1 I have decided not to make my next visit with you so painful. 2 If I make you feel bad, who would be left to cheer me up, except the people I had made to feel bad? 3 The reason I want to be happy is to make you happy. I wrote as I did because I didn't want to visit you and be made to feel bad, when you should make me feel happy. 4 At the time I wrote, I was suffering terribly. My eyes were full of tears, and my heart was broken. But I didn't want to make you feel bad. I only wanted to let you know how much I cared for you.
Forgiveness
5 I don't want to be hard on you. But if one of you has made someone feel bad, I am not really the one who has been made to feel bad. Some of you are the ones. 6 Most of you have already pointed out the wrong that person did, and this is punishment enough for what was done.
7 When people sin, you should forgive and comfort them, so they won't give up in despair. 8 You should make them sure of your love for them.
9 I also wrote because I wanted to test you and find out if you would follow my instructions. 10 I will forgive anyone you forgive. Yes, for your sake and with Christ as my witness, I have forgiven whatever needed to be forgiven. 11 I have done this to keep Satan from getting the better of us. We all know what goes on in his mind.
12 When I went to Troas to preach the good news about Christ, I found that the Lord had already prepared the way. 13 But I was worried when I didn't find my friend Titus there. So I left the other followers and went on to Macedonia.
14 I am grateful that God always makes it possible for Christ to lead us to victory. God also helps us spread the knowledge about Christ everywhere, and this knowledge is like the smell of perfume. 15-16 In fact, God thinks of us as a perfume that brings Christ to everyone. For people who are being saved, this perfume has a sweet smell and leads them to a better life. But for people who are lost, it has a bad smell and leads them to a horrible death.
No one really has what it takes to do this work. 17 A lot of people try to get rich from preaching God's message. But we are God's sincere messengers, and by the power of Christ we speak our message with God as our witness.
1 Ŋa ñiŋ kumoo kuntu ko, n te ali kumpabo la ka ali niyo toorandi kotenke. 2 Niŋ ŋa alitolu niyo toorandi, jumaa le be nte seewondi la, niŋ a maŋ ke alitolu ti, ŋa niitooroo saabu mennu ma? 3 Ŋa leetaroo meŋ safee ali ye nuŋ, ŋa wo safee le fo niŋ n naata, n te niitooroo soto la moolu la kuwo to, mennu ñanta n seewondi la. Bayiri n dankeneyaata ali bee la kuwo to le ko, n na seewoo mu alitolu fanaa la seewoo le ti. 4 Ŋa safeeroo ke ali ye bataa baa le kono, sondome dimiŋo, aniŋ ñaajii jamaa. M maŋ a safee ka ali niyo toorandi, bari fo ali si a loŋ ko, nte ye kanu baa le soto ali ye.
Yaamaroo ka yamfa junubekelaa ye
5 Niŋ moo meŋ keta niitooroo sababoo ti, a maŋ a ke nte dammaa la, bari alitolu bee ye niitooroo doo soto wo kuwo to le. M be ñiŋ meŋ fo kaŋ, m maŋ lafi ka a kumoo bambandi kolenke. 6 Alitolu jamaa be kuluuroo meŋ laa la wo maarii kaŋ, wo be kaañaŋ na wo moo siifaalu fee le. 7 Saayiŋ ali ñanta yamfa la a ye le, ali ye a sabarindi fo niitooroo dunoo kana a jikilateyindi. 8 Wo kamma la, ŋa ali daani ko, ali si ali la kanoo kutayandi bambandinke wo maarii kaŋ. 9 Tooñaa, daliila doo meŋ ye a tinna, ŋa ali safee nuŋ, wo le mu ka ali kotobo ka a loŋ fo ali ye yaamaroolu bee muta le. 10 Saayiŋ, niŋ ali yamfata moo-wo-moo ye, nte fanaa yamfata wo maarii ye le. Tooñaa, niŋ n si yamfa feŋ-wo-feŋ na, n yamfata wo la le Kiristu* ñaatiliŋo la, ali la kuwo kamma la, 11 fo Seetaanoo* kana siloo soto ka m̀ mara, bayiri m̀ maŋ ke lombaloolu ti a la feeroolu to.
Kiristu benduŋo kidimandiroo
12 Kabiriŋ nte futata Torowas saatewo to ka Kiristu la kibaari betoo kawandi, Maariyo ye bundaa yele n ye le ka dookuwo ke. 13 Bari n niyo maŋ tenkuŋ noo, kaatu m maŋ m baadiŋo* Titus tara jee. Bituŋ n sarata ì la, n taata Makedoniya tundoo kaŋ.
14 Ŋa Alla tentu, meŋ ka ntolu kenkeŋ Kiristu kono waati-wo-waati ko kelejawaroo ka a la moolu kenkeŋ ñaameŋ, niŋ a ye nooroo ke. M̀ be le fanaa ko cuuraayi seeroo, baawo ka bo niŋ ntolu la, londoo a la kuwo to ka janjaŋ daa-wo-daa. 15 M̀ be le ko Kiristu la seera diimaa Alla ye, moolu kono jaŋ, mennu doolu be kiisoo siloo kaŋ, doolu be kasaaroo siloo kaŋ. 16 Wo doolu ye, m̀ be le ko saayaa seeroo meŋ ka ì hakilibulandi saayaa la. Doolu ye, m̀ be le ko baluwo seeroo, meŋ ka ì tilindi baluwo kaŋ.
Bari jumaa le si ñiŋ dookuu siifaa ke noo? 17 A keta ñaa-wo-ñaa, ntolu buka Alla la kumoo ke safaarilaŋo ti ko moo jamaa ka a ke ñaameŋ. Ǹ ka Alla la kumoo kawandi a ñaatiliŋo le la ko moo soobeeyaariŋo ñanta a ke la Kiristu too la ñaameŋ.
