¹Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Christ; I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.

¹Jaz Pavel sam pa vas opominjam po krotkosti in tihosti Kristusovi, ki sem vpričo vas resda ponižen med vami, a kadar me ni pri vas, pa drzen proti vam.

²Yes, I beg you that I may not, when present, show courage with the confidence with which I intend to be bold against some, who consider us to be walking according to the flesh.

²Prosim pa, da mi ne bo treba, kadar bodem pri vas, drzen biti s to zaupnostjo, s katero mislim, da se smem zdrzniti na nekatere, ki mislijo, kakor da živimo po mesu.

³For though we walk in the flesh, we don’t wage war according to the flesh;

³Kajti čeprav živimo v mesu, ne vojskujemo se po mesu

⁴for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,

⁴(zakaj orožje našega vojskovanja ni meseno, ampak močno po Bogu za razrušenje trdnjav),

⁵throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;

⁵ko razdevamo sovražne naklepe in vsako visokost, ki se vzdiguje zoper spoznanje Božje, in vodimo vsako misel v sužnost pokorščine do Kristusa

⁶and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience, when your obedience will be made full.

⁶in imamo pripravljeno maščevanje za vsako neposlušnost, kadar se izpolni vaša poslušnost.

⁷Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again with himself, that, even as he is Christ’s, so also we are Christ’s.

⁷Gledate li na to, kar je pred očmi? Če kdo zaupa sebi, da je Kristusov, pomisli naj zopet v sebi to: kakor je on Kristusov, prav tako smo tudi mi.

⁸For though I should boast somewhat abundantly concerning our authority, (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down) I will not be disappointed,

⁸Kajti ko bi se tudi kaj obilneje hvalil z oblastjo našo, ki jo je nam dal Gospod za zidanje in ne za razdevanje vaše, ne bom se osramotil;

⁹that I may not seem as if I desire to terrify you by my letters.

⁹da se ne bo videlo, kakor da vas strašim z listi.

¹⁰For, “His letters,” they say, “are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised.”

¹⁰Kajti ‚listi njegovi‘, pravijo, ‚so tehtni in krepki, ali ko je navzočen s telesom, je slaboten in beseda mu je šibka‘.

¹¹Let such a person consider this, that what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such are we also in deed when we are present.

¹¹To naj misli, kdor tako govori, da kakršni smo nenavzočni v besedi po listih, taki smo tudi navzočni v dejanju.

¹²For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.

¹²Kajti ne drznemo se pridružiti se k nekaterim ali primerjati se ž njimi, ki sami sebe priporočajo; kateri pa, ko se sami po sebi merijo in primerjajo sami sebe s seboj, ničesar ne umejo.

¹³But we will not boast beyond proper limits, but within the boundaries with which God appointed to us, which reach even to you.

¹³A mi se ne bomo čez vso mero hvalili, temuč po meri delokroga, ki nam ga je Bog podelil za mero, da naj dospemo tudi do vas.

¹⁴For we don’t stretch ourselves too much, as though we didn’t reach to you. For we came even as far as to you with the Good News of Christ,

¹⁴Kajti mi se ne iztezamo predaleč, kakor da bi ne mogli doseči do vas, zakaj tudi prav do vas smo prišli v evangeliju Kristusovem;

¹⁵not boasting beyond proper limits in other men’s labors, but having hope that as your faith grows, we will be abundantly enlarged by you in our sphere of influence,

¹⁵in ne hvalimo se čez mero ali s tujimi trudi, temuč imamo upanje, da se, ker raste vera vaša, poveličamo med vami v soglasju z delokrogom svojim na še večjo obilnost,

¹⁶so as to preach the Good News even to the parts beyond you, not to boast in what someone else has already done.

¹⁶tako da še onkraj vas oznanimo evangelij, ne da bi se hvalili s tem, kar je v delokrogu drugega že napravljenega.

¹⁷But “he who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.” Jeremiah 9:24

¹⁷Kdor se pa hvali, v Gospodu naj se hvali.Kajti kdor sam sebe priporoča, ni preizkušen, ampak ta, kogar Gospod priporoča.

¹⁸For it isn’t he who commends himself who is approved, but whom the Lord commends.

¹⁸Kajti kdor sam sebe priporoča, ni preizkušen, ampak ta, kogar Gospod priporoča.