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¹Tinotanga zve kuzvirumbidza kwamuri here? Tinotsvaka here savamwe mwadhi dzinoenda kwamuri, kana dzinobva kwamuri, dzingatirumbidza?Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?

²Imi muri mwadhi yedu yakanyorwa mumoyo medu, inozikanwa nokuverengwa navanhu vose;Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:

³makavonekwa kuti muri mwadhi yaKristu, yakagadzirwa nesu, isina kunyorwa neinki, asi noMweya waMwari mupenyu; isina kunyorwa pamahwendefa amabwe, asi pamahwandefa enyama omoyo.Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the 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 fleshy tables of the heart.

⁴Kutenda kwakadai tinako naKristu, kunaMwari;And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:

⁵hatiti takakwana isu timene, kuti titeme chinhu timene; asi kukwana kwedu kunobva kunaMwari;Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;

⁶iye wakati kwanisa kuti tive vashumiri vesungano itsva, isati iri yezvakanyorwa asi yoMweya; nokuti zvakanyorwa zvinovuraya, asi Mweya unopa vupenyu.Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

⁷Zvino kana kushumira, kwakavuyisa rufu, kwanga kwakatemwa namaretere pamabwe, kwakavuya nokubwinya, kwakanga kwakadaro kuti vana vaIsraeri vakakoniwa kutarisisa chiso chaMosesi nokuda kwokubwinya kwechiso chake kwakanga kuchipfuvura hakoBut if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:

⁸ko kushumira kwoMweya hakungavi nokubwinya kukuru here?How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?

⁹Nokuti kana kushumira,kokutongeswa kwakavuyisa kubwinya zvikuru sei kushumira kokururama kuchakunda pakubwinya.For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

¹⁰Nokuti naicho chakabwinyiswa, hachina kubwinyiswa, kana pachinhu ichi tichichifananidza nokubwinya kuno kunda.For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.

¹¹Nokuti kana icho chinopfuvura chaiva nokubwinya, zvikuru sei icho chinogara ndicho chiri pakubwinya.For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.

¹²Naizvozvo, zvatinetariro yakadai, tinotaura tisingatyi napaduku,Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:

¹³tisingaiti saMosesi, waiisa chifukidziro pachiso chake, kuti vana vaIsraeri varege kutarisisa kuguma kwezvinopfuvura.And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:

¹⁴Asi ndangariro dzavo dzakapofumadzwa nokuti kusvikira nhasi chidzitiro ichi chichiripo pakuverengwa kwe tesitamende yekare changa chichifanira kubviswa muna Kristu.But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.

¹⁵Asi kusvikira nhasi, kana Mosesi achirahwa, chifukidziro chiripo pamoyo yavo.But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.

¹⁶Zvino kana munhu achitendevukira kunaShe, chifukidziro chinobviswa.Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.

¹⁷Ishe ndiMweya; zvino panoMweya waShe, pane sununguko.Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

¹⁸Zvino isu tose tinoti tichitarira nechiso chisina kufukidzirwa kubwinya kwaShe sapachivoni-voni, tinoshandurwa tichifanana nomufananidzo iwoyo, tichibva pakubwinya kumwe tichienda kuno kumwe kubwinya, sezvinobva kuMweya waSheBut we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.