2 Ndị Kọrint 3
1 Anyị na-ebido ito onwe anyị ọzọ? Ọ dị a mkpa anyị inye unu, maọbụ ịnata nʼaka unu akwụkwọ nkọwa iji too onwe anyị dịka ụfọdụ mmadụ ndị ọzọ si eme?
Must we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some, letters of recommendation to you, or letters of recommendation from you?
2 Unu onwe unu bụ akwụkwọ ozi anyị nke e dere nʼobi anyị nke mmadụ niile maara ma gụọkwa.
You are out letter, written on our hearts, known and read of all men.
3 Unu na-egosikwa na unu bụ akwụkwọ ozi si nʼebe Kraịst nọ, mpụta ihe nke ozi anyị jere. Ọ bụghị ihe e ji inki dee na mbadamba nkume, kama ọ bụ mmụọ Chineke na-adị ndụ ka e ji dee ya na mbadamba obi mmadụ.
For you are plainly declared Christ's letter, ministered by us, written, not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not on tables of stone, but on fleshly tables of the heart.
4 Nke a bụ ntụkwasị obi anyị nwere site na Kraịst nʼebe Chineke nọ.
Now we have such confidence through Christ, toward God;
5 Ọ dịkwaghị mgbe anyị ji chee nʼime onwe anyị, na anyị nwere ike ime ihe ọbụla bara uru site nʼike aka anyị, kama ihe ọbụla anyị nwere, ihe ọbụla anyị rụpụtara, sitere nʼaka Chineke.
not that we are competent by ourselves to reckon anything as from ourselves: but our competency is from God,
6 Onye mere ka anyị zuo oke ịbụ ndị ozi ya nke ọgbụgba ndụ ọhụrụ, nke edeghị nʼakwụkwọ iwu kama nʼime Mmụọ. Ihe e dere nʼakwụkwọ iwu na-eweta ọnwụ, ma Mmụọ na-enye ha ndụ.
who has made us competent ministers of a new institution; not of letter, but of spirit: for the letter kills; but the spirit makes alive.
7 Ma ọ bụrụ nʼije ozi ahụ nke na-eweta ọnwụ bụ nke e gbunyere nʼelu nkume ji ebube dị ukwuu bịa, nke mere na ụmụ Izrel apụghị ilegide Mosis anya nʼihu mgbe o si nʼelu ugwu Saịnaị rịdata nʼihi ebube nke ihu ya, bụ ebube nke na-agabiga agabiga,
For if the ministration of death in letters engraved on stone was with glory, so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses, because of the glory of his face, which was to be abolished;
8 ọ bụ nʼije ozi nke Mmụọ nsọ agaghị adị ebube karịa?
how much rather shall not the ministration of the Spirit be with glory?
9 Ọ bụrụ na-enwere ebube nʼime ije ozi nke amamikpe, ije ozi nke ezi omume ga-adị ebube karịa ya.
For if the ministration of condemnation was glorious, much more does the ministration of justification abound in glory.
10 Nʼezie, ihe jupụtara nʼebube mgbe ochie enwekwaghị ebube ọbụla ugbu a, nʼihi na ebube nke ọgbụgba ndụ ọhụrụ ekpuchiela ya.
For, indeed, that which was glorified, was not glorified, in this respect, by reason of the transcendent glory.
11 Ọ bụrụ na ihe na-agafe agafe nwere ebube dị otu a, ihe ga-anọgide mgbe niile ga-enwe ebube karịa ya.
For if that which is abolished was with glory, much more that which continues, is with glory.
12 Ya mere, ebe ọ bụ na anyị nwere olileanya dị otu a, anyị enweghị egwu ọbụla.
Having, therefore, such confidence, we use great plainness of speech;
13 Anyị agaghị adị ka Mosis onye weere akwa kpuchie ihu ya, nʼihi na ọ chọghị ka ụmụ Izrel hụ ebube ahụ na-agbanwe agbanwe.
and not as Moses, who put a vail upon his face, that the children of Israel might not steadfastly look to the end of that which is abolished.
14 Kama e mechiri obi ha ruo taa. Nʼihi na mgbe ọbụla ha gụrụ akwụkwọ ọgbụgba ndụ ochie ahụ, akwa mkpuchi ahụ na-anọgidekwa apụghị apụ nʼobi ha, nʼihi na ọ bụ naanị site nʼime Kraịst ka ọ ga-eji pụọ.
Indeed, their minds were blinded: for, till this day, the same vail remains in the reading of the Old Institution; it not being discovered that it is abolished in Christ.
15 Ee, tutu ruo taa, mgbe ọbụla ha na-agụ akwụkwọ iwu ahụ Mosis dere, ihe mkpuchi na-adịgide nʼobi ha.
Moreover, till this day, when Moses is read, the vail lies upon their heart.
16 Ma mgbe onye ọbụla tụgharịrị nʼebe Onyenwe anyị nọ, a na-ewepụ akwa mkpuchi ahụ.
But when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken from around it.
17 Nʼihi na Onyenwe anyị bụ Mmụọ, ma ebe ọbụla kwa Mmụọ Onyenwe anyị nọ, nʼebe ahụ ka mmadụ pụrụ inwere onwe ya.
Now, the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
18 Anyị niile bụ ndị e wepụrụla akwa mkpuchi site nʼihu, na-egosi ebube nke Onyenwe anyị. A na-agbanwe anyị ịbanye nʼoyiyi ya site nʼebube ruo nʼebube, nke si nʼaka Onyenwe anyị, onye bụ Mmụọ.
And we all, with unvailed face, beholding, as in a mirror, the glory of the Lord; are transformed into the same image, from glory to glory, as by the Lord, the Spirit.
