1 Aga ma olin oma m

2 Sest kui mina teid kurvastan, kes on siis, kes mind r

3 Ja ma olen kirjutanud teile seda otse selleks, et mulle teie juurde tulles ei saaks osaks kurvastust neilt, kes mind pidid r

4 Sest ma kirjutasin teile suures viletsuses ja südame ahastuses paljude silmapisaratega, ei mitte selleks, et te kurvastuksite, vaid et te tunneksite selle armastuse, mida mul on rohkesti teie vastu.

5 Aga kui keegi on kurvastanud, ei ole ta mind kurvastanud, vaid teataval määral, et mitte liialdada, teid k

6 Niisugusel on küllalt sellest noomitusest, mille ta on saanud paljude poolt,

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8 Sellepärast ma manitsen teid osutada temale armastust.

9 Sest selleks ma olengi kirjutanud, et teada saada teie meelt, kas te olete igapidi s

10 Aga kellele te midagi andeks annate, sellele ka mina annan andeks. Sest ka mina, mis ma andeks andsin, kui mul oli midagi andeks anda, andsin andeks teie pärast Kristuse palge ees,

11 et saatan meid kavalasti ei petaks, sest tema m

12 Aga kui ma tulin Troasse kuulutama Kristuse Evangeeliumi ja mulle oli uks avatud Issandas,

13 ei leidnud ma siiski mitte rahu oma vaimus, sest ma ei kohanud oma venda Tiitust. Ma jätsin nad siis jumalaga ja läksin Makedooniasse.

14 Aga tänu Jumalale, kes meile ikka annab v

15 Sest meie oleme Jumalale Kristuse hea l

16 ühtedele küll surmalehk surmaks, kuid teistele elul

17 Sest me ei ole nagu mitmed, kes Jumala s

1 But it was my decision for myself, not to come again to you with sorrow.

2 For if I give you sorrow, who then will make me glad, but he who is made sad by me?

3 And I said this very thing in my letter, for fear that when I came I might have sorrow from those from whom it was right for me to have joy; being certain of this, that my joy is the joy of you all.

4 For out of much trouble and pain of heart and much weeping I sent my letter to you; not to give you sorrow, but so that you might see how great is the love which I have to you.

5 But if anyone has been a cause of sorrow, he has been so, not to me only, but in some measure to all of you (I say this that I may not be over-hard on you).

6 Let it be enough for such a man to have undergone the punishment which the church put on him;

7 So that now, on the other hand, it is right for him to have forgiveness and comfort from you, for fear that his sorrow may be over-great.

8 For which cause my desire is that you will make your love to him clear by your acts.

9 And for the same reason I sent you a letter so that I might be certain of your desire to do my orders in all things.

10 But if you give forgiveness to anyone, I do the same: for if I have given forgiveness for anything, I have done it because of you, in the person of Christ;

11 So that Satan may not get the better of us: for we are not without knowledge of his designs.

12 Now when I came to Troas for the good news of Christ, and there was an open door for me in the Lord,

13 I had no rest in my spirit because Titus my brother was not there: so I went away from them, and came into Macedonia.

14 But praise be to God who makes us strong to overcome in Christ, and makes clear through us in every place the value of the knowledge of him.

15 For we are a sweet perfume of Christ to God in those who are getting salvation and in those who are going to destruction;

16 To the one it is a perfume of death to death; to the other a perfume of life to life. And who is enough for such things?

17 For we are not like the great number who make use of the word of God for profit: but our words are true, as from God, being said as before God in Christ.