1 Thessalonians 4

1 Therefore, concerning other things, brothers, we ask and beg you, in the Lord Jesus, that, just as you have received from us the way in which you ought to walk and to please God, so also may you walk, in order that you may abound all the more.

Zvino zvimwe, hama, tinokukumbirisai, nekukurudzira naIshe Jesu, sezvamakagamuchira kwatiri kuti munofanira kufamba nekufadza Mwari sei, kuti muwanze nekuwanzisisa pazviri.

2 For you know what precepts I have given to you through the Lord Jesus.

Nokuti munoziva mirairo yakadini yatakakupai kubudikidza naIshe Jesu.

3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from fornication,

Nokuti ichi ndicho chido chaMwari, kuitwa vatsvene kwenyu, kuti murege upombwe;

4 that each one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor,

kuti umwe neumwe wenyu azive kuzviwanira mudziyo wake mukuitwa mutsvene nemurukudzo,

5 not in passions of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God,

kwete pakuchiva kwechishuwo, kunyange sevahedheni vasingazivi Mwari;

6 and that no one should overwhelm or circumvent his brother in business. For the Lord is the vindicator of all these things, just as we have preached and testified to you.

kusava neanopfuurikidza akanyengera hama yake pachiitiko; nokuti Ishe ndiye mutsivi wezvese izvi, sezvatakagara takuudzaiwo nekupupura.

7 For God has not called us to impurity, but to sanctification.

Nokuti Mwari haana kutidanira kutsvina, asi kuutsvene.

8 And so, whoever despises these teachings, does not despise man, but God, who has even provided his Holy Spirit within us.

Naizvozvo anozvidza, haazvidzi munhu, asi Mwari wakatipawo Mweya wake Mutsvene.

9 But concerning the charity of brotherhood, we have no need to write to you. For you yourselves have learned from God that you should love one another.

Zvino maererano nerudo rweukama hamutsvaki kuti ndikunyorerei, nokuti imwi mumene makadzidziswa naMwari kuti mudanane;

10 For indeed, you act in this way with all the brothers in all of Macedonia. But we petition you, brothers, so that you may abound all the more,

nokuti nemwi munozviita kuhama dzese dziri paMakedhonia yese; asi tinokukurudzirai, hama, kuti muwanzise zvikuru,

11 to choose work that allows you to be tranquil, and to carry out your business and to do your work with your own hands, just as we have instructed you,

uye mushingairire kuva nerunyararo, nekuita basa renyu pachenyu, nekushanda nemaoko enyu pachenyu, sezvatakakurairai;

12 and to walk honestly with those who are outside, and to desire nothing belonging to another.

kuti mufambe zvinoremekedzwa kune vari kunze, uye musashaya chinhu.

13 And we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who are sleeping, so as not to be sorrowful, like these others who do not have hope.

Asi handidi kuti mushaiwe ruzivo, hama, maererano nevarere, kuti murege kushungurudzika sevamwewo vasina tariro.

14 For if we believe that Jesus has died and risen again, so also will God bring back with Jesus those who sleep in him.

Nokuti kana tichitenda kuti Jesu wakafa uye wakamuka, saizvozvowo vakarara kubudikidza naJesu, Mwari achavauisa pamwe naye.

15 For we say this to you, in the Word of the Lord: that we who are alive, who remain until the return of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep.

Nokuti izvi tinokuudzai neshoko raIshe, kuti isu vapenyu, tinosiiwa kusvikira pakuuya kwaIshe, hatingatongotangiri vakarara.

16 For the Lord himself, with a command and with the voice of an Archangel and with a trumpet of God, shall descend from heaven. And the dead, who are in Christ, shall rise up first.

Nokuti Ishe amene achaburuka kubva kudenga nekudana kune simba, nenzwi remutumwa mukuru, nehwamanda yaMwari; zvino vakafa muna Kristu vachatanga kumuka;

17 Next, we who are alive, who are remaining, shall be taken up quickly together with them into the clouds to meet Christ in the air. And in this way, we shall be with the Lord always.

kozouya isu vanorarama vanosiiwa, tichabvutwa pamwe navo mumakore, kuti tichingamidze Ishe mumhepo; saizvozvowo tichava naIshe nekusingaperi.

18 Therefore, console one another with these words.

Naizvozvo nyaradzanai nemashoko awa.