Bakorintha II 1
1 Ditsala tse di rategang, Lokwalo lo lo tswa mo go nna Paulo, yo o tlhomilweng ke Modimo go nna morongwa wa ga Jesu Keresete; le mo go mokaulengwe wa rona yo o rategang Timotheo. Re lo kwalela lotlhe Bakeresete ba Korinta le Akaia yotlhe.
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:
2 A Modimo Rraetsho le Morena Jesu Keresete o segofatse mongwe le mongwe wa lona thata, o lo neye kagiso.
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3 Kana re na le Modimo o o hakgamatsangjang, ke Rraagwe Morena wa rona Jesu Keresete, motswedi wa kutlwelo botlhoko nngwe le nngwe, ene yo ka kgakgamatso o re gomotsang a bo a re nonotsha mo bothateng jwa rona le mo ditekong. Mme ke eng fa a dira jaana? Gore ba bangwe ba ba tshwenyegileng ebile ba tlhoka kutlwelo botlhoko ya rona le kgothatso, re ba fe thuso e e ntseng jaana le kgomotso e Modimo o e re neileng.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,
who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
5 Lo ka tlhomamisa gore fa re ntse re bogela Keresete, o tlaa nna a re supegetsa kgomotso ya gagwe le kgothatso.
For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.
6 Re mo matshwenyegong a magolo go lo tlisetsa kgomotso ya Modimo le poloko. Mme mo matshwenyegong a rona Modimo o re gomoditse ebile o re thusa gore re lo supegetse mo maitemogelong a rona ka fa Modimo o tlaa lo gomotsang ka kutlwelo botlhoko ka teng fa lo tsena mo dipogisong tse di tshwanang le tse. O tlaa lo naya nonofo go itshoka.
But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.
Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so you are also of the comfort.
8 Ke bona gore lo tshwanetse go itse, bakaulengwe ba ba rategang, kaga pitlagano e re neng ra feta mo go yone kwa Asia. Re ne re pitlaganye tota ebile re fentswe gotlhelele ebile re boifa gore ga re kake ra tshela mo go yone.
For we do not desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia: that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.
9 Re ne re ikutlwa o ka re re atlholelwa go swa le go bona ka fa re neng re sena nonofo ka teng go ithusa; mme go ne go siame, gonne foo re ne ra baya sengwe le sengwe mo diatleng tsa Modimo, o ka osi o neng o ka re boloka, gonne o ka tsosa le bone baswi tota.
Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,
10 Mme o ne wa re thusa, wa re boloka mo losong, lo lo boitshegang; ee, re o lebeletse gore o re thuse gangwe le gape.
who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver, on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us,
11 Mme lo tshwanetse go re thusa le lona, ka go re rapelela. Gonne ditebogo tse dikgolo le pako tse di tswang mo go lona a di tlaa ya kwa Modimong, di tswa kwa go lona ba lo boneng dikarabo tsa one tse di hakgamatsang mo dithapelong tsa lona tsa polokego!
you also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift given to us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on your behalf.
12 Re itumela thata gore ka boikanyego jotlhe mo ditirong tsa rona tsotlhe re ne re itshekile ebile re le pelo e phepa, re ikanya mo Moreneng ka tshisibalo gore a re thuse, e seng ka fa botlhaleng jwa rona. Mme mo go boammaaruri jo bogolo, fa go kgonega, kaga mokgwa o re o dirisitseng mo go lona.
For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
13 Dikwalo tsa me di ne di tlhamaletse ebile di ikanyega; ga go na sepe se se neng se sa kwalwa sentle! Mme le fa lo sa nkitse sentle (ke solofela gore letsatsi lengwe lo tlaa nkitse), ke batla go re lo nkamogele lo bo lo ikgantshe ka nna, jaaka lo setse lo ntse, fela jaaka ke tlaa ikgantsha ka lona mo letsatsing leo le Morena Jesu o tlang gape ka lone.
For we write no other things to you than what you read or even acknowledge, and I hope you will acknowledge to the end—
as also you acknowledged us in part—that we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.
15 E ne e le ka ntlha ya go re ke ne ke rulagantse go tsena ka lona mo loetong lwa me go ya Masedonia, le morago jaaka fa ke tlaa bo ke bowa, gore ke ne ke ka nna tshegofatso e e menaganeng mo go lona le gore lo ka nthomela kwa Judea.
In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit,
and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be sent forward by you on my journey to Judea.
17 Mme lo ka botsa lwa re, a ke fetotse thulaganyo ya me? A tota ga ke a dira mogopolo wa me le fa go ntse jalo? Kgotsa ke tshwana le monna wa selefatshe yo o reng “ee” fa tota a raya “nnyaa”.
When I therefore planned this, did I show fickleness? Or the things that I plan, do I plan according to the flesh, that with me there should be the “Yes, yes” and the “No, no?”
18 Le goka! Jaaka ruri Modimo o le boammaaruri, ga ke motho yo o ntseng jalo. “Ee”, wa me ke “Ee”.
But as God is faithful, our word toward you was not “Yes and no.”
19 Timotheo le Selefano le nna re ntse re lo bolelela kaga Jesu Morwa Modimo. Ga se yo o reng “ee” fa a raya “nnyaa”. O aga a dira fela se a se buang.
For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us—by me, Silvanus, and Timothy—was not “Yes and no,” but in him is “Yes.”
20 O a dira ebile o diragatsa ditsholofetso tsotlhe tsa Modimo, ga go re sepe gore di bontsi bo kae, go galaletsa leina la gagwe.
For however many are the promises of God, in him is the “Yes.” Therefore also through him is the “Amen”, to the glory of God through us.
21 Ke one Modimo o, o o diretseng nna le wena mo tumelong ya Sekeresete le go re dira baaposetoloi go rera Mafoko a a Molemo.
Now he who establishes us with you in Christ and anointed us is God,
22 O beile lotshwao mo go rona, lotshwao lwa go nna ba one, wa bo wa re naya Mowa wa one O O Boitshepo mo dipelong tsa rona e le sesupo sa gore re ba one, e le tiragalo ya ntlha ya tsotlhe tse o tlaa re di nayang.
who also sealed us and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.
23 Ke goeletsa kwa Modimong go ntshupela fa ke sa bue boammaaruri: Mabaka a a dirileng gore ke seka ka lo etela ke gore ga ke batle go lo utlwisa botlhoko ka kgalemelo e e botlhoko.
But I call God for a witness to my soul, that to spare you, I did not come to Corinth.
24 Fa ke tla, le fa ke sa kake ka dira thata go thusa tumelo ya lona, gonne e setse e nonofile, ke batla go ka dira sengwe ka ga boipelo jwa lona: ke batla go lo itumedisa, e seng go lo utlwisa botlhoko.
We do not control your faith, but are fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith.
