¹所以，親愛的，我們有了這些應許，就應該潔淨自己，除去身體和心靈上的一切污穢，存著敬畏　神的心，達到成聖的地步。

¹Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

²哥林多人悔改，保羅得喜樂你們的心要容得下我們。我們沒有虧負過誰，沒有損害過誰，也沒有佔過誰的便宜。

²Open your hearts to us. We wronged no one. We corrupted no one. We took advantage of no one.

³我這樣說，不是要定你們的罪，因為我從前說過，你們常在我們心裡，甚至可以同生共死。

³I say this not to condemn you, for I have said before, that you are in our hearts to die together and live together.

⁴我對你們大有信心，因你們而感到十分光榮；我心裡滿有安慰，在我們的一切患難中，格外充滿喜樂。

⁴Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.

⁵我們從前到了馬其頓的時候，身體一點安寧也沒有，反而處處遭受患難，外面有爭戰，裡面有恐懼。

⁵For even when we had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on every side. Fightings were outside. Fear was inside.

⁶但那安慰灰心的人的　神，藉著提多來到，安慰了我們；

⁶Nevertheless, he who comforts the lowly, God, comforted us by the coming of Titus;

⁷不但藉著他來，也藉著他從你們所得的安慰，安慰了我們。他把你們的渴望、你們的哀慟和你們對我的熱誠，都告訴了我們，因此我就更加歡喜了。

⁷and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you, while he told us of your longing, your mourning, and your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced still more.

⁸雖然我在那封信上使你們憂傷，但我現在並不後悔；其實我曾經有點後悔，因為知道那封信使你們憂傷，雖然只是暫時的。

⁸For though I made you sorry with my letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it. For I see that my letter made you sorry, though just for a while.

⁹現在我快樂，不是因為你們憂傷，而是因為你們的憂傷帶來了悔改。你們依照　神的意思憂傷，凡事就不會因我們受到虧損。

⁹I now rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that you were made sorry to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly way, that you might suffer loss by us in nothing.

¹⁰因為依照　神的意思而有的憂傷，可以生出沒有懊悔的悔改，以致得救；世俗的憂傷卻會招致死亡。

¹⁰For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world works death.

¹¹看哪，你們依照　神的意思憂傷，在你們中間就產生了怎樣的熱情、申訴、憤慨、戰兢、渴望、熱誠、正義；你們在各方面都表明了自己在那事上是清白的。

¹¹For behold, this same thing, that you were made sorry in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vengeance! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.

¹²因此，從前我雖然寫過信給你們，卻不是為了那虧負人的，也不是為了那受害的，而是在　神面前把你們對我們的熱情，向你們顯現出來。

¹²So although I wrote to you, I wrote not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be revealed in you in the sight of God.

¹³因此，我們得了安慰。在這安慰之外，我們因提多的喜樂就更加歡喜，因為他的心從你們眾人那裡得到暢快。

¹³Therefore we have been comforted. In our comfort we rejoiced the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.

¹⁴我若對他誇獎過你們甚麼，也不覺得慚愧。我們對你們所說的是真話，照樣，我們在提多面前誇獎你們的也是真的。

¹⁴For if in anything I have boasted to him on your behalf, I was not disappointed. But as we spoke all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.

¹⁵並且他想起你們眾人的服從，怎樣恐懼戰兢地接待他，他懷念你們的心就更加熱切了。

¹⁵His affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembers all of your obedience, how with fear and trembling you received him.

¹⁶現在我很歡喜，因為在一切事上我對你們都有信心。

¹⁶I rejoice that in everything I am confident concerning you.