2 Korintofoɔ 3
1 Yei kyerɛ sɛ yɛrehoahoa yɛn ho bio anaa? Anaasɛ yɛhia adansedie nkrataa a ɛfiri yɛn nkyɛn anaa mo nkyɛn sɛdeɛ afoforɔ hia no anaa?
Are we starting to speak well of ourselves again? Or do we need to have some letter of recommendation for you, or from you, as some people do?
2 Mo ankasa moyɛ krataa a ɛwɔ yɛn nkyɛn a wɔatwerɛ wɔ yɛn akoma mu sɛdeɛ ɛbɛyɛ a obiara bɛhunu na wakan.
You are our letter, written in our experience with you, that everybody reads and knows about.
3 Mote sɛ krataa a Kristo nam yɛn som so atwerɛ. Ɛnyɛ twerɛduro na wɔde twerɛɛ no ɛboɔ ɛpono so, na mmom Onyankopɔn a ɔte ase no Honhom na wɔde twerɛ guu nnipa akoma mu.
You demonstrate that you are a letter from Christ, delivered by us; not written with ink but with the Spirit of the living God; not written on stone slabs but in our living experience as human beings.
4 Saa ahotosoɔ yi na yɛnam Kristo so anya wɔ Onyankopɔn fam.
We have total confidence before God through Christ.
5 Biribiara nni yɛn mu a ɛbɛtumi ama yɛasi yɛn bo aka sɛ yɛbɛtumi ayɛ saa adwuma yi. Ahoɔden a yɛwɔ no firi Onyankopɔn.
Not that we would consider ourselves able to do this on our own—it's God who gives us this capacity!
6 Ɔno na wama yɛn afata sɛ NʼApam Foforɔ ho asomfoɔ. Ɛfiri Honhom Kronkron no na ɛmfiri mmara a wɔatwerɛ. Mmara de owuo ba na Honhom no deɛ ɛma nkwa.
He also gave us the ability to be ministers of a new agreement, based not on the letter of the law, but on the spirit. The letter of the law kills, but the spirit gives life.
7 Mmara a ɛde owuo baeɛ no, na wɔatwerɛ no ɛboɔ ɛpono so, nanso animuonyam a na ɛkura no enti nnipa no antumi anhwɛ Mose anim. Mose animuonyam hyerɛneeɛ nanso saa animuonyam no dumiiɛ.
However, the old way of relating to God, written in letters carved in stone, ended in death, even though it came with God's glory—so much so that the Israelites couldn't even bear to look at Moses' face because it shone so brightly, even though the glory was fading.
8 Enti, apam a Honhom no de ba no, ɛrennya animuonyam mmorosoɔ anaa?
If that was so, shouldn't the new way of relating to God in the Spirit come with even greater glory?
9 Sɛ mmara a ɛde owuo ba no wɔ animuonyam a, ɛnneɛ deɛ ɛma yɛtene Onyankopɔn anim no rennya animuonyam a ɛboro so?
If the old way that condemns us has glory, the new way that makes us right with God has so much more glory!
10 Nokorɛm, Apam Foforɔ no animuonyam mmorosoɔ enti, mmara a ɛde owuo ba no animuonyam ayera.
For the old that was once glorious has no glory at all in comparison with the incredible glory of the new.
11 Na sɛ na animuonyam wɔ biribi a ɛnkyɛre mu a, animuonyam bɛn na ade a ɛte hɔ daa no rennya.
If the old that is fading away had glory, the new that continues has so much more glory.
12 Esiane sɛ yɛwɔ saa anidasoɔ yi enti, yɛwɔ akokoɔduru.
Since we have such a confident hope, we are truly bold!
13 Yɛnte sɛ Mose a ɔde nkatanimu kataa nʼanim sɛdeɛ ɛbɛyɛ a Israelfoɔ no renhunu nʼanim hyerɛn no pa a ɛrepa na ayera no.
We don't have to be like Moses, who had to put on a veil to cover his face so the Israelites wouldn't be dazzled by the glory, even though it was fading away.
14 Nanso nteaseɛ a wɔn annya no enti ɛbɛsi ɛnnɛ yi, sɛ wɔkenkan Apam Dada nwoma no a, saa nkatanimu no da so kata wɔn adwene so. Ansa na nkatanimu no bɛfiri hɔ no, gye sɛ ɔgye Kristo di.
In spite of that, they had a hard, stubborn attitude. For right up until today when the old agreement is read, the same “veil” remains. Only through Christ can it be removed.
15 Ɛbɛsi ɛnnɛ, ɛberɛ biara a wɔbɛkenkan Mose mmara no, nkatanimu no da so kata wɔn adwene so.
Even today, whenever the books of Moses are read, a veil covers their minds.
16 Nanso sɛ obi gye Awurade di a, ne nkatanimu no, woyi firi hɔ.
But when they turn and accept the Lord, the veil is removed.
17 Na Awurade ne Honhom no, na baabiara a Awurade Honhom wɔ no, ahotɔ wɔ hɔ.
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there's freedom.
18 Yɛn a nkatanimu biara nkata yɛn anim no, Awurade animuonyam hyerɛn yɛn anim, na Awurade Honhom no sakra yɛn kɔ nʼanimuonyam mu.
So all of us, with our faces unveiled, see and reflect the glory of the Lord as in a mirror. We are being transformed into the same mirror image, whose glory grows brighter and brighter. This is what the Lord the Spirit does.
