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

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

²You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men;

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

³being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.

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.

⁴Such confidence we have through Christ toward God;

⁴Takvo pouzdanje imamo po Kristu u Boga.

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

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

⁶who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

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

⁷But if the service of death, written engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly on the face of Moses for the glory of his face; which was passing away:

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,

⁸won’t service of the Spirit be with much more glory?

⁸koliko li će slavnija biti služba Duha.

⁹For if the service of condemnation has glory, the service of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.

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

¹⁰For most certainly that which has been made glorious has not been made glorious in this respect, by reason of the glory that surpasses.

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

¹¹For if that which passes away was with glory, much more that which remains is in glory.

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

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

¹²Imajući dakle takvo pouzdanje, nastupamo sa svom otvorenošću,

¹³and not as Moses, who put a veil on his face, that the children of Israel wouldn’t look steadfastly on the end of that which was passing away.

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

¹⁴But their minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Christ it passes away.

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

¹⁵But to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart.

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

¹⁶But whenever one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.

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

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

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

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.

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