2 Corinthians

1我自己定了主意再到你们那里去，必须大家没有忧愁。

2倘若我叫你们忧愁，除了我叫那忧愁的人以外，谁能叫我快乐呢？

3我曾把这事写给你们，恐怕我到的时候，应该叫我快乐的那些人，反倒叫我忧愁。我也深信，你们众人都以我的快乐为自己的快乐。

4我先前心里难过痛苦，多多地流泪，写信给你们，不是叫你们忧愁，乃是叫你们知道我格外地疼爱你们。

赦免犯过失的人

5若有叫人忧愁的，他不但叫我忧愁，也是叫你们众人有几分忧愁。我说几分，恐怕说得太重。

6这样的人受了众人的责罚也就够了，

7倒不如赦免他，安慰他，免得他忧愁太过，甚至沉沦了。

8所以我劝你们，要向他显出坚定不移的爱心来。

9为此我先前也写信给你们，要试验你们，看你们凡事顺从不顺从。

10你们赦免谁，我也赦免谁。我若有所赦免的，是在基督面前为你们赦免的，

11免得撒但趁着机会胜过我们，因我们并非不晓得他的诡计。

保罗的忧愁和安慰

12我从前为基督的福音到了特罗亚，主也给我开了门。

13那时，因为没有遇见兄弟提多，我心里不安，便辞别那里的人往马其顿去了。

14感谢 神！常率领我们在基督里夸胜，并借着我们在各处显扬那因认识基督而有的香气。

15因为我们在 神面前，无论在得救的人身上或灭亡的人身上，都有基督馨香之气。

16在这等人，就作了死的香气叫他死；在那等人，就作了活的香气叫他活。这事谁能当得起呢？

17我们不像那许多人，为利混乱 神的道；乃是由于诚实，由于 神，在 神面前凭着基督讲道。

1And I decided this to myself, not again to come in sorrow unto you,

2for if I make you sorry, then who is he who is making me glad, except he who is made sorry by me?

3and I wrote to you this same thing, that having come, I may not have sorrow from them of whom it behoved me to have joy, having confidence in you all, that my joy is of you all,

4for out of much tribulation and pressure of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not that ye might be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly toward you.

5And if any one hath caused sorrow, he hath not caused sorrow to me, but in part, that I may not burden you all;

6sufficient to such a one is this punishment, that [is] by the more part,

7so that, on the contrary, [it is] rather for you to forgive and to comfort, lest by over abundant sorrow such a one may be swallowed up;

8wherefore, I call upon you to confirm love to him,

9for, for this also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether in regard to all things ye are obedient.

10And to whom ye forgive anything — I also; for I also, if I have forgiven anything, to whom I have forgiven [it], because of you — in the person of Christ — [I forgive it,]

11that we may not be over-reached by the Adversary, for of his devices we are not ignorant.

12And having come to Troas for the good news of the Christ, and a door to me having been opened in the Lord,

13I have not had rest to my spirit, on my not finding Titus my brother, but having taken leave of them, I went forth to Macedonia;

14and to God [are] thanks, who at all times is leading us in triumph in the Christ, and the fragrance of His knowledge He is manifesting through us in every place,

15because of Christ a sweet fragrance we are to God, in those being saved, and in those being lost;

16to the one, indeed, a fragrance of death to death, and to the other, a fragrance of life to life; and for these things who is sufficient?

17for we are not as the many, adulterating the word of God, but as of sincerity — but as of God; in the presence of God, in Christ we do speak.