2 Mga Taga-Corinto 3
3
1Baka sabihin ninyong pinupuri na naman namin ang aming mga sarili. Hindi kami katulad ng iba diyan na kailangan ang sulat ng rekomendasyon para sa inyo o galing sa inyo. 2Kayo na mismo ang rekomendasyong nakasulat sa aming mga puso, dahil ang pamumuhay ninyo ay nakikita at nababasa ng lahat. 3Malinaw na ang buhay nʼyo ay parang isang sulat mula kay Kristo na isinulat sa pamamagitan ng aming paglilingkod. Hindi tinta ang ipinansulat nito kundi ang Espiritu ng Diyos na buháy. At hindi rin ito isinulat sa malalapad na bato, kundi sa puso ng mga tao.
4Panatag naming nasasabi ang mga ito dahil sa aming pagtitiwala sa Diyos sa pamamagitan ni Kristo. 5Kung sa aming sarili lamang, wala kaming sapat na kakayahang gawin ito. Lahat ng aming kakayahan ay mula sa Diyos. 6Siya ang nagbigay sa amin ng kakayahang maipahayag ang kanyang bagong tipan. At ang bagong tipan na ito ay hindi ayon sa nakasulat na kautusan kundi ayon sa Espiritu. Sapagkat ang Kautusan ay nagdudulot ng kamatayan, ngunit ang Espiritu ay nagbibigay-buhay.
Ang Kaluwalhatian ng Bagong Tipan
7Noong ibinigay kay Moises ang Kautusang nakasulat sa malalapad na bato, ipinakita ang kaluwalhatian ng Diyos, kaya nga hindi matingnan ng mga Israelita ang mukha ni Moises dahil nasisilaw sila, kahit pansamantala lamang iyon. Ngayon, kung ang pamamaraang ayon sa Kautusan na nagdudulot ng kamatayan ay may dalang kaluwalhatian, 8hindi baʼt mas higit pa ang kaluwalhatiang ipapakita sa pamamagitan ng Espiritu? 9Kung may dalang kaluwalhatian ang pamamaraang ayon sa Kautusan na nagdudulot ng kamatayan, higit pa ang kaluwalhatian ng pamamaraang ayon sa pagpapawalang-sala sa mga tao! 10Ang totoo, balewala na ang kaluwalhatian ng dati kung ihahambing sa nahihigit na kaluwalhatian ng bago. 11Kung may dalang kaluwalhatian ang pamamaraang pansamantala lamang, higit pa ang kaluwalhatian ng pamamaraang nananatili magpakailanman.
12At dahil sa pag-asa naming ito, malakas ang aming loob na ipahayag ang salita ng Diyos. 13Hindi kami tulad ni Moises na nagtakip ng mukha upang hindi makita ng mga Israelita ang kaluwalhatiang nakatakdang maglaho. 14Ang totoo, hindi naintindihan ng mga Israelita ang kahulugan nito noon dahil may tabing sa kanilang isipan. At kahit ngayon, may nakatakip pa rin sa kanilang isipan habang binabasa nila ang lumang tipan. At maaalis lamang ito kapag ang isang taoʼy nakay Kristo. 15Totoong hanggang ngayon ay may nakatakip sa kanilang isipan habang binabasa nila ang mga isinulat ni Moises. 16Ngunit kung lalapit ang tao sa Panginoon, maaalis ang takip sa kanyang isipan. 17Ngayon, ang binabanggit ditong Panginoon ay ang Espiritu, at kung ang Espiritu ng Panginoon ay nasa isang tao, malaya na siya. 18At dahil naalis na ang takip sa ating isipan, nakikita na natin ang kapangyarihan ng Panginoon. At ang kapangyarihang ito ay mula sa Panginoon, na siyang Espiritu, ang siyang unti-unting bumabago sa atin hanggang tayoʼy maging katulad niya.
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2 Corinthians 3
3
1 ARE WE starting to commend ourselves again? Or we do not, like some [false teachers], need written credentials or letters of recommendation to you or from you, [do we]?
2 [No] you yourselves are our letter of recommendation (our credentials), written in your hearts, to be known (perceived, recognized) and read by everybody.
3 You show and make obvious that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, not written with ink but with [the] Spirit of [the] living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts. [Exod. 24:12; 31:18; 32:15, 16; Jer. 31:33.]
4 Such is the reliance and confidence that we have through Christ toward and with reference to God.
5 Not that we are fit (qualified and sufficient in ability) of ourselves to form personal judgments or to claim or count anything as coming from us, but our power and ability and sufficiency are from God.
6 [It is He] Who has qualified us [making us to be fit and worthy and sufficient] as ministers and dispensers of a new covenant [of salvation through Christ], not [ministers] of the letter (of legally written code) but of the Spirit; for the code [of the Law] kills, but the [Holy] Spirit makes alive. [Jer. 31:31.]
7 Now if the dispensation of death engraved in letters on stone [the ministration of the Law], was inaugurated with such glory and splendor that the Israelites were not able to look steadily at the face of Moses because of its brilliance, [a glory] that was to fade and pass away, [Exod. 34:29-35.]
8 Why should not the dispensation of the Spirit [this spiritual ministry whose task it is to cause men to obtain and be governed by the Holy Spirit] be attended with much greater and more splendid glory?
9 For if the service that condemns [the ministration of doom] had glory, how infinitely more abounding in splendor and glory must be the service that makes righteous [the ministry that produces and fosters righteous living and right standing with God]!
10 Indeed, in view of this fact, what once had splendor [the glory of the Law in the face of Moses] has come to have no splendor at all, because of the overwhelming glory that exceeds and excels it [the glory of the Gospel in the face of Jesus Christ].
11 For if that which was but passing and fading away came with splendor, how much more must that which remains and is permanent abide in glory and splendor!
12 Since we have such [glorious] hope (such joyful and confident expectation), we speak very freely and openly and fearlessly.
13 Nor [do we act] like Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the Israelites might not gaze upon the finish of the vanishing [splendor which had been upon it].
14 In fact, their minds were grown hard and calloused [they had become dull and had lost the power of understanding]; for until this present day, when the Old Testament (the old covenant) is being read, that same veil still lies [on their hearts], not being lifted [to reveal] that in Christ it is made void and done away.
15 Yes, down to this [very] day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies upon their minds and hearts.
16 But whenever a person turns [in repentance] to the Lord, the veil is stripped off and taken away.
17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty (emancipation from bondage, freedom). [Isa. 61:1, 2.]
18 And all of us, as with unveiled face, [because we] continued to behold [in the Word of God] as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are constantly being transfigured into His very own image in ever increasing splendor and from one degree of glory to another; [for this comes] from the Lord [Who is] the Spirit.
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