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?
Začinjamo li zopet sami sebe hvaliti? ali potrebujemo, kakor nekteri, priporočilih listov na vas ali od vas?
2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
List naš ste vi, vpisan v naših srcih, poznan in bran od vseh ljudî;
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.
Kteri se pokazujete, da ste list Kristusov izdan od nas, pisan ne s črnilom, nego z duhom Boga živega, ne na kamenenih pločah, nego na mesenih pločah srca.
4 And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:
A zaupanje tako imamo po Kristusu v Boga;
5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency [is] of God;
Ne da bi bili zmožni sami po sebi izmisliti kaj kakor sami iz sebe, nego je naša zmožnost od Boga;
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.
Kteri nas je tudi zmožne storil, da smo služabniki novega zakona, ne črke, nego duha, kajti črka ubija, a duh oživlja,
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:
Če je pa služba smrti v črkah vrezana v kamene bila v slavi tako, da niso mogli pogledati sinovi Izraelovi v obličje Mojzesovo za voljo slave obličja njegovega, ktera je minljiva,
8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
Kako ne bo mnogo bolje služba duha v slavi?
9 For if the ministration of condemnation [be] glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
Kajti če je služba obsojenja v slavi, za mnogo bolje je obilna služba pravice v slavi.
10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.
Ker tudi ni bilo oslavljeno, kar se je oslavilo v tem delu, za voljo prevelike slave.
11 For if that which is done away [was] glorious, much more that which remaineth [is] glorious.
Kajti če je v slavi, kar prestaja, za mnogo bolje je v slavi, kar ostaja.
12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
Imajoč torej toliko upanje, veliko zaupnost upotrebljujemo.
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:
In ne kakor je Mojzes deval zagrinjalo na svoje obličje, da ne bi videli sinovi Izraelovi konca tega, kar prestaja;
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.
Ali obtrdele so njih misli, kajti noter do današnjega dné isto zagrinjalo pri branji starega zakona ostaja neodgrnjeno, ker se v Kristusu odpravlja;
15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
Nego do danes, kedar se bere Mojzes, zagrinjalo na njih srcih leži.
16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
Kedar se bo pa zgodilo spreobrnjenje k Gospodu, sname se zagrinjalo.
17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord [is], there [is] liberty.
A Gospod je duh; kjer je pa duh Gospodov, tam je svoboda.
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.
A mi vsi, kteri z odkritim obličjem slavo Gospodovo jasno gledamo, premenjujemo se v ravno tisto podobo iz slave v slavo, kakor od Gospodovega duha.
