Pāvila 2. Vēstule Korintiešiem 3
1 Vai tad mēs atkal iesākam paši sevi ieteikt? Jeb vai mums arīdzan tā kā citiem vajag ieteikšanas grāmatas uz jums, vai teikšanas grāmatas no jums?
Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or are we like some who need letters of commendation to you, or from you?
2 Jūs esat mūsu grāmata, rakstīta mūsu sirdīs, zināma un lasāma visiem cilvēkiem.
You yourselves are our letter – a letter written on our hearts, and one which everybody can read and understand.
3 Jo jūs esat zināmi, ka esat Kristus grāmata, sataisīta caur mūsu amatu, rakstīta ne ar tinti, bet ar tā dzīvā Dieva Garu, ne uz akmeņu galdiem, bet uz sirds miesīgiem galdiem.
All can see that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, a letter written, not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone, but on tablets of human hearts.
4 Un tāda uzticība mums ir caur Kristu uz Dievu:
This, then, is the confidence in regard to God that we have gained through the Christ.
5 Ne ka mēs no sevis pašiem esam derīgi, ko laba domāt tā kā no sevis pašiem; bet ka esam derīgi, tas ir no Dieva;
I do not mean that we are fit to form any judgment by ourselves, as if on our own authority;
6 Tas mūs arī ir darījis derīgus, kalpot jaunai derībai, ne raksta zīmei, bet Garam; jo raksta zīme nokauj, bet Gars dara dzīvu.
our fitness comes from God, who himself made us fit to be assistants of a new covenant, of which the substance is, not a written Law, but a Spirit. For the written Law means death, but the Spirit gives life.
7 Un ja tam nāves amatam, kas iezīmēts raksta zīmēs un akmeņos, bijis spožums, tā ka Israēla bērni nevarēja uzskatīt Mozus vaigu viņa vaiga spožuma dēļ kam bija jāzūd:
If the system of religion which involved death, embodied in a written Law and engraved on stones, began amid such glory, that the Israelites were unable to gaze at the face of Moses because of its glory, though it was but a passing glory,
8 Kā lai nebūtu jo vairāk spožuma tam Gara amatam?
will not the religion that confers the Spirit have still greater glory?
9 Jo ja tam pazudināšanas amatam bijis spožums, tad jo vairāk spožuma ir tam taisnošanas amatam pārpārim.
For, if there was a glory in the religion that involved condemnation, far greater is the glory of the religion that confers righteousness!
10 Šo uzlūkojot ir tā kā bez spožuma tas, kam spožums bijis, tā jo pārlieku lielā spožuma dēļ.
Indeed, that which then had glory has lost its glory, because of the glory which surpasses it.
11 Jo ja tam, kam bija zust, bijis spožums, tad jo vairāk spožuma ir tam, kas pastāv.
And, if that which was to pass away was attended with glory, far more will that which is to endure be surrounded with glory!
12 Tāpēc ka mums ir tāda cerība, tad runājam ar lielu drošību.
With such a hope as this, we speak with all plainness;
13 Un ne tā, kā Mozus, kas apsegu lika uz savu vaigu, lai Israēla bērni nemanītu, uz ko zīmējās tas (spožums, ) kam bija zust.
unlike Moses, who covered his face with a veil, to prevent the Israelites from gazing at the disappearance of what was passing away.
14 Bet viņu sirdis ir apcietinātas; jo līdz šai dienai viņiem veco derību lasot tas pats apsegs paliek un netop atsegts, jo tas zūd caur Kristu.
But their minds were slow to learn. Indeed, to this very day, at the public reading of the old covenant, the same veil remains; only for those who are in union with Christ does it pass away.
15 Bet līdz šai dienai, kad Mozus top lasīts, apsegs karājās priekš viņu sirdīm.
But, even to this day, whenever Moses is read, a veil lies on their hearts.
16 Tomēr kad viņi atgriežas pie Tā Kunga, tad tas apsegs top noņemts.
Yet, whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is removed.
17 Bet Tas Kungs ir Tas Gars. Kur nu Tā Kunga Gars, tur ir svabadība.
And the Lord is the Spirit, and, where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
18 Bet nu mēs visi atsegtā vaigā skatīdami Tā Kunga spožumu kā spieģelī, topam pārvērsti tai pašā ģīmī no spožuma uz spožumu, tā kā no Tā Kunga Gara.
And all of us, with faces from which the veil is lifted, seeing, as if reflected in a mirror, the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into his likeness, from glory to glory, as it is given by the Lord, the Spirit.
