¹ولكني جزمت بهذا في نفسي ان لا آتي اليكم ايضا في حزن.

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

²لانه ان كنت احزنكم انا فمن هو الذي يفرحني الا الذي احزنته.

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

³وكتبت لكم هذا عينه حتى اذا جئت لا يكون لي حزن من الذين كان يجب ان افرح بهم واثقا بجميعكم ان فرحي هو فرح جميعكم.

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,

⁴لاني من حزن كثير وكأبة قلب كتبت اليكم بدموع كثيرة لا لكي تحزنوا بل لكي تعرفوا المحبة التي عندي ولا سيّما من نحوكم

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.

⁵ولكن ان كان احد قد احزن فانه لم يحزني بل احزن جميعكم بعض الحزن لكي لا اثقل.

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

⁶مثل هذا يكفيه هذا القصاص الذي من الاكثرين

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

⁷حتى تكونوا بالعكس تسامحونه بالحري وتعزونه لئلا يبتلع مثل هذا من الحزن المفرط.

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;

⁸لذلك اطلب ان تمكنوا له المحبة.

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

⁹لاني لهذا كتبت لكي اعرف تزكيتكم هل انتم طائعون في كل شيء.

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

¹⁰والذي تسامحونه بشيء فانا ايضا. لاني انا ما سامحت به ان كنت قد سامحت بشيء فمن اجلكم بحضرة المسيح

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,]

¹¹لئلا يطمع فينا الشيطان لاننا لا نجهل افكاره

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

¹²ولكن لما جئت الى ترواس لاجل انجيل المسيح وانفتح لي باب في الرب

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

¹³لم تكن لي راحة في روحي لاني لم اجد تيطس اخي. لكن ودعتهم فخرجت الى مكدونية

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;

¹⁴ولكن شكرا للّه الذي يقودنا في موكب نصرته في المسيح كل حين ويظهر بنا رائحة معرفته في كل مكان.

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,

¹⁵لاننا رائحة المسيح الذكية للّه في الذين يخلصون وفي الذين يهلكون.

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

¹⁶لهؤلاء رائحة موت لموت ولاولئك رائحة حياة لحياة. ومن هو كفؤ لهذه الامور.

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?

¹⁷لاننا لسنا كالكثيرين غاشين كلمة الله لكن كما من اخلاص بل كما من الله نتكلم امام الله في المسيح

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.