1 Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us purify ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in God's fear.2 Receive us: we have injured no one, we have ruined no one, we have made gain of no one.3 I do not speak for condemnation, for I have already said that ye are in our hearts, to die together, and live together.4 Great {is} my boldness towards you, great my exulting in respect of you; I am filled with encouragement; I overabound in joy under all our affliction.5 For indeed, when we came into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but {we were} afflicted in every way; without combats, within fears.6 But he who encourages those that are {brought} low, {even} God, encouraged us by the coming of Titus;7 and not by his coming only, but also through the encouragement with which he was encouraged as to you; relating to us your ardent desire, your mourning, your zeal for me; so that I the more rejoiced.8 For if also I grieved you in the letter, I do not regret {it}, if even I have regretted it; for I see that that letter, if even {it were} only for a time, grieved you.9 Now I rejoice, not that ye have been grieved, but that ye have been grieved to repentance; for ye have been grieved according to God, that in nothing ye might be injured by us.10 For grief according to God works repentance to salvation, never to be regretted; but the grief of the world works death.11 For, behold, this same thing, your being grieved according to God, how much diligence it wrought in *you*, but {what} excusing {of yourselves}, but {what} indignation, but {what} fear, but {what} ardent desire, but {what} zeal, but {what} vengeance: in every way ye have proved yourselves to be pure in the matter.12 So then, if also I wrote to you, {it was} not for the sake of him that injured, nor for the sake of him that was injured, but for the sake of our diligent zeal for you being manifested to you before God.13 For this reason we have been encouraged. And we the rather rejoiced in our encouragement more abundantly by reason of the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.14 Because if I boasted to him anything about you, I have not been put to shame; but as we have spoken to you all things in truth, so also our boasting to Titus has been {the} truth;15 and his affections are more abundantly towards you, calling to mind the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.16 I rejoice that in everything I am confident as to you.

1 Terwyl ons dan hierdie beloftes het, geliefdes, laat ons ons van alle besoedeling van die vlees en die gees reinig, en laat ons die heiligmaking in die vrees van God volbring.2 Maak vir ons ruimte in julle harte. Ons het niemand onreg aangedoen nie, ons het niemand benadeel nie, ons het op niemand voordeel behaal nie.3 Ek sê dit nie om te veroordeel nie, want ek het vantevore gesê dat julle in ons harte is om saam te sterwe en saam te lewe.4 Ek het groot vrymoedigheid teenoor julle; my roem oor julle is groot; ek is vervul met troos; ek loop oor van blydskap in al ons verdrukking.5 Want ook toe ons in Macedonië gekom het, het ons vlees geen rus gehad nie, maar ons is op allerhande maniere verdruk; van buite was daar aanvegtinge, van binne verskrikkinge.6 Maar Hy wat die nederige troos, naamlik God, het ons getroos deur die koms van Titus;7 en nie deur sy koms alleen nie, maar ook deur die troos waarmee hy oor julle getroos is, deurdat hy aan ons berig gebring het van julle verlange, julle verdriet, julle ywer vir my, sodat ek my nog meer verbly het.8 Want, al het ek julle ook deur die brief bedroef gemaak, is ek nie jammer nie, al was ek ook jammer. Want ek sien dat daardie brief, al was dit vir 'n kort tydjie, julle bedroef gemaak het.9 Nou is ek bly, nie omdat julle bedroef was nie, maar omdat julle bedroef was tot bekering, want julle was bedroef volgens die wil van God, sodat julle deur ons in niks skade gely het nie.10 Want die droefheid volgens die wil van God werk 'n onberoulike bekering tot redding, maar die droefheid van die wêreld werk die dood.11 Want kyk, juis dit, dat julle bedroef geword het volgens die wil van God -- wat 'n groot ywer het dit in julle gewerk, ja, verantwoording, verontwaardiging, vrees, verlange, ywer, bestraffing. In alles het julle bewys dat julle in die saak rein is.12 Al het ek ook aan julle geskrywe, dan was dit nie ter wille van hom wat onreg gedoen het nie, of ter wille van hom wat onreg gely het nie, maar dat ons ywer vir julle aan julle duidelik kan word voor God.13 Daarom is ons getroos oor julle vertroosting en het veral bly geword oor die blydskap van Titus, omdat sy gees deur julle almal verkwik is.14 Want as ek iets by hom oor julle geroem het, is ek nie beskaam nie; maar soos ons alles met waarheid tot julle gespreek het, so het ook ons roem by Titus waarheid geword.15 En sy hart is julle veral toegeneë as hy hom die gehoorsaamheid van julle almal herinner, hoe julle hom met vrees en bewing ontvang het.16 Ek verbly my dus dat ek my in alle opsigte op julle kan verlaat.