¹劝勉和祝福

¹This third time do I come unto you; on the mouth of two witnesses or three shall every saying be established;

²我第二次到你们那里去的时候说过，现今不在你们那里，再预先对那些从前犯了罪的和其余的人说：我若再来，必不宽容，

²I have said before, and I say [it] before, as being present, the second time, and being absent, now, do I write to those having sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare,

³因为你们在找基督借着我说话的凭据。基督对你们不是软弱的，相反地，在你们身上是有能力的。

³since a proof ye seek of the Christ speaking in me, who to you is not infirm, but is powerful in you,

⁴他因着软弱被钉死了，却靠着　神的大能活着。我们在他里面也是软弱的，但靠着　神向你们所显的大能，也必与他一同活着。

⁴for even if he was crucified from infirmity, yet he doth live from the power of God; for we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him from the power of God toward you.

⁵你们应当察验自己是不是持守着信仰，也应当考验自己。难道不晓得基督耶稣是在你们里面吗？（除非你们是经不起考验的人。）

⁵Your ownselves try ye, if ye are in the faith; your ownselves prove ye; do ye not know your ownselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, if ye be not in some respect disapproved of?

⁶我盼望你们晓得，我们不是经不起考验的人。

⁶and I hope that ye shall know that we — we are not disapproved of;

⁷我们祈求　神，使你们不作什么恶事。这并不是要显明我们是经得起考验的，而是要你们行善；我们呢，就让我们作经不起考验的人好了！

⁷and I pray before God that ye do no evil, not that we may appear approved, but that ye may do that which is right, and we may be as disapproved;

⁸我们不能作什么事违背真理，只能维护真理。

⁸for we are not able to do anything against the truth, but for the truth;

⁹当我们软弱、你们刚强的时候，我们就欢喜；我们所求的，就是要你们完全。

⁹for we rejoice when we may be infirm, and ye may be powerful; and this also we pray for — your perfection!

¹⁰因此，我趁着不在你们那里的时候，把这些话写给你们，到我来了，就不必凭着主所给我的权柄严厉地对待你们。这权柄不是要拆毁你们，而是要建立你们。

¹⁰because of this, these things — being absent — I write, that being present, I may not treat [any] sharply, according to the authority that the Lord did give me for building up, and not for casting down.

¹¹最后，弟兄们，你们要喜乐，要完全，要受安慰，要同心，要和睦。这样，施慈爱赐平安的　神必与你们同在。

¹¹Henceforth, brethren, rejoice; be made perfect, be comforted, be of the same mind, be at peace, and the God of the love and peace shall be with you;

¹²你们要用圣洁的亲嘴彼此问安。

¹²salute one another in an holy kiss;

¹³众圣徒都问候你们。

¹³salute you do all the saints;

¹⁴愿主耶稣基督的恩惠，　神的慈爱，圣灵的契通，常与你们众人同在。

¹⁴the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, [is] with you all! Amen.