¹Now I Paul myself entreat you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am of good courage toward you:

¹Huan, kei Paula, na lak ua na mitmuh ua thunuailut taka oma, na kiang ua om louh taka noumau lama khauh ngal nakin, Kris lungnemna leh nunnemnain honngen ahi;

²yea, I beseech you, that I may not when present show courage with the confidence wherewith I count to be bold against some, who count of us as if we walked according to the flesh.

²A hi, na kiang ua ka om chiangin, khenkhat sa banga oma honsepte tunga hang taka om ka tup ngamna bangin, kon khauhkhum akul louhna dingin kon ngen ahi.

³For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh

³Sa ah om mahleng, sa kidou bangin i dou kei ua,

⁴(for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the casting down of strongholds),

⁴Eite kigalvannate jaw sa leng ahi keia, kulhpi kip tak phelna dinga Pathian jiaka thilhih thei tak galvan ahi jaw.

⁵casting down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;

⁵Lunga gel pansante leh thil sang chiteng Pathian theihna dal dinga sang taka bawlte i phuk jel; ngaihtuahna chiteng Kris thumanna sikhaa piin;

⁶and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience, when your obedience shall be made full.

⁶Na thumandan uh hihkima a om chiangin, thumanlouhna tengteng phula ding nangawn aleng mansaa omin.

⁷Ye look at the things that are before your face. If any man trusteth in himself that he is Christ's, let him consider this again with himself, that, even as he is Christ's, so also are we.

⁷Na mitmuh ua, thil omte en jel un. Kuamahin Krisa hia a kigintak leh, hiai tuh amah ngaihtuah nawn hen, amah Krisa hi mahbangin, koute leng ka hi sam uhi.

⁸For though I should glory somewhat abundantly concerning our authority (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down), I shall not be put to shame:

⁸Ka thuneihna uh (nou hihsiatna ding ahi keia, noumau bawl hoih jawkna dinga Toupan a honpiak) suang nawn semsem mahle ung ka zahlak kei ding uhi.

⁹that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by my letters.

⁹Ka lai khakte-a nou honhihlau tum banga ka lat louhna dingin huai ka chi ahi.

¹⁰For, His letters, they say, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account.

¹⁰A laikhakte jaw a gikin, a khauha, a pumpi lam bel a jawngkhala, apau leng a hawmthohhuai ahi, a chi ngal ua.

¹¹Let such a one reckon this, that, what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such [are we] also in deed when we are present.

¹¹Ka om mang chiang ua ka laikhakte ua ka thu gelh uleh, huailaia na kiang ua ka om chiang ua ka hih ding uh a kibatlouhna a om kei chih huchibang miten a theisiam ding uh ahi.

¹²For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with certain of them that commend themselves: but they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.

¹²Khenkhat amau kiphatte lakah ka kisim khawm ngam kei ua, amau toh leng ka kitenpih ngam sam uh ahi keia, ahihhangin, amau jaw amau leh amau kitehin, amau leh amau kitehpihin lungsim neilouin a om uhi.

¹³But we will not glory beyond [our] measure, but according to the measure of the province which God apportioned to us as a measure, to reach even unto you.

¹³Kou jaw ka tehna hun val un ka uang kei ding uh, Pathianin uk a hontang saka, huai tehna bang jelin ka uang zo ding uhi, noumaute leng uk hial dinga tehna.

¹⁴For we stretch not ourselves overmuch, as though we reached not unto you: for we came even as far as unto you in the gospel of Christ:

¹⁴Uk phal louhpi honuk bangin ka huap lian lo ngal kei ua; Kris Tanchin Hoih genin na kho pha un leng ka hongpai uhi.

¹⁵not glorying beyond [our] measure, [that is,] in other men's labors; but having hope that, as your faith groweth, we shall be magnified in you according to our province unto [further] abundance,

¹⁵Ka tehna hun val uh, midang sepgimte jaw, ka suang kei ua; na ginna uh a khandan bang jelin, na lak ua ka louma uh nakpitaka hihletin leh om chih lametna ka nei jaw uhi,

¹⁶so as to preach the gospel even unto the parts beyond you, [and] not to glory in another's province in regard of things ready to our hand.

¹⁶Midang loumaa a sepsa suang louin, na khen lam gam uh phaa leng Tanchin Hoih ka gen theihna ding un.

¹⁷But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

¹⁷Himahleh, a suang peuhin Toupa suang hen.Amah kiphatin phat a loh ngal keia, Toupan a gen hoihin phat a loh jaw ahi.

¹⁸For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.

¹⁸Amah kiphatin phat a loh ngal keia, Toupan a gen hoihin phat a loh jaw ahi.