¹Počinjemo li opet sami sebe preporučivati? Ili trebamo li, kao neki, preporučna pisma na vas ili od vas?

¹Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or do we need, as some, commendatory letters to you, or [commendatory] from you?

²Vi ste pismo naše, upisano u srcima vašim; znaju ga i čitaju svi ljudi.

²*Ye* are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read of all men,

³Vi ste, očito, pismo Kristovo kojemu mi poslužismo, napisano ne crnilom, nego Duhom Boga živoga; ne na pločama kamenim, nego na pločama od mesa, u srcima.

³being manifested to be Christ's epistle ministered by us, written, not with ink, but [the] Spirit of [the] living God; not on stone tables, but on fleshy tables of [the] heart.

⁴Takvo pouzdanje imamo po Kristu u Boga.

⁴And such confidence have we through the Christ towards God:

⁵Ne kao da smo sami sobom, kao od sebe, sposobni što pomisliti, nego naša je sposobnost od Boga.

⁵not that we are competent of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves, but our competency [is] of God;

⁶On nas osposobi za poslužitelje novoga Saveza, ne slova, nego Duha; jer slovo ubija, a Duh oživljuje.

⁶who has also made us competent, [as] ministers of [the] new covenant; not of letter, but of spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit quickens.

⁷Pa ako je smrtonosna služba, slovima uklesana u kamenju, bila tako slavna da sinovi Izraelovi nisu mogli pogledati u lice Mojsijevo zbog prolazne slave lica njegova,

⁷(But if the ministry of death, in letters, graven in stones, began with glory, so that the children of Israel could not fix their eyes on the face of Moses, on account of the glory of his face, [a glory] which is annulled;

⁸koliko li će slavnija biti služba Duha.

⁸how shall not rather the ministry of the Spirit subsist in glory?

⁹Jer ako je služba osude bila slavna, mnogo je slavnija služba pravednosti.

⁹For if the ministry of condemnation [be] glory, much rather the ministry of righteousness abounds in glory.

¹⁰I zbilja, nije ni bilo proslavljeno ono što je u toj mjeri proslavljeno, ako se usporedi s uzvišenijom slavom.

¹⁰For also that [which was] glorified is not glorified in this respect, on account of the surpassing glory.

¹¹Jer ako je ono prolazno bilo slavno, mnogo je slavnije ovo što ostaje.

¹¹For if that annulled [was introduced] with glory, much rather that which abides [subsists] in glory.

¹²Imajući dakle takvo pouzdanje, nastupamo sa svom otvorenošću,

¹²Having therefore such hope, we use much boldness:

¹³a ne kao Mojsije koji je stavljao prijevjes na lice da sinovi Izraelovi ne vide svršetak prolaznoga.

¹³and not according as Moses put a veil on his own face, so that the children of Israel should not fix their eyes on the end of that annulled.

¹⁴Ali otvrdnu im pamet. Doista, do dana današnjega zastire taj prijevjes čitanje Staroga zavjeta: nije im otkriveno da je u Kristu prestao.

¹⁴But their thoughts have been darkened, for unto this day the same veil remains in reading the old covenant, unremoved, which in Christ is annulled.

¹⁵Naprotiv, kad god se čita Mojsije, do danas prijevjes zastire srce njihovo.

¹⁵But unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil lies upon their heart.

¹⁶Ali kad se Izrael obrati Gospodinu, skinut će se prijevjes.

¹⁶But when it shall turn to [the] Lord, the veil is taken away.)

¹⁷Gospodin je Duh, a gdje je Duh Gospodnji, ondje je sloboda.

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

¹⁸A svi mi, koji otkrivenim licem odrazujemo slavu Gospodnju, po Duhu se Gospodnjem preobražavamo u istu sliku - iz slave u slavu.

¹⁸But *we* all, looking on the glory of the Lord, with unveiled face, are transformed according to the same image from glory to glory, even as by [the] Lord [the] Spirit.