2 Coríntios 3

1 Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you? 2 You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men, 3 being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, 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 Such confidence we have through Christ toward God, 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 servants of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

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, 8 won’t service of the Spirit be with much more glory? 9 For if the service of condemnation has glory, the service of righteousness exceeds much more in glory. 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. 11 For if that which passes away was with glory, much more that which remains is in glory.

12 Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech, 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. 14 But their minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Christ it passes away. 15 But to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart. 16 But whenever someone turns 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 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.

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.