¹Havante do cxi tiujn promesojn, amataj, ni purigu nin de cxia malpureco karna kaj spirita, perfektigante sanktecon en la timo al Dio.

¹Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us purify ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in God's fear.

²Malfermu al ni viajn korojn; ni kontraux neniu maljuste agis, ni ruinigis neniun, al neniu ni friponis.

²Receive us: we have injured no one, we have ruined no one, we have made gain of no one.

³Ne por vin kondamni mi tion diras; cxar mi antauxe diris, ke vi estas en niaj koroj, por kune vivi kaj kune morti.

³I do not speak for condemnation, for I have already said that ye are in our hearts, to die together, and live together.

⁴Granda estas mia parola libereco al vi, granda estas mia fiereco pri vi:mi estas plena de konsolo, al mi superabundas la gxojo meze de nia tuta aflikto.

⁴Great [is] my boldness towards you, great my exulting in respect of you; I am filled with encouragement; I overabound in joy under all our affliction.

⁵CXar ecx kiam ni jam alvenis en Makedonujon, nia karno tute ne faciligxis, sed ni cxiel depremigxis; ekstere estis bataloj, interne timoj.

⁵For indeed, when we came into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but [we were] afflicted in every way; without combats, within fears.

⁶Tamen Dio, kiu konsolas la humilulojn, konsolis nin per la alveno de Tito;

⁶But he who encourages those that are [brought] low, [even] God, encouraged us by the coming of Titus;

⁷kaj ne nur per lia alveno, sed ankaux per la konsolo, per kiu li konsoligxis pri vi, dum li pridiris al ni vian sopiron, vian doloron, vian fervoron pro mi; tiel, ke mi ankoraux pli gxojis.

⁷and not by his coming only, but also through the encouragement with which he was encouraged as to you; relating to us your ardent desire, your mourning, your zeal for me; so that I the more rejoiced.

⁸CXar kvankam mi vin malgxojigis per mia epistolo, mi ne bedauxras pri tio, kvankam mi ja bedauxris; cxar mi vidas, ke tiu epistolo vin malgxojigis, sed nur mallonge.

⁸For if also I grieved you in the letter, I do not regret [it], if even I have regretted it; for I see that that letter, if even [it were] only for a time, grieved you.

⁹Mi nun gxojas, ne pro tio, ke vi malgxojis, sed pro tio, ke vi malgxojis gxis pento; cxar vi laux Dio malgxojis, por ke vi havu nenian malutilon per ni.

⁹Now I rejoice, not that ye have been grieved, but that ye have been grieved to repentance; for ye have been grieved according to God, that in nothing ye might be injured by us.

¹⁰CXar la malgxojo laux Dio elfaras penton gxis savo, ne bedauxrindan; sed la malgxojo de la mondo elfaras morton.

¹⁰For grief according to God works repentance to salvation, never to be regretted; but the grief of the world works death.

¹¹CXar jen kian zorgemon tiu sama malgxojo laux Dio elfaris en vi, plue kian senkulpigon, plue kian indignon, plue kian timon, plue kian sopiron, plue kian fervoron, plue kian vengxon! En cxio vi elmontris vin puraj pri la afero.

¹¹For, behold, this same thing, your being grieved according to God, how much diligence it wrought in *you*, but [what] excusing [of yourselves], but [what] indignation, but [what] fear, but [what] ardent desire, but [what] zeal, but [what] vengeance: in every way ye have proved yourselves to be pure in the matter.

¹²Tial kvankam mi skribis al vi, tamen tio estis ne pro tiu, kiu faris la malbonon, nek pro tiu, kiu suferis la malbonon, sed por ke via zorgemo por ni elmontrigxu al vi mem antaux Dio.

¹²So then, if also I wrote to you, [it was] not for the sake of him that injured, nor for the sake of him that was injured, but for the sake of our diligent zeal for you being manifested to you before God.

¹³Tial ni konsoligxis; kaj en nia konsolo ni gxojis des pli multege pro la gxojo de Tito, cxar lia animo estas refresxigita de vi cxiuj.

¹³For this reason we have been encouraged. And we the rather rejoiced in our encouragement more abundantly by reason of the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.

¹⁴CXar se en io mi fanfaronis al li pro vi, mi ne hontis; sed kiel ni cxion parolis vereme al vi, tiel same ankaux nia fanfaronado, kiun mi faris antaux Tito, montrigxis vera.

¹⁴Because if I boasted to him anything about you, I have not been put to shame; but as we have spoken to you all things in truth, so also our boasting to Titus has been [the] truth;

¹⁵Kaj lia interna amo pli abundas al vi, dum li memoras la obeadon de vi cxiuj, kiel kun timo kaj tremo vi lin akceptis.

¹⁵and his affections are more abundantly towards you, calling to mind the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.

¹⁶Mi gxojas, ke en cxio mi povas fidi al vi.

¹⁶I rejoice that in everything I am confident as to you.