2 Corinthians 3
1 Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or are we like some who need letters of commendation to you, or from you?
Ali ponovno začenjamo priporočati sami sebe? Ali potrebujemo, kot nekateri drugi, za vas priporočilne poslanice ali priporočilna pisma od vas?
2 You yourselves are our letter – a letter written on our hearts, and one which everybody can read and understand.
Vi ste naša poslanica, napisana v naših srcih, od vseh ljudi poznana in brana,
3 All can see that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, a letter written, not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone, but on tablets of human hearts.
ker ste vidno oznanili, da ste Kristusova poslanica, dana po nas, ne napisana s črnilom, temveč z Duhom živega Boga; ne na kamnite plošče, temveč na mesene plošče srca.
4 This, then, is the confidence in regard to God that we have gained through the Christ.
In tako zaupanje imamo po Kristusu usmerjeno k Bogu;
5 I do not mean that we are fit to form any judgment by ourselves, as if on our own authority;
ne da smo sami zadostni, da mislimo karkoli kakor od nas samih, temveč je naša zadostnost od Boga;
6 our fitness comes from God, who himself made us fit to be assistants of a new covenant, of which the substance is, not a written Law, but a Spirit. For the written Law means death, but the Spirit gives life.
ki nas je tudi storil zmožne služabnike nove zaveze; ne po črki, temveč po duhu; kajti črka ubija, toda duh daje življenje.
7 If the system of religion which involved death, embodied in a written Law and engraved on stones, began amid such glory, that the Israelites were unable to gaze at the face of Moses because of its glory, though it was but a passing glory,
Toda če je bilo veličastno služenje smrti, zapisano in vrezano v kamne, tako da Izraelovi otroci, zaradi slave njegove zunanjosti, niso mogli neomajno gledati Mojzesovega obraza, katerega slava je bila odpravljena,
8 will not the religion that confers the Spirit have still greater glory?
kako ne bo služba duha precej veličastnejša?
9 For, if there was a glory in the religion that involved condemnation, far greater is the glory of the religion that confers righteousness!
Kajti če je služba obsodbi slava, [jo] služba pravičnosti veliko bolj prekaša v slavi.
10 Indeed, that which then had glory has lost its glory, because of the glory which surpasses it.
Kajti celó to, kar je postalo slavno, v tem oziru ni imelo slave, zaradi slave, ki prekaša.
11 And, if that which was to pass away was attended with glory, far more will that which is to endure be surrounded with glory!
Kajti če je bilo slavno to, kar je bilo odpravljeno, je veliko bolj slavno to, kar ostaja.
12 With such a hope as this, we speak with all plainness;
Ker imamo torej tolikšno upanje, uporabljamo veliko razumljivost govora,
13 unlike Moses, who covered his face with a veil, to prevent the Israelites from gazing at the disappearance of what was passing away.
in ne kakor Mojzes, ki si je prek svojega obraza nadel zagrinjalo, da Izraelovi otroci niso mogli neomajno gledati konca tega, kar je odpravljeno.
14 But their minds were slow to learn. Indeed, to this very day, at the public reading of the old covenant, the same veil remains; only for those who are in union with Christ does it pass away.
Toda njihovi umi so bili zaslepljeni. Kajti do danes ostaja pri branju Stare zaveze isto zagrinjalo neodgrnjeno; katere zagrinjalo je odpravljeno v Kristusu.
15 But, even to this day, whenever Moses is read, a veil lies on their hearts.
Toda celó do današnjega dne, kadar se bere Mojzes, je na njihovem srcu zagrinjalo.
16 Yet, whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is removed.
Pa vendar, ko se bodo obrnili h Gospodu, bo zagrinjalo odvzeto.
17 And the Lord is the Spirit, and, where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
Torej Gospod je ta Duh, in kjer je Gospodov Duh, tam je svoboda.
18 And all of us, with faces from which the veil is lifted, seeing, as if reflected in a mirror, the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into his likeness, from glory to glory, as it is given by the Lord, the Spirit.
Toda mi vsi, ki z odgrnjenim obrazom gledamo kakor v steklu Gospodovo slavo, smo iz slave v slavo preobraženi v isto podobo, celó kakor po Gospodovem Duhu.
