2 Coríntios 2

1 But I determined this for myself, that I would not come to you again in sorrow. 2 For if I make you grieve, then who will make me glad but he who is made to grieve by me? 3 And I wrote this very thing to you, so that when I came, I wouldn’t have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all that my joy would be shared by all of you. 4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made to grieve, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.

5 But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow not to me, but in part (that I not press too heavily) to you all. 6 This punishment which was inflicted by the many is sufficient for such a one; 7 so that, on the contrary, you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow. 8 Therefore I beg you to confirm your love toward him. 9 For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things. 10 Now I also forgive whomever you forgive anything. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ, 11 that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes.

12 Now when I came to Troas for the Good News of Christ, and when a door was opened to me in the Lord, 13 I had no relief for my spirit, because I didn’t find Titus my brother, but taking my leave of them, I went out into Macedonia.

14 Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place. 15 For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God in those who are being saved and in those who perish: 16 to the one a stench from death to death, to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things? 17 For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

1 Otirā, kua takoto tēnei i roto i ahau, kia kaua tōku hokinga atu ki a koutou e waiho i runga i te pōuri. 2 Nā, ki te whakapōuri hoki ahau i a koutou, ko wai hoki hei whakaora i tōku ngākau? Ko ia anake e whakapōuritia nei e ahau. 3 Ā, i tuhituhi atu ahau i taua mea nei anō ki a koutou, kei tae atu ahau, ka whakapōuritia ahau e te hunga i tika nei mā rātou ahau e whakahari; i te ū o tōku whakaaro ki a koutou katoa, ko tōku hari te hari o koutou katoa. 4 He nui hoki nō te pōuri, nō te mamae o te ngākau, i tuhituhi atu ai ahau ki a koutou me ngā roimata maha; ehara i te mea hei whakapōuri i a koutou, engari kia mātau ai koutou ki tōku aroha e hira rawa nei ki a koutou.

Te Murunga mō te Hunga Hara

5 Mehemea nā tētahi i whakapōuri, ehara i te mea e whakapōuri ana ia i ahau, engari i a koutou katoa; i tētahi wāhi ia, e kore nei ahau e mea rawa he nui. 6 E rahi ana mō taua tū tangata ko tēnei whiu i whakapāngia nei e te tokomaha. 7 Engari rawa ia me whakarere noa iho tāna e koutou, ka whakamārie i a ia, kei tūpono ka horomia ia e tōna pōuri nui rawa. 8 Koia ahau ka īnoi ki a koutou kia whakaūkia tō koutou aroha ki a ia. 9 Nā, konei anō hoki ahau i tuhituhi atu ai, hei whakamātau i a koutou, mehemea e ngohengohe ana koutou i ngā mea katoa. 10 Ko te tangata e whakarērea ai e koutou tāna, ka whakarērea anō e ahau; ko tāku hoki i whakarere noa ai mehemea i pērā ahau, he whakaaro ki a koutou, i whakarērea noatia e ahau i te aroaro o te Karaiti. 11 Kei rā rungatia mai tātou e Hātana; ehara hoki tātou i te kūware ki āna rauhanga.

Te Māharahara o Pāora i Toroa

12 Nā, i tōku taenga ki Toroa ki te kauwhau i te rongopai o te Karaiti, ā, ka puare mai ki ahau tētahi kūwaha, he mea nā te Ariki, 13 kāhore he tānga mō tōku wairua, he kore i kite i tōku teina, i a Taituha. Heoi, ka poroporoaki ahau ki a rātou, ka haere ki Makeronia.

Mā te Karaiti Tātou e Wikitōria ai

14 Nā, me whakawhetai ki te Atua e mea tonu nei i a mātou kia whakamanamana i roto i a te Karaiti, e whakaatu nei mā roto i a mātou i te hā o tōna mātauranga i ngā wāhi katoa. 15 He kakara pai hoki mātou nō te Karaiti ki te Atua, i runga i te hunga e whakaorangia ana, i runga anō i te hunga e whakangaromia ana; 16 ki tētahi he kakara nō te mate ki te mate; ki tētahi he kakara nō te ora ki te ora. Ā, ko wai e tau mō ēnei mea? 17 Kāhore hoki mātou e pērā i te tokomaha e whakatūtūa nei i te kupu a te Atua; engari he pērā i tā te pono, he pērā i tā te Atua, e kōrero ana mātou i te aroaro o te Atua i roto i a te Karaiti.