2 Corinthians 3
World English BibleTranslation
World English Bible
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
1Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you?
1Incipimus iterum nosmetipsos commendare? aut numquid egemus (sicut quidam) commendatitiis epistolis ad vos, aut ex vobis?
2You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men,
2Epistola nostra vos estis, scripta in cordibus nostris, quæ scitur, et legitur ab omnibus hominibus:
3being 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.
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.
4Such confidence we have through Christ toward God,
4Fiduciam autem talem habemus per Christum ad Deum:
5not that we are sufficient of ourselves to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,
5non quod sufficientes simus cogitare aliquid a nobis, quasi ex nobis: sed sufficientia nostra ex Deo est:
6who 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.
6qui et idoneos nos fecit ministros novi testamenti: non littera, sed Spiritu: littera enim occidit, Spiritus autem vivificat.
7But 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,
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:
8won’t service of the Spirit be with much more glory?
8quomodo non magis ministratio Spiritus erit in gloria?
9For if the service of condemnation has glory, the service of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.
9Nam si ministratio damnationis gloria est: multo magis abundat ministerium justitiæ in gloria.
10For most certainly that which has been made glorious has not been made glorious in this respect, by reason of the glory that surpasses.
10Nam nec glorificatum est, quod claruit in hac parte, propter excellentem gloriam.
11For if that which passes away was with glory, much more that which remains is in glory.
11Si enim quod evacuatur, per gloriam est: multo magis quod manet, in gloria est.
12Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,
12Habentes igitur talem spem, multa fiducia utimur:
13and 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.
13et non sicut Moyses ponebat velamen super faciem suam, ut non intenderent filii Israël in faciem ejus, quod evacuatur,
14But 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.
14sed obtusi sunt sensus eorum. Usque in hodiernum enim diem, idipsum velamen in lectione veteris testamenti manet non revelatum (quoniam in Christo evacuatur),
15But to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart.
15sed usque in hodiernum diem, cum legitur Moyses, velamen positum est super cor eorum.
16But whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
16Cum autem conversus fuerit ad Dominum, auferetur velamen.
17Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
17Dominus autem Spiritus est: ubi autem Spiritus Domini, ibi libertas.
18But 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.
18Nos vero omnes, revelata facie gloriam Domini speculantes, in eamdem imaginem transformamur a claritate in claritatem, tamquam a Domini Spiritu.
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