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

²*Ye* are our letter, 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 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.

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 the Christ towards God:

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

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

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

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.

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.

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;

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 ministry of the Spirit subsist in glory?

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

⁹For if the ministry of condemnation [be] glory, much rather the ministry of righteousness abounds 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 also that [which was] glorified is not glorified in this respect, on account of the surpassing glory.

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

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

¹²Having therefore such hope, we use much boldness:

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

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.

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

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.

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, when Moses is read, the veil lies upon their heart.

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

¹⁶But when 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, but 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, 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.

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.