvatinoitawo isu kwamuri, 13kuti asimbise mwoyo yenyu, isina chaingapomerwa muutsvene pamberi paBaba vedu, panouya Ishe wedu Jesu navatsvene vake vose. a a v13 ‘Vatsvene vake’ zvingareva vatumwa, kana vatendi vakatofa kare, kana vose vari vaviri.