2 Corinthians 7
1 Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
亲爱的朋友们，由于我们做出了这样的承诺，就应该洁净自己，除去身体和心灵上的一切污秽，通过敬畏上帝达成圣洁。
2 Open your hearts to us: we wronged no man, we corrupted no man, we took advantage of no man.
请接纳我们作为你们的朋友！我们未做过任何措施，没有让任何人堕落，也没有利用过谁。
3 I say it not to condemn [you]: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die together and live together.
我这样说不是为了定你们的罪，正如我之前所说，你们对我们如此重要，我们与你们可以同生共死。
4 Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying on your behalf: I am filled with comfort, I overflow with joy in all our affliction.
我愿为你们振臂高呼，因为你们让我感到如此光荣。你们就是对我最大的激励，尽管我们经历各种患难，你们让我格外欢喜。
5 For even when we were come into Macedonia our flesh had no relief, but [we were] afflicted on every side; without [were] fightings, within [were] fears.
我们抵达马其顿的时候，没有感到片刻的安宁。相反，我们受到了来自各方的攻击，外有争战，内有恐惧。
6 Nevertheless he that comforteth the lowly, [even] God, comforted us by the coming of Titus;
尽管如此，上帝总能给沮丧之人带来鼓励。提多的到来就是我们最大的安慰。
7 and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort wherewith he was comforted in you, while he told us your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced yet more.
我们的安慰不仅因为他的到来，还因为你们给予他的鼓励。他告诉我们，你们渴望见到我，还因为我而感到难过和忧愁，这让我更加欢喜。
8 For though I made you sorry with my epistle, I do not regret it: though I did regret [it] (for I see that that epistle made you sorry, though but for a season),
尽管我写的那封信让你们忧伤，但我并不后悔——其实我曾经感到后悔，因为那封信伤害了你们，但只是很短的一段时间。
9 I now rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye were made sorry unto repentance; for ye were made sorry after a godly sort, that ye might suffer loss by us in nothing.
现在我很快乐，不是因为伤害你们，而是因为这种痛苦让你们改变了心意。你们按照上帝的旨意感到难过，所以不会因为我们而受到任何伤害。
10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance unto salvation, [a repentance] which bringeth no regret: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
上帝希望我们感受到的忧伤，让我们可以改变心意，获得救赎。这种忧伤不会留下遗憾，但世俗的忧伤却会招致死亡。
11 For behold, this selfsame thing, that ye were made sorry after a godly sort, what earnest care it wrought in you, yea what clearing of yourselves, yea what indignation, yea what fear, yea what longing, yea what zeal, yea what avenging! In everything ye approved yourselves to be pure in the matter.
当你们依照上帝的旨意感受到了这种忧伤，看看你们都发生了什么。还记得你们变得多么热情，渴望为自己辩护，对已经发生的事情感到愤怒，认真对待这一切，渴望做正确的事情，关注自己是谁，渴望实现正义。你们通过所有这些改变，表明你们多么诚心地渴望恢复良善正直。
12 So although I wrote unto you, [I wrote] not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be made manifest unto you in the sight of God.
因此，以往我写信给你们，并未讨论谁做错事或被错误对待，而是表达了你们如何在上帝的面前为我们做出奉献。
13 Therefore we have been comforted: and in our comfort we joyed the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit hath been refreshed by you all.
这让我们备受鼓舞。我们除了感受到鼓舞之外，还很高兴看到提多的欢喜，因为你们让他心安。
14 For if in anything I have gloried to him on your behalf, I was not put to shame; but as we spake all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.
我向他夸赞你们，你们没有让我失望。我对你们所说的都是真话，同样，我向提多夸赞你们也是出自真心。
15 And his affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembereth the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.
提多还记起你们如何按照他所说的行事，如何以尊重的方式迎接他。这让他更加关爱你们。
16 I rejoice that in everything I am of good courage concerning you.
很高兴我可以对你们怀有充分的信心。
