1Therefore, having these havtachot (promises), Chaverim, let us submit to his tahorah, cleansing ourselves from every defilement of basar and ruach, perfecting kedushah (holiness) in yirat Shomayim.

2In your levavot make a cheder for us; we wronged no one, we ruined no one, we exploited no one. ¹¹⁷

3I do not say this to bring you under harsha'ah, for I have said before that you are in our levavot ¹¹⁸whether to die with you or to live with you. ¹¹⁹

4I have much ometz lev (boldness) and confidence toward you. I glory much on your behalf. I have been filled with chozek (strength). I am filled to overflowing with simcha at all of our tzoros.

5For indeed when we had come into Macedonia ¹²⁰we had no physical mano'ach (rest) but we had tzoros everywhere: battles on the outside, fears inside. ¹²¹

6But Hashem who encourages the lowly, encouraged us ¹²²by the coming of Titos;

7And not only by the coming of him, but also by the encouragement by which he was encouraged over you, reporting to us your longing, your mourning, your kanous (zeal) for me, so that it caused me to have even more simcha.

8Because if indeed I caused you agmat nefesh (grief) by the iggeret, I do not regret it, though I did regret it, but I see that that iggeret grieved you only briefly. ¹²³

9Now I have simcha, not that you had agmat nefesh, but that your grief brought you to teshuva, for your agmat nefesh was in Hashem, so that by us you suffered in nothing.

10For the agmat nefesh that is according to Hashem produces teshuva to Yeshu'at Eloheinu, not to be regretted, but the agmat nefesh of the Olam Hazeh produces mavet. ¹²⁴

11For, hinei, see what zerizut (diligence) this agmat nefesh of Hashem has produced in you, what defense, what indignation, what yirat Shomayim, what longing, what kanous (zeal), what onesh (punishment)! At every point you proved yourselves to be without ashma (guilt) in the matter.

12Then though I wrote an iggeret to you, it was not for the sake of the one having done hara'ah (the evil), nor for the sake of the one who was beleidikt (offended), but for the sake of your kanous (zeal) for us becoming manifest to you before Hashem.

13In this we have chozek (strength). But in addition to our encouragement, we had still more simcha at the simcha of Titos, because his neshamah has been set at rest by all of you;

14Because if I have been somewhat boastful about you Corinthians to Titos, I was in this not put to shame, but just as everything we said to you is HaEmes, so also our boasting to Titos has proven true as well.

15And his lev (heart) goes out to you, all the more as he has zikaron of the mishma'at (obedience) of all of you ¹²⁵as you received him B'YIRAH (with fear) and BIRA'DAH (trembling). ¹²⁶

16I have simcha that in everything I have confidence in you.