2 Wakorintho 2
1 Kwa hiyo niliamua kwa sehemu yangu mwenyewe kwamba nisingekuja tena kwenu katika hali ya uchungu.
But I have judged this with myself, not to come back to you in grief.
2 Kama niliwasababishia ninyi maumivu, ni nani angenifurahisha mimi, lakini ni yule ambaye aliumizwa na mimi?
For if I grieve you, who also [is] it that gladdens me, if not he that is grieved through me?
3 Niliandika kama nilivyofanya ili kwamba wakati nikija kwenu nisiweze kuumizwa na wale ambao wangekuwa wamenifanya nifurahi. Ninao ujasiri kuhusu ninyi nyote kwamba furaha yangu ni furaha ile ile mliyonayo ninyi nyote.
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 Kwa kuwa niliwaandikia ninyi kutokana na mateso makubwa, na dhiki ya moyo, na kwa machozi mengi. Sikutaka kuwasababishia ninyi maumivu. Badala yake, nilitaka mjue upendo wa kina nilionao kwa ajili yenu.
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 Kama kuna yeyote amesababisha maumivu, hajasababisha tu kwangu, lakini kwa kiwango fulani - bila kuweka ukali zaidi - kwenu ninyi nyote.
But if any one has grieved, he has grieved, not me, but in part (that I may not overcharge [you]) all of you.
6 Hii adhabu ya mtu huyo kwa wengi inatosha.
Sufficient to such a one [is] this rebuke which [has been inflicted] by the many;
7 Kwa hiyo sasa badala ya adhabu, mnapaswa kumsamehe na kumfariji. Fanyeni hivi ili kwamba asiweze kushindwa na huzuni iliyozidi.
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 Kwa hiyo ninawatia moyo kuthibitisha upendo wenu hadharani kwa ajili yake.
Wherefore I exhort you to assure him of [your] love.
9 Hii ndiyo sababu niliandika, ili kwamba niweze kuwajaribu na kujua kuwa kama ni watii katika kila kitu.
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 Kama mkimsamehe yeyote, na mimi pia namsamehe mtu huyo. Kile nilicho kisamehe - kama nimesamehe chochote-kimesamehewa kwa faida yenu katika uwepo wa Kristo.
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 Hii ni kwamba Shetani asije akatufanyia madanganyo. Kwa kuwa sisi sio wajinga kwa mipango yake.
that we might not have Satan get an advantage against us, for we are not ignorant of his thoughts.
12 Mlango ulifunguliwa kwangu na Bwana nilipokuja kwenye mji wa Troa kuhubiri injili ya Kristo pale.
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 Hata hivyo, sikuwa na amani ya moyo, kwa sababu sikumkuta ndugu yangu Tito pale. Hivyo niliwaacha na nikarudi Makedonia.
I had no rest in my spirit at not finding Titus my brother; but bidding them adieu, I came away to Macedonia.
14 Lakini ashukuriwe Mungu, ambaye katika Kristo mara zote hutuongoza sisi katika ushindi. Kupitia sisi husambaza harufu nzuri ya maarifa yake mahala pote.
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 Kwa kuwa sisi kwa Mungu, ni harufu nzuri ya Kristo, wote kati ya wale waliookolewa na kati ya wale wanaoangamia.
For we are a sweet odour of Christ to God, in the saved and in those that perish:
16 Kwa watu ambao wanaangamia, ni harufu kutoka kifo hadi kifo. Kwa wale wanaookolewa, ni harufu nzuri kutoka uzima hadi uzima. Ni nani anayestahili vitu hivi?
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 Kwa kuwa sisi sio kama watu wengi wanaouza neno la Mungu kwa faida. Badala yake, kwa usafi wa nia, tunanena katika Kristo, kama vile tunavyotumwa kutoka kwa Mungu, mbele ya Mungu.
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.
