2 Bakolinto 2
1 Yango wana nazwaki mokano ya kozongela bino te mpo ete nayokisa bino lisusu mawa te.
But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.
2 Pamba te soki nayokisi bino mawa, banani bakosepelisa ngai lisusu soki kaka te bino oyo ngai nayokisi mawa?
For if I make you sorry, who is he then that makes me glad, but the same which is made sorry by 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 wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy 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 affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that all of you should be grieved, but that all of you might know the love (agape) which I have more abundantly unto 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 have caused grief, he has not grieved me, but in part: that I may not burden you all.
6 Mpo na yango, ekokaki penza ete bato oyo baleki ebele kati na bino bapamela ye.
Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many.
7 Nzokande sik’oyo, bosengeli kolimbisa ye mpe kobondisa ye, mpo ete azala na mawa makasi te.
So that contrariwise all of you ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
8 Yango wana, nazali kosenga na bino ete bolinga ye lisusu.
Wherefore I plead to you that all of you would confirm your love (agape) toward him.
9 Pamba te nakomelaki bino lisusu mpo na komeka bino mpe mpo na kotala soki botosaka na makambo nyonso.
In order to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether all of you be obedient in all things.
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,
To whom all of you forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ;
11 mpo ete Satana akonza biso te, pamba te toyebi malamu makanisi na ye.
Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
12 Tango nakomaki na Troasi mpo na kosakola Sango Malamu ya Klisto, Nkolo afungolelaki ngai bikuke mpo ete nakoka kosala mosala na ngai.
Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel, and a door was opened unto me of 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, (pneuma) because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into 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.
Now thanks be unto God, which always causes us to triumph in Christ, and makes manifest the savour of his knowledge by 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 unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them 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 we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of 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 are not as many, which corrupt the word (logos) of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.
