2 Coríntios 3

He Pononga nō te Kawenata Hou

1 E tīmata ana anō rānei mātou te whakapai ki a mātou anō? E pērā ana rānei me ētahi atu, e mea ana mātou ki ētahi pukapuka whakapai mā mātou ki a koutou, mā koutou rānei ki a mātou? 2 Ko koutou tā mātou pukapuka, he mea tuhituhi ki ō mātou ngākau, e kitea ana, e kōrerotia ana e ngā tāngata katoa; 3 kua mārama nā hoki, ko koutou he pukapuka nā te Karaiti, he mea minita nā mātou, ehara i te mea tuhituhi ki te mangumangu, engari ki te Wairua o te Atua ora; he teka ki ngā papa kōhatu, engari ki runga ki ngā papa kikokiko o te ngākau.

4 Ko tēnei tū whakaaro ō mātou ū tonu ki tā te Atua, he mea nā te Karaiti. 5 He teka kei a mātou ake te tikanga mō te whakaaro ki tētahi aha, me te mea nā mātou ake anō; engari, nā te Atua mātou i whai tikanga ai; 6 nāna hoki mātou i tau ai hei minita mō te kawenata hou; he teka nō te reta, engari nō te Wairua; he whakamate hoki tā te reta, he whakaora ia tā te Wairua.

7 Nā, mehemea te minitatanga o te mate i tuhituhia nei, i whaoa nei ki ngā kōhatu, i puta korōria mai, i kore ai e taea e ngā tama a Īharaira te titiro matatau atu ki te mata o Mohi i te korōria o tōna mata; he korōria ia e memeha ana. 8 E kore ianei e nui noa atu te korōria o te minitatanga o te Wairua? 9 Nā, mehemea te minitatanga o te whakatau hē, he korōria, heoi hira rawa atu te korōria o te minitatanga o te tika. 10 He pono hoki, kāhore te mea i whakakorōriatia i whai korōria i tēnei wāhi, arā, nā te korōria e hira rawa nei. 11 Mehemea hoki he korōria tō te mea e memeha ana, nui noa atu te korōria o te mea pūmau.

12 Nā, i a mātou ka tūmanako nei ki tēnei, nui atu tō mātou māia ki te kōrero. 13 Kāhore anō e pērā me Mohi i maka nei i te hīpoki ki tōna mata, kei titiro matatau atu ngā tama a Īharaira ki te tukunga iho o te mea e memeha haere ana. 14 Otirā, i whakapakeketia ō rātou hinengaro. Nō te mea taea noatia mai tēnei rā i te kōrerotanga o te kawenata tawhito e mau tonu ana taua hīpoki rā anō, kāhore anō i hurahia; i roto ia i a te Karaiti ka whakakāhoretia. 15 Nā, tae noa mai ki tēnei rā, ki te kōrerotia a Mohi, e takoto ana he hīpoki ki runga i tō rātou ngākau. 16 Nā, kia huri ki te Ariki, ka tangohia te hīpoki. 17 Nā, ko te Ariki, ko te Wairua ia; ko te wāhi i noho ai te Wairua o te Ariki, kei reira te tikanga herekore. 18 Ko tātou katoa ia kāhore he hīpoki mō te mata, e whakaahua ana i te korōria o te Atua, ānō kei roto i te whakaata, ā, e whakaputaia kētia ana kia rite ki taua āhua anō, he korōria hono iho ki te korōria, i runga i tā te Wairua o te Ariki.

1 Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? or need we, as do some, epistles of commendation to you or from you? 2 Ye are our epistle, written in our hearts, known and read of all men; 3 being made manifest that ye are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in tables that are hearts of flesh. 4 And such confidence have we through Christ to God-ward: 5 not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God; 6 who also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. 7 But if the ministration of death, written, and engraven on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look stedfastly upon the face of Moses for the glory of his face; which glory was passing away: 8 how shall not rather the ministration of the spirit be with glory? 9 For if the ministration of condemnation hath glory, much rather doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. 10 For verily that which hath been made glorious hath not been made glorious in this respect, by reason of the glory that surpasseth. 11 For if that which passeth away was with glory, much more that which remaineth is in glory.

12 Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech, 13 and are not as Moses, who put a veil upon his face, that the children of Israel should not look stedfastly on the end of that which was passing away: 14 but their minds were hardened: for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remaineth, it not being revealed to them that it is done away in Christ. 15 But unto this day, whensoever Moses is read, a veil lieth upon their heart. 16 But whensoever it shall turn to the Lord, the veil is taken away. 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 18 But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit.