Corinthios Ii 3
Clementine Vulgate, 1598Translation
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
Berean Standard Bible
1Incipimus iterum nosmetipsos commendare? aut numquid egemus (sicut quidam) commendatitiis epistolis ad vos, aut ex vobis?
1Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, like some people, letters of recommendation to you or from you?
2Epistola nostra vos estis, scripta in cordibus nostris, quæ scitur, et legitur ab omnibus hominibus:
2You yourselves are our letter, inscribed on our hearts, known and read by everyone.
3manifestati quod epistola estis Christi, ministrata a nobis, et scripta non atramento, sed Spiritu Dei vivi: non in tabulis lapideis, sed in tabulis cordis carnalibus.
3It is clear that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
4Fiduciam autem talem habemus per Christum ad Deum:
4Such confidence before God is ours through Christ.
5non quod sufficientes simus cogitare aliquid a nobis, quasi ex nobis: sed sufficientia nostra ex Deo est:
5Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes from God.
6qui et idoneos nos fecit ministros novi testamenti: non littera, sed Spiritu: littera enim occidit, Spiritus autem vivificat.
6And He has qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
7Quod si ministratio mortis litteris deformata in lapidibus fuit in gloria, ita ut non possent intendere filii Israël in faciem Moysi propter gloriam vultus ejus, quæ evacuatur:
7Now if the ministry of death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at the face of Moses because of its fleeting glory,
8quomodo non magis ministratio Spiritus erit in gloria?
8will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious?
9Nam si ministratio damnationis gloria est: multo magis abundat ministerium justitiæ in gloria.
9For if the ministry of condemnation was glorious, how much more glorious is the ministry of righteousness!
10Nam nec glorificatum est, quod claruit in hac parte, propter excellentem gloriam.
10Indeed, what was once glorious has no glory now in comparison to the glory that surpasses it.
11Si enim quod evacuatur, per gloriam est: multo magis quod manet, in gloria est.
11For if what was fading away came with glory, how much greater is the glory of that which endures!
12Habentes igitur talem spem, multa fiducia utimur:
12Therefore, since we have such a hope, we are very bold.
13et non sicut Moyses ponebat velamen super faciem suam, ut non intenderent filii Israël in faciem ejus, quod evacuatur,
13We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face to keep the Israelites from gazing at the end of what was fading away.
14sed obtusi sunt sensus eorum. Usque in hodiernum enim diem, idipsum velamen in lectione veteris testamenti manet non revelatum (quoniam in Christo evacuatur),
14But their minds were closed. For to this day the same veil remains at the reading of the old covenant. It has not been lifted, because only in Christ can it be removed.
15sed usque in hodiernum diem, cum legitur Moyses, velamen positum est super cor eorum.
15And even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts.
16Cum autem conversus fuerit ad Dominum, auferetur velamen.
16But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
17Dominus autem Spiritus est: ubi autem Spiritus Domini, ibi libertas.
17Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
18Nos vero omnes, revelata facie gloriam Domini speculantes, in eamdem imaginem transformamur a claritate in claritatem, tamquam a Domini Spiritu.
18And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into His image with intensifying glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
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