2:1  statui autem hoc ipse apud me ne        1.  But I determined this with myself,  
iterum in tristitia venirem ad vos           that I would not come again to you in  
                                             heaviness.
                                             
2:2  si enim ego contristo vos et quis       2.  For if I make you sorry, who is he  
est qui me laetificet nisi qui               then that maketh me glad, but the same  
contristatur ex me                           which is made sorry by me?
                                             
2:3  et hoc ipsum scripsi ut non cum         3.  And I wrote this same unto you,  
venero tristitiam super tristitiam           lest, when I came, I should have sorrow  
habeam de quibus oportuerat me gaudere       from them of whom I ought to rejoice;  
confidens in omnibus vobis quia meum         having confidence in you all, that my  
gaudium omnium vestrum est                   joy is the joy of you all.
                                             
2:4  nam ex multa tribulatione et            4.  For out of much affliction and  
angustia cordis scripsi vobis per            anguish of heart I wrote unto you with  
multas lacrimas non ut contristemini         many tears; not that ye should be  
sed ut sciatis quam caritatem habeo          grieved, but that ye might know the  
abundantius in vobis                         love which I have more abundantly unto  
                                             you.
                                             
2:5  si quis autem contristavit non me       5.  But if any have caused grief, he  
contristavit sed ex parte ut non onerem      hath not grieved me, but in part: that  
omnes vos                                    I may not overcharge you all.
                                             
2:6  sufficit illi qui eiusmodi est          6.  Sufficient to such a man is this  
obiurgatio haec quae fit a pluribus          punishment, which was inflicted of many.
                                             
2:7  ita ut e contra magis donetis et        7.  So that contrariwise ye ought  
consolemini ne forte abundantiori            rather to forgive him, and comfort him,  
tristitia absorbeatur qui eiusmodi est       lest perhaps such a one should be  
                                             swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
                                             
2:8  propter quod obsecro vos ut             8.  Wherefore I beseech you that ye  
confirmetis in illum caritatem               would confirm your love toward him.
                                             
2:9  ideo enim et scripsi ut cognoscam       9.  For to this end also did I write,  
experimentum vestrum an in omnibus           that I might know the proof of you,  
oboedientes sitis                            whether ye be obedient in all things.
                                             
2:10  cui autem aliquid donatis et ego       10.  To whom ye forgive any thing, I  
nam et ego quod donavi si quid donavi        forgive also: for if I forgave any  
propter vos in persona Christi               thing, to whom I forgave it, for your  
                                             sakes forgave I it in the person of  
                                             Christ;
                                             
2:11  ut non circumveniamur a Satana         11.  Lest Satan should get an advantage  
non enim ignoramus cogitationes eius         of us: for we are not ignorant of his  
                                             devices.
                                             
2:12  cum venissem autem Troadem             12.  Furthermore, when I came to Troas  
propter evangelium Christi et ostium         to preach Christ's gospel, and a door  
mihi apertum esset in Domino                 was opened unto me of the Lord,
                                             
2:13  non habui requiem spiritui meo eo      13.  I had no rest in my spirit,  
quod non invenerim Titum fratrem meum        because I found not Titus my brother:  
sed valefaciens eis profectus sum in         but taking my leave of them, I went  
Macedoniam                                   from thence into Macedonia.
                                             
2:14  Deo autem gratias qui semper           14.  Now thanks be unto God, which  
triumphat nos in Christo Iesu et odorem      always causeth us to triumph in Christ,  
notitiae suae manifestat per nos in          and maketh manifest the savour of his  
omni loco                                    knowledge by us in every place.
                                             
2:15  quia Christi bonus odor sumus Deo      15.  For we are unto God a sweet savour  
in his qui salvi fiunt et in his qui         of Christ, in them that are saved, and  
pereunt                                      in them that perish:
                                             
2:16  aliis quidem odor mortis in            16.  To the one we are the savour of  
mortem aliis autem odor vitae in vitam       death unto death; and to the other the  
et ad haec quis tam idoneus                  savour of life unto life. And who is  
                                             sufficient for these things?
                                             
2:17  non enim sumus sicut plurimi           17.  For we are not as many, which  
adulterantes verbum Dei sed ex               corrupt the word of God: but as of  
sinceritate sed sicut ex Deo coram Deo       sincerity, but as of God, in the sight  
in Christo loquimur                          of God speak we in Christ.