2 Bakolinto 2

1 Yango wana nazwaki mokano ya kozongela bino te mpo ete nayokisa bino lisusu mawa te.

But I have judged this with myself, not to come back to you in grief.

2 Pamba te soki nayokisi bino mawa, banani bakosepelisa ngai lisusu soki kaka te bino oyo ngai nayokisi mawa?

For if I grieve you, who also [is] it that gladdens me, if not he that is grieved through me?

3 Nakomelaki bino ndenge mpe nasali yango sik’oyo mpo ete bato oyo basengeli kosepelisa ngai bayokisa ngai mawa te tango nakoya. Nandimisami penza na tina na bino nyonso ete esengo na ngai ezali mpe esengo na bino nyonso.

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 Solo, tango nakomelaki bino, nazalaki kati na pasi makasi, kati na komitungisa na motema na ngai, mpe kati na kolela makasi; ezalaki te mpo na koyokisa bino mawa, kasi mpo ete boyeba mozindo ya bolingo na ngai mpo na bino.

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 Soki moko kati na bino ayokisaki moninga na ye mawa, ayokisaki yango ngai te kasi ayokisaki nde bino nyonso to ndambo kati na bino, mpo nalekisa ndelo te.

But if any one has grieved, he has grieved, not me, but in part (that I may not overcharge [you]) all of you.

6 Mpo na yango, ekokaki penza ete bato oyo baleki ebele kati na bino bapamela ye.

Sufficient to such a one [is] this rebuke which [has been inflicted] by the many;

7 Nzokande sik’oyo, bosengeli kolimbisa ye mpe kobondisa ye, mpo ete azala na mawa makasi te.

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 Yango wana, nazali kosenga na bino ete bolinga ye lisusu.

Wherefore I exhort you to assure him of [your] love.

9 Pamba te nakomelaki bino lisusu mpo na komeka bino mpe mpo na kotala soki botosaka na makambo nyonso.

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 Moto nyonso oyo bino bolimbisi, ngai mpe nalimbisi ye; mpe likambo oyo ngai nalimbisi, soki ezalaki penza na likambo ya kolimbisa, nalimbisi yango mpo na bolamu na bino na miso ya Klisto,

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 mpo ete Satana akonza biso te, pamba te toyebi malamu makanisi na ye.

that we might not have Satan get an advantage against us, for we are not ignorant of his thoughts.

12 Tango nakomaki na Troasi mpo na kosakola Sango Malamu ya Klisto, Nkolo afungolelaki ngai bikuke mpo ete nakoka kosala mosala na ngai.

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 Kasi motema na ngai etikalaki kozala na kimia te mpo ete namonaki kuna te ndeko na ngai, Tito. Boye, natikaki bango mpe nakendeki na Masedwane.

I had no rest in my spirit at not finding Titus my brother; but bidding them adieu, I came away to Macedonia.

14 Sik’oyo, tika ete matondi ezonga epai na Nzambe oyo, mpo na bomoko na biso na Klisto, atambolisaka biso tango nyonso kati na molongo na Ye ya balongi, mpe azwaka biso lokola bisalelo na Ye mpo na kopanza boyebi ya Klisto, na bisika nyonso, lokola solo kitoko ya malasi.

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 Pamba te, mpo na Nzambe, tozali solo kitoko ya Klisto kati na bato oyo bazali na nzela ya lobiko mpe kati na ba-oyo bazali kobunga.

For we are a sweet odour of Christ to God, in the saved and in those that perish:

16 Mpo na bamoko, tozali solo ya kufa, oyo ezali komema bango na kufa; mpe mpo na bamosusu, tozali solo ya bomoi, oyo ezali komema bango na bomoi. Boye nani azali na makoki mpo na mosala ya lolenge oyo?

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 Solo, biso tozali te lokola ebele ya bato oyo bakomisaka Liloba na Nzambe mombongo na bango mpo na kokoma na bomengo. Kati na Klisto, tosakolaka nde Liloba na bosolo nyonso lokola batindami ya Nzambe.

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.