1So I made up my mind that I would not make another painful visit to you. 2For if I grieve you, who is left to make me glad but you whom I have grieved? 3I wrote as I did, so that when I came I would not be distressed by those who should have made me rejoice. I had confidence in all of you, that you would all share my joy. 4For I wrote you out of great distress and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to grieve you but to let you know the depth of my love for you.
Forgiveness for the Offender
5If anyone has caused grief, he has not so much grieved me as he has grieved all of you to some extent—not to put it too severely. 6The punishment inflicted on him by the majority is sufficient. 7Now instead, you ought to forgive and comfort him, so that he will not be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. 8I urge you, therefore, to reaffirm your love for him. 9Another reason I wrote you was to see if you would stand the test and be obedient in everything. 10Anyone you forgive, I also forgive. And what I have forgiven—if there was anything to forgive—I have forgiven in the sight of Christ for your sake, 11in order that Satan might not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes.
Ministers of the New Covenant
12Now when I went to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ and found that the Lord had opened a door for me, 13I still had no peace of mind, because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I said goodbye to them and went on to Macedonia. 14But thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ’s triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere. 15For we are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. 16To the one we are an aroma that brings death; to the other, an aroma that brings life. And who is equal to such a task? 17Unlike so many, we do not peddle the word of God for profit. On the contrary, in Christ we speak before God with sincerity, as those sent from God.
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1Yog li ntawd kuv thiaj npaj siab tias kuv yuav tsis tuaj ua rau nej rov ntxhov siab dua ib zaug. 2Yog kuv ua rau nej ntxhov siab, leejtwg yuav ua rau kuv zoo siab xyiv fab tsuas yog cov uas kuv ua rau ntxhov siab xwb? 3Kuv sau thawj tsab ntawv ntawd xwv thaum tuaj txog lawd kuv thiaj tsis raug kev ntxhov siab ntawm cov neeg uas tsim nyog ua kom kuv zoo siab xyiv fab, rau qhov kuv ruaj siab rau nej txhua tus tias thaum kuv zoo siab nej sawvdaws yuav zoo siab thiab. 4Kuv sau tsab ntawv ntawd nrog lub kua muag thiab kev ceeblaj txom nyem thiab kev nyuaj siab heev kawg tuaj rau nej, tsis yog sau tuaj ua rau nej ntxhov siab tiamsis yog sau qhia nej paub tias kuv hlub nej ntau tshaj plaws.
Zam txim rau tus uas ua txhaum
5Yog leejtwg ua kom muaj kev ntxhov siab tus ntawd tsis yog ua rau kuv tib leeg ntxhov siab xwb tiamsis kuj ua rau nej txhua tus ntxhov qho ntsis thiab (kuv hais “qho ntsis” ntawd twb yog vim kuv tsis xav hais hnyav dhau.) 6Qhov uas feem coob rau txim rau tus ntawd kuj txaus lawm. 7Yog li no tsim nyog nej zam txim thiab nplij tus ntawd lub siab zoo dua, tsam ces txojkev uas nyuaj siab heev kawg nyab kiag nws. 8Yog li no kuv thiaj thov nej tuav rawv txojkev hlub rau nws dua. 9Qhov uas kuv sau li ntawd yog kuv xav sim nej saib nej yuav mloog lus txhua yam los tsis mloog. 10Yog nej zam txim rau leejtwg kuv kuj zam txim rau tus ntawd thiab. Yog kuv zam txim rau txojkev txhaum twg (yog muaj zaj twg uas yuav tsum zam txim rau tiag) kuv kuj zam txim tab meeg Khetos lub xubntiag vim yog saib rau nej, 11xwv Xatas⚓ thiaj kov tsis yeej peb vim peb twb paub nws tej tswvyim phem lawm.
Povlauj tes haujlwm
12Thaum kuv mus txog lub moos Rhau‑a es yuav piav txoj xov zoo hais txog Khetos, tus Tswv twb qheb qhov rooj rau kuv qhov ntawd. 13Tiamsis kuv tseem tsis tau kaj siab vim tsis tau ntsib kuv tus kwv Titau qhov ntawd, kuv thiaj fim ncaim lawv thiab mus rau lub xeev Makhedaunia. 14Tiamsis ua Vajtswv tsaug, uas nws niaj hnub coj peb mus ua ib pab uas kov yeej rau hauv Khetos, thiab nws siv peb ua rau tus ntxhiab tsw qab uas yog qhov uas paub Khetos nthuav mus rau txhua qhov. 15Peb yog Khetos tus ntxhiab tsw qab rau Vajtswv hauv cov neeg uas tabtom dim thiab hauv cov uas tabtom puam tsuaj, 16yog cov pa uas coj mus rau txojkev tuag rau cov uas tabtom puam tsuaj thiab yog cov pa uas coj mus rau txojsia rau cov uas tabtom dim. Leejtwg tsim nyog rau tej haujlwm uas hais tag no? 17Peb zoo tsis thooj li cov neeg coob coob uas muab Vajtswv txojlus muag tshaj thawj tiamsis peb nyob hauv Khetos muaj lub siab dawb paug hais tab meeg Vajtswv ib yam li neeg uas Vajtswv txib tuaj.