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?
DO we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some, commendatory letters to you, or commendatory letters from you?
2 Mo ankasa moyɛ krataa a ɛwɔ yɛn nkyɛn a wɔatwerɛ wɔ yɛn akoma mu sɛdeɛ ɛbɛyɛ a obiara bɛhunu na wakan.
Ye are our letter written in our hearts, acknowledged and read of all men:
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.
because ye are manifestly seen to be the letter of Christ, of which we have been the secretaries, written not with ink, but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tables of stone, but on the fleshly tables of the heart.
4 Saa ahotosoɔ yi na yɛnam Kristo so anya wɔ Onyankopɔn fam.
And such confidence have we through Christ towards God:
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 are sufficient of ourselves to account any thing of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God.
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.
Who hath made us also able ministers of the new testament, not of the letter but of the spirit; for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth 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.
For if the ministry of death in letters graven on stone, was attended with glory, so that the children of Israel could not keep their eyes fixed upon the countenance of Moses, because of the glory of his countenance, though soon evanescent;
8 Enti, apam a Honhom no de ba no, ɛrennya animuonyam mmorosoɔ anaa?
how much more will not the ministry of the Spirit be attended with glory?
9 Sɛ mmara a ɛde owuo ba no wɔ animuonyam a, ɛnneɛ deɛ ɛma yɛtene Onyankopɔn anim no rennya animuonyam a ɛboro so?
For if the ministry of condemnation is glory, much more doth the ministry of righteousness excel in glory.
10 Nokorɛm, Apam Foforɔ no animuonyam mmorosoɔ enti, mmara a ɛde owuo ba no animuonyam ayera.
For that which was glorious hath no glory, comparatively, because of the glory which excelleth.
11 Na sɛ na animuonyam wɔ biribi a ɛnkyɛre mu a, animuonyam bɛn na ade a ɛte hɔ daa no rennya.
For if that which was abolished came in a glorious manner, much more is that which remaineth glorious.
12 Esiane sɛ yɛwɔ saa anidasoɔ yi enti, yɛwɔ akokoɔduru.
Having therefore such a hope, we use much freedom of speech.
13 Yɛnte sɛ Mose a ɔde nkatanimu kataa nʼanim sɛdeɛ ɛbɛyɛ a Israelfoɔ no renhunu nʼanim hyerɛn no pa a ɛrepa na ayera no.
And act not as Moses who spread a veil over his face, in order that the children of Israel might not look stedfastly to the end of that which should be abolished.
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.
But their understandings were darkened: for unto this day the same veil in their reading the old testament abideth unremoved; which veil is taken away by Christ.
15 Ɛbɛsi ɛnnɛ, ɛberɛ biara a wɔbɛkenkan Mose mmara no, nkatanimu no da so kata wɔn adwene so.
For unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil is spread over their hearts.
16 Nanso sɛ obi gye Awurade di a, ne nkatanimu no, woyi firi hɔ.
Nevertheless, when Israel shall turn unto the Lord, the veil shall be taken away.
17 Na Awurade ne Honhom no, na baabiara a Awurade Honhom wɔ no, ahotɔ wɔ hɔ.
Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
18 Yɛn a nkatanimu biara nkata yɛn anim no, Awurade animuonyam hyerɛn yɛn anim, na Awurade Honhom no sakra yɛn kɔ nʼanimuonyam mu.
And we all with face unveiled, beholding the glory of the Lord reflected as in a mirror, according to the same image, receive a transformation from glory into glory, as by the Lord, the Spirit.
