Chikara Chinobuda muGungwa
Chikara chinobuda mugungwa chine chigaro choushe chedhiragoni chaicho, chichituka Baba vedu apo nyika yose ichishamiswa neronda racho rakapora. Chikara chechipiri chinoita kuti chifananidzo chitaure, chinouraya vanoramba kuchinamata, uye chinodzora kuti ndiani angatenga kana kutengesa. Kutendeka pano kunoreva kutsungirira, kwete kununurwa.
13 1Shato yakamira pajecha regungwa. Ndakaona chikara chichibuda mugungwa, chaiva nenyanga gumi nemisoro minomwe, korona gumi panyanga dzacho, uye mazita okutuka Mwari pamisoro yacho. 2Chikara chandakaona chakanga chakaita sembada, tsoka dzacho dzakaita sedzebhere, muromo wacho sewomushumba. Shato yakachipa simba rayo, chigaro chayo choushe, nesimba guru. 3Mumwe wemisoro yacho wakanga uchiita sowakakuvara zvinouraya, asi ronda iroro rakapora. Nyika yose yakashamiswa ikatevera chikara. 4Vakanamata shato nokuti yakapa chikara simba rayo, vakanamatawo chikara, vachiti, “Ndiani akafanana nechikara? Ndiani angarwisana nacho?”
5Chikara chakapiwa muromo wokutaura kuzvirumbidza nokutuka Mwari, uye chakapiwa simba rokuita mwedzi makumi mana nemiviri. 6Chakashama muromo wacho kuti chituke Baba vedu—kutuka zita ravo nenzvimbo yavo yokugara, naivo vanogara kudenga. 7Chakatenderwa kurwisa vatsvene nokuvakunda, uye chakapiwa simba pamusoro pedzinza rose, navanhu vose, nomutauro wose, norudzi rwose. 8Vose vanogara panyika vachachinamata, kunze kwaavo mazita avo akanyorwa mubhuku roupenyu reGwayana kubvira pakuvambwa kwenyika—Gwayana rakaurayiwa. 9Kana munhu ane nzeve, ngaanzwe. 10Kana munhu akatarirwa kutapwa, mukutapwa anoenda; kana munhu achifanira kuurayiwa nomunondo, nomunondo anofanira kuurayiwa. Pano ndipo pane kutsungirira nokutenda kwavatsvene.
Chikara Chechipiri Chinobva muNyika
11Ipapo ndakaona chimwe chikara chichibuda munyika. Chakanga chine nyanga mbiri dzakaita sedzegwayana, asi chaitaura seshato. 12Chinoshandisa simba rose rechikara chokutanga pachinzvimbo chacho, chichiita kuti nyika navanhu vayo vanamate chikara chokutanga, icho chaiva neronda rinouraya rakapora. 13Chinoita zviratidzo zvikuru, kunyange kuita kuti moto uburuke uchibva kudenga uchienda panyika pamberi pavanhu. 14Nezviratidzo zvachakatenderwa kuita pachinzvimbo chechikara, chinonyengera avo vanogara panyika, chichivaudza kuti vaite mufananidzo wechikara chakakuvadzwa nomunondo asi chikararama. 15Chakatenderwa kupa mweya kumufananidzo wechikara, kuti mufananidzo uwo ugone kutaura, uye kuita kuti vose vanoramba kunamata mufananidzo wechikara vaurayiwe.
16Chinomanikidza vose—vaduku navakuru, vapfumi navarombo, vakasununguka nevaranda—kuti vagamuchire mucherechedzo paruoko rwavo rworudyi kana pahuma, 17kuti kurege kuva nomunhu anogona kutenga kana kutengesa asina mucherechedzo iwoyo: zita rechikara, kana nhamba yezita iroro. 18Izvi zvinoda uchenjeri: uyo ane njere ngaaverenge nhamba yechikara, nokuti inhamba yomunhu—666. a a v18 Nhamba iyi inotsanangurwa se“nhamba yomunhu”—chiratidzo chinofananidzira chinonongedzera kumukirira kwevanhu, kwete kodhi inofanira kupindurwa nemasvomhu chaiwo.