2 Coríntios 10

Ka Tautīneitia e Pāora Āna Mahi Mihinare

1 Nā, nāku ake, nā Pāora, tēnei tohe ki a koutou nā te tikanga māhaki me te ngākau ngāwari o te Karaiti, he mea iti nei ahau i ahau i konā i roto i a koutou, i tawhiti nei ia e māia ana ki a koutou. 2 Āe rā, e tohe ana ahau ki a koutou, kia kaua ahau ina tae atu e mārō ki te whakaputa i te māia, pērā me tāku e mea nei kia māia ki ētahi, e whakaaro nei ki a mātou, ānō ko tā mātou whakahaere nō te kikokiko. 3 Nō te mea ahakoa hāereere mātou i roto i te kikokiko, ehara i te kikokiko tā mātou whawhai; 4 ehara hoki ngā rākau o tā mātou pakanga i te mea nō te kikokiko, engari he kaha i roto i te Atua hei whakahoro i ngā pā kaha; 5 horo ana i a mātou ngā whakaaroaronga me ngā mea ikeike katoa e whakakake ana ki te mātauranga ki te Atua, ā, riro pārau mai ana ngā whakaaro katoa, ka meinga kia ngohengohe ki a te Karaiti; 6 me te noho rite anō ki te whakapā riri mō ngā mahi tutū katoa, ina tino ngohengohe rawa koutou.

7 E titiro ana koutou ki ngā mea kei mua i tō koutou mata. Ki te ū te whakaaro o tētahi nō te Karaiti ia, me mahara ia ki tēnei mea anō hoki, nō te Karaiti ia, pēnā anō hoki mātou. 8 Ahakoa hoki āhua rahi ake tāku whakamanamana mō ngā tikanga i a mātou nei, nā te Ariki nei i hōmai hei hanga ake i a koutou, ehara i te mea hei tuku i a koutou ki raro, e kore ahau e meinga kia whakamā. 9 Kia kaua ahau e meatia e whakawehi ana i a koutou ki āku pukapuka. 10 Ko āna pukapuka hoki, e ai ki tā rātou, he taimaha, he kaha; ko tōna tinana ia i a ia i konei he ngoikore, ko tāna kōrero he korekore noa iho. 11 Kia mahara taua tū tangata ki tēnei, nā, ko tō mātou āhua i ngā kupu o ngā pukapuka i a mātou e ngaro mai nei, koia anō tō mātou rite ki ngā mahi me i konā mātou.

12 E kore hoki mātou e māia ki te whakauru atu, ki te whakariterite rānei i a mātou ki ētahi e whakapai nei ki a rātou anō. I a rātou ia e mēhua nei i a rātou ki a rātou anō, e whakariterite nei i a rātou ki a rātou anō, kāhore ō rātou mātauranga. 13 E kore hoki mātou e whakamanamana ki tua atu i tō mātou mēhua, engari ka rite ki te mēhua o te wāhanga i whakaritea mai e te Atua mā mātou, e tae atu ai ki a koutou rawa. 14 Kāhore hoki ā mātou totoro noa atu, e kīia ai kāhore he taenga atu mō mātou ki a koutou. I tae atu nā hoki mātou ki a koutou rawa nā i runga i te rongopai o te Karaiti. 15 E kore hoki mātou e whakamanamana ki kō atu i tō mātou mēhua, arā, ki ngā mahi a ētahi atu; engari e ū ana tō mātou whakaaro, ka tupu haere tō koutou whakapono, ka ai koutou hei whakanui i a mātou, e tino rite rawa ai ki tō mātou rūri; 16 kia kauwhautia ai te rongopai ki ngā wāhi i kō atu i a koutou, kia kaua hoki e whakamanamana i runga i tō te tangata kē rūri ki ngā mea e noho tata ana ki tō mātou ringa.

17 "Ki te whakamanamana ia tētahi, me whakamanamana ia ki te Ariki." 18 He teka hoki ko te tangata e whakapai ana ki a ia anō ka tikangatia, engari ko tā te Ariki e whakapai ai.

1 Now I Paul myself entreat you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am of good courage toward you: 2 yea, I beseech you, that I may not when present show courage with the confidence wherewith I count to be bold against some, who count of us as if we walked according to the flesh. 3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh 4 (for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the casting down of strongholds); 5 casting down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ; 6 and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience, when your obedience shall be made full. 7 Ye look at the things that are before your face. If any man trusteth in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again with himself, that, even as he is Christ’s, so also are we. 8 For though I should glory somewhat abundantly concerning our authority (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down), I shall not be put to shame: 9 that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by my letters. 10 For, His letters, they say, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account. 11 Let such a one reckon this, that, what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such are we also in deed when we are present. 12 For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with certain of them that commend themselves: but they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding. 13 But we will not glory beyond our measure, but according to the measure of the province which God apportioned to us as a measure, to reach even unto you. 14 For we stretch not ourselves overmuch, as though we reached not unto you: for we came even as far as unto you in the gospel of Christ: 15 not glorying beyond our measure, that is, in other men’s labors; but having hope that, as your faith groweth, we shall be magnified in you according to our province unto further abundance, 16 so as to preach the gospel even unto the parts beyond you, and not to glory in another’s province in regard of things ready to our hand. 17 But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. 18 For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.