2 Corinthians 3
1 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some [others], epistles of commendation to you, or [letters] of commendation from you?
我們豈又開始舉薦我們自己嗎﹖或是，難道我們也應像某些人一般，需要遞上薦書，或由你們寫薦書嗎﹖
2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
你們就是我們的薦書，是寫在我們心上，為眾人所共知共讀的，
3 [Forasmuch as ye are] manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
因為明顯地，你們就是我們供職所寫的基督的書信：不是用墨水寫的，而是以生活的天主聖神；不是寫在石版上，而是在血肉的心版上。
4 And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:
我們藉著基督在天主前才敢這樣自信，
5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency [is] of God;
但這並不是說：我們憑自己能夠承擔什麼事，好似出於自己一般；而是說：我們夠資格，是出於天主，
6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
並且是衪使我們能夠做新約的僕役：這約並不是在於文字，而是在於神，因為文字人死，神卻叫人活。
7 But if the ministration of death, written [and] engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which [glory] was to be done away:
如果那以文字刻在石頭上而屬死的職務，尚且過光榮──甚至以色列子民為了梅瑟面貌上易於消逝的光榮，不能注視衪的面貌──
8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
那麼，屬神的職務，豈不更該有光榮嗎﹖
9 For if the ministration of condemnation [be] glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
如果先前定罪的職務有過光榮，那麼，成義的職務更該多麼充滿光榮!
10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.
真實，那先前有過光榮的，因了這更超越的光榮，已算不得光榮了，
11 For if that which is done away [was] glorious, much more that which remaineth [is] glorious.
因為那易於消逝的曾一度有過光榮，那麼，那常存的更該多麼有光榮!
12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
所以，我們既懷有這種希望，所以坦白行事，
13 And not as Moses, [which] put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
不像梅瑟一般，將帕子蒙在臉上，免得以色列子民看到那易於消逝的光榮終結；
14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which [vail] is done away in Christ.
但是他們的心陷於遲純，因為直到今天，在讀舊約時，同漾的帕子仍然存在，沒有揭去，因為只有在基督內才能除去；
15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
而且直到今天，幾時讀梅瑟時，還有帕子蓋在他們的心上；
16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
他們幾時轉向主，帕子就會除掉。
17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord [is], there [is] liberty.
主就是那神；主的神在那裏，那裏就有自由。
18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, [even] as by the Spirit of the Lord.
我們眾人以揭開的臉面反映主的光榮的，漸漸地光榮另上加光榮，都變成了與主同樣的肖像，正如由主，即神在我們內所完成的。
