2 Corinthians 3
1 Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you?
COMENZAMOS otra vez á alabarnos á nosotros mismos? ¿ó tenemos necesidad, como algunos, de letras de recomendacion para vosotros, ó de recomendacion de vosotros?
2 You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men,
Nuestras letras sois vosotros, escritas en nuestros corazones, sabidas y leidas de todos los hombres;
3 being revealed that you are a letter of Messiah, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.
Siendo manifiesto que sois letra de Cristo administrada de nosotros, y escrita no con tinta, mas con el Espíritu de Dios vivo; no en tablas de piedra, sino en tablas de carne del corazon.
4 Such confidence we have through Messiah toward God,
Y tal confianza tenemos por Cristo para con Dios:
5 not that we are sufficient of ourselves to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,
No que seamos suficientes de nosotros mismos para pensar algo como de nosotros mismos, sino que nuestra suficiencia [es] de Dios;
6 who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
El cual asimismo nos hizo [que fuésemos] ministros suficientes del nuevo pacto: no de la letra, mas del espíritu; porque la letra mata, mas el espíritu vivifica.
7 But if the service of death, written engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly on the face of Moses for the glory of his face, which was passing away,
Y si el ministerio de muerte en la letra grabado en piedras, fué con gloria, tanto que los hijos de Israel no pudiesen poner los ojos en la faz de Moisés, á causa de la gloria de su rostro, la cual habia de perecer,
8 won’t service of the Spirit be with much more glory?
¿Cómo no será más bien con gloria el ministerio del Espíritu?
9 For if the service of condemnation has glory, the service of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.
Porque si el ministerio de condenacion fué [con] gloria, mucho mas abundará en gloria el ministerio de justicia.
10 For most certainly that which has been made glorious has not been made glorious in this respect, by reason of the glory that surpasses.
Porque aun lo que fué [tan] glorioso, no es glorioso en esta parte, en comparacion de la excelente gloria.
11 For if that which passes away was with glory, much more that which remains is in glory.
Porque si lo que perece [tuvo] gloria, mucho más [será] en gloria lo que permanece.
12 Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,
Así que teniendo tal esperanza, hablamos con mucha confianza.
13 and not as Moses, who put a veil on his face so that the children of Israel wouldn’t look steadfastly on the end of that which was passing away.
Y no como Moisés, [que] ponia un velo sobre su faz, para que los hijos de Israel no pusiesen los ojos en el fin de lo que habia de ser abolido.
14 But their minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Messiah it passes away.
Empero los sentidos de ellos se embotaron; porque hasta el dia de hoy [les] queda el mismo velo no descubierto en la leccion del antiguo testamento, el cual por Cristo es quitado.
15 But to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart.
Y aun hasta el dia de hoy, cuando Moisés es leido, el velo está puesto sobre el corazon de ellos.
16 But whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
Mas cuando se convirtieren al Señor, el velo se quitará.
17 Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
Porque el Señor es el Espíritu: y donde [hay] aquel Espíritu del Señor, allí [hay] libertad.
18 But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.
Por tanto, nosotros todos, mirando á cara descubierta como en un espejo la gloria del Señor, somos transformados de gloria en gloria en la misma semejanza, como por el Espíritu del Señor.
