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?
Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need (as some do) epistles of commendation to you, or from you?
2 तिमीहरू नै हाम्रो लागि हृदयमा लेखिएको सिफारिस पत्र हौ जसलाई सबै मानिसले पढेका र जानेका छन् ।
You are our epistle, written in our hearts, which is known and read by all men:
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 ।
Being manifested, that you are the epistle of Christ, ministered by us, and written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in the fleshly tables of the heart.
4 र यो ख्रीष्ट येशूद्वारा परमेश्वरमा भएको हाम्रो आत्मविश्वास हो ।
And such confidence we have, through Christ, towards God.
5 कुनै पनि कुरा हामीबाट आइरहेको छ भनेर दाबी गर्न हामी आफैँ योग्य छैनौँ । बरु, हाम्रो योग्यता परमेश्वरबाट आएको हो ।
Not that we are sufficient to think any thing of ourselves, as of ourselves: but our sufficiency is 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 ।
Who also hath made us fit ministers of the new testament, not in the letter, but in the spirit. For the letter killeth, but the spirit quickeneth.
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 ministration of death, engraven with letters upon stones, was glorious; so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses, for the glory of his countenance, which is made void:
8 पवित्र आत्माको काम झन् कति धेरै महिमित होला?
How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather in glory?
9 यदि निन्दापूर्ण सेवाको महिमा थियो भने धार्मिकताको सेवा अझ कति धेरै महिमित हुन्छ!
For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more the ministration of justice aboundeth in glory.
10 किनकि वास्तवमा जुन एक समय महिमित पारिएको थियो, यसलाई माथ गर्ने अर्को महिमाको कारण अहिले त्यो महिमित छैन ।
For even that which was glorious in this part was not glorified, by reason of the glory that excelleth.
11 यदि बितेर जानेको कुराको महिमा थियो भने सधैँको लागि रहने कुराको झन् कति धेरै महिमा हुनेछ!
For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is in glory.
12 हामीसँग यस्तो आशा भएको कारण हामी साहसी छौँ ।
Having therefore such hope, we use much confidence:
13 हराउँदै गरेको महिमाको अन्त्य इस्राएलीहरूले सिधै देख्न नसकून् भनेर हामी आफ्नो अनुहारमा घुम्टो लगाउने मोशाजस्ता छैनौँ ।
And not as Moses put a veil upon his face, that the children of Israel might not steadfastly look on the face of that which is made void.
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 senses were made dull. For, until this present day, the selfsame veil, in the reading of the old testament, remaineth not taken away (because in Christ it is made void).
15 तर आज पनि जब मोशाको बारेमा पढिन्छ, तिनीहरूको हृदयमा घुम्टो रहन्छ ।
But even until this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their heart.
16 तर जब कोही व्यक्ति परमप्रभुमा फर्किन्छ, तब घुम्टो हटाइन्छ ।
But when they shall be converted to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away.
17 परमप्रभु आत्मा हुनुहुन्छ । जहाँ परमप्रभुको आत्मा छ, त्यहाँ स्वतन्त्रता हुन्छ ।
Now the Lord is a Spirit. And where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
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 ।
But we all beholding the glory of the Lord with open face, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of the Lord.
