2 Corinthians 3
1 Do we begin again to show you who we are? Or do we, like others, need that letters recommendatory of us should be written to you? Or, that ye should write recommendations of us?
Tinotangazve kuzviratidza here? Kana tinotsvaka here, sevamwe, tsamba dzekuzviratidza kwamuri, kana dzekuratidza kunobva kwamuri?
2 Ye are our epistle, written on our hearts, and known and read by every man.
Imwi muri tsamba yedu, yakanyorwa mumoyo yedu, inozikanwa nekuverengwa nevanhu vese;
3 For ye know that ye are an epistle of the Messiah, ministered by us; not written with ink, but by the Spirit of the living God; not on tables of stone, but on the tablets of the heart of flesh.
muchiratidzwa kuti muri tsamba yaKristu inoshandiswa nesu, yakanyorwa kwete neingi, asi neMweya waMwari anorarama; kwete pamahwendefa emabwe, asi pamahwendefa enyama emoyo.
4 And such confidence have we in the Messiah towards God.
Nechivimbo chakadai tinacho naKristu kuna Mwari;
5 Not that we are sufficient to think any thing as of ourselves; but our efficiency is from God:
kwete kuti tinokwanisa isu pachedu kufunga chimwe chinhu sechinobva kwatiri, asi kukwanisa kwedu kunobva kuna Mwari;
6 who hath fitted us to be ministers of the new Testament, not in the letter, but in the Spirit; for the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life.
iye wakatigonesa kuva vashumiri vesungano itsva, kwete yechakanyorwa asi yeMweya; nokuti chakanyorwa chinouraya, asi Mweya unoraramisa.
7 Now if the ministration of death was engraved upon stones in writing, and was so glorious that the children of Israel could not look on the face of Moses, on account of the glory upon his face which vanished away;
Asi kana ushumiri hwerufu, pazvinyorwa zvakavezwa pamabwe hwakasvikira mukubwinya, zvekuti vana vaIsraeri vakakoniwa kutarisisa chiso chaMozisi nekuda kwekubwinya kwechiso chake, kwaipedzwa,
8 how then shall not the ministration of the Spirit be still more glorious?
ko shumiro yeMweya haingazovi nekubwinya kukuru here?
9 For if there was glory in the ministration of condemnation, how much more shall the ministration of justification excel in glory?
Nokuti kana shumiro yekupiwa mhosva iri kubwinya, shumiro yekururama ichakunda zvikuru sei mukubwinya.
10 For that which was glorious, was as if not glorious, in comparison with this which excelleth in glory.
Nokuti kunyange icho chakabwinyiswa hachina kubwinyiswa pachinhu ichi nekuda kwekubwinya uku kwakanyanyisa.
11 For if that which is abolished was glorious, much more must that which abideth be glorious.
Nokuti kana icho chinopedzwa chaiva nekubwinya, zvikuru sei icho chinogara, pakubwinya.
12 Seeing therefore we have this hope, we the more speak with boldness;
Naizvozvo tine tariro yakadai, tinoshandisa ushingi ukuru mukutaura;
13 and are not like Moses, who threw a vail over his face, that the children of Israel might not behold the termination of that which was abolished.
uye kwete saMozisi waiisa chifukidziro pachiso chake, kuti vana vaIsraeri varege kutarisisa kuguma kwezvinopedzwa.
14 But they were blinded in their understanding; for until this day, when the old Testament is read, the same vail resteth upon them; nor is it manifest to them, that it is abolished by the Messiah.
Asi fungwa dzavo dzakaomeswa, nokuti kusvikira zuva rino chifukidziro ichochi chichiripo chisina kubviswa pakuverengwa kwetesitamende yekare, chakapedzwa muna Kristu.
15 And unto this day, when Moses is read, a vail is thrown upon their hearts.
Asi kusvikira zuva rino, kana kuchiverengwa Mozisi, chifukidziro chirere pamoyo wavo.
16 But when any of them is turned unto the Lord, the vail is taken from him.
Chero rinhi kana achidzokera kuna Ishe, chifukidziro chinobviswa.
17 Now the Lord himself is the Spirit. And where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
Zvino Ishe ndiye Mweya; uye pane Mweya waIshe pane rusununguko.
18 And we all, with uncovered faces, behold as in a mirror the glory of the Lord; and are transformed into the same likeness, from glory to glory, as by the Lord the Spirit.
Asi isu tese, nechiso chakashama tichiona sepachionioni kubwinya kwaIshe, tinoshandurirwa kumufananidzo iwoyo kubva pakubwinya kuenda pakubwinya, sezvinobva kuMweya waIshe.
