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?
Mamototse maniom-batañe indraike hao zahay? ke t’ie, manahake o ila’eo, mipay taratas-pañiniañe ho ama’areo, he taratas-pañiniañe boak’ ama’areo?
2 You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on our hearts, known and read by all people.
Inahareo ro taratasi’ay pinatetse añ’ arofo’ay atoañe, fohiñe naho vakie’ ze kila ondaty,
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.
ie malange te taratasi’ i Norizañe toroñe’aiy, tsy sinokitse an-dranomainte fa amy Arofon’ Añahare veloñey, tsy an-takelam-bato fa an-takelan-tro’ ondaty.
4 And this is the confidence that we have through Christ before God.
Izay ty fatokisa’ay aman’ Añahare añamy Norizañey.
5 We are not competent in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us. Instead, our competence is from God.
Tsy te zahay ro mañeva hivolañe t’ie maha-pi-draha, fa boak’ aman’ Añahare ty fahalefea’ay,
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.
Ie ka ty nampahafaritse anay ho mpitoro’ i fañina vaoy; ie tsy an-tsokitse, fa amy Arofoy; mahafate i sokitsey, fe mahaveloñe i Arofoy.
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.
Aa naho an’ engeñe ty nitotsaha’ i fitoroñam-pihomahañe an-tsokitse pinatetse am-batoy, ie tsy nahafitalatse ty lahara’ i Mosè o ana’ Israeleo ty amy engen-dahara’ey—ie nipoa-mavo,
8 How much more glorious will be the service that the Spirit does?
aa tsy handikoatse izay ty enge’ o fitoroñan’ arofoo?
9 For if the service of condemnation had glory, how much more does the service of righteousness abound in glory!
Ie nanañ’ engeñe ty fitoroñam-pañozoñañe, sandrake te itoboaran’ engeñe ty fitoroñan-kavañonañe.
10 For indeed, that which was once made glorious is no longer glorious in this respect, because of the glory that exceeds it.
Aa naho oharañe ami’ty engeñe mitoabotse toy, le tsy aman’ engeñe henaneo i nirengèñe taoloy.
11 For if that which was passing away had glory, how much more will what is permanent have glory!
Fa naho nanañ’ engeñe i mipoa-mavoy, antsake te hanam-bolonahetse i tsy mete modoy.
12 Since we have such a hope, we are very bold.
Aa kanao izay o fitamà’aio, le ra’elahy ty fahavania’ay,
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.
f’ie tsy manahake i Mosè nikolopofa’ ty lamba marerarera an-dahara’e tsy mone hitolom-pangareke aze o ana’ Israeleo ampara’ t’ie nimavo,
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.
fe nihagàñe ty fivetsevetse’ iareo, naho mbe tsy miafake henanekeo amy famakiañe i fañina taoloy i marerareray, fa amy Norizañey ty fañahañe aze.
15 But even today, whenever Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts.
Aa ndra henaneo, ndra mb’ia mb’ia vakieñe t’i Mosè le kolopofa’ i marerareray ty arofo’ iareo.
16 But when a person turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
Fe naho mitolike amy Talè t’indaty, le miafake i marerareray.
17 Now the Lord is the Spirit. Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
I Talè ‘nio i Arofoy, le añ’Arofo’ i Talè ao ty fidadàñe.
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.
Fe itikañe iaby, an-daharañe tsy mikolopoke, mañisake hoe an-ketsoro ty enge’ i Talè, ro hovaeñe ho hambam-bintañe ama’e aman’ engeñe itoaboran’ engeñe añamy Talè, i Arofoy.
