¹But I determined this for myself, that I would not come to you again in sorrow.

¹Sklenil sem pa v sebi to, da zopet ne pridem z žalostjo k vam.

²For if I make you sorry, then who will make me glad but he who is made sorry by me?

²Kajti če jaz žalostim vas, kdo je, ki bi me razveselil, če ne ta, ki sem ga jaz užalostil?

³And I wrote this very thing to you, so that, when I came, I wouldn’t have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy would be shared by all of you.

³In napisal sem vam prav to, da ne bi žalosti imel, ko pridem, s temi, nad katerimi bi se imel radovati; nadejajoč se za vas vse, da je moja radost vseh vas radost.

⁴For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made sorry, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.

⁴Kajti z veliko stisko in srčno težavo sem vam pisal, z mnogimi solzami, ne da se žalostite, marveč da spoznate ljubezen, ki je imam obilo do vas.

⁵But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I not press too heavily) to you all.

⁵Če je pa kdo povzročil žalost, ni mene užalostil, temuč nekoliko (da ga preveč ne obtežim) vse vas.

⁶Sufficient to such a one is this punishment which was inflicted by the many;

⁶Dosti je takemu ta kazen, ki ga je zadela od večine:

⁷so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.

⁷nasproti zdaj storite bolje, da mu odpustite in ga potolažite, da bi prevelika žalost morda ne pogoltnila takega.

⁸Therefore I beg you to confirm your love toward him.

⁸Zato vas prosim, da potrdite ljubezen do njega.

⁹For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things.

⁹Kajti zato sem tudi pisal, da vas preizkusim in spoznam, ste li v vsem poslušni.

¹⁰Now I also forgive whomever you forgive anything. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ,

¹⁰Komur pa kaj odpustite, njemu tudi jaz; saj tudi kar sem jaz odpustil, če sem kaj odpustil, za voljo vas sem to storil pred obličjem Kristusovim,

¹¹that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his schemes.

¹¹da bi nas ne ukanil satan; kajti niso nam njegove misli neznane.

¹²Now when I came to Troas for the Good News of Christ, and when a door was opened to me in the Lord,

¹²A ko sem prišel v Troado zavoljo evangelija Kristusovega in so mi bila vrata odprta v Gospodu,

¹³I had no relief for my spirit, because I didn’t find Titus, my brother, but taking my leave of them, I went out into Macedonia.

¹³nisem imel miru v duhu svojem, ker nisem našel Tita, brata svojega; temuč sem vzel slovo od njih in odšel v Macedonijo.

¹⁴Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.

¹⁴Ali hvala Bogu, ki nam vsekdar zmago daje v Kristusu in vonjavo spoznanja svojega razodeva po nas na vsakem mestu.

¹⁵For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God, in those who are saved, and in those who perish;

¹⁵Kajti Kristusova prijetna dišava smo Bogu v teh, ki se zveličujejo, in v tistih, ki gredo v pogubo;

¹⁶to the one a stench from death to death; to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?

¹⁶enim vonjava iz smrti za smrt, a drugim vonjava iz življenja za življenje. In kdo je zmožen za to?Kajti nismo kakor mnogi, ki pokvarjajo besedo Božjo, temuč kakor iz čistote, kakor iz Boga, vpričo Boga govorimo v Kristusu.

¹⁷For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

¹⁷Kajti nismo kakor mnogi, ki pokvarjajo besedo Božjo, temuč kakor iz čistote, kakor iz Boga, vpričo Boga govorimo v Kristusu.