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?
Začinjamo li zopet sami sebe hvaliti? ali potrebujemo, kakor nekteri, priporočilih listov na vas ali od vas?
2 You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men,
List naš ste vi, vpisan v naših srcih, poznan in bran od vseh ljudî;
3 being revealed that you are a letter of Messiah, 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.
Kteri se pokazujete, da ste list Kristusov izdan od nas, pisan ne s črnilom, nego z duhom Boga živega, ne na kamenenih pločah, nego na mesenih pločah srca.
4 Such confidence we have through Messiah towards God,
A zaupanje tako imamo po Kristusu v Boga;
5 not that we are sufficient of ourselves to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,
Ne da bi bili zmožni sami po sebi izmisliti kaj kakor sami iz sebe, nego je naša zmožnost od Boga;
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.
Kteri nas je tudi zmožne storil, da smo služabniki novega zakona, ne črke, nego duha, kajti črka ubija, a duh oživlja,
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,
Če je pa služba smrti v črkah vrezana v kamene bila v slavi tako, da niso mogli pogledati sinovi Izraelovi v obličje Mojzesovo za voljo slave obličja njegovega, ktera je minljiva,
8 won’t service of the Spirit be with much more glory?
Kako ne bo mnogo bolje služba duha v slavi?
9 For if the service of condemnation has glory, the service of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.
Kajti če je služba obsojenja v slavi, za mnogo bolje je obilna služba pravice v slavi.
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.
Ker tudi ni bilo oslavljeno, kar se je oslavilo v tem delu, za voljo prevelike slave.
11 For if that which passes away was with glory, much more that which remains is in glory.
Kajti če je v slavi, kar prestaja, za mnogo bolje je v slavi, kar ostaja.
12 Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,
Imajoč torej toliko upanje, veliko zaupnost upotrebljujemo.
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.
In ne kakor je Mojzes deval zagrinjalo na svoje obličje, da ne bi videli sinovi Izraelovi konca tega, kar prestaja;
14 But their minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Messiah it passes away.
Ali obtrdele so njih misli, kajti noter do današnjega dné isto zagrinjalo pri branji starega zakona ostaja neodgrnjeno, ker se v Kristusu odpravlja;
15 But to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart.
Nego do danes, kedar se bere Mojzes, zagrinjalo na njih srcih leži.
16 But whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
Kedar se bo pa zgodilo spreobrnjenje k Gospodu, sname se zagrinjalo.
17 Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
A Gospod je duh; kjer je pa duh Gospodov, tam je svoboda.
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.
A mi vsi, kteri z odkritim obličjem slavo Gospodovo jasno gledamo, premenjujemo se v ravno tisto podobo iz slave v slavo, kakor od Gospodovega duha.
