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?
Boni, tokomi lisusu komikumisa biso moko? Boni, tozali lisusu na posa, lokola bato mosusu, ya kopesa bino mikanda ya matatoli to ya kosenga bino mikanda ya matatoli?
2 You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men,
Bino nde bozali mokanda na biso, mokanda oyo ekomama kati na mitema na biso, mokanda oyo bato nyonso bayebi mpe batangaka.
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.
Bozali penza kolakisa ete bozali mokanda ya Klisto, bozali mbuma ya lotomo na biso, mpe ete bozali mokanda oyo ekomamaki na nzela ya mayi ya ekomeli te kasi na nzela ya Molimo ya Nzambe na bomoi, mokanda oyo ekomamaki na likolo ya bitando ya mabanga te kasi kati na mitema ya bato.
4 Such confidence we have through Christ toward God,
Yango nde elikya oyo tozali na yango kati na Nzambe, na nzela ya Klisto.
5 not that we are sufficient of ourselves to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,
Tosengeli te kokanisa ete ezali na ndenge na biso moko nde tozwi makoki ya kosala likambo songolo; te, makoki na biso ewutaka nde na Nzambe.
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.
Ezali Nzambe nde apesaki biso makoki ya kozala basali ya Boyokani ya sika oyo evandisami na Mibeko te kasi na Molimo; pamba te Mibeko ebomaka, kasi Molimo apesaka bomoi.
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,
Sik’oyo, soki lotomo ya kufa, oyo ekomamaki na likolo ya bitando ya mabanga, eyaki na nkembo, na ndenge ete bana ya Isalaele balongaki te kowumela kotala elongi ya Moyize likolo ya kongenga ya nkembo na yango, nzokande nkembo yango esengelaki kosila,
8 won’t service of the Spirit be with much more glory?
ndenge nini lotomo ya Molimo eleka na nkembo te?
9 For if the service of condemnation has glory, the service of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.
Pamba te, soki lotomo oyo ememelaki bato etumbu ezalaki na nkembo, ndenge nini lotomo oyo esalaki ete Nzambe akomisa bato sembo eleka na nkembo te?
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.
Tokoki ata koloba ete nkembo ya kala ebungisa kongenga na yango liboso ya nkembo ya sika oyo eleki penza monene.
11 For if that which passes away was with glory, much more that which remains is in glory.
Mpe soki oyo esengelaki kosila ezalaki na nkembo, ndenge nini nkembo ya oyo ekowumelaka seko na seko eleka monene te?
12 Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,
Lokola tozali na elikya ya lolenge oyo, tozali na bobangi te;
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.
tozali te lokola Moyize oyo azalaki kosalela vwale mpo na kozipa elongi na ye, mpo na kopekisa bana ya Isalaele kotala suka ya nkembo oyo esengeli kosila.
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.
Kasi mayele na bango ekomaki bozoba. Kino na mokolo ya lelo, tango batangaka mikanda ya Boyokani ya Kala, vwale yango ezalaka kaka, elongwe nanu te kati na bango, pamba te elongwaka kaka kati na Klisto.
15 But to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart.
Solo, kino na mokolo ya lelo, tango nyonso bana ya Isalaele batangaka mikanda ya Moyize, vwale moko ezipaka mitema na bango.
16 But whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
Kasi tango nyonso moto abalukaka epai ya Nkolo, vwale yango elongwaka.
17 Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
Sik’oyo, Nkolo azali Molimo; mpe epai Molimo ya Nkolo azali, epai mpe bonsomi ezali.
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.
Mpe biso nyonso oyo bilongi na biso ezipama te, biso oyo tomonisaka nkembo ya Nkolo, tozwaka elilingi na Ye kati na nkembo oyo kongenga na yango ebakisamaka se kobakisama. Nyonso wana ezali mosala ya Nkolo oyo azali Molimo.
