¹Hatsen gara berriz gure buruén gommendatzen? ala behar dugu batzuc beçala, epistola gommendagarriric çuetara, edo çuetaric gommendagarriric?

¹Do we begin again to recommend ourselves, except we need, as some, letters of recommendation unto you, or from you?

²Gure epistolá çuec çarete, gure bihotzetan scribatua, cein eçagutzen eta iracurtzen baita guiçon guciéz.

²our letter ye are, having been written in our hearts, known and read by all men,

³Agueri den becembatean ecen Christen epistola guçaz administratua çaretela, scribatua ez tintaz, baina Iainco viciaren Spirituaz: ez harrizco tauletan, baina bihotzeco taula haraguizcoetan.

³manifested that ye are a letter of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not in the tablets of stone, but in fleshy tablets of the heart,

⁴Eta halaco confidança dugu Christez Iaincoa baithan.

⁴and such trust we have through the Christ toward God,

⁵Ez sufficient garelacotz gure buruz cerbaiten pensatzeco, gueurorganic beçala: baina gure sufficientiá Iaincoaganic da.

⁵not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything, as of ourselves, but our sufficiency [is] of God,

⁶Ceinec Testamentu berrico ministre sufficient-ere eguin baiquaitu, ez letraren, baina Spirituaren: ecen letrác hiltzen du, baina Spirituac viuificatzen du.

⁶who also made us sufficient [to be] ministrants of a new covenant, not of letter, but of spirit; for the letter doth kill, and the spirit doth make alive.

⁷Eta baldin heriotaco ministerioa letraz harrietan moldatua içan bada glorioso, hambat non Israeleco haourréc ecin behá baitzeçaqueten Moysesen beguithartera, haren beguitharteco gloria fin vkan behar çuenagatic:

⁷and if the ministration of the death, in letters, engraved in stones, came in glory, so that the sons of Israel were not able to look stedfastly to the face of Moses, because of the glory of his face — which was being made useless,

⁸Nolatan ezta Spirituaren ministerioa gloriosoago içanen?

⁸how shall the ministration of the Spirit not be more in glory?

⁹Ecen baldin condemnationetaco ministerioa glorioso içan bada: iustitiataco ministerioac anhitzez iragaitenago du gloriaz.

⁹for if the ministration of the condemnation [is] glory, much more doth the ministration of the righteousness abound in glory;

¹⁰Ecen glorificatu içan dena-ere, ezta glorificatu içan respectu hunez, erran nahi da, excellentago den gloriaren causaz.

¹⁰for also even that which hath been glorious, hath not been glorious — in this respect, because of the superior glory;

¹¹Ecen baldin fin hartu behar çuena glorioso içan bada, vnguiz gloriosoago da dagoena.

¹¹for if that which is being made useless [is] through glory, much more that which is remaining [is] in glory.

¹²Beraz hunelaco sperançá dugunaz gueroz, minçatzeco libertate handiz vsatzen dugu.

¹²Having, then, such hope, we use much freedom of speech,

¹³Eta ez gara Moysez beçala ceinec estalquia emaiten baitzuen bere beguitharte gainean, Israeleco haourréc abolitu behar cenaren finera beha ezleçatençát.

¹³and [are] not as Moses, who was putting a vail upon his own face, for the sons of Israel not stedfastly to look to the end of that which is being made useless,

¹⁴Bada, hayén adimenduac gogortu içan dirade: ecen egungo egunerano estalqui bera dago Testamentu çaharreco lecturán kendu gabea (cein Christez kencen baita)

¹⁴but their minds were hardened, for unto this day the same vail at the reading of the Old Covenant doth remain unwithdrawn — which in Christ is being made useless —

¹⁵Baina egungo egun hunetarano Moyses iracurtzen denean, estalquia hayén bihotz gainean dago.

¹⁵but till to-day, when Moses is read, a vail upon their heart doth lie,

¹⁶Baina Iaunagana conuertitu datequeenean kenduren da estalquia.

¹⁶and whenever they may turn unto the Lord, the vail is taken away.

¹⁷Eta Iauna Spiritu da: eta Iaunaren Spiritua non, libertatea han.

¹⁷And the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord [is], there [is] liberty;

¹⁸Bada gu gucioc beguithartea aguerturic Iaunaren glorián miratzen garela, imagina berera transformatzen gara gloriataric gloriatara, Iaunaren Spirituaz beçala.

¹⁸and we all, with unvailed face, the glory of the Lord beholding in a mirror, to the same image are being transformed, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.