2 Corinthians 10
1 Now I myself, Paul, appeal to you in a gentle and humble way, like Christ [would. Certain people among you have falsely accused me by saying], “When [Paul] is with you, he is humble [and speaks gently] to you, but when he is away from you, [in the letters he writes to you] he threatens [to punish] you.” [Those people claim that I do not have authority over you as an apostle].
යුෂ්මත්ප්‍රත්‍යක්‍ෂේ නම්‍රඃ කින්තු පරෝක්‍ෂේ ප්‍රගල්භඃ පෞලෝ(අ)හං ඛ්‍රීෂ්ටස්‍ය ක්‍ෂාන්ත්‍යා විනීත්‍යා ච යුෂ්මාන් ප්‍රාර්ථයේ|
2 I strongly plead with you, “[Please do not listen to people who say things like that!]” [I strongly plead with you not to listen to them], so that when I am there [with you] I will not [need to] speak severely [to you] in the same severe way as I [plan to] speak to those people who think that I behave like people who are not believers.
මම ප්‍රාර්ථනීයමිදං වයං යෛඃ ශාරීරිකාචාරිණෝ මන්‍යාමහේ තාන් ප්‍රති යාං ප්‍රගල්භතාං ප්‍රකාශයිතුං නිශ්චිනෝමි සා ප්‍රගල්භතා සමාගතේන මයාචරිතව්‍යා න භවතු|
3 [Remember that] although I am [human like everyone else] in the world, I do not fight [against those who oppose me] in the way that people who are not believers fight those who oppose them.
යතඃ ශරීරේ චරන්තෝ(අ)පි වයං ශාරීරිකං යුද්ධං න කුර්ම්මඃ|
4 [I will tell you what I mean by that: Just like soldiers use] various weapons [to fight their enemies] [MET], [I] ([fight against/oppose]) [those who] oppose God’s message, but I do it in a different way. I do not [use human arguments and clever/sweet talk], like unbelievers do. Instead, [I fight against my opponents] with the powerful means that God [has given me]. With that power [I destroy their arguments against God’s message and against me, just like soldiers destroy] [MET] the fortresses [of their enemies].
අස්මාකං යුද්ධාස්ත්‍රාණි ච න ශාරීරිකානි කින්ත්වීශ්වරේණ දුර්ගභඤ්ජනාය ප්‍රබලානි භවන්ති,
5 [Specifically], I show that the [human] arguments that they use to deceive [people are completely wrong]. When they [proudly say things that] keep other people from knowing God, [I show them that they are completely wrong. I also enable people to] change their ways of thinking so that they think about everything as Christ [wants them to think].
තෛශ්ච වයං විතර්කාන් ඊශ්වරීයතත්ත්වඥානස්‍ය ප්‍රතිබන්ධිකාං සර්ව්වාං චිත්තසමුන්නතිඤ්ච නිපාතයාමඃ සර්ව්වසඞ්කල්පඤ්ච බන්දිනං කෘත්වා ඛ්‍රීෂ්ටස්‍යාඥාග්‍රාහිණං කුර්ම්මඃ,
6 I am also ready to discipline everyone [among you] who has not obeyed [the things that Christ taught. I will do this] as soon as you [who truly want to obey Christ show me that] you are [going to] obey him completely.
යුෂ්මාකම් ආඥාග්‍රාහිත්වේ සිද්ධේ සති සර්ව්වස්‍යාඥාලඞ්ඝනස්‍ය ප්‍රතීකාරං කර්ත්තුම් උද්‍යතා ආස්මහේ ච|
7 [I want you to understand what is] happening among you. There are certain [people there who are telling you that] they know for sure that they are Christ’s [representatives and that I am not]. Those people should realize that I [represent] Christ as much as they do.
යද් දෘෂ්ටිගෝචරං තද් යුෂ්මාභි ර්දෘශ්‍යතාං| අහං ඛ්‍රීෂ්ටස්‍ය ලෝක ඉති ස්වමනසි යේන විඥායතේ ස යථා ඛ්‍රීෂ්ටස්‍ය භවති වයම් අපි තථා ඛ්‍රීෂ්ටස්‍ය භවාම ඉති පුනර්විවිච්‍ය තේන බුධ්‍යතාං|
8 [I say that] because the authority that the Lord gave me [as his apostle] is to help you to become mature believers, not to cause you to stop [trusting in Christ]. So even if I were to boast a little more than I have [already done] (OR, proudly talk a little more than I have [already talked] about the authority the Lord gave me [as his apostle]), [no one would be able to make me] ashamed [by proving that Jesus has not given me that authority].
යුෂ්මාකං නිපාතාය තන්නහි කින්තු නිෂ්ඨායෛ ප්‍රභුනා දත්තං යදස්මාකං සාමර්ථ්‍යං තේන යද්‍යපි කිඤ්චිද් අධිකං ශ්ලාඝේ තථාපි තස්මාන්න ත්‍රපිෂ්‍යේ|
9 I do not intend to make you afraid of me by the letters that I [write to you].
අහං පත්‍රෛ ර‍්‍යුෂ්මාන් ත්‍රාසයාමි යුෂ්මාභිරේතන්න මන්‍යතාං|
10 [I say that] because some people are saying, “[When Paul writes] letters, he says severe things [in order to make you obey him], but when he is here with you, [people look at him and say] he is weak, and he certainly is not a skillful speaker.”
තස්‍ය පත්‍රාණි ගුරුතරාණි ප්‍රබලානි ච භවන්ති කින්තු තස්‍ය ශාරීරසාක්‍ෂාත්කාරෝ දුර්බ්බල ආලාපශ්ච තුච්ඡනීය ඉති කෛශ්චිද් උච්‍යතේ|
11 The [people who say] such things should think carefully about this: The kind of [severe] person that [you think] me to be when you read my letters is exactly the kind of person I will be when I come. [I will do what I wrote that I would do].
කින්තු පරෝක්‍ෂේ පත්‍රෛ ර්භාෂමාණා වයං යාදෘශාඃ ප්‍රකාශාමහේ ප්‍රත්‍යක්‍ෂේ කර්ම්ම කුර්ව්වන්තෝ(අ)පි තාදෘශා ඒව ප්‍රකාශිෂ්‍යාමහේ තත් තාදෘශේන වාචාලේන ඥායතාං|
12 [Those who oppose me] tell others how good they are. [If they really were superior to me] [IRO], I would not be so bold as to say that I [was equal to them, or] to compare myself with them. [But they are not superior to me]. They make up their own standards [about what God’s servants should be like], and then they look at their own [conduct] and decide [whether or not they meet those standards. By doing that, they show that] they are foolish.
ස්වප්‍රශංසකානාං කේෂාඤ්චින්මධ්‍යේ ස්වාන් ගණයිතුං තෛඃ ස්වාන් උපමාතුං වා වයං ප්‍රගල්භා න භවාමඃ, යතස්තේ ස්වපරිමාණේන ස්වාන් පරිමිමතේ ස්වෛශ්ච ස්වාන් උපමිභතේ තස්මාත් නිර්බ්බෝධා භවන්ති ච|
13 But as for me, I will not boast about [working among people living in] areas outside of the areas [that God sent/assigned me to work in]. But [it is right for] me to say that [I have worked] in the areas that God assigned to me. [And since those areas] include the one where you live,
වයම් අපරිමිතේන න ශ්ලාඝිෂ්‍යාමහේ කින්ත්වීශ්වරේණ ස්වරජ්ජ්වා යුෂ්මද්දේශගාමි යත් පරිමාණම් අස්මදර්ථං නිරූපිතං තේනෛව ශ්ලාඝිෂ්‍යාමහේ|
14 [when I talk about working among you], I am not boasting [about working in an area where God did not give me the right to work. What those who oppose me say about my not having authority as an apostle to you might be true] if I had not already come all the way to your area. [But that is not true], because I was the one who first brought the message about Christ to you. [I came to Corinth before they did]!
යුෂ්මාකං දේශෝ(අ)ස්මාභිරගන්තව්‍යස්තස්මාද් වයං ස්වසීමාම් උල්ලඞ්ඝාමහේ තන්නහි යතඃ ඛ්‍රීෂ්ටස්‍ය සුසංවාදේනාපරේෂාං ප්‍රාග් වයමේව යුෂ්මාන් ප්‍රාප්තවන්තඃ|
15 Also, [my opponents] boast about work that others have done [as if it were their own work]. It is improper for them to do that, but I do not do as they do. I confidently expect that as you trust more and more [in the gospel that I preach], you will more and more [agree that God has given me the right to] work [as Christ’s representative] among you.
වයං ස්වසීමාම් උල්ලඞ්ඝ්‍ය පරක්‍ෂේත්‍රේණ ශ්ලාඝාමහේ තන්නහි, කිඤ්ච යුෂ්මාකං විශ්වාසේ වෘද්ධිං ගතේ යුෂ්මද්දේශේ(අ)ස්මාකං සීමා යුෂ්මාභිර්දීර්ඝං විස්තාරයිෂ්‍යතේ,
16 Then I will be able to go to places beyond where you [are]. I will be able to tell the good message about Christ [to people in areas where no one has yet gone to tell that message]. And [I will be able to talk about the work I myself have done in that area], instead of boasting about work that someone else has already done [as if it were my work].
තේන වයං යුෂ්මාකං පශ්චිමදික්ස්ථේෂු ස්ථානේෂු සුසංවාදං ඝෝෂයිෂ්‍යාමඃ, ඉත්ථං පරසීමායාං පරේණ යත් පරිෂ්කෘතං තේන න ශ්ලාඝිෂ්‍යාමහේ|
17 [I try to do according to what someone/Jeremiah wrote in the Scriptures], If anyone wants to boast [about something], he should boast [only] about what the Lord [God has done].
යඃ කශ්චිත් ශ්ලාඝමානඃ ස්‍යාත් ශ්ලාඝතාං ප්‍රභුනා ස හි|
18 [You can realize, then, that] it is not those who (praise themselves/tell you what great things they have done), [as my opponents do], whom you should accept [as apostles]. Instead, you [should accept as true apostles only] those whom the Lord commends.
ස්වේන යඃ ප්‍රශංස්‍යතේ ස පරීක්‍ෂිතෝ නහි කින්තු ප්‍රභුනා යඃ ප්‍රශංස්‍යතේ ස ඒව පරීක්‍ෂිතඃ|
