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

¹ Iri ye ka sintin k'iri boŋ sifa nooya? Wala, sanda mate kaŋ cine boro fooyaŋ ga te, iri ga laami nda sifayaŋ tirey kaŋ i ga hantum araŋ se, wala wo kaŋ yaŋ araŋ ga hantum?

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

² Araŋ wo, araŋ ga ti iri tira hantumanta iri biney ra, kaŋ boro kulu ga bay a gaa k'a caw mo.

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.

³ Zama taray kwaaray no a go kaŋ araŋ ya Almasihu tira no kaŋ fun iri saajaw goyo do, hantumante manti nda dawa bo, amma da Irikoy Biya fundikoono. Irikoy Biya man'a hantum tondi walhẽy gaa, amma walhẽy kaŋ go biney ra, basi wane yaŋ gaa no.

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

⁴ Naanayo wo dumi go iri se Irikoy gaa Almasihu do.

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

⁵ Manti sanda iri bumbey hina ra no iri ga hin ka hay fo lasaabu sanda a fun iri bumbey do, amma iri wasayaŋo ga fun Irikoy do.

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.

⁶ Nga no k'iri no hina iri ma goro alkawli tajo goy-teeriyaŋ. Manti biir'ize alkawli bo, amma Biya* _Hanno|_ wane. Zama biir'ize ga wi no, amma Biya _Hanno|_ ga funandi no.

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:

⁷ Amma da _asariya|_ goyo kaŋ kande buuyaŋ, kaŋ i hantum da biir'izeyaŋ tondiyaŋ gaa furo nda darza, hala Israyla* izey mana du ka Musa moyduma guna, a moyduma darza sabbay se (baa kaŋ darza no kaŋ ga bisa),

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

⁸ mate no Biya _Hanno|_ goyo ga te ka jaŋ darza ka bisa yaadin?

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

⁹ Da ciiti-ka-zeeriyaŋ goyo mo ciya darza hari, sanku fa goyo kaŋ ga kande adilitaray Irikoy jine!

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

¹⁰ Haciika, wo kaŋ gonda darza waato sinda beera din sohõ, zama darza kaŋ ga bis'a gumo go no.

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

¹¹ Zama nda woodin kaŋ goono ga bisa gonda darza, sanku fa wo kaŋ goono ga goro!

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

¹² Za kaŋ iri gonda beejo wo dumi, iri ga goy da bine-gaabi gumo.

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:

¹³ Iri si te danga Musa cine, kaŋ ga bangum ka nga moyduma daabu zama Israyla izey ma si di haŋ kaŋ go ga bisa bananta.

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.

¹⁴ Amma i laakaley daabu, zama hala hõ, waati kaŋ i ga Alkawli Zeena caw, bangumo din go no. A mana fun zama Almasihu ra hinne no a ga ban.

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

¹⁵ Amma hala hõ, waati kaŋ i ga Musa tira caw, bangum go g'i biney daabu.

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

¹⁶ Amma waati kaŋ boro ga bare ka ye Rabbi do, kulu bangumo ga fun.

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

¹⁷ Rabbi no ga ti Biya din. Nangu kaŋ Rabbi Biya go, noodin no burcinitaray bara.

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.

¹⁸ Iri goono ga Rabbi darza guna sanda diji ra cine da moyduma kaŋ si daabante. Iri kulu goono ga bare mo alhaalo wo ra, darza ka koy darza do. Darza wo mo Rabbi Biya do no a ga fun.