2 Corinthians 3
1 Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or are we like some who need letters of commendation to you, or from you?
asi, musagha kuuti tutengwile kange kukughinia? jeeje, usue natulindavule avaanhu avange vano vikuvaletela ikalata isa kujoleka kulyumue, nambe kusuma ikalata kulyumue isa kuvoleka ku vaanhu avange.
2 You yourselves are our letter – a letter written on our hearts, and one which everybody can read and understand.
umue mwemue kalata jinojikutwoleka usue, jino jilembilue mu moojo ghiitu, jino jikagulika na kukwimbua na vaanhu vooni.
3 All can see that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, a letter written, not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone, but on tablets of human hearts.
kange muhufia kuuti, umue mwemue kalata jino jihumule kwa Kilisite, jino tuvaletiile usue. najilembilue ni kilembilue, looli jilembilue nu Mhepo ghwa Nguluve juno mwumi. kange namuli ndavule ikalata jino jilembilue mu kiseghu, looli jino jilembilue mumoojo gha vaanhu.
4 This, then, is the confidence in regard to God that we have gained through the Christ.
tujova isio ulwakuva uluo lwe luhuviilo lwitu kwa Nguluve vwimila sino uKilisite atuvombile usue.
5 I do not mean that we are fit to form any judgment by ourselves, as if on our own authority;
nakwekuuti tusaagha kuuti tuvomba kimonga mu ngufu siitu ulweene ingufu siitu sihuma kwa Nguluve.
6 our fitness comes from God, who himself made us fit to be assistants of a new covenant, of which the substance is, not a written Law, but a Spirit. For the written Law means death, but the Spirit gives life.
unguluve ghwe juno atupeliile ingufu isa kuuva vavombi va lufingo ulupia kuhuma kwa Mhepo uMwimike. ulufungo uluo nase ndaghilo sino silembilue, ulwene lwa Mhepo uMwimike, ulwakuva indaghilo sino silembilue sileeta uvufue, looli uMhepo uMwimike ileeta uvwumi.
7 If the system of religion which involved death, embodied in a written Law and engraved on stones, began amid such glory, that the Israelites were unable to gaze at the face of Moses because of its glory, though it was but a passing glory,
indaghilo sino silyalembilue mufiseghu, sino sinosilyaletile uvufue, silisile muvuvaha vuno vuvalatika, kuhanga avaislaeli vakakunua kukumulola uMoose kumaaso ulwakuva uvuvaha uvuo vulyavalatiike unsiki ndebe vuvule.
8 will not the religion that confers the Spirit have still greater glory?
asi lino imbombo ija Mhepo uMwimike na je jiiva nu vuvaha kukila?
9 For, if there was a glory in the religion that involved condemnation, far greater is the glory of the religion that confers righteousness!
nave imbombo jiva jipelelela avaanhu kuhighua jili nu vuvaha, lino imbombo jino jipelelela kuuva vagholofu pamaaso gha Nguluve najiiva nu vuvaha kukila?
10 Indeed, that which then had glory has lost its glory, because of the glory which surpasses it.
lino uvuvaha vwa lufingo ulukuulu, navuling'hana nu vuvaha ulwa lufingo ulupia,
11 And, if that which was to pass away was attended with glory, far more will that which is to endure be surrounded with glory!
ulwakuva vwa lufingo ulupia vukome kukila. nave kino kyale kya nsiki n'debe vuvule kulyale nu vuvaha, lino kya jaatu kiiva nu vuvaha kukila
12 With such a hope as this, we speak with all plainness;
lino tuvomba kisila vwoghofi, ulwakuva ulwakuva uluo lwe luhuviilo lwitu.
13 unlike Moses, who covered his face with a veil, to prevent the Israelites from gazing at the disappearance of what was passing away.
kange usue natuvomba ndavule uMoose juno alisighile kumaaso ni kitambala, kuuti aVaisilaeli valeke kukuvwagha uvusililo uvwa luvalatiko.
14 But their minds were slow to learn. Indeed, to this very day, at the public reading of the old covenant, the same veil remains; only for those who are in union with Christ does it pass away.
neke avaisilaeli uluhala lwave lulyadindilue. umpaka lino pano vikwimba ifilembua fya lufingo ulukuulu, vikunua kukagula uvwakyang'haani, viiva hwene vasighilue ikyenda ikio. uvwakyang'haani uvuo vukagulika vwimila kukumwitika uKilisite, ulwakuva ndavule kukusivua ikyenda ikio.
15 But, even to this day, whenever Moses is read, a veil lies on their hearts.
se seene, kuhanga kufika umusyughu, pano vikwimba ifilembua ifya ndaghilo sa Moose, amoojo ghaave ghasighilue vikunua kukulutang'hania.
16 Yet, whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is removed.
neke umuunhu ghweni juno ikumwitika uMutwa, uMutwa ikum'busia ikyenda ikio.
17 And the Lord is the Spirit, and, where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
lino, uMutwa ghwe Mhepo, pano pwale uMhepo ghwa Mutwa pali nu vwavuke.
18 And all of us, with faces from which the veil is lifted, seeing, as if reflected in a mirror, the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into his likeness, from glory to glory, as it is given by the Lord, the Spirit.
liino usue tweni twe vano natusighilue kumaaso ni kyenda tukuvwagha uvuvaha vwa Mutwa. UMutwa juno ghwe Mhepo, ghwe ikutuhambusia tuhwanane nu mwene, ikutuhambusyagha kuhuma uvuvaha kufikila uvuvaha uvukome kukila.
