2 Makorinte 3
1 Chitu tanga ku litemba hape tubene? Katu saki mañolo a ku tuzuminina kwenu kapa azwa kwenu, sina vamwi vaantu, tu swanela?
Am I beginning again to "recommend" myself? Or do I need, as some do, letters of commendation either to you or from you?
2 Inwe muvene njenwe mu mañolo etu a tu zuminina, añoletwe mwi nkulo zetu, ezivenkene ni kubaliwa vaantu bonse.
You are my letter, written on my heart, known and read by all men.
3 Imi mutondeza kuti iñolo lizwa kwa Kereste, libaletwa iswe. Kena libañolwa ni inke kono cha Luhuho lye Ireeza yo hala. Kena liva ñoletwe ha matapa a bwe, kono ha matapa e nkulo za vaantu.
Since all can see that you are a letter of Christ transcribed by men, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone, but on human hearts as tablets.
4 Imi iyi nji sepo itukwete kwe Ireeza ka Keresite.
Such confidence I have through Christ before God.
5 Ka twina bwizivi vuhitiliza mukati ketu kuti tute izizintu zizwa kwetu. Kono, kwiziva kwetu kuzwila kwe Ireeza.
Not that I am sufficient in myself to reach any conclusion in my own wisdom; but my sufficiency is from God.
6 Nji Ireeza yava tutendi kuti tuwoli kuva vahikana be chikani chihwa. Ichi chilikani kahena cheñolo kono cha Luhuho. Mukuti iñolo lihaya, kono Luhuho luha vuhalo.
It is he who has also made me sufficient as a minister of a new covenant; not of a letter but of a spirit; for the letter kills, but the spirit makes alive.
7 Hanu isevelezo ivaleti ifu- miñolo i chakwilwe ha mabwe- kuvezi ikanya ku vaantu va Iselaele ichita kuti mane vaantu kana vavali kuwola kulola muchi fateho cha' Mushe. Ibali ibaka lya nkanya ibena ha chifateho chakwe, inkanya ivali kumana kani kani.
If, however, the administration of death, written with letters and engraved on stones, began in glory, so that the children of Israel could not gaze steadily on the face of Moses, because of the glory of his face - a glory even then fading -
8 Mukusike kuhi kubenya kwe kanya ye nsevelezo ya Luhuho?
how much more shall the ministry of the Spirit abide in glory?
9 Mukuti insevelezo ivali kunyazahala ivena ikanya, mukuvevule kwikanya ye nsevelezo ya kuluka ikwetwa chabungi kwinkanya!
For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, far more is the ministry of righteousness radiant in glory.
10 Kavuniti, china chi vapangitwe che nkanya, kachi sina mumukwa we nkanya, vakenyi che kanya ihita ahulu.
Indeed that which once was glorious has lost its glory, because of the glory which surpasses it.
11 Haiba kuti china chivali kuhita chivena nkanya, mukuve vule kwechina chikalilile kuva ni nkanya!
For if that which was fading came in glory, far more will that which ever abides be glorious.
12 Sina hatwina vulyo insepo, tuzwile habusu.
Therefore, cherishing such a hope, I use great freedom of speech.
13 Katuswani sina nji Mushe, yavali vikite isila ku chifateho chakwe, mane kuti vaantu va Isilaele kenavavali kuwola kumulola kakumu tulula kevaka lye nkanya ivali kuhita bulyo.
I do not do as Moses did, who used to cover his face with a veil to keep the children of Israel from beholding the passing of a fading glory.
14 Kono mihupulo yabo iveyelwe. Mane kwiza kusika lunu luzuva kapayi kaswana kasishele cha kuvala chilikani chakale. Kakeni ku wumbuka, kakuti nji kwa Keresita bulyo kukawolwa kuzwiswa.
Nay, their minds were made dull; for to this very day, at the public reading of the Old Testament, the same veil rests thereon, because it is not revealed to them that in Christ the veil is taken away.
15 Kono kuli sunu, Mushe havalwa, kapayi kasi zalitwe inkulo zavo.
Yes, to this very day, whenever Moses is read, a veil lies on their hearts;
16 Kono muuntu havola kwa Simwine kapayi ka wumbulwa.
but when their heart turns to our Lord the veil is stripped away.
17 Hanu Simwine Luhuho. Hena Luhuho lwa Simwine, kwina intukuluho.
(The Lord means the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord abides there is freedom.)
18 Hanu tubonse, tuwumbukite tupayi ha meenso, bone inkanya ya Simwine. Tuba sandulwa mwikanya iswana kakuzwa mwinkalulo ye nkanya kuya muyimwi, sina ku zwililila kwa Simwine, Iye ili Luhuho.
And we all, with unveiled faces, reflecting like a mirror the glory of the Lord, are ourselves continually being transformed into the same likeness, from glory to glory, as by the Lord, the Spirit.
