2 Corinthians 3
1 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need (as some do) epistles of commendation to you, or from you?
Chitu tanga ku litemba hape tubene? Katu saki mañolo a ku tuzuminina kwenu kapa azwa kwenu, sina vamwi vaantu, tu swanela?
2 You are our epistle, written in our hearts, which is known and read by all men:
Inwe muvene njenwe mu mañolo etu a tu zuminina, añoletwe mwi nkulo zetu, ezivenkene ni kubaliwa vaantu bonse.
3 Being manifested, that you are the epistle of Christ, ministered by us, and written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in the fleshly tables of the heart.
Imi mutondeza kuti iñolo lizwa kwa Kereste, libaletwa iswe. Kena libañolwa ni inke kono cha Luhuho lye Ireeza yo hala. Kena liva ñoletwe ha matapa a bwe, kono ha matapa e nkulo za vaantu.
4 And such confidence we have, through Christ, towards God.
Imi iyi nji sepo itukwete kwe Ireeza ka Keresite.
5 Not that we are sufficient to think any thing of ourselves, as of ourselves: but our sufficiency is from God.
Ka twina bwizivi vuhitiliza mukati ketu kuti tute izizintu zizwa kwetu. Kono, kwiziva kwetu kuzwila kwe Ireeza.
6 Who also hath made us fit ministers of the new testament, not in the letter, but in the spirit. For the letter killeth, but the spirit quickeneth.
Nji Ireeza yava tutendi kuti tuwoli kuva vahikana be chikani chihwa. Ichi chilikani kahena cheñolo kono cha Luhuho. Mukuti iñolo lihaya, kono Luhuho luha vuhalo.
7 Now if the ministration of death, engraven with letters upon stones, was glorious; so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses, for the glory of his countenance, which is made void:
Hanu isevelezo ivaleti ifu- miñolo i chakwilwe ha mabwe- kuvezi ikanya ku vaantu va Iselaele ichita kuti mane vaantu kana vavali kuwola kulola muchi fateho cha' Mushe. Ibali ibaka lya nkanya ibena ha chifateho chakwe, inkanya ivali kumana kani kani.
8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather in glory?
Mukusike kuhi kubenya kwe kanya ye nsevelezo ya Luhuho?
9 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more the ministration of justice aboundeth in glory.
Mukuti insevelezo ivali kunyazahala ivena ikanya, mukuvevule kwikanya ye nsevelezo ya kuluka ikwetwa chabungi kwinkanya!
10 For even that which was glorious in this part was not glorified, by reason of the glory that excelleth.
Kavuniti, china chi vapangitwe che nkanya, kachi sina mumukwa we nkanya, vakenyi che kanya ihita ahulu.
11 For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is in glory.
Haiba kuti china chivali kuhita chivena nkanya, mukuve vule kwechina chikalilile kuva ni nkanya!
12 Having therefore such hope, we use much confidence:
Sina hatwina vulyo insepo, tuzwile habusu.
13 And not as Moses put a veil upon his face, that the children of Israel might not steadfastly look on the face of that which is made void.
Katuswani sina nji Mushe, yavali vikite isila ku chifateho chakwe, mane kuti vaantu va Isilaele kenavavali kuwola kumulola kakumu tulula kevaka lye nkanya ivali kuhita bulyo.
14 But their senses were made dull. For, until this present day, the selfsame veil, in the reading of the old testament, remaineth not taken away (because in Christ it is made void).
Kono mihupulo yabo iveyelwe. Mane kwiza kusika lunu luzuva kapayi kaswana kasishele cha kuvala chilikani chakale. Kakeni ku wumbuka, kakuti nji kwa Keresita bulyo kukawolwa kuzwiswa.
15 But even until this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their heart.
Kono kuli sunu, Mushe havalwa, kapayi kasi zalitwe inkulo zavo.
16 But when they shall be converted to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away.
Kono muuntu havola kwa Simwine kapayi ka wumbulwa.
17 Now the Lord is a Spirit. And where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
Hanu Simwine Luhuho. Hena Luhuho lwa Simwine, kwina intukuluho.
18 But we all beholding the glory of the Lord with open face, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of the Lord.
Hanu tubonse, tuwumbukite tupayi ha meenso, bone inkanya ya Simwine. Tuba sandulwa mwikanya iswana kakuzwa mwinkalulo ye nkanya kuya muyimwi, sina ku zwililila kwa Simwine, Iye ili Luhuho.
