2 Corinthians 3
1 Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you?
Chitu tanga ku litemba hape tubene? Katu saki mañolo a ku tuzuminina kwenu kapa azwa kwenu, sina vamwi vaantu, tu swanela?
2 You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men,
Inwe muvene njenwe mu mañolo etu a tu zuminina, añoletwe mwi nkulo zetu, ezivenkene ni kubaliwa vaantu bonse.
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.
Imi mutondeza kuti iñolo lizwa kwa Kereste, libaletwa iswe. Kena libañolwa ni inke kono cha Luhuho lye Ireeza yo hala. Kena liva ñoletwe ha matapa a bwe, kono ha matapa e nkulo za vaantu.
4 Such confidence we have through Christ toward God,
Imi iyi nji sepo itukwete kwe Ireeza ka Keresite.
5 not that we are sufficient of ourselves to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,
Ka twina bwizivi vuhitiliza mukati ketu kuti tute izizintu zizwa kwetu. Kono, kwiziva kwetu kuzwila kwe Ireeza.
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.
Nji Ireeza yava tutendi kuti tuwoli kuva vahikana be chikani chihwa. Ichi chilikani kahena cheñolo kono cha Luhuho. Mukuti iñolo lihaya, kono Luhuho luha vuhalo.
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,
Hanu isevelezo ivaleti ifu- miñolo i chakwilwe ha mabwe- kuvezi ikanya ku vaantu va Iselaele ichita kuti mane vaantu kana vavali kuwola kulola muchi fateho cha' Mushe. Ibali ibaka lya nkanya ibena ha chifateho chakwe, inkanya ivali kumana kani kani.
8 won’t service of the Spirit be with much more glory?
Mukusike kuhi kubenya kwe kanya ye nsevelezo ya Luhuho?
9 For if the service of condemnation has glory, the service of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.
Mukuti insevelezo ivali kunyazahala ivena ikanya, mukuvevule kwikanya ye nsevelezo ya kuluka ikwetwa chabungi kwinkanya!
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.
Kavuniti, china chi vapangitwe che nkanya, kachi sina mumukwa we nkanya, vakenyi che kanya ihita ahulu.
11 For if that which passes away was with glory, much more that which remains is in glory.
Haiba kuti china chivali kuhita chivena nkanya, mukuve vule kwechina chikalilile kuva ni nkanya!
12 Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,
Sina hatwina vulyo insepo, tuzwile habusu.
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.
Katuswani sina nji Mushe, yavali vikite isila ku chifateho chakwe, mane kuti vaantu va Isilaele kenavavali kuwola kumulola kakumu tulula kevaka lye nkanya ivali kuhita bulyo.
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.
Kono mihupulo yabo iveyelwe. Mane kwiza kusika lunu luzuva kapayi kaswana kasishele cha kuvala chilikani chakale. Kakeni ku wumbuka, kakuti nji kwa Keresita bulyo kukawolwa kuzwiswa.
15 But to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart.
Kono kuli sunu, Mushe havalwa, kapayi kasi zalitwe inkulo zavo.
16 But whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
Kono muuntu havola kwa Simwine kapayi ka wumbulwa.
17 Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
Hanu Simwine Luhuho. Hena Luhuho lwa Simwine, kwina intukuluho.
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.
Hanu tubonse, tuwumbukite tupayi ha meenso, bone inkanya ya Simwine. Tuba sandulwa mwikanya iswana kakuzwa mwinkalulo ye nkanya kuya muyimwi, sina ku zwililila kwa Simwine, Iye ili Luhuho.
