1 T herefore, since these promises are ours, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that contaminates and defiles body and spirit, and bring consecration to completeness in the fear of God.

Por tanto, amados, teniendo estas promesas, limpiémonos de toda inmundicia de la carne y del espíritu, perfeccionando la santidad en el temor de Dios.

2 D o open your hearts to us again. We have wronged no one, we have betrayed or corrupted no one, we have cheated or taken advantage of no one.

Aceptadnos en vuestro corazón; a nadie hemos ofendido, a nadie hemos corrompido, de nadie hemos tomado ventaja.

3 I do not say this to reproach or condemn, for I have said before that you are in our hearts, together, whether we die or live.

No hablo para condenar os; porque he dicho antes que estáis en nuestro corazón para morir juntos y para vivir juntos.

4 I have great boldness and free and fearless confidence and cheerful courage toward you; my pride in you is great. I am filled with the comfort; with all our tribulation and in spite of it, I am overflowing with joy.

Mucha es mi confianza en vosotros, tengo mucho orgullo de vosotros, lleno estoy de consuelo y sobreabundo de gozo en toda nuestra aflicción. Pablo confortado

5 F or even when we arrived in Macedonia, our bodies had no ease or rest, but we were oppressed in every way and afflicted at every turn—fighting and contentions without, dread and fears within.

Pues aun cuando llegamos a Macedonia, nuestro cuerpo no tuvo ningún reposo, sino que nos vimos atribulados por todos lados: por fuera, conflictos; por dentro, temores.

6 B ut God, Who comforts and encourages and refreshes and cheers the depressed and the sinking, comforted and encouraged and refreshed and cheered us by the arrival of Titus.

Pero Dios, que consuela a los deprimidos, nos consoló con la llegada de Tito;

7 a nd not only by his coming but also by the comfort with which he was encouraged and refreshed and cheered as to you, while he told us of your yearning affection, of how sorry you were and how eagerly you took my part, so that I rejoiced still more.

y no sólo con su llegada, sino también con el consuelo con que él fue consolado en vosotros, haciéndonos saber vuestro gran afecto, vuestro llanto y vuestro celo por mí; de manera que me regocijé aún más.

8 F or even though I did grieve you with my letter, I do not regret, though I did regret it; for I see that that letter did pain you, though only for a little while;

Porque si bien os causé tristeza con mi carta, no me pesa; aun cuando me pesó, pues veo que esa carta os causó tristeza, aunque sólo por poco tiempo;

9 Y et I am glad now, not because you were pained, but because you were pained into repentance; for you felt a grief such as God meant you to feel, so that in nothing you might suffer loss through us or harm for what we did.

pero ahora me regocijo, no de que fuisteis entristecidos, sino de que fuisteis entristecidos para arrepentimiento; porque fuisteis entristecidos conforme a la voluntad de Dios, para que no sufrierais pérdida alguna de parte nuestra.

10 F or godly grief and the pain God is permitted to direct, produce a repentance that leads and contributes to salvation and deliverance from evil, and it never brings regret; but worldly grief (the hopeless sorrow that is characteristic of the pagan world) is deadly.

Porque la tristeza que es conforme a la voluntad de Dios produce un arrepentimiento que conduce a la salvación, sin dejar pesar; pero la tristeza del mundo produce muerte.

11 F or observe what this same godly sorrow has done for you and has produced in you: what eagerness and earnest care to explain and clear yourselves '> complicity in the condoning of incest], what indignation, what alarm, what yearning, what zeal, what readiness to mete out punishment '> to the offender]! At every point you have proved yourselves cleared and guiltless in the matter.

Porque mirad, ¡qué solicitud ha producido en vosotros esto, esta tristeza piadosa, qué vindicación de vosotros mismos, qué indignación, qué temor, qué gran afecto, qué celo, qué castigo del mal! En todo habéis demostrado ser inocentes en el asunto.

12 S o although I did write to you, it was not for the sake and because of the one who did wrong, nor on account of the one who suffered wrong, but in order that you might realize before God how zealously you do care for us.

Así que, aunque os escribí, no fue por causa del que ofendió, ni por causa del ofendido, sino para que vuestra solicitud por nosotros se manifestara a vosotros delante de Dios.

13 T herefore we are relieved and comforted and encouraged. And in addition to our own consolation, we were especially delighted at the joy of Titus, because you have all set his mind at rest, soothing and refreshing his spirit.

Por esta razón hemos sido consolados. Y aparte de nuestro consuelo, mucho más nos regocijamos por el gozo de Tito, pues su espíritu ha sido confortado por todos vosotros.

14 F or if I had boasted to him at all concerning you, I was not disappointed or put to shame, but just as everything we ever said to you was true, so our boasting to Titus has proved true also.

Porque si en algo me he jactado con él acerca de vosotros, no fui avergonzado, sino que así como os hemos dicho todo con verdad, así también nuestra jactancia ante Tito resultó ser la verdad.

15 A nd his heart goes out to you more abundantly than ever as he recalls the submission that all of you had, and the reverence and anxiety with which you accepted and welcomed him.

Y su amor hacia vosotros abunda aún más al acordarse de la obediencia de todos vosotros, y de cómo lo recibisteis con temor y temblor.

16 I am very happy because I now am of good courage and have perfect confidence in you in all things.

Me gozo de que en todo tengo confianza en vosotros.