¹我自己决定了，到你们那里去的时候，不再是忧愁的。

¹And I decided this to myself, not again to come in sorrow unto you,

²如果我使你们忧愁，除了那因我而忧愁的人以外，谁能使我快乐呢？

²for if I make you sorry, then who is he who is making me glad, except he who is made sorry by me?

³我写了这样的信，免得我来的时候，应该使我快乐的人反而使我忧愁；我深信你们众人都以我的喜乐为你们的喜乐。

³and I wrote to you this same thing, that having come, I may not have sorrow from them of whom it behoved me to have joy, having confidence in you all, that my joy is of you all,

⁴我从前心里痛苦难过，流着眼泪写信给你们，并不是要使你们忧愁，而是要你们知道我是多么爱你们。

⁴for out of much tribulation and pressure of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not that ye might be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly toward you.

⁵饶恕犯罪的弟兄如果有人使人忧愁，他不是使我忧愁，而是使你们众人都有一点忧愁；我只说有一点，是避免说得过分。

⁵And if any one hath caused sorrow, he hath not caused sorrow to me, but in part, that I may not burden you all;

⁶这样的人受了许多人的责备，也就够了，

⁶sufficient to such a one is this punishment, that [is] by the more part,

⁷倒不如饶恕他，安慰他，免得他因忧愁过度而受不了。

⁷so that, on the contrary, [it is] rather for you to forgive and to comfort, lest by over abundant sorrow such a one may be swallowed up;

⁸所以，我劝你们要向他确实显明你们的爱心。

⁸wherefore, I call upon you to confirm love to him,

⁹为这缘故，我写了那封信，要考验你们是不是凡事都顺从。

⁹for, for this also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether in regard to all things ye are obedient.

¹⁰你们饶恕谁，我也饶恕谁；我所饶恕了的（如果我饶恕过什么），是为了你们在基督面前饶恕的，

¹⁰And to whom ye forgive anything — I also; for I also, if I have forgiven anything, to whom I have forgiven [it], because of you — in the person of Christ — [I forgive it,]

¹¹免得撒但有机可乘，因为我们并不是不晓得他的诡计。

¹¹that we may not be over-reached by the Adversary, for of his devices we are not ignorant.

¹²基督的馨香从前我为基督的福音到了特罗亚，虽然主给我开了门，

¹²And having come to Troas for the good news of the Christ, and a door to me having been opened in the Lord,

¹³我心里仍然没有安宁，因为见不到提多弟兄。于是我辞别了那里的人，到马其顿去了。

¹³I have not had rest to my spirit, on my not finding Titus my brother, but having taken leave of them, I went forth to Macedonia;

¹⁴感谢　神，他常常在基督里，使我们这些作俘虏的，列在凯旋的队伍当中，又借着我们在各地散播香气，就是使人认识基督。

¹⁴and to God [are] thanks, who at all times is leading us in triumph in the Christ, and the fragrance of His knowledge He is manifesting through us in every place,

¹⁵因为无论在得救的人或灭亡的人中间，我们都是基督的馨香，是献给　神的。

¹⁵because of Christ a sweet fragrance we are to God, in those being saved, and in those being lost;

¹⁶对于灭亡的人，这是死亡的气味叫人死；对于得救的人，这却是生命的香气使人活。这些事谁够资格作呢？

¹⁶to the one, indeed, a fragrance of death to death, and to the other, a fragrance of life to life; and for these things who is sufficient?

¹⁷我们不像那许多的人，为了图利而谬讲　神的道。相反地，我们讲话，是出于真诚，出于　神，是在　神面前、在基督里的。

¹⁷for we are not as the many, adulterating the word of God, but as of sincerity — but as of God; in the presence of God, in Christ we do speak.