2 Corinthians 3
1 Are we starting to speak well of ourselves again? Or do we need to have some letter of recommendation for you, or from you, as some people do?
Eyi kyerɛ sɛ yɛrehoahoa yɛn ho bio ana? Anaasɛ yehia adansedi nkrataa a efi yɛn nkyɛn anaa mo nkyɛn sɛnea afoforo hia no ana?
2 You are our letter, written in our experience with you, that everybody reads and knows about.
Mo ankasa moyɛ krataa a ɛwɔ yɛn nkyɛn a wɔakyerɛw wɔ yɛn koma mu sɛnea ɛbɛyɛ a obiara behu na wakenkan.
3 You demonstrate that you are a letter from Christ, delivered by us; not written with ink but with the Spirit of the living God; not written on stone slabs but in our living experience as human beings.
Mote sɛ krataa a Kristo nam yɛn som so akyerɛw. Ɛnyɛ adubiri na wɔde kyerɛw no ɔbo pon so na mmom Onyankopɔn a ɔte ase no Honhom na wɔde kyerɛw guu nnipa koma mu.
4 We have total confidence before God through Christ.
Saa ahotoso yi na yɛnam Kristo so anya wɔ Onyankopɔn fam.
5 Not that we would consider ourselves able to do this on our own—it's God who gives us this capacity!
Biribiara nni yɛn mu a ebetumi ama yɛasi yɛn bo aka se yebetumi ayɛ saa adwuma yi. Ahoɔden a yɛwɔ no fii Onyankopɔn.
6 He also gave us the ability to be ministers of a new agreement, based not on the letter of the law, but on the spirit. The letter of the law kills, but the spirit gives life.
Ɔno na wama yɛn afata sɛ NʼApam Foforo ho asomfo. Efi Honhom Kronkron no na emfi mmara a wɔakyerɛw. Mmara de owu ba na Honhom no ne nea ɛma nkwa.
7 However, the old way of relating to God, written in letters carved in stone, ended in death, even though it came with God's glory—so much so that the Israelites couldn't even bear to look at Moses' face because it shone so brightly, even though the glory was fading.
Mmara a ɛde owu bae no, na wɔakyerɛw no ɔbo pon so, nanso anuonyam a na ekura no nti nnipa no antumi anhwɛ Mose anim. Mose anuonyam hyerɛnee nanso saa anuonyam no dumii.
8 If that was so, shouldn't the new way of relating to God in the Spirit come with even greater glory?
Enti apam a Honhom no de ba no rennya anuonyam mmoroso ana?
9 If the old way that condemns us has glory, the new way that makes us right with God has so much more glory!
Sɛ mmara a ɛde owu ba no wɔ anuonyam a, ɛno de nea ɛma yɛteɛ wɔ Onyankopɔn anim no rennya anuonyam a ɛboro so ana?
10 For the old that was once glorious has no glory at all in comparison with the incredible glory of the new.
Nokware mu, Apam Foforo no anuonyam mmoroso nti, mmara a ɛde owu ba no anuonyam ayera.
11 If the old that is fading away had glory, the new that continues has so much more glory.
Na sɛ anuonyam wɔ biribi a ɛnkyɛ mu a, ade a ɛwɔ hɔ daa no anuonyam bɛyɛ nea ɛso yiye.
12 Since we have such a confident hope, we are truly bold!
Esiane sɛ yɛwɔ saa anidaso yi nti, yɛwɔ akokoduru.
13 We don't have to be like Moses, who had to put on a veil to cover his face so the Israelites wouldn't be dazzled by the glory, even though it was fading away.
Yɛnte sɛ Mose a ɔde nkataanim kataa nʼanim sɛnea ɛbɛyɛ a Israelfo no renhu nea ɛretwa mu no awiei.
14 In spite of that, they had a hard, stubborn attitude. For right up until today when the old agreement is read, the same “veil” remains. Only through Christ can it be removed.
Nanso ntease a wɔannya no nti besi nnɛ yi, sɛ wɔkenkan Apam Dedaw nhoma no a, saa nkataanim no da so kata wɔn adwene so. Ansa na nkataanim no befi hɔ no, gye sɛ wogye Kristo di.
15 Even today, whenever the books of Moses are read, a veil covers their minds.
Nnɛ yi mpo, bere biara a wɔbɛkenkan Mose mmara no, nkataanim no da so kata wɔn koma so.
16 But when they turn and accept the Lord, the veil is removed.
Nanso sɛ obi gye Awurade di a woyi nkataanim no fi hɔ.
17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there's freedom.
Na Awurade ne Honhom no, na baabiara a Awurade Honhom wɔ no ahotɔ wɔ hɔ.
18 So all of us, with our faces unveiled, see and reflect the glory of the Lord as in a mirror. We are being transformed into the same mirror image, whose glory grows brighter and brighter. This is what the Lord the Spirit does.
Yɛn a nkataanim biara nkata yɛn anim no, Awurade anuonyam hyerɛn wɔ yɛn anim, na Awurade Honhom no sakra yɛn kɔ nʼanuonyam mu.
