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 again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters 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 letter, written in our hearts, 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 revealed that you are a letter of Messiah, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.
4 र यो ख्रीष्ट येशूद्वारा परमेश्वरमा भएको हाम्रो आत्मविश्वास हो ।
Such confidence we have through Messiah toward 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 of ourselves to account anything as from 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 made us sufficient as servants 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 ।
But if the service of death, written engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly on the face of Moses for the glory of his face, which was passing away,
8 पवित्र आत्माको काम झन् कति धेरै महिमित होला?
won’t service of the Spirit be with much more glory?
9 यदि निन्दापूर्ण सेवाको महिमा थियो भने धार्मिकताको सेवा अझ कति धेरै महिमित हुन्छ!
For if the service of condemnation has glory, the service of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.
10 किनकि वास्तवमा जुन एक समय महिमित पारिएको थियो, यसलाई माथ गर्ने अर्को महिमाको कारण अहिले त्यो महिमित छैन ।
For most certainly that which has been made glorious has not been made glorious in this respect, by reason of the glory that surpasses.
11 यदि बितेर जानेको कुराको महिमा थियो भने सधैँको लागि रहने कुराको झन् कति धेरै महिमा हुनेछ!
For if that which passes away was with glory, much more that which remains is in glory.
12 हामीसँग यस्तो आशा भएको कारण हामी साहसी छौँ ।
Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,
13 हराउँदै गरेको महिमाको अन्त्य इस्राएलीहरूले सिधै देख्न नसकून् भनेर हामी आफ्नो अनुहारमा घुम्टो लगाउने मोशाजस्ता छैनौँ ।
and not as Moses, who put a veil on his face so that the children of Israel wouldn’t look steadfastly on the end of that which was passing 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 hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Messiah it passes away.
15 तर आज पनि जब मोशाको बारेमा पढिन्छ, तिनीहरूको हृदयमा घुम्टो रहन्छ ।
But to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart.
16 तर जब कोही व्यक्ति परमप्रभुमा फर्किन्छ, तब घुम्टो हटाइन्छ ।
But whenever someone 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 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, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.
