२ कोरिन्थी 3
1 के हामी फेरि आफ्नो प्रशंसा आफैँ गर्न लागिरहेका छौँ? केही मानिसहरूलाई जस्तै हामीलाई पनि तिमीहरू समक्ष वा तिमीहरूबाट सिफारिस पत्रको जरुरी छैन, छ र?
Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, like some people, letters of recommendation to you or from you?
2 तिमीहरू नै हाम्रो लागि हृदयमा लेखिएको सिफारिस पत्र हौ जसलाई सबै मानिसले पढेका र जानेका छन् ।
You yourselves are our letter, inscribed on our hearts, known and read by everyone.
3 र तिमीहरू हामीद्वारा वितरण गरिएका ख्रीष्टका पत्र हौ भन्ने तिमीहरूले नै देखाउँछौ । यो मसीले होइन, तर जीवित परमेश्वरको आत्माबाट लेखिएको थियो । यो ढुङ्गाको पाटीमा लेखिएको थिएन, तर मानिसहरूका हृदयका पाटीमा लेखिएको थियो ।
It is clear that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
4 र यो ख्रीष्ट येशूद्वारा परमेश्वरमा भएको हाम्रो आत्मविश्वास हो ।
Such confidence before God is ours through Christ.
5 कुनै पनि कुरा हामीबाट आइरहेको छ भनेर दाबी गर्न हामी आफैँ योग्य छैनौँ । बरु, हाम्रो योग्यता परमेश्वरबाट आएको हो ।
Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes from God.
6 परमेश्वरले हामीलाई नयाँ करारका सेवकहरू हुन योग्य बनाउनुभएको छ । यो करार अक्षरबाट होइन, तर आत्माबाट हो । किनकि अक्षरले मार्दछ, तर आत्माले जीवन दिन्छ ।
And He has qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
7 अब ढुङ्गामा कुँदिएको मृत्यु ल्याउने अक्षर यस्तो महिमासँग इस्राएलीहरूको बिचमा आयो कि इस्राएलीहरूले मोशाको अनुहार सिधै हेर्न सकेनन् । यो उनको अनुहारको महिमाको कारणले गर्दा हो, जुन महिमा मन्द हुँदै थियो ।
Now if the ministry of death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at the face of Moses because of its fleeting glory,
8 पवित्र आत्माको काम झन् कति धेरै महिमित होला?
will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious?
9 यदि निन्दापूर्ण सेवाको महिमा थियो भने धार्मिकताको सेवा अझ कति धेरै महिमित हुन्छ!
For if the ministry of condemnation was glorious, how much more glorious is the ministry of righteousness!
10 किनकि वास्तवमा जुन एक समय महिमित पारिएको थियो, यसलाई माथ गर्ने अर्को महिमाको कारण अहिले त्यो महिमित छैन ।
Indeed, what was once glorious has no glory now in comparison to the glory that surpasses it.
11 यदि बितेर जानेको कुराको महिमा थियो भने सधैँको लागि रहने कुराको झन् कति धेरै महिमा हुनेछ!
For if what was fading away came with glory, how much greater is the glory of that which endures!
12 हामीसँग यस्तो आशा भएको कारण हामी साहसी छौँ ।
Therefore, since we have such a hope, we are very bold.
13 हराउँदै गरेको महिमाको अन्त्य इस्राएलीहरूले सिधै देख्न नसकून् भनेर हामी आफ्नो अनुहारमा घुम्टो लगाउने मोशाजस्ता छैनौँ ।
We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face to keep the Israelites from gazing at the end of what was fading away.
14 तर तिनीहरूका मन कठोर पारिएका थिए । पुरानो करार पढ्दा आजको दिनसम्म पनि त्यो घुम्टो रहिरहन्छ । त्यो खोलिएको छैन, किनकि ख्रीष्टमा मात्र यो खोलिन्छ ।
But their minds were closed. For to this day the same veil remains at the reading of the old covenant. It has not been lifted, because only in Christ can it be removed.
15 तर आज पनि जब मोशाको बारेमा पढिन्छ, तिनीहरूको हृदयमा घुम्टो रहन्छ ।
And even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts.
16 तर जब कोही व्यक्ति परमप्रभुमा फर्किन्छ, तब घुम्टो हटाइन्छ ।
But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
17 परमप्रभु आत्मा हुनुहुन्छ । जहाँ परमप्रभुको आत्मा छ, त्यहाँ स्वतन्त्रता हुन्छ ।
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
18 अब हामी सबै घुम्टो हटाइएको अनुहारले परमप्रभुको महिमालाई हेर्छौं । हामी एक महिमादेखि अर्को महिमामा उक्लँदै त्यही महिमामा बद्लिँदै छौँ । यो परमप्रभुबाट आउँछ, जो आत्मा हुनुहुन्छ ।
And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into His image with intensifying glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
