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| 1Since we have these promises, dear friends, let's cleanse ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit by becoming mature in our holy fear of God. | 1Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God. |
| 2Make room for us in your hearts! We have not treated anyone unjustly, harmed anyone, or cheated anyone. | 2Make room in your hearts for us. We have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have taken advantage of no one. |
| 3I am not saying this to condemn you. I told you before that you are in our hearts to die together and to live together. | 3I do not say this to condemn you, for I said before that you are in our hearts, to die together and to live together. |
| 4I have great confidence in you. I am very proud of you. I am very much encouraged. I am overjoyed in all our troubles. | 4I am acting with great boldness toward you; I have great pride in you; I am filled with comfort. In all our affliction, I am overflowing with joy. |
| 5For even when we came to Macedonia, our bodies had no rest. We suffered in a number of ways. Outwardly there were conflicts, inwardly there were fears. | 5For even when we came into Macedonia, our bodies had no rest, but we were afflicted at every turn—fighting without and fear within. |
| 6Yet God, who comforts those who feel miserable, comforted us by the arrival of Titus, | 6But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus, |
| 7and not only by his arrival but also by the comfort he had received from you. He told us about your longing for me, your sorrow, and your eagerness to take my side, and this made me even happier. | 7and not only by his coming but also by the comfort with which he was comforted by you, as he told us of your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced still more. |
| 8If I made you sad with my letter, I do not regret it, although I did regret it then. I see that the letter caused you sorrow, though only for a while. | 8For even if I made you grieve with my letter, I do not regret it—though I did regret it, for I see that that letter grieved you, though only for a while. |
| 9Now I am happy, not because you had such sorrow, but because your sorrow led you to repent. For you were sorry in a godly way, and so you were not hurt by us in any way. | 9As it is, I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because you were grieved into repenting. For you felt a godly grief, so that you suffered no loss through us. |
| 10For having sorrow in a godly way results in repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regrets. But the sorrow of the world produces death. | 10For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death. |
| 11See what great earnestness godly sorrow has produced in you! How ready you are to clear yourselves, how indignant, how alarmed, how full of longing and enthusiasm, how eager to seek justice! In every way you have demonstrated that you are innocent in this matter. | 11For see what earnestness this godly grief has produced in you, but also what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what punishment! At every point you have proved yourselves innocent in the matter. |
| 12So, even though I wrote to you, it wasn't because of the man who did the wrong or because of the man who was hurt. Instead, I wrote to you so that your devotion to us might be made perfectly clear to you before God. | 12So although I wrote to you, it was not for the sake of the one who did the wrong, nor for the sake of the one who suffered the wrong, but in order that your earnestness for us might be revealed to you in the sight of God. |
| 13This is what comforted us. In addition to our own comfort, we were even more delighted at the joy of Titus, because his spirit had been set at rest by all of you. | 13Therefore we are comforted. And besides our own comfort, we rejoiced still more at the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all. |
| 14For if I have been doing some boasting about you to him, I have never been ashamed of it. Moreover, since everything we told you was true, our boasting to Titus has also proved to be true. | 14For whatever boasts I made to him about you, I was not put to shame. But just as everything we said to you was true, so also our boasting before Titus has proved true. |
| 15His affection for you is even greater as he remembers how obedient all of you were and how you welcomed him with fear and trembling. | 15And his affection for you is even greater, as he remembers the obedience of you all, how you received him with fear and trembling. |
| 16I rejoice that I can have complete confidence in you. | 16I rejoice, because I have complete confidence in you. |
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