2 Corinthians 3

1 Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, like some people, letters of recommendation to you or from you?

1 我們豈是又舉薦自己嗎？豈像別人用人的薦信給你們或用你們的薦信給人嗎？

2 You yourselves are our letter, inscribed on our hearts, known and read by everyone.

2 你們就是我們的薦信，寫在我們的心裏，被眾人所知道所念誦的。

3 It 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.

3 你們明顯是基督的信，藉着我們修成的。不是用墨寫的，乃是用永生上帝的靈寫的；不是寫在石版上，乃是寫在心版上。

4 Such confidence before God is ours through Christ.

4 我們因基督，所以在上帝面前才有這樣的信心。

5 Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes from God.

5 並不是我們憑自己能承擔甚麼事；我們所能承擔的，乃是出於上帝。

6 And 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.

6 他叫我們能承當這新約的執事，不是憑着字句，乃是憑着精意；因為那字句是叫人死，精意 是叫人活。

7 Now 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,

7 那用字刻在石頭上屬死的職事尚且有榮光，甚至以色列人因摩西面上的榮光，不能定睛看他的臉；這榮光原是漸漸退去的，

8 will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious?

8 何況那屬靈的職事豈不更有榮光嗎？

9 For if the ministry of condemnation was glorious, how much more glorious is the ministry of righteousness!

9 若是定罪的職事有榮光，那稱義的職事榮光就越發大了。

10 Indeed, what was once glorious has no glory now in comparison to the glory that surpasses it.

10 那從前有榮光的，因這極大的榮光就算不得有榮光了；

11 For if what was fading away came with glory, how much greater is the glory of that which endures!

11 若那廢掉的有榮光，這長存的就更有榮光了。

12 Therefore, since we have such a hope, we are very bold.

12 我們既有這樣的盼望，就大膽講說，

13 We 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.

13 不像摩西將帕子蒙在臉上，叫以色列人不能定睛看到那將廢者的結局。

14 But 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.

14 但他們的心地剛硬，直到今日誦讀舊約的時候，這帕子還沒有揭去。這帕子在基督裏已經廢去了。

15 And even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts.

15 然而直到今日，每逢誦讀摩西書的時候，帕子還在他們心上。

16 But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.

16 但他們的心幾時歸向主，帕子就幾時除去了。

17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

17 主就是那靈；主的靈在哪裏，那裏就得以自由。

18 And 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.

18 我們眾人既然敞着臉得以看見主的榮光，好像從鏡子裏返照，就變成主的形狀，榮上加榮，如同從主的靈變成的。