1 PBB Ake, paulus, dirike dewek memohon kepodome ngan kelombuton ngan kemurahon Kristus ake, nyo hopi berani ketika berhadopon moka ngan me, hambok berani ketika jouh derime! BSB BSB: Now by the mildness and gentleness of Christ, I appeal to you—I, Paul, who am humble when face to face with you, but bold when away.
2 PBB Ake memohon kepodome empoknyo ketika ake njongo, ake hopi perelu menjedi berani ngan keyakenon nyo ngannye ake memperhitongko untok berani melawon beberape urang nyo menganggop kami hidop secaro deging. BSB BSB: I beg you that when I come I may not need to be as bold as I expect toward those who presume that we live according to the flesh.
3 PBB Memang, kami lagi hidop delom kedegengon, hambuk kami hopi bejuang secaro degeng. BSB BSB: For though we live in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh.
4 PBB Sabab, senjeto-senjeto peperangon kami bukon deri degeng, meloenko deri kekuaton ilahi untok kehancuron benteng-benteng. BSB BSB: The weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the flesh. Instead, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.
5 PBB Kami meruntohko pemekeron-pemekeron ngan segelo hal tinggi nyo debengun uleh kesombongon mendesio untok menantang pengenalon akan Allah. kami menahan segelo pekeron ngan mengalokonye kepodo Kristus. BSB BSB: We demolish arguments and every presumption set up against the knowledge of God; and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
6 PBB Ngan kami siap mehukom segelo kehopitaaton tekalo tekalo ketaatonme dedempurnako. BSB BSB: And we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience, as soon as your obedience is complete.
7 PBB Kolelah kepodo ape nyo ado de hadoponme. Munye ado urang nyo meyakeni dirinye adolah melek Kristus, biarlah ye memekerko belek hal nie, nyoiye seupamone ye adolah melek Kristus, kami pun upanielah. BSB BSB: You are looking at outward appearances. If anyone is confident that he belongs to Christ, he should remind himself that we belong to Christ just as much as he does.
8 PBB Bahkan, walaupun ake agak belobehon membanggako otoritas, nyo Allah boriko ngan kowe untok membengun kowe ngan bukon untok mehancurko kowe, ake hopi nak malu. BSB BSB: For even if I boast somewhat excessively about the authority the Lord gave us for building you up rather than tearing you down, I will not be ashamed.
9 PBB Ake hopi endok tekole seola-ola ake nak menakot-nakoti kowe ngan surat-suratke. BSB BSB: I do not want to seem to be trying to frighten you by my letters.
10 PBB Sabab, rombongon buek, “surat-suratnye memang tegas ngan karas, cuma secaro kehaderon badan, ye lamah ngan pembueoonye hopi bearti.” BSB BSB: For some say, “His letters are weighty and forceful, but his physical presence is unimpressive, and his speaking is of no account.”
11 PBB Biarlah urang nyo upa iye memekerko hal nie, yoiye ape nyo kami bueko ngan surat tekalo kami hopi besamome, samo upa perbuaton kami tekalo besamome. BSB BSB: Such people should consider that what we are in our letters when absent, we will be in our actions when present.
12 PBB Sabab, kami hopi berani untok mengelompokko atau membandengko diri kami ngan beberape urang nyo memuji-muji dirinye dewek. Hambuk, tekalo rombongon mengukor dirinye ngan diri rombongon dewek ngan membandengko dirinye ngan diri rombongon dewek, rombongon iye hopi memahaminye. BSB BSB: We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves. When they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they show their ignorance.
13 PBB Cuma hambuk, kami hopi nak bebangga atas hal-hal nyo melampaui batason kami, meloinko menurot batason deri ketetapon nyo Allah lah bageko kepodo kami, yoiye batason untok menjangkau sampoi kepodo kowe jugo. BSB BSB: We, however, will not boast beyond our limits, but only within the field of influence that God has assigned to us—a field that reaches even to you.
14 PBB Sabab, kami hopi melampaui batason kami, seolah-olah kamihopi menjangkau sampoi kepodo kowe. Kamilah nyo pertamo kali sampoi kepodome ngan Injil Kristus. BSB BSB: We are not overstepping our bounds, as if we had not come to you. Indeed, we were the first to reach you with the gospel of Christ.
15 PBB Kami jugo hopi bebangga melampaui batason kami ngan bebangga atas jereh litak urang loen, meloenko ngan pengharopon bahwa seupamone imanme betumboh, wilayah penggaweon kami de antaro kowe nak semaken deperluas lagi, BSB BSB: Neither do we boast beyond our limits in the labors of others. But we hope that as your faith increases, our area of influence among you will greatly increase as well,
16 PBB Empoknyo kami depot memberitako Injil ke wilayah-wilayah de luor kowe, ngan hopi bebangga atas ape nyo lah desodahko de wilayah penggaweon urang loen. BSB BSB: so that we can preach the gospel in the regions beyond you. Then we will not be boasting in the work already done in another man’s territory.
17 PBB “Siape nyo endok bebangga, biarlah ye bangga de delom Tuhan.” BSB BSB: Rather, “Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.”
18 PBB Sabab, bukon urang nyo memuji dirinye dewek nyo tebukti tahan uji, meluenko urang nyo Tuhan puji. BSB BSB: For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.
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