1 But I have judged this with myself, not to come back to you in grief.
2 For if *I* grieve you, who also {is} it that gladdens me, if not he that is grieved through me?
3 And I have written this very {letter} {to you}, that coming I may not have grief from those from whom I ought to have joy; trusting in you all that my joy is {that} of you all.
4 For out of much tribulation and distress of heart I wrote to you, with many tears; not that ye may be grieved, but that ye may know the love which I have very abundantly towards you.
5 But if any one has grieved, he has grieved, not me, but in part (that I may not overcharge {you}) all of you.
6 Sufficient to such a one {is} this rebuke which {has been inflicted} by the many;
7 so that on the contrary ye should rather shew grace and encourage, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with excessive grief.
8 Wherefore I exhort you to assure him of {your} love.
9 For to this end also I have written, that I might know, by putting you to the test, if as to everything ye are obedient.
10 But to whom ye forgive anything, *I* also; for I also, what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, {it is} for your sakes in {the} person of Christ;
11 that we might not have Satan get an advantage against us, for we are not ignorant of *his* thoughts.
12 Now when I came to Troas for the {publication of the} glad tidings of the Christ, a door also being opened to me in {the} Lord,
13 I had no rest in my spirit at not finding Titus my brother; but bidding them adieu, I came away to Macedonia.
14 But thanks {be} to God, who always leads us in triumph in the Christ, and makes manifest the odour of his knowledge through us in every place.
15 For we are a sweet odour of Christ to God, in the saved and in those that perish:
16 to the one an odour from death unto death, but to the others an odour from life unto life; and who {is} sufficient for these things?
17 For we do not, as the many, make a trade of the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as of God, before God, we speak in Christ.
1 我自己决定了， 到你们那里去的时候， 不再是忧愁的。
2 如果我使你们忧愁， 除了那因我而忧愁的人以外， 谁能使我快乐呢？
3 我写了这样的信， 免得我来的时候， 应该使我快乐的人反而使我忧愁； 我深信你们众人都以我的喜乐为你们的喜乐。
4 我从前心里痛苦难过， 流着眼泪写信给你们， 并不是要使你们忧愁， 而是要你们知道我是多么爱你们。
5 如果有人使人忧愁， 他不是使我忧愁， 而是使你们众人都有一点忧愁； 我只说有一点， 是避免说得过分。
6 这样的人受了许多人的责备， 也就够了，
7 倒不如饶恕他， 安慰他， 免得他因忧愁过度而受不了。
8 所以， 我劝你们要向他确实显明你们的爱心。
9 为这缘故， 我写了那封信， 要考验你们是不是凡事都顺从。
10 你们饶恕谁， 我也饶恕谁； 我所饶恕了的（如果我饶恕过什么）， 是为了你们在基督面前饶恕的，
11 免得撒但有机可乘， 因为我们并不是不晓得他的诡计。
12 从前我为基督的福音到了特罗亚， 虽然主给我开了门，
13 我心里仍然没有安宁， 因为见不到提多弟兄。于是我辞别了那里的人， 到马其顿去了。
14 感谢 神， 他常常在基督里， 使我们这些作俘虏的， 列在凯旋的队伍当中， 又借着我们在各地散播香气， 就是使人认识基督。
15 因为无论在得救的人或灭亡的人中间， 我们都是基督的馨香， 是献给 神的。
16 对于灭亡的人， 这是死亡的气味叫人死； 对于得救的人， 这却是生命的香气使人活。这些事谁够资格作呢？
17 我们不像那许多的人， 为了图利而谬讲 神的道。相反地， 我们讲话， 是出于真诚， 出于 神， 是在 神面前、在基督里的。