2 Corinthians 3
1 Are we beginning to praise ourselves again? We do not need letters of recommendation to you or from you, like some people, do we?
Uli, tukutanda sooni kulilapa twachinsyene? Pane tukusaka chikalata cha kutumanyisya kukwenu pane chikalata kutyochela kukwenu kutumanyisya uwe mpela ŵandu ŵane yakuti pakupanganya?
2 You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on our hearts, known and read by all people.
Ŵanyamwe nli chikalata chetu, chikalata chachilembekwe mmitima jetu chikumanyika ni kusyomekwa ni jwalijose.
3 You show that you are a letter from Christ, delivered by us. It was written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God. It was not written on tablets of stone, but on tablets of human hearts.
Isyene kuti ŵanyamwe nli chikalata chachilembekwe ni Kilisito, chachikulosya isogosi ya masengo getu pasikati jenu. Chele chikalata cho nganichilembekwa ni wino, nambo kwa Mbumu jwa Akunnungu ŵajumi ni nganichilembekwa pachanya chipande cha liganga chachisepekwe nambo mmitima ja ŵandu.
4 And this is the confidence that we have through Christ before God.
Tukukombola kusala yeleyo pangali woga kwaligongo lya chikulupi chatulinacho paujo pa Akunnungu kwa aila yatesile Kilisito.
5 We are not competent in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us. Instead, our competence is from God.
Ngaŵa kuti uweji tukukombola kuchipanganya chachili chose mu ukombole wetu twachinsyene nambo ukombole wetu ukutyochela kwa Akunnungu.
6 It is God who made us able to be servants of a new covenant. This is a covenant not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
Nombewo ni ŵakututenda uwe tukombole kulitumichila Lilangano lya Sambano, ni ngaŵa lilangano lya malajisyo gagalembekwe, nambo kwa lilangano lya Mbumu jwa Akunnungu. Pakuŵa malajisyo gagalembekwe gakwikanawo chiwa, nambo Mbumu jwa Akunnungu akwikanawo umi.
7 Now the service that produced death—engraved in letters on stones—came in such glory that the people of Israel could not look directly at Moses' face. This is because of the glory of his face, a glory that was fading.
Malajisyo gagalembekwe mu ipande ya maganga gagasepekwe, ni ukulu wa Akunnungu wakopochele pajatyosyekwe. Namuno ukulu wa ku meeso ku Che Musa waliji wa katema pe, waliji ni machili gati Ŵaisilaeli nganakombola kukulolechesya ku meeso ku Che Musa ligongo lya kung'alima kwakwe. Iŵaga malajisyo gagakwikanawo chiwa pagakupanganya masengo gaiche ni ukulu wo,
8 How much more glorious will be the service that the Spirit does?
uli ana utumichile wa Mbumu ngaupunda kuŵa ni ukulu wakupunda nnope?
9 For if the service of condemnation had glory, how much more does the service of righteousness abound in glory!
Iŵaga kwaliji ni ukulu mu aula utumichile uwaichenawo ulamusi, isyene utumichile waukwatenda ŵandu aŵe ŵambone paujo pa Akunnungu chiupunde kukola ukulu nnope.
10 For indeed, that which was once made glorious is no longer glorious in this respect, because of the glory that exceeds it.
Kwapele, achila chichaliji ni ukulu kalakala chisoyesye ukulu wakwe, pakuŵa chiiche chachili ni ukulu nnope.
11 For if that which was passing away had glory, how much more will what is permanent have glory!
Pakuŵa, iŵaga achila chichaliji cha kupita chaliji ni ukulu nipele achila chakulama chichikole ni ukulu wakupunda nnope.
12 Since we have such a hope, we are very bold.
Nipele pakuŵa tukwete chilolelo chati nyi tukuŵecheta pangali lipamba.
13 We are not like Moses, who put a veil over his face, so that the people of Israel were not able to look directly at the ending of a glory that was passing away.
Uweji ngatukutenda mpela Che Musa juŵaunichile ku meeso kwao ni chiguo cha mwana kuti Ŵaisilaeli akakulola kumbesi kwa kung'alima kwakukusisina.
14 But their minds were closed. For to this day, when they read the old covenant, that same veil remains. It has not been removed, because only in Christ is it taken away.
Nambo nganisyo syao syalepele kumanyilila, pakuŵa mpaka lelo jino, palikusyomekwa lilangano lya kalakala chitambaa cho chipali, chiunichile nganisyo syao. Chitambaa cho chichityochekwe apala pe mundu pakulumbikana ni Kilisito.
15 But even today, whenever Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts.
Nambo mpaka lelo jino pagakusyomekwa malajisyo ga Akunnungu gaŵapele Che Musa chitambaa cho chikuunichila nganisyo syao.
16 But when a person turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
Nambo chitambaa cho chikutyochekwa apala pe mundu pachiŵagalauchile Ambuje Che Yesu.
17 Now the Lord is the Spirit. Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
Nipele, Ambuje ali Mbumu jwa Akunnungu, ni paali Mbumu jwa Ambuje pelepo pali ni kulechelelwa.
18 Now all of us, with unveiled faces, see the glory of the Lord. We are being transformed into the same glorious likeness from one degree of glory into another, just as from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
Nipele noweji wose ŵanganituunichilwa ku meeso kwetu, tukuulosya ukulu wa Ambuje mpela kung'alima kwakukutyochela mu lindala. Noweji tukugalauswa tulandane nawo kutyochela mu ukulu kwaula mu ukulu wine mpela ukulu waukutyochela kwa Ambuje, ŵaali Mbumu jwa Ambuje.
