¹我自己決定了，到你們那裡去的時候，不再是憂愁的。

¹But I determined this for myself, that I would not come to you again in sorrow.

²如果我使你們憂愁，除了那因我而憂愁的人以外，誰能使我快樂呢？

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

³我寫了這樣的信，免得我來的時候，應該使我快樂的人反而使我憂愁；我深信你們眾人都以我的喜樂為你們的喜樂。

³And I wrote this very thing to you, so that, when I came, I wouldn’t have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy would be shared by all of you.

⁴我從前心裡痛苦難過，流著眼淚寫信給你們，並不是要使你們憂愁，而是要你們知道我是多麼愛你們。

⁴For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made sorry, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.

⁵饒恕犯罪的弟兄如果有人使人憂愁，他不是使我憂愁，而是使你們眾人都有一點憂愁；我只說有一點，是避免說得過分。

⁵But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I not press too heavily) to you all.

⁶這樣的人受了許多人的責備，也就夠了，

⁶Sufficient to such a one is this punishment which was inflicted by the many;

⁷倒不如饒恕他，安慰他，免得他因憂愁過度而受不了。

⁷so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.

⁸所以，我勸你們要向他確實顯明你們的愛心。

⁸Therefore I beg you to confirm your love toward him.

⁹為這緣故，我寫了那封信，要考驗你們是不是凡事都順從。

⁹For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things.

¹⁰你們饒恕誰，我也饒恕誰；我所饒恕了的（如果我饒恕過甚麼），是為了你們在基督面前饒恕的，

¹⁰Now I also forgive whomever you forgive anything. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ,

¹¹免得撒但有機可乘，因為我們並不是不曉得他的詭計。

¹¹that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his schemes.

¹²基督的馨香從前我為基督的福音到了特羅亞，雖然主給我開了門，

¹²Now when I came to Troas for the Good News of Christ, and when a door was opened to me in the Lord,

¹³我心裡仍然沒有安寧，因為見不到提多弟兄。於是我辭別了那裡的人，到馬其頓去了。

¹³I had no relief for my spirit, because I didn’t find Titus, my brother, but taking my leave of them, I went out into Macedonia.

¹⁴感謝　神，他常常在基督裡，使我們這些作俘虜的，列在凱旋的隊伍當中，又藉著我們在各地散播香氣，就是使人認識基督。

¹⁴Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.

¹⁵因為無論在得救的人或滅亡的人中間，我們都是基督的馨香，是獻給　神的。

¹⁵For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God, in those who are saved, and in those who perish;

¹⁶對於滅亡的人，這是死亡的氣味叫人死；對於得救的人，這卻是生命的香氣使人活。這些事誰夠資格作呢？

¹⁶to the one a stench from death to death; to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?

¹⁷我們不像那許多的人，為了圖利而謬講　神的道。相反地，我們講話，是出於真誠，出於　神，是在　神面前、在基督裡的。

¹⁷For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.