2:1 所以我拿定了主意，不再带忧苦到你们那里去，
For I decided not to come to you again in painful circumstances. 2:2 因为如果我使你们忧苦，那么，除了那由我而受忧苦的人外，又有谁可使我欢乐呢﹖
For if I inflict pain upon you, then who is there to cheer me except the one pained by me? 2:3 为此，我写了那样的信，正是为避免我来到的时候，那本该叫我喜乐的，反而叫我忧苦，因为我相信你们众人都以我的喜乐为你们众人的喜乐。
And I wrote as I did so that when I came I might not be pained by those in whom I should have rejoiced, confident about all of you that my joy is that of all of you. 2:4 我在万般的痛心忧苦中，流着许多泪给你们写了信，并不是为叫你们忧苦，而是为叫你们认清我对你们所有的爱，多么卓绝。
For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you might be pained but that you might know the abundant love I have for you. 2:5 如果有人使人忧苦，他不是使我忧苦，而是使你们众人，至少使一部份，免得我说得过火。
If anyone has caused pain, he has caused it not to me, but in some measure 2:6 这样的人，受了你们大多数人的谴责，已足够了；
This punishment by the majority is enough for such a person, 2:7 你们宽恕劝慰他，反倒更好，免得他一时为过度的忧苦所吞噬。
so that on the contrary you should forgive and encourage him instead, or else the person may be overwhelmed by excessive pain. 2:8 为此，我劝告你们对他再建起爱情来。
Therefore, I urge you to reaffirm your love for him. 2:9 其实，也正是为此我才写了那信，为要考验你们，看你们是否在一切事上都服从命令。
For this is why I wrote, to know your proven character, whether you were obedient in everything. 2:10 你们宽恕谁什么，我也宽恕，因为我所宽恕的──如果我曾宽恕过什么──是为你们的缘故，当着基督的面而宽恕的，
Whomever you forgive anything, so do I. For indeed what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has been for you in the presence of Christ, 2:11 免得我们让撒殚占了便宜，因为我们不是不知道他的心意。
so that we might not be taken advantage of by Satan, for we are not unaware of his purposes. 2:12 当我为宣讲基督福音来到特洛阿时，虽然给我开了为主工作的大门，
When I went to Troas for the gospel of Christ, although a door was opened for me in the Lord, 2:13 但因我没有遇到我的弟兄弟铎，我的心神得不到安宁，遂辞别他们，到马其顿去了。
I had no relief in my spirit because I did not find my brother Titus. So I took leave of them and went on to Macedonia. 2:14 感谢天主时常使我们在基督内参与凯旋的行列，并借我们在各处播扬认识基督的芬芳；
But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ and manifests through us the odor of the knowledge of him in every place. 2:15 因为我们就是献与天主的基督的馨香，在得救的人中是，在丧亡的人中也是；
For we are the aroma of Christ for God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing, 2:16 但为后者，是由死入死的芬芳；为前者，却是由生入生的芬芳。对这样的工作，谁够资格呢﹖
to the latter an odor of death that leads to death, to the former an odor of life that leads to life. Who is qualified for this? 2:17 至少我们不像许多人为利而混乱了天主的道理；我们宣讲乃是出于真诚，出于天主，当着天主的面，在基督内。
For we are not like the many who trade on the word of God; but as out of sincerity, indeed as from God and in the presence of God, we speak in Christ.