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?
Kamimät kami awhcah bekia mäih lawki aw? Khyang avang hea kba nangmi üngka, am acunüng nangmi üng ngaihsimnaka ca hlü beki aw?
2 You yourselves are our letter — a letter written on our hearts, and one which everybody can read and understand.
Nangmi cun, kami ca, kami mlungmthin üng ng’yuki khyang naküt naw ksing lü ami kheha nami kyaki ni.
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.’
Nangmi cun, ca yuknaktui am yuka caa am kya u lü xüngkia Pamhnama Ngmüimkhya am yuka nami kyaki. Lunga khana yuka am kya lü mtisa mlungmthin cauk üng yuk, Khritaw amät naw a yuka ca keimi naw kami lawa ca nami kyaki ti ngsingki.
4 This, then, is the confidence in regard to God that we have gained through the Christ.
Acukba kami pyenak cun Khritaw üngka Pamhnam üng mlung üpnak kami taka phäha kyaki.
5 I do not mean that we are fit to form any judgment by ourselves, as if on our own authority;
Kami mäta khyaihnak am, kami mäta ngaiha iyaw kami bilo theikia am kya. Bilawh thei vaia kami khyaihnak cun Pamhnam üngka naw ni a law ve.
6 our fitness comes from God, who himself made us fit to be ministers 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.
Amät kung naw, ngthumkhän kthai khutbi kami bilo khaia jah ngkawihsaki; yuk sawxata ca am kya lü, Ngmüimkhya am kyaki; thum naw thinak lawpüi se ngmüimkhya naw xünak peki.
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 on account of its glory, though it was but a passing glory,
Lunga khana thum yu lü peta kyase Mhnama hlüngtainak ngdang lawki. Mosia müiha vainak a dim law be üng pi Isarel he naw am teng thei u. Thihnak theia thum pi aktäa hlüngtaikia akya üng,
8 will not the religion that confers the Spirit have still greater glory?
Ngmüimkhya bilawhnak cun ihlawka hlüngtai bawk khai ni?
9 For, if there was a glory in the religion that involved condemnation, far greater is the glory of the religion that confers righteousness!
Khyang mkatkia khutbinak pi a hlüngtai üng, küikyanak lawpüikia khutbi binak cun ihlawka hlüngtai bawk khai ni.
10 Indeed, that which then had glory has lost its glory, because of the glory which surpasses it.
Anghnua ve lawkia hlüngtainak cun hlüngtai bawkia kyase, a na hlüngtai khawiki cun bäihki.
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!
Asängca khängki üng pi hlüngtainak a awm khawi üng, angläta khängki üng ta ihlawka hlüngtainak awm ksetam khai ni.
12 With such a hope as this, we speak with all plainness;
Acukba äpnak awmkia kyase ahmäi üng kami lingki.
13 unlike Moses, who covered his face with a veil, to prevent the Israelites from gazing at the disappearance of what was passing away.
Isarel he naw akvai am hmu u lü ami khyühnak vaia Mosi naw a hmai a bua kba keimi naw ta am bilo ve ung.
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 unlifted; only for those who are in union with Christ does it pass away.
Ami mlungmthin ä ngsümkia kyaki; atuh vei cäpa ngthumkhän kphyüm ami kheh üng pi ami mlung ä ngsüm khaia acuna jih am ngbueiki he. Khritaw üng ngpang käna ni acuna bunaka jih cun mkhyüha akya ve.
15 But, even to this day, whenever Moses is read, a veil lies on their hearts.
Atuh cäpa, Mosia yuk ami kheh üng ami mlungmthin bua kya hamki.
16 ‘Yet, whenever a man turns to the Lord, the veil is removed.’
Cunsepi, cangcim naw, “Bawipa veia a nghlat la a mlungmthin bunak cun khyüki,” tia Mosia mawng a pyena kba khyük theiki.
17 And the ‘Lord’ is the Spirit, and, where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
Hin üng, “Bawipa” cun Ngmüimkhyaa kyaki; Bawipa Ngmüimkhya awmnak naküta lätnak awmki.
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.
Acunakyase, mi hmai cun am ngbuei. Bawipaa ngmüimkhya kung naw ani üng mi täng khaia jah pawhki. Acun naw Bawipaa hlüngtainak akvai cun mdan lü.
