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;

¹Me o Pavlo, phenav tumenge, me kai sim sar mothon lazhano kana sim tumensa, numa kana chi mai sim tumensa, chi mai sim lazhano. Mangav ma tumendar katar o kovlimos ai o lashimos le Kristosko.

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.

²Na keren te na mai lazhav tumendar kana avava tumen; ke zhanav ke sai sikavav ke chi lazhav mashkar kodola kai gindin ke keras le dieli le statoske.

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

³Chaches traiisaras andek stato manushesko, numa chi maras ame sar le manush.

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

⁴Numa e armia kai si ame te maras ame, nai armia le manushengi kai si pe kadia phuv, numa e armia e zurali le Devleski kai sai peravel le dieli le bengeske.

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;

⁵Ame peravas le dieli kai nai chache angla Del; Ame peravas so godi vazden andel barimata karing e goji le Devleski; ai ame astaras so godi gindo te pachal o mui le Kristosko.

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

⁶Ai gata sam te dosharas so godi chi pachal o mui le Krstosko, kana tume pachana vorta o mui le Kristosko.

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.

⁷Tume dikhen avrial te mothola vari kon ke wo si le Kristosko? Ai te mothol peske mishto wo ande peste, ke sar wo si le Kristosko iame sam.

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;

⁸Ke nai mange lazhav, marka ke luvudisailem, xantsi but andai putiera kai O Del dia ame, e putiera kai si te barion ando pachamos, ai na te rimon tume.

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

⁹Chi mangav te miazol ke rodav te daravav tumen le lilensa kai tradav tumenge.

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

¹⁰Ke eta so mothon, "Le lila kai tradel o Pavlo defial zuralele, numa kana si mashkar amende o Pavlo kovlo lo, ai lesko divano nai lasho."

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

¹¹Kodo kai mothol kadia, mangav te zhanel mishto ke saikfielo ande so ramosaras ande amare lila kana chi sam tumensa, ai so kerasa kana avasa mashkar tumende.

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.

¹²Ame chi tromas te avas iek fielo vai te miazuas sar uni kai miazol lenge mai lashe le sar savorhe. Ke won chi haliaren! Won keren pengi musura te musurin pe, ai keren kris pe pende sar won gindin!

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.

¹³Numa ame, chi mangas te luvudisavas opral pai musura kai O Del thodia amenge, kai dia ame te avas zhi tumende.

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;)

¹⁴Chi nakhas amare musuri sar te avilino te na aviliamas zhi tumende, numa aresliam zhi tumende, ai andiam tumenge e lashi viasta le Kristoski.

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

¹⁵No chi anklias avri andal musuri kai sas thodine. Chi luvudisavas andai buchi kai kerde le kolaver, numa inker ame pachas ame ke tumaro pachamos bariola, ai ke ame sai kerasa iek buchi but mai bari mashkar tumende, numa beshas sagda andel musuri kai O Del thodia amenge.

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.

¹⁶Porme ame sai phenas e lashi viasta andel gava kai si mai dur tumendar, bi te luvudisavas anda so le kolaver vunzhe kerde ande penge gava.

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

¹⁷Numa sar mothol E Vorba le Devleski, "Kodo kai mangel te luvudilpe, luvudilpe anda so kerdia O Del."

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

¹⁸Chaches o manush kai si chaches lasho, nai kodo kai mothol peske wo ke lasho lo, numa kodo si lasho kai mothol O Del pa leste ke lasho lo.