2 Korintofo 2
1 Enti meyɛɛ mʼadwene sɛ meremma mo nkyɛn bio mmɛhyɛ mo awerɛhow.
But, so far as I am concerned, I have resolved not to have a painful visit the next time I come to see you.
2 Sɛ mebɛhyɛ mo awerɛhow a hena na ɔbɛkyekyere me werɛ? Me ara a mahyɛ mo awerɛhow no ana?
For if I of all men give you pain, who then is there to gladden my heart, but the very persons to whom I give pain?
3 Ɛno nti na mekyerɛw saa krataa no brɛɛ mo. Na mempɛ sɛ meba mo nnipa koro no ara a mubegye mʼani no nkyɛn abɛhyɛ mo awerɛhow. Minim yiye sɛ, sɛ me ho tɔ me a, mo nso mo ho bɛtɔ mo.
And I write this to you in order that when I come I may not receive pain from those who ought to give me joy, confident as I am as to all of you that my joy is the joy of you all.
4 Mede amanehunu, awerɛhow ne nusu na ɛrekyerɛw mo saa krataa yi. Mankyerɛw mammɛhyɛ mo awerɛhow, na mmom, mekyerɛw de bɛkyerɛɛ ɔdɔ a medɔ mo nyinaa.
For with many tears I write to you, and in deep suffering and depression of spirit, not in order to grieve you, but in the hope of showing you how brimful my heart is with love for you.
5 Sɛ obi ahyɛ afoforo awerɛhow a, ɛnyɛ me na wahyɛ me saa awerɛhow no, na mo anaasɛ mo mu bi na wahyɛ no saa awerɛhow no. Mempɛ sɛ me nsa yɛ den wɔ saa onipa no so.
Now if any one has caused sorrow, it has been caused not so much to me, as in some degree--for I have no wish to exaggerate--to all of you.
6 Aso a dodow no ara atwe no no dɔɔso ma no.
In the case of such a person the punishment which was inflicted by the majority of you is enough.
7 Ɛsɛ sɛ mode kyɛ no na mokyekye ne werɛ sɛnea ɛbɛyɛ a awerɛhow renhyɛ ne so.
So that you may now take the opposite course, and forgive him rather and comfort him, for fear he should perhaps be driven to despair by his excess of grief.
8 Mesrɛ mo, momma onhu sɛ mopɛ nʼasɛm pa ara.
I beg you therefore fully to reinstate him in your love.
9 Nea enti a mekyerɛw mo krataa no ne sɛ: Mepɛ sɛ mihu sɛ moatumi agyina sɔhwɛ no ano pintinn na nsɛm a meka kyerɛ mo no nso, mudi so ana.
For in writing to you I have also this object in view--to discover by experience whether you are prepared to be obedient in every respect.
10 Sɛ obi yɛ bɔne bi na mode kyɛ no a, me nso mede kyɛ no. Sɛ ɛho hia sɛ mede bɛkyɛ na mede kyɛ a, ɛsɛ sɛ mede biribiara kyɛ. Na mo nti na meyɛ saa wɔ Kristo anim
When you forgive a man an offence I also forgive it; for in fact what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has always been for your sakes in the presence of Christ,
11 sɛnea ɛbɛyɛ a, ɔbonsam rennya yɛn ho kwan, efisɛ yenim ne nsusuwii.
for fear Satan should gain an advantage over us. For we are not ignorant of his devices.
12 Bere a miduu Troa kɔkaa Kristo ho Asɛmpa no, mihuu sɛ Awurade ama adwuma no yɛ ho kwan wɔ hɔ.
Now when I came into the Troad to spread there the Good News about the Christ, even though in the Lord's providence a door stood open before me,
13 Nanso me werɛ howee, efisɛ na minhu yɛn nua Tito. Enti mekraa nnipa a wɔwɔ hɔ no na misii mu kɔɔ Makedonia.
yet, obtaining no relief for my spirit because I did not find our brother Titus, I bade them farewell and went on into Macedonia.
14 Yɛda Onyankopɔn ase sɛ daa odi yɛn kan wɔ yɛn anigye ne nkonimdi santen wɔ Kristo mu ma ɔde yɛn trɛw ne ho nimdeɛ huamhuam no mu.
But to God be the thanks who in Christ ever heads our triumphal procession, and by our hands waves in every place that sweet incense, the knowledge of Him.
15 Yɛyɛ Kristo aduhuam wɔ wɔn a wɔregye wɔn nkwa ne wɔn a wɔreyera no mu ma Onyankopɔn.
For we are a fragrance of Christ grateful to God in those whom He is saving and in those who are perishing;
16 Na wɔn a wɔreyera no de, ɛyɛ wɔn hua bɔne a etumi kum. Nanso wɔn a wɔregye wɔn nkwa no de, ɛyɛ hua a ɛma wɔn nkwa. Hena na obetumi agyina adwuma a ɛyɛ den sɛɛ anim?
to the last-named an odor of death predictive of death, and to the others an odor of life predictive of life. And for such service as this who is competent?
17 Yɛnte sɛ nnipa afoforo bi a wɔfa Onyankopɔn asɛm sɛ adetɔnnne bi, na esiane sɛ Onyankopɔn asoma yɛn no nti, yɛka nokware wɔ nʼanim sɛ Kristo asomfo.
We are; for, unlike most teachers, we are not fraudulent hucksters of God's Message; but with transparent motives, as commissioned by God, in God's presence and in communion with Christ, so we speak.
