2 Korintoarrei 3
1 Hatsen gara berriz gure buruén gommendatzen? ala behar dugu batzuc beçala, epistola gommendagarriric çuetara, edo çuetaric gommendagarriric?
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 Gure epistolá çuec çarete, gure bihotzetan scribatua, cein eçagutzen eta iracurtzen baita guiçon guciéz.
You are our letter, written in our experience with you, that everybody reads and knows about.
3 Agueri den becembatean ecen Christen epistola guçaz administratua çaretela, scribatua ez tintaz, baina Iainco viciaren Spirituaz: ez harrizco tauletan, baina bihotzeco taula haraguizcoetan.
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 Eta halaco confidança dugu Christez Iaincoa baithan.
We have total confidence before God through Christ.
5 Ez sufficient garelacotz gure buruz cerbaiten pensatzeco, gueurorganic beçala: baina gure sufficientiá Iaincoaganic da.
Not that we would consider ourselves able to do this on our own—it's God who gives us this capacity!
6 Ceinec Testamentu berrico ministre sufficient-ere eguin baiquaitu, ez letraren, baina Spirituaren: ecen letrác hiltzen du, baina Spirituac viuificatzen du.
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 Eta baldin heriotaco ministerioa letraz harrietan moldatua içan bada glorioso, hambat non Israeleco haourréc ecin behá baitzeçaqueten Moysesen beguithartera, haren beguitharteco gloria fin vkan behar çuenagatic:
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 Nolatan ezta Spirituaren ministerioa gloriosoago içanen?
If that was so, shouldn't the new way of relating to God in the Spirit come with even greater glory?
9 Ecen baldin condemnationetaco ministerioa glorioso içan bada: iustitiataco ministerioac anhitzez iragaitenago du gloriaz.
If the old way that condemns us has glory, the new way that makes us right with God has so much more glory!
For the old that was once glorious has no glory at all in comparison with the incredible glory of the new.
11 Ecen baldin fin hartu behar çuena glorioso içan bada, vnguiz gloriosoago da dagoena.
If the old that is fading away had glory, the new that continues has so much more glory.
12 Beraz hunelaco sperançá dugunaz gueroz, minçatzeco libertate handiz vsatzen dugu.
Since we have such a confident hope, we are truly bold!
13 Eta ez gara Moysez beçala ceinec estalquia emaiten baitzuen bere beguitharte gainean, Israeleco haourréc abolitu behar cenaren finera beha ezleçatençát.
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 Bada, hayén adimenduac gogortu içan dirade: ecen egungo egunerano estalqui bera dago Testamentu çaharreco lecturán kendu gabea (cein Christez kencen baita)
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 Baina egungo egun hunetarano Moyses iracurtzen denean, estalquia hayén bihotz gainean dago.
Even today, whenever the books of Moses are read, a veil covers their minds.
16 Baina Iaunagana conuertitu datequeenean kenduren da estalquia.
But when they turn and accept the Lord, the veil is removed.
17 Eta Iauna Spiritu da: eta Iaunaren Spiritua non, libertatea han.
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there's freedom.
18 Bada gu gucioc beguithartea aguerturic Iaunaren glorián miratzen garela, imagina berera transformatzen gara gloriataric gloriatara, Iaunaren Spirituaz beçala.
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.
