¹ Therefore, beloved, having these promises, we should cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, completing {Or: maturing} holiness in the fear of God.

² Make° room for us in your° hearts: we wronged no one, we corrupted no one, we took-advantage of no one.

³ I am not saying this toward your° condemnation; for$ I have said before, You° are in our hearts, $that$ we may die together-with you° and we may live together-with you°.

⁴ My boldness of speech toward you° is much; my boasting on your° behalf is much. I have been filled with the encouragement from you°. I over-abound with the joy in all our affliction.

⁵ For$ even after we went into Macedonia, our flesh still had not had any relief, but we were being afflicted in everything; outside were quarrels, inside were fears.

⁶ But God is the one encouraging the humble, who encouraged us at the presence of Titus;

⁷ and not only at his presence, but also at the encouragement to which he was encouraged in you°, while reporting to us your° longing, your° anguish, your° zeal on my behalf; so-then for me to rejoice even more.

⁸ Because even if I made you° sorrowful in the previous letter, I do not regret it; even if I was regretting it. For$ I see that, that letter made you° sorrowful, even if $for a short-time.

⁹ I now rejoice, not that you° were made sorrowful, but that you° were made sorrowful to repentance; for$ you° were made sorrowful according-to the will of God in-order-that you° might suffer-loss in nothing from us.

¹⁰ For$ the sorrow which is according-to the will of God is working unregretted repentance $for salvation, but the sorrow of the world is working death.

¹¹ For$ behold how-much diligence this same thing (to be made sorrowful according-to the will of God) worked in you°: but what a defense, but what indignation, but what fear, but what longing, but what zeal, but what vengeance! You° commended yourselves in everything to be pure in the matter.

¹² Consequently$, if I also wrote to you°, it was not because of the one who had done-wrong, nor because of the one who was wronged, but because of your° diligent-aid on our behalf to be made manifest to you° in God’s sight.

¹³ Because of this, now, we have been encouraged in your° encouragement; we rejoiced even-more rather upon the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been given-rest from all of you°.

¹⁴ Because if I have boasted in anything on your° behalf to him, I was not ashamed, but as we spoke all things to you° in truth, so also, our boasting in Titus became truth.

¹⁵ And his affections$ are even-more toward you°, while remembering the obedience of all of you°, how with fear and trembling you° accepted him.

¹⁶ I rejoice that in everything I have courage in you°.