¹Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

¹Keď tedy máme tieto zasľúbenia, milovaní, očistime sa od každého poškvrnenia tela i ducha dovršujúc tak svätosť v bázni Božej.

²Open your hearts to us. We wronged no one. We corrupted no one. We took advantage of no one.

²Dajte nám miesta v srdci! Nikomu sme neukrivdili, nikoho nezkazili, nikoho neoklamali.

³I say this not to condemn you, for I have said before, that you are in our hearts to die together and live together.

³Nehovorím toho na odsúdenie, lebo som už tu vyššie povedal, že ste v našich srdciach, aby sme spolu mreli i spolu žili.

⁴Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.

⁴Som veľmi priamoreký a smelý voči vám; mnoho sa vami chválim; naplnený som potešením; naplnený som radosťou pri všetkom našom súžení.

⁵For even when we had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on every side. Fightings were outside. Fear was inside.

⁵Lebo aj keď sme boli prišli do Macedonie, nemalo naše telo nijakého odpočinku; ale všade vo všetkom sme boli súžení, zvonku boje, zdnuká strachy.

⁶Nevertheless, he who comforts the lowly, God, comforted us by the coming of Titus;

⁶Ale ten, ktorý teší ponížených, Bôh, potešil nás príchodom Títovým,

⁷and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you, while he told us of your longing, your mourning, and your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced still more.

⁷no, nie len jeho príchodom, ale aj potešením, ktorým sa potešil nad vami zvestujúc nám vašu túžbu, vaše kvílenie, vašu horlivosť za mňa, tak že som sa tým väčšmi zaradoval.

⁸For though I made you sorry with my letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it. For I see that my letter made you sorry, though just for a while.

⁸Lebo ak som vás aj zarmútil tým listom, neľutujem, ak som aj ľutoval, lebo vidím, že rečený list, ak vás aj na malú chvíľu bol zarmútil,

⁹I now rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that you were made sorry to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly way, that you might suffer loss by us in nothing.

⁹teraz sa radujem, nie že ste sa boli zarmútili, ale že ste sa zarmútili na pokánie; lebo ste sa zarmútili podľa Boha, aby ste z nás v ničom nemali škody.

¹⁰For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world works death.

¹⁰Lebo zármutok podľa Boha pôsobí pokánie na spasenie, ktorého zármutku nikdy neoľutuje človek; ale zármutok sveta pôsobí smrť.

¹¹For behold, this same thing, that you were made sorry in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vengeance! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.

¹¹Lebo, hľa, práve to, že ste sa boli zarmútili podľa Boha, jakú velikú vám to spôsobilo snahu! Ba čo: koľkú obranu, koľkú nevoľu, koľkú bázeň, koľkú túžbu, koľkú horlivosť a pomstu! Vo všetkom ste preukázali, že ste čistí vo veci.

¹²So although I wrote to you, I wrote not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be revealed in you in the sight of God.

¹²A tedy ak som vám aj písal, nie pre toho, ktorý spáchal krivdu, ani pre toho, komu sa stala krivda, ale aby sa ukázala naša snaha za vás u vás pred Bohom.

¹³Therefore we have been comforted. In our comfort we rejoiced the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.

¹³Preto sme sa tešili z vášho potešenia, a ešte o mnoho viacej sme sa zaradovali nad radosťou Títovou, že jeho duch okrial od vás od všetkých.

¹⁴For if in anything I have boasted to him on your behalf, I was not disappointed. But as we spoke all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.

¹⁴Lebo ak som sa mu niečo chválil za vás, nebol som zahanbený, ale jako všetko, čo sme vám hovorili, zakladalo sa na pravde, tak i naša chvála pred Títom sa dokázala pravdou.

¹⁵His affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembers all of your obedience, how with fear and trembling you received him.

¹⁵I jeho srdce ľne k vám ešte o mnoho viacej, keď sa rozpomína na poslušnosť všetkých vás, ako ste ho prijali s bázňou a s trasením.

¹⁶I rejoice that in everything I am confident concerning you.

¹⁶A tak sa radujem, že vám môžem vo všetkom dôverovať.