2 Corinthians 3
1 Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you?
Je, tutumbwile kuisifia bene kae? Tuhitaji kwaa barua ya mapendekezo kwinu au boka kwinu, kati baadhi ya bandu, je twahitaji?
2 You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men,
Mwenga mwabene ni barua yitu ya mapendekezo, yaiandikilwe mu'mioyo yitu, yaiyowanika na kusomwa na bandu bote.
3 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.
Na mwaonesha panga mwenga ni barua boka kwa Kristo, yaitolewa ni twenga, iandikilwe na wino kwaa ila kwa Roho wa Nnongo ywabile nkoto. Iandikilwe kwaa nnani ya vibao ya maliwe, ila nnani ya vibao vya mioyo ya bandu.
4 Such confidence we have through Messiah towards God,
Na wolo nga ujasiri tubile nao katika Nnongo pitya Kristo.
5 not that we are sufficient of ourselves to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,
Twajiamini kwaa wabene kwa kudai chochote kati boka kwitu. Badala yake, kujiamini kwitu kwaboka kwa Nnongo.
6 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.
Ni Nnongo ywabile atupangite tuweze pangika atumishi wa liagano lyayambe. Ayee nga liagano labile kwaa lya barua ila ni lya Roho. Kwa kuwa barua ubulaga, lakini roho yatoa ukoto.
7 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,
Nambeambe kazi ya kiwo itichongwa katika herufi nnani ya maliwe iisile kwa namna ya utukufu panga bandu ba Israeli balilinga kwaa bene ila pitya minyo ga Musa. Ayee nga sababu ya utukufu wa minyo gake, utukufu ambao wabile wafifia.
8 won’t service of the Spirit be with much more glory?
Je, kazi ya Roho ilowa kuwa kwaa na utukufu muno?
9 For if the service of condemnation has glory, the service of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.
Kwa kuwa kati huduma ya hukumu ibile na utukufu, ni mara ilenga zaidi huduma ya haki huzidi muno katika utukufu!
10 For most certainly that which has been made glorious has not been made glorious in this respect, by reason of the glory that surpasses.
Ni kweli panga, chelo chakipangilwe utukufu kwanza kibile kwaa utkufu kae katika heshima yee, kwa sababu ya utukufu wanansima.
11 For if that which passes away was with glory, much more that which remains is in glory.
Kwa kuwa kati chelo ambacho chabile chapeta chabile ni utukufu, ni kwa kiasi gani muno chelo ambacho ni chakudumu kibile na utukufu!
12 Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,
Kwa kuwa twajiamini eyo, tubile ni ujasiri muno.
13 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.
Tubile kwaa kati Musa, ywabekite utaji nnani ya uso bake, ili panga bandu ba Israeli baweze kwaa lola moja kwa moja mu'mwisho wa utukufu ambao ubile watiboka.
14 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.
Lakini malango gabe gatabilwe. Hata mpaka lisoba lee utaji wowolo bado ulekilwe nnani ya usomaji wa liagani lya kale. Ibekilwe kwaa wazi, kwa sababu ni katika Kristo kichake iondolewa kutalu.
15 But to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart.
Lakini hata leno, wakati wowote Musa asomwapo, utaji utama nnani ya mioyo yabe.
16 But whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
Lakini mundu paakeleka kwa Ngwana, utaji ulowa boka.
17 Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
Nambeambe Ngwana ni Roho. Pabile ni Roho wa Ngwana, kubile ni uhuru.
18 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.
Nambeambe twenga twabote, pamope ni minyo zibile kwaa bekewa utaji, ubona utukufu wa Ngwana. Twabadilishwa nkati ya muonekano wowolo wa utukufu boka shahada jimo ya utukufu yenda yenge, kati yaibile kwa Ngwana, ambaye ni Roho.
