¹Mi mem, Pauxlo, petegas vin pro la mildeco kaj dolcxanimeco de Kristo, mi, kiu en via cxeesto estas humila inter vi, sed, forestante, tre kuragxas rilate al vi:

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;

²mi mem petegas vin, ke cxeestante, mi ne kuragxu per la insisteco, per kiu mi bontrovas kuragxi kontraux iuj, kiuj rigardas nin kiel lauxkarne iradantajn.

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.

³CXar kvankam ni iradas en karno, tamen ni ne militadas laux karno

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

⁴(cxar la iloj de nia militado estas ne lauxkarnaj, sed potencaj antaux Dio por la dejxetado de fortikajxoj);

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

⁵dejxetante diskutojn, kaj cxian altajxon levatan kontraux la scio konforma al Dio, kaj ekkaptante cxiun penson al la obeo al Kristo,

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;

⁶kaj starante pretaj puni cxian malobeon, tuj kiam via obeo plenumigxos.

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

⁷Vi rigardas la aferojn antaux via vizagxo. Se iu fidas en si mem, ke li apartenas al Kristo, li denove pripensu en si mem, ke kiel li apartenas al Kristo, tiel same ankaux ni.

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.

⁸CXar ecx se mi fierus iom supermezure pri nia auxtoritato (kiun donis la Sinjoro, por vin edifi, kaj ne por vin dejxeti), mi ne hontus;

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;

⁹por ke ne sxajnu, kvazaux mi volus timigi vin per miaj leteroj.

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

¹⁰CXar, oni diras, liaj leteroj estas gravaj kaj fortaj; sed lia korpa aspekto estas malforta, kaj lia parolo malsxatinda.

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

¹¹Tiu homo konsideru, ke kiaj, forestante, ni estas per leteroj, tiaj, cxeestante, ni estas ankaux per agado.

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

¹²CXar ni ne kuragxas nin interkalkuli aux kompari kun iuj el la sin rekomendantaj; cxar ili estas neprudentaj, mezurante sin laux si mem kaj komparante sin al si mem.

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.

¹³Sed ni fieros ne pretermezure, sed laux la amplekso de la mezurilo, kiun Dio destinis al ni, por mezuri, por atingi ecx gxis vi.

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.

¹⁴CXar ni ne tro etendas nin, kvazaux ni ne atingus gxis vi; cxar ni jam venis gxis vi en la evangelio de Kristo,

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;)

¹⁵ne fierante pretermezure, nome en laboroj malpropraj, sed esperante, ke dum kreskos via fido, ni kreskos en vi laux nia mezurilo gxis plua abundo,

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

¹⁶por prediki la evangelion gxis la regionoj preter vi, kaj ne fieri pri malpropra mezurilo rilate al aferoj jam faritaj.

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.

¹⁷Sed kiu fieras, tiu fieru en la Eternulo.

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

¹⁸CXar ne tiu, kiu sin mem rekomendas, estas akceptata, sed tiu, kiun rekomendas la Sinjoro.

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