2 Kwabasekhorinte 2

1 Ngakho ngenza isinqumo engqondweni yami ukuba ngingenzi olunye uhambo olubuhlungu lokuza kini.

But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.

2 Ngoba nxa ngilibangela usizi, ngubani omunye ozangithokozisa ngaphandle kwenu lina esengilibangele usizi?

For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?

3 Ngaloba ngokunjalo ukuze kuthi ekufikeni kwami ngingadaniswa yilabo obekumele bangithokozise. Ngalethemba lonke, ukuba lonke lizathokoza kanye lami.

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 Ngoba ngalilobela ngokukhathazeka okukhulu lobuhlungu benhliziyo njalo langezinyembezi ezinengi, hatshi ukuba ngilizwise ubuhlungu kodwa ukuba ngilazise ngokuzika kothando lwami kini.

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.

5 Nxa kukhona obange usizi, kalubanganga kimi kangako, kodwa ngenye indlela ulubange kini lonke, ukuze kungedlulisi amalawulo.

But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.

6 Isijeziso asinikwe ngabanengi simlingene.

Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many.

7 Esikhundleni salokhu, kumele limthethelele njalo limduduze, ukuze angagajelwa lusizi olukhulu.

So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.

8 Ngakho ngiyalincenga ukuba liluqinise futhi uthando lwenu kuye.

Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.

9 Isizatho sokulilobela kwakuyikuba ngibone ukuthi lingamelana lobunzima njalo lilalele ezintweni zonke.

For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.

10 Nxa lithethelela omunye umuntu, lami ngiyamthethelela. Njalo lokho esengikuthethelele, nxa kwakukhona okwakumele kuthethelelwe, ngithethelele phambi kukaKhristu ngenxa yenu,

To whom ye 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 the Messiah;

11 ukuze uSathane angasiqilibezeli. Ngoba amacebo akhe siyawazi.

Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.

12 Ekuyeni kwami eTrowasi ukuyatshumayela ivangeli likaKhristu njalo ngathola ukuthi iNkosi yayingivulele umnyango,

Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach the glad tidings of the Messiah, and a door was opened unto me of YHWH,

13 ngangilokhe ngingelakho ukuthula emoyeni wami ngoba ngingamtholanga umzalwane wami uThithu khonale. Ngakho ngavalelisa ngasengisedlulela eMasedoniya.

I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia.

14 Kodwa-ke, kabongwe uNkulunkulu, yena osikhokhelela kokuphela njengabathunjiweyo ekunqobeni kukaKhristu njalo esenza sithele iphunga elimnandi lokumazi ezindaweni zonke.

Now thanks be unto YHWH, which always causeth us to triumph in the Messiah, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.

15 Ngoba kuNkulunkulu siliphunga elimnandi likaKhristu phakathi kwalabo abasindiswayo lalabo ababhubhayo.

For we are unto YHWH a sweet savour of the Messiah, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:

16 Komunye siliphunga elibi lokufa; komunye siliphunga elimnandi lokuphila. Ngubani olingene umsebenzi lo na?

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 Thina kasihambi sithengisa ilizwi likaNkulunkulu njengabanengi. Kodwa kuKhristu siyakhuluma phambi kukaNkulunkulu ngobuqotho, njengabantu abathunywe nguNkulunkulu.

For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of YHWH: but as of sincerity, but as of YHWH, in the sight of YHWH speak we in the Messiah.