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

¹Ker imamo torej te obljube, ljubljeni, očistimo se vsakega madeža mesa in duha ter dopolnjujmo svetost v strahu Božjem!

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

²Dajte nam mesta v srcu! Nikomur nismo storili krivice, nikogar nismo popačili, nikogar nismo prekanili.

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

³Ne govorim tega v vašo obsodbo; saj sem poprej rekel, da ste v srcih naših, da bi radi z vami vred umrli in vkup živeli.

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.

⁴Velika je moja zaupljivost v govoru do vas, velika moja hvala o vas; napolnjen sem tolažbe, preobilo imam radosti ob vsej stiski naši.

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.

⁵Kajti tudi ko smo prišli v Macedonijo, ni imelo nič počitka meso naše, temuč z vseh strani smo bili stiskani: zunaj so bili boji, znotraj strah in bojazen.

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

⁶Ali Bog, ki tolaži ponižne, nas je potolažil s prihodom Titovim;

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.

⁷toda ne samo s prihodom njegovim, ampak tudi s tolažbo, s katero se je on potolažil nad vami. Ko nam je pripovedoval vaše hrepenenje, vaš jok, vašo vnetost za mene, sem se tem bolj obveselil.

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.

⁸Zakaj čeprav sem vas razžalostil z listom, ni mi žal, dasi mi je žal bilo; vidim namreč, da vas je oni list res razžalostil, čeprav začasno.

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.

⁹Sedaj se radujem, ne da ste se razžalostili, temuč da ste se razžalostili na izpokorjenje; razžalostili ste se namreč Bogu po volji, da bi v ničemer ne imeli škode od nas.

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

¹⁰Kajti žalost, ki je po volji Bogu, rodi izpokorjenje na zveličanje, ki se ga nikdar ni kesati; a žalost sveta rodi smrt.

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.

¹¹Zakaj glejte, prav to, da ste se po volji Bogu razžalostili, kolikšno vam je obrodilo marljivost, pa zagovarjanje, pa nevoljo, pa strah, pa hrepenenje, pa gorečnost, pa maščevanje! V vsem ste se pokazali, da ste čisti v tej zadevi.

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.

¹²Torej čeprav sem vam pisal, sem pisal ne za voljo tistega, ki je storil krivico, tudi ne za voljo tistega, ki se mu je krivica storila, marveč da se pri vas pokaže marljivost vaša za nas v pričo Boga.

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.

¹³Zato smo bili potolaženi. V svoji tolažbi pa smo se še obilneje obveselili vsled radosti Titove, ker njegov duh je bil poživljen po vas vseh.

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.

¹⁴Ker ako sem se v čem njemu pohvalil z vami, nisem osramočen; ampak kakor smo vam vse v resnici govorili, tako se je tudi pohvala naša proti Titu izkazala resnična.

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

¹⁵In srce njegovo vam je še bolj vdano, ko se spominja poslušnosti vseh vas, kako ste ga s strahom in trepetom sprejeli.Vesel sem torej, da se smem v vsem zanašati na vas.

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

¹⁶Vesel sem torej, da se smem v vsem zanašati na vas.