2 Corinthians 3
1 Are we beginning again to recommend ourselves? Or do we need, like some others, letters of recommendation to you, or letters of recommendation from you?
Je, tutumbwile kuisifia bene kae? Tuhitaji kwaa barua ya mapendekezo kwinu au boka kwinu, kati baadhi ya bandu, je twahitaji?
2 Ye are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men;
Mwenga mwabene ni barua yitu ya mapendekezo, yaiandikilwe mu'mioyo yitu, yaiyowanika na kusomwa na bandu bote.
3 since ye are manifestly shown to be a letter of Christ by means of our service, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not on tablets of stone, but on fleshly tablets of the heart.
Na mwaonesha panga mwenga ni barua boka kwa Kristo, yaitolewa ni twenga, iandikilwe na wino kwaa ila kwa Roho wa Nnongo ywabile nkoto. Iandikilwe kwaa nnani ya vibao ya maliwe, ila nnani ya vibao vya mioyo ya bandu.
4 And such confidence as this have we through Christ toward God;
Na wolo nga ujasiri tubile nao katika Nnongo pitya Kristo.
5 not that we are able of ourselves to think anything, as from ourselves; but our ability is from God;
Twajiamini kwaa wabene kwa kudai chochote kati boka kwitu. Badala yake, kujiamini kwitu kwaboka kwa Nnongo.
6 who also gave us ability to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit; for the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life.
Ni Nnongo ywabile atupangite tuweze pangika atumishi wa liagano lyayambe. Ayee nga liagano labile kwaa lya barua ila ni lya Roho. Kwa kuwa barua ubulaga, lakini roho yatoa ukoto.
7 But if the ministration of death, engraven in letters on stones, was so glorious, that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly on the face of Moses by reason of the glory of his countenance, which glory was to be done away,
Nambeambe kazi ya kiwo itichongwa katika herufi nnani ya maliwe iisile kwa namna ya utukufu panga bandu ba Israeli balilinga kwaa bene ila pitya minyo ga Musa. Ayee nga sababu ya utukufu wa minyo gake, utukufu ambao wabile wafifia.
8 shall not the ministration of the Spirit be much more glorious?
Je, kazi ya Roho ilowa kuwa kwaa na utukufu muno?
9 For if the ministration of condemnation had glory, much greater is the glory of the ministration of righteousness.
Kwa kuwa kati huduma ya hukumu ibile na utukufu, ni mara ilenga zaidi huduma ya haki huzidi muno katika utukufu!
10 For even that which was made glorious hath ceased to be glorious in this respect, by reason of the glory by which it is exceeded.
Ni kweli panga, chelo chakipangilwe utukufu kwanza kibile kwaa utkufu kae katika heshima yee, kwa sababu ya utukufu wanansima.
11 For if that which was to be done away was glorious, much more glorious is that which endureth.
Kwa kuwa kati chelo ambacho chabile chapeta chabile ni utukufu, ni kwa kiasi gani muno chelo ambacho ni chakudumu kibile na utukufu!
12 Having therefore such hope, we use great plainness of speech;
Kwa kuwa twajiamini eyo, tubile ni ujasiri muno.
13 and do not as Moses did, who put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel might not steadfastly look on the end of that which was to be done away.
Tubile kwaa kati Musa, ywabekite utaji nnani ya uso bake, ili panga bandu ba Israeli baweze kwaa lola moja kwa moja mu'mwisho wa utukufu ambao ubile watiboka.
14 But their understandings were blinded; for until this day, when the old covenant is read, the same veil remaineth, since it is not unveiled to them that it is done away in Christ;
Lakini malango gabe gatabilwe. Hata mpaka lisoba lee utaji wowolo bado ulekilwe nnani ya usomaji wa liagani lya kale. Ibekilwe kwaa wazi, kwa sababu ni katika Kristo kichake iondolewa kutalu.
15 but even till this day, when Moses is read, there lieth a veil upon their heart;
Lakini hata leno, wakati wowote Musa asomwapo, utaji utama nnani ya mioyo yabe.
16 but whenever it turneth to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
Lakini mundu paakeleka kwa Ngwana, utaji ulowa boka.
17 Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
Nambeambe Ngwana ni Roho. Pabile ni Roho wa Ngwana, kubile ni uhuru.
18 But we all with unveiled face beholding in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, as by the Lord, the Spirit.
Nambeambe twenga twabote, pamope ni minyo zibile kwaa bekewa utaji, ubona utukufu wa Ngwana. Twabadilishwa nkati ya muonekano wowolo wa utukufu boka shahada jimo ya utukufu yenda yenge, kati yaibile kwa Ngwana, ambaye ni Roho.
