¹For we know that if our earthly tabernacle house be destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

¹Fa fantatsika fa raha ravana ny trano-laintsika etỳ an-tany, dia manana izay voarafitr'Andriamanitra isika, dia trano tsy nataon-tanana izay maharitra mandrakizay any an-danitra.

²For indeed in this we groan, ardently desiring to have put on our house which [is] from heaven;

²Ary misento ao anatin'ity isika ka maniry indrindra hitafy ny tranontsika izay avy any an-danitra koa;

³if indeed being also clothed we shall not be found naked.

³fa ho hita mitafy isika, fa tsy mba mitanjaka.

⁴For indeed we who are in the tabernacle groan, being burdened; while yet we do not wish to be unclothed, but clothed, that [what is] mortal may be swallowed up by life.

⁴Fa isika izao amin'izao lay izao dia misento noho ny mavesatra antsika, satria tsy tiantsika ny hendahana, fa ny mba hotafiana koa, mba hatelin'ny fiainana ny mety maty.

⁵Now he that has wrought us for this very thing [is] God, who also has given to us the earnest of the Spirit.

⁵Ary Izay efa namboatra antsika ho amin'izany indrindra dia Andriamanitra, Izay efa nanome antsika ny santatry ny Fanahy.

⁶Therefore [we are] always confident, and know that while present in the body we are absent from the Lord,

⁶Koa matoky mandrakariva isika, ka fantatsika fa raha mitoetra eo amin'ny tena, dia tsy mitoetra any amin'ny Tompo

⁷(for we walk by faith, not by sight;)

⁷(fa finoana no andehanantsika, fa tsy fahitana);

⁸we are confident, I say, and pleased rather to be absent from the body and present with the Lord.

⁸eny, matoky isika, ka aleontsika ny tsy hitoetra ao amin'ny tena, fa ny hitoetra any amin'ny Tompo.

⁹Wherefore also we are zealous, whether present or absent, to be agreeable to him.

⁹Koa dia ataontsika ho voninahitsika ny mba hankasitrahany antsika, na mitoetra, na tsy mitoetra.

¹⁰For we must all be manifested before the judgment-seat of the Christ, that each may receive the things [done] in the body, according to those he has done, whether [it be] good or evil.

¹⁰Fa isika rehetra dia samy tsy maintsy ho hita toetra miharihary eo amin'ny fitsaran'i Kristy, mba handraisan'ny olona rehetra izay zavatra nataon'ny tenany, dia araka izay nataony, na tsara na ratsy.

¹¹Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord we persuade men, but have been manifested to God, and I hope also that we have been manifested in your consciences.

¹¹Koa amin'izany, satria fantatsika ny fahatahorana ny Tompo, dia ny olona no ampanekenay, fa amin'Andriamanitra, kosa dia efa voaseho rahateo izahay, ary manantena aho fa voaseho ao amin'ny fieritreretanareo koa.

¹²[For] we do not again commend ourselves to you, but [we are] giving to you occasion of boast in our behalf, that ye may have [such] with those boasting in countenance, and not in heart.

¹²Tsy midera tena indray aminareo izahay, fa manome anareo izay ho reharehanareo ny aminay, mba hisy havalinareo izay mirehareha ny amin'ny miseho ihany, fa tsy amin'ny fo.[Gr. tava]

¹³For whether we are beside ourselves, [it is] to God; or are sober, [it is] for you.

¹³Fa raha very saina izahay, dia ho an'Andriamanitra; fa raha tsy very saina izahay, dia ho anareo.

¹⁴For the love of the Christ constrains us, having judged this: that one died for all, then all have died;

¹⁴Fa ny fitiavan'i Kristy no manery anay, satria izao no hevitray: maty ny Anankiray hamonjy ny olona rehetra, ka dia maty koa izy rehetra;

¹⁵and he died for all, that they who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who died for them and has been raised.

¹⁵ary maty hamonjy ny olona rehetra Izy, mba tsy ho velona ho an'ny tenany intsony izay velona, fa ho an'izay efa maty sy nitsangana hamonjy azy.

¹⁶So that *we* henceforth know no one according to flesh; but if even we have known Christ according to flesh, yet now we know [him thus] no longer.

¹⁶Koa dia tsy mahalala olona intsony araka ny nofo isika; eny, na dia nahafantatra an'i Kristy araka ny nofo aza isika, ankehitriny dia tsy fantatsika araka izany intsony Izy.

¹⁷So if any one [be] in Christ, [there is] a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold all things have become new:

¹⁷Koa raha misy olona ao amin'i Kristy, dia olom-baovao izy; efa lasa ny zavatra taloha, indreo, efa tonga vaovao ireo.

¹⁸and all things [are] of the God who has reconciled us to himself by [Jesus] Christ, and given to us the ministry of that reconciliation:

¹⁸Fa izany rehetra izany dia avy amin'Andriamanitra, Izay nampihavana antsika taminy amin'ny alalan'i Kristy sady nanome anay ny fanompoana fampihavanana,

¹⁹how that God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their offences; and putting in us the word of that reconciliation.

¹⁹dia izao : Andriamanitra ao amin'i Kristy no nampihavana izao tontolo izao taminy ka tsy nanisa ny fahadisoany; ary efa napetrany aminay ny teny fampihavanana.

²⁰We are ambassadors therefore for Christ, God as [it were] beseeching by us, we entreat for Christ, Be reconciled to God.

²⁰Koa dia iraka solon'i Kristy izahay, toa an'Andriamanitra mampangataka anay aminareo, solon'i Kristy izahay ka mangataka indrindra aminareo hoe: mihavàna amin'Andriamanitra anie ianareo.[Gr. ambasadôra]Izay tsy nahalala ota dia efa nataony ota hamonjy antsika, mba ho tonga fahamarinan'Andriamanitra ao aminy kosa isika.

²¹Him who knew not sin he has made sin for us, that *we* might become God's righteousness in him.

²¹Izay tsy nahalala ota dia efa nataony ota hamonjy antsika, mba ho tonga fahamarinan'Andriamanitra ao aminy kosa isika.