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?
Ko, tuyandili kujisifili tayoto kabhele? Tilonda lepi barua ya mapendekesu kwa yhomo au kuhomela kwa yhomo, kwa baazi ya bhanu, ko twilonda?
2 You yourselves are our letter — a letter written on our hearts, and one which everybody can read and understand.
Muenga mwa yhomo ndo barua yhitu ya mapendekesu, yaiyandikibhu mu miteema yhitu, yaimanyikene ni kusomibhwa ni bhanu bhoa.
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.’
Na mwilasibhwa kuwa muenga ndo barua kuhomela kwa Kristu. yaiyandikibhu so kwa wino bali kup'etela Roho wa K'yara yaayele haiyayandikibhu hee panani pa mfibao fya maganga, bali panani pa mfibao sya miteema ya bhanadamu.
4 This, then, is the confidence in regard to God that we have gained through the Christ.
Na obho ndo ujasili watayele nabhu kwa K'yara kup'etela Kristu.
5 I do not mean that we are fit to form any judgment by ourselves, as if on our own authority;
Tukajiamini lepi tayhoto kwa kudai kyoakela kutya kupita kwa yhoto. Badala yaki, kujiamini kwa yhoto. kwihomela kwa K'yara.
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.
Ndo K'yara muene yaatufwanyili tubhwesyai kuya bhutumishi bha agano lipya. Ele ndo agano na so barua bali la Roho. Kwa ndabha barua yikooma, lakini Roho yipisya uhai.
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,
Henu mbhombho ya kifo ya ichongibhu kiherufi lbhaa panani pamaganga ili kuhida kwa namna ya utukufu kwa bhanu bha Israel bhalangi lilepi moja kwa moja mu pamiu mwa Musa. Eye ndabha ya utukufu wa pamiu paki, utukufu wawafifiliai.
8 will not the religion that confers the Spirit have still greater glory?
Ko, mbhombho ya Roho ilayalepi ni utukufu zaidi?
9 For, if there was a glory in the religion that involved condemnation, far greater is the glory of the religion that confers righteousness!
Kwa ndabha kutya huduma ya hukumu yayele ni utukufu, ni mala silenga zaidi huduma ya haki huzidi sana kup'etela utukufu!
10 Indeed, that which then had glory has lost its glory, because of the glory which surpasses it.
Ni kueli ndabha, khela kakifanyibhu utukufu hosi kiyele hee ni utukufu kabhele kup'etela heshima eye, ndabha ya utukufu wawizidi.
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!
Ya kuwa kutya khela kakapetayi kujo kiye ni utukufu, ni kiasi kelevu zaidi ni khela ambakyo kya kudumu kilaya ni utukufu!
12 With such a hope as this, we speak with all plainness;
Kwa ndabha tukajiamini eye, tuyele ni ukifu naa.
13 unlike Moses, who covered his face with a veil, to prevent the Israelites from gazing at the disappearance of what was passing away.
Tuyehe kujo Musa, yaabhekili utaji panani pakumiu pamuene, ili ndabha bhanu bha ku Israel bhasibhuesi kulanga moja kwa moja mu mwisho wa utukufu wa wayele kutya wiyagha.
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.
Ila uyelebhwa wa bhene wayele ufungibhu. Hadi kufikila magono agha utaji bhola bado wibakila panani pa kusoma agano la muandi. Ibhekibhu hee bhuasi, kwa ndabha eye kup'etela Kristu muene yibhosibhwa patali.
15 But, even to this day, whenever Moses is read, a veil lies on their hearts.
Ila hata lelu, magono ghoa ghala Musa paisomibhwa, utaji witama panani pamiteema ya bhene.
16 ‘Yet, whenever a man turns to the Lord, the veil is removed.’
Ila munu paigeuka kwa Bwana, utaji wibhosibhwa.
17 And the ‘Lord’ is the Spirit, and, where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
Henu Bwana ndo Roho. Palipo na Roho ya Bwana, kuye ni uhuru.
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.
Henu tete tabhoa, pamonga ni mumiu mwambelili kubhekibhwa utaji, tibhona utukufu wa Bwana. Tibadilisibhwa mugati wa muonekano bholabhola wa utukufu kuhomela shahada imonga ya utukufu kulotela yhenge, Katya kaiyele kuhomela kwa Bwana, yaayele Roho.
