¹Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?

¹Vai mēs atkal sākam sevi ieteikt? Vai mums vajadzīgi ieteikšanas raksti pie jums vai no jums kā dažiem citiem?

²Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:

²Jūs esat mūsu vēstule, kas ierakstīta mūsu sirdīs un ko pazīst un lasa visi cilvēki.

³Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.

³Ir redzams, ka jūs esat Kristus vēstule, ko mēs esam sastādījuši un uzrakstījuši ne ar tinti, bet ar dzīvā Dieva Garu, ne uz akmens, bet uz miesīgām sirds plāksnēm.

⁴And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:

⁴Bet tāda paļāvība mums ir uz Dievu caur Kristu;

⁵Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;

⁵Ne tāpēc, ka mēs būtu no sevis spējīgi domāt it kā no sevis, bet mūsu spējas ir no Dieva.

⁶Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

⁶Viņš arī mums devis spējas kalpot Jaunajai derībai, ne burtam, bet garam, jo burts nokauj, bet gars atdzīvina.

⁷But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:

⁷Bet ja kalpošanai nāvei, kas burtiem bija iekalta akmenī, bija tāda godība, ka Izraēļa bērni nevarēja skatīties Mozus sejā viņa vaiga spožuma dēļ, kas bija pārejošs,

⁸How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?

⁸Vai tad gara kalpošanai nebūs daudz lielāka godība?

⁹For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

⁹Ja jau pazudināšanas kalpošanai ir sava godība, tad daudz vairāk šī godība pārpilnībā ir taisnības kalpošanai.

¹⁰For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.

¹⁰Toreizējā godība vairs nav godība šīs pārlieku lielās godības dēļ.

¹¹For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.

¹¹Ja jau iznīcīgajam ir sava godība, tad jo vairāk godība ir tam, kas paliek.

¹²Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:

¹²Tā kā mums ir tāda cerība, mēs rīkojamies lielā paļāvībā

¹³And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:

¹³Un ne kā Mozus, kas apsedza savu vaigu, lai Izraēļa bērni neredzētu viņa sejā to, kam jāizzūd.

¹⁴But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.

¹⁴Bet viņu prāts ir nocietināts. Jo līdz pat šai dienai, lasot Veco Derību, tas pats aizsegs paliek neatsegts (jo ar Kristu tas izzūd).

¹⁵But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.

¹⁵Bet līdz šai dienai, kad lasa Mozu, sega paliek pārklāta pār viņu sirdīm.

¹⁶Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.

¹⁶Bet tikko kāds atgriežas pie Kunga, sega tiek noņemta.

¹⁷Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

¹⁷Kungs ir Gars; bet kur Kunga Gars, tur brīvība.

¹⁸But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

¹⁸Un mēs visi, kad atklātām sejām skatāmies Kunga godībā, it kā no Kunga Gara tiekam pārveidoti tanī pat attēlā no spožuma spožumā.