¹Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? or need we, as do some, epistles of commendation to you or from you?

¹So znachil kado divano? Ke pale ame nachinaisavas te luvudisavas? Vai trobulsardino ame, sar uni, te sikavas tumenge lila so te keren, vai ame te mangas tumendar lela?

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

²Tuma san amaro lil kai si ramome ande amaro ilo, kai sa e lumia sai zhanel ai diinel.

³being made manifest that ye are an 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 tables [that are] hearts of flesh.

³Te iazno si ke tume san iek lil ramome katar O Kristo ai tradino amendar. Kodo lil nai ramome chernilasa, numa le Duxosa le Devlesko o zhuvindo. Nai ramome pel skafidia baxrenge, numa ande ile le manushenge.

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

⁴Ame sai mothas chachimasa kadia diela, ke pala amaro pachamos kai si ame ando Del katar O Kristo.

⁵not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;

⁵Ame nashtisaras te mothas ke sai keras kasaviatar buchi anda amende, numa so keras katar O Del avel.

⁶who also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

⁶Ke wo dia ame te avas slugi kadale nevia viastako; nai iek zakono kai si ramome, numa katar O Swunto Duxo: o zakono o ramome mudarel, numa O Swunto Duxo del o traio.

⁷But if the ministration of death, written, [and] engraven on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look stedfastly upon the face of Moses for the glory of his face; which [glory] was passing away:

⁷O zakono sas ramome, vorba pe vorbate pel skafidia le baxrenge ai andai martia, ai o barimos le Devlesko strefial, antunchi o mui le Mosesosko strefialas kadia de zurales kai le Zhiduvuria nashtinas te dikhen pe leste, marka ke kodo strefaimos sas te zhaltar.

⁸how shall not rather the ministration of the spirit be with glory?

⁸Sode de baro trobul te avel o luvudimos la buchako kai kerel O Swunto Duxo!

⁹For if the ministration of condemnation hath glory, much rather doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

⁹E buchi kai doshardia le manushen sas luvudime, sode mai but luvudime e buchi kai si te kerel andel manush vorta angla Del!

¹⁰For verily that which hath been made glorious hath not been made glorious in this respect, by reason of the glory that surpasseth.

¹⁰Sai vi mothas, ke o luvudimos kai strefial mai anglal, nai kanchi angla luvudimos kai si akana, kai si but mai baro.

¹¹For if that which passeth away [was] with glory, much more that which remaineth [is] in glory.

¹¹So sas kai ankerdia xantsi vriama sas luvudime, sode mai but luvudime so si kai shoxar chi getolpe!

¹²Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,

¹²Te si ame kodo pachamos, sai das duma bi darako.

¹³and [are] not as Moses, [who] put a veil upon his face, that the children of Israel should not look stedfastly on the end of that which was passing away:

¹³Ame chi sam sar o Moses, kai vusharavelas pesko mui seliasa, saxke te na dikhen le Zhiduvuria e vediara kai nakhelas sigo.

¹⁴but their minds were hardened: for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remaineth, it not being revealed [to them] that it is done away in Christ.

¹⁴Numa lenge goji nashti ma haliarel, ai zhi adies lenge goji vusharadila sa kodola seliasa kana jinen o zakono le Mosesosko. Kodia selia zhaltar ferdi kana o manush si astardo le Kristosa.

¹⁵But unto this day, whensoever Moses is read, a veil lieth upon their heart.

¹⁵Inker adies, swako data kai jinen o zakono le Mosesosko, e selia vusharavel lenge goji.

¹⁶But whensoever it shall turn to the Lord, the veil is taken away.

¹⁶Numa sar mothol E Vorba le Devleski, kana boldelpe iek manush karing O Del, e selia zhaltar.

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

¹⁷O Del si O Swunto Duxo, ai kotse kai si O Swunto Duxo le Devlesko, kotse si liberte.

¹⁸But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit.

¹⁸Ame savorhe, bi la seliako pe amaro mui strefialas o barimos le Devlesko, ai sam parhude te avas sar O Del, ai nakhas andak barimos ande iek mai baro barimos. Kadia si e buchi kai kerel O Swunto Duxo le Devlesko.