¹But I myself, Paul, entreat you by the meekness and gentleness of the Christ, who, as to appearance, [when present] [am] mean among you, but absent am bold towards you;

¹[Teny nentin'i Paoly namaly izay nanohitra sy nanevateva ny fahefany ka azy tsy ho Apostoly marina] Ary ny tenako, izaho Paoly, dia mananatra anareo amin'ny hamoram-panahy sy ny fandeferan'i Kristy, dia izaho, izay manetry tena, hono, raha eo anatrehanareo, fa sahy aminareo kosa, raha tsy eo.

²but I beseech that present I may not be bold with the confidence with which I think to be daring towards some who think of us as walking according to flesh.

²Dia mangataka aho mba tsy ho sahy, rehefa tonga, amin'ny fahatokiana izay kasaiko hahasahiana amin'ny sasany, izay manao anay ho mandeha araka ny nofo.

³For walking in flesh, we do not war according to flesh.

³Fa na dia velona amin'ny nofo aza izahay, dia tsy mba miady araka ny nofo

⁴For the arms of our warfare [are] not fleshly, but powerful according to God to [the] overthrow of strongholds;

⁴(fa tsy avy amin'ny nofo ny fiadian'ny tafikay, fa mahery amin'Andriamanitra handrava fiarovana mafy);

⁵overthrowing reasonings and every high thing that lifts itself up against the knowledge of God, and leading captive every thought into the obedience of the Christ;

⁵fa mandrava ny fisainana sy ny zavatra avo rehetra izay atsangana hanohitra ny fahalalana an'Andriamanitra izahay ka mamabo ny hevitra rehetra hanaiky an'i Kristy,

⁶and having in readiness to avenge all disobedience when your obedience shall have been fulfilled.

⁶ary vonona hamaly ny tsi-fanarahana rehetra izahay, rehefa tanteraka ny fanarahanareo.

⁷Do ye look at what concerns appearance? If any one has confidence in himself that he is of Christ, let him think this again in himself, that even as he [is] of Christ, so also [are] we.

⁷Mijery zavatra araka ny fisehony ihany va ianareo? Raha misy olona matoky ny tenany fa an'i Kristy, aoka izay hisaintsaina izao indray, fa tahaka ny mah'an'i Kristy azy no mah'an'i Kristy anay koa.[Na: Mijery zavatra araka ny fisehony ihany ianareo]

⁸For and if I should boast even somewhat more abundantly of our authority, which the Lord has given [to us] for building up and not for your overthrowing, I shall not be put to shame;

⁸Fa na dia bebe ihany aza ny fireharehako ny amin'ny fahefanay izay nomen'i Kristy anay hananganana, fa tsy handravana anareo, dia tsy hahazo henatra aho,

⁹that I may not seem as if I was frightening you by letters:

⁹mba tsy hisehoako toy ny ta-hampitahotra anareo amin'ny epistily.

¹⁰because his letters, he says, [are] weighty and strong, but his presence in the body weak, and his speech naught.

¹⁰Fa ny epistiliny, hoy izy, dia mavesatra sy mahery; fa malemy kosa ny fanatrehan'ny tenany, ary tsinontsinona ny teniny.

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

¹¹Aoka izany olona izany hihevitra izao, fa tahaka ny fiteninay amin'ny epistily, raha tsy eo izahay, dia ho tahaka izany koa ny asanay rehefa tonga izahay.

¹²For we dare not class ourselves or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves; but these, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are not intelligent.

¹²Fa izahay tsy sahy hanao ny tenanay ho isan'ny sasany izay midera tena, na hampitaha ny tenanay aminy; fa tsy hendry ireny, satria manohatra ny tenanay amin'ny tenany sy mampitaha ny tenany amin'ny tenanay.

¹³Now *we* will not boast out of measure, but according to the measure of the rule which the God of measure has apportioned to us, to reach to you also.

¹³Fa izahay tsy mba hirehareha tsy amin'ohatra, fa araka ny ohatry ny voafaritr'Andriamanitra ho anjaranay, dia ohatra mihatra aminareo.

¹⁴For we do not, as not reaching to you, overstretch ourselves, (for we have come to you also in the glad tidings of the Christ;)

¹⁴Fa tsy toy izay tsy mihatra aminareo izahay ka mihoatra ny faritry ny anjaranay; fa tonga hatrany aminareo aza izahay amin'ny filazantsaran'i Kristy;

¹⁵not boasting out of measure in other people's labours, but having hope, your faith increasing, to be enlarged amongst you, according to our rule, yet more abundantly

¹⁵tsy mirehareha tsy amin'ohatra amin'izay nisasaran'ny sasany izahay, fa manana fanantenana izahay fa rehefa mitombo ny finoanareo, dia hohalehibiazina ao aminareo izahay araka ny voafaritra ho anjarany, sady mbola handroso ihany

¹⁶to announce the glad tidings to that [which is] beyond you, not to be boasting in another's rule of things made ready to hand.

¹⁶ka hitory ny filazantsara amin'ny tany any ankoatranareo, ary tsy hirehareha amin'izay efa vonona rahateo ao anatin'ny voafaritra ho an'ny sasany.

¹⁷But he that boasts, let him boast in the Lord.

¹⁷Fa izay mirehareha, dia aoka Jehovah no ho reharehany (Jery. 9, 23)Fa tsy izay midera tena no ankasitrahana, fa izay derain'ny Tompo.

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

¹⁸Fa tsy izay midera tena no ankasitrahana, fa izay derain'ny Tompo.