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

¹Havante do cxi tiujn promesojn, amataj, ni purigu nin de cxia malpureco karna kaj spirita, perfektigante sanktecon en la timo al Dio.

²Open your hearts to us: we wronged no man, we corrupted no man, we took advantage of no man.

²Malfermu al ni viajn korojn; ni kontraux neniu maljuste agis, ni ruinigis neniun, al neniu ni friponis.

³I say it not to condemn [you]: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die together and live together.

³Ne por vin kondamni mi tion diras; cxar mi antauxe diris, ke vi estas en niaj koroj, por kune vivi kaj kune morti.

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

⁴Granda estas mia parola libereco al vi, granda estas mia fiereco pri vi:mi estas plena de konsolo, al mi superabundas la gxojo meze de nia tuta aflikto.

⁵For even when we were come into Macedonia our flesh had no relief, but [we were] afflicted on every side; without [were] fightings, within [were] fears.

⁵CXar ecx kiam ni jam alvenis en Makedonujon, nia karno tute ne faciligxis, sed ni cxiel depremigxis; ekstere estis bataloj, interne timoj.

⁶Nevertheless he that comforteth the lowly, [even] God, comforted us by the coming of Titus;

⁶Tamen Dio, kiu konsolas la humilulojn, konsolis nin per la alveno de Tito;

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

⁷kaj ne nur per lia alveno, sed ankaux per la konsolo, per kiu li konsoligxis pri vi, dum li pridiris al ni vian sopiron, vian doloron, vian fervoron pro mi; tiel, ke mi ankoraux pli gxojis.

⁸For though I made you sorry with my epistle, I do not regret it: though I did regret [it] (for I see that that epistle made you sorry, though but for a season),

⁸CXar kvankam mi vin malgxojigis per mia epistolo, mi ne bedauxras pri tio, kvankam mi ja bedauxris; cxar mi vidas, ke tiu epistolo vin malgxojigis, sed nur mallonge.

⁹I now rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye were made sorry unto repentance; for ye were made sorry after a godly sort, that ye might suffer loss by us in nothing.

⁹Mi nun gxojas, ne pro tio, ke vi malgxojis, sed pro tio, ke vi malgxojis gxis pento; cxar vi laux Dio malgxojis, por ke vi havu nenian malutilon per ni.

¹⁰For godly sorrow worketh repentance unto salvation, [a repentance] which bringeth no regret: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

¹⁰CXar la malgxojo laux Dio elfaras penton gxis savo, ne bedauxrindan; sed la malgxojo de la mondo elfaras morton.

¹¹For behold, this selfsame thing, that ye were made sorry after a godly sort, what earnest care it wrought in you, yea what clearing of yourselves, yea what indignation, yea what fear, yea what longing, yea what zeal, yea what avenging! In everything ye approved yourselves to be pure in the matter.

¹¹CXar jen kian zorgemon tiu sama malgxojo laux Dio elfaris en vi, plue kian senkulpigon, plue kian indignon, plue kian timon, plue kian sopiron, plue kian fervoron, plue kian vengxon! En cxio vi elmontris vin puraj pri la afero.

¹²So although I wrote unto 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 made manifest unto you in the sight of God.

¹²Tial kvankam mi skribis al vi, tamen tio estis ne pro tiu, kiu faris la malbonon, nek pro tiu, kiu suferis la malbonon, sed por ke via zorgemo por ni elmontrigxu al vi mem antaux Dio.

¹³Therefore we have been comforted: And in our comfort we joyed the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit hath been refreshed by you all.

¹³Tial ni konsoligxis; kaj en nia konsolo ni gxojis des pli multege pro la gxojo de Tito, cxar lia animo estas refresxigita de vi cxiuj.

¹⁴For if in anything I have gloried to him on your behalf, I was not put to shame; but as we spake all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.

¹⁴CXar se en io mi fanfaronis al li pro vi, mi ne hontis; sed kiel ni cxion parolis vereme al vi, tiel same ankaux nia fanfaronado, kiun mi faris antaux Tito, montrigxis vera.

¹⁵And his affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembereth the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.

¹⁵Kaj lia interna amo pli abundas al vi, dum li memoras la obeadon de vi cxiuj, kiel kun timo kaj tremo vi lin akceptis.

¹⁶I rejoice that in everything I am of good courage concerning you.

¹⁶Mi gxojas, ke en cxio mi povas fidi al vi.