但为了我自己，我已经这样断定，不再带着忧愁到你们那里去。
But I determined this for myself, that I would not come again to you in sorrow.

因为我若叫你们忧愁，这样，除了我叫他忧愁的那人以外，谁能叫我快乐？
For if I cause you sorrow, who then is the one who makes me glad, except the one who is made sorrowful by me?

我曾把这事写给你们，免得我来的时候，那些应该叫我喜乐的人，反倒叫我忧愁；我深信你们众人，都以我的喜乐为你们众人的喜乐。
And I wrote this very thing to you that when I come I would not have sorrow from those who ought to make me rejoice, having confidence in you all that my joy is the joy of you all.

我先前由于许多的患难，和心中的困苦，多多地流泪，写信给你们，不是要叫你们忧愁，乃是要叫你们知道，我对你们的爱是格外充盈的。
For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not that you would be made sorrowful but that you would know the love which I have more abundantly toward you.

只是若有叫人忧愁的，他不是叫我忧愁，乃是有几分叫你们众人忧愁（我说几分，免得我说得太重）。
But if anyone has caused sorrow, he has not caused me to sorrow, but in part (lest I lay too heavy a burden) all of you.

这样的人，受了多数人的责罚，也就够了，
Sufficient for such a one is this punishment by the majority,

你们倒不如饶恕他，安慰他，免得这样的人或者忧愁太过，就被吞灭了。
So that on the contrary you should rather forgive and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one be swallowed up with excessive sorrow.

所以我劝你们，要向他证实你们的爱。
Therefore I exhort you to confirm your love toward him.

为此我也曾写信给你们，要知道你们经过试验的品德，看你们是否在凡事上都顺从。
For to this end also I wrote, that I might know your approvedness, whether you are obedient in all things.

你们饶恕谁什么，我也饶恕；我若曾有所饶恕，我所已经饶恕的，是在基督的面前，为你们饶恕的；
But whom you forgive anything, I also forgive; for also what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, it is for your sake in the person of Christ;

免得我们给撒但占了便宜，因我们并非不晓得他的阴谋。
That we may not be taken advantage of by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes.

再者，我从前为基督的福音到了特罗亚，借着主也有门向我开了，
Furthermore, when I came to Troas for the gospel of Christ and a door was open to me in the Lord,

那时没有找到我的弟兄提多，我灵里不安，便辞别那里的人，往马其顿去了。
I had no rest in my spirit, for I did not find Titus my brother; but taking leave of them, I went forth into Macedonia.

感谢神，祂常在基督里，在凯旋的行列中率领我们，并借着我们在各处显扬那因认识基督而有的香气；
But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in the Christ and manifests the savor of the knowledge of Him through us in every place.

因为无论在那些正在得救的人中，或是在那些正在灭亡的人中，我们都是献给神的基督馨香之气：
For we are a fragrance of Christ to God in those who are being saved and in those who are perishing:

在这等人，就是出于死的香气叫人死；在那等人，就是出于生命的香气叫人活；对这些事，谁够资格？
To some a savor out of death unto death, and to the others a savor out of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

我们不像那许多人，为利混乱神的话，而是出于纯诚，出于神，在神面前在基督里讲神的话。
For we are not like the many, adulterating the word of God for profit; but as out of sincerity, but as out of God, before God we speak in Christ.