歌 林 多 後 書 3
Chinese New Testament: Easy-to-Read Version
上帝新约的仆人
3 这是否听起来好像我们又在自夸了呢？或者我们是否也要像一些人那样，需要给你们推荐信，或者向你们要推荐信呢？当然不用！ 2 你们自己就是我们的推荐信，它写在我们心中，为众人所知，供众人传阅。 3 你们表明自己是一封通过我们寄出、来自基督的信。这封信不是用墨水写成的，而是由活生生的上帝的圣灵写成的。它不是写在石板 [a]上，而是写在人心上的。
4 通过基督，我们在上帝面前有这样的信心作这样的声明。 5 我们的意思并不是说我们凭自己能做任何好事，是上帝使我们能够做到我们所做的。 6 上帝还使我们成为新契约的奴仆。这约不是字面上的律法，而是圣灵的契约。字面上的律法带来死亡，而圣灵则赐予生命。
新约带来更大的荣耀
7 既然用文字刻在石头上、以死亡为特征的律法尚且有荣耀，以致于以色列人不能凝视摩西那伴着荣耀的脸庞，尽管后来那种光耀消失了。 8 那么，难道以圣灵 [b]为特征的律法岂不有更大的荣耀吗？ 9 如果给人定罪的律法都有荣耀，那末，使人在上帝面前被称为义的律法岂不会有更大的荣耀吗？ 10 当前者的荣耀和后者的荣耀相比，前者的荣耀就黯然失色了。 11 如果注定要消失的律法都伴着荣耀而来，那么，永存的律法岂不会有更大的荣耀吗？
12 因为我们怀着这样的希望，我们就非常勇敢。 13 我们不像摩西那样，用面纱盖住脸，为的是不让以色列人凝视那注定消逝的荣耀， 14 但是，他们的心智迟钝，因为至今每当他们（犹太人）读旧约时，那同样的面纱依然还在。它还没有被拿掉，因为只有通过基督才能被拿掉。 15 但是，至今每当他们读摩西律法时，那张面纱还盖在他们心上。 16 只有他们归向主时，面纱才会被拿掉。 17 我说的这位“主”是指圣灵。主的圣灵在哪里，那里就有自由。 18 我们的脸不被蒙上。我们都显示了主的荣耀。我们都变得像他一样，在我们中的这种变化会带来了越来越多的荣耀。这荣耀来自主，即圣灵。
Footnotes
- 歌 林 多 後 書 3:3 石板： 给摩西的律法，是写在石板上的。
- 歌 林 多 後 書 3:8 圣灵： 又被称为上帝之灵、基督之灵和慰藉者。他与上帝和基督合为一体，在世界人民中间从事上帝的事业。
2 Corinthians 3
Christian Standard Bible
Living Letters
3 Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, like some, letters of recommendation to you or from you? 2 You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everyone.(A) 3 You show that you are Christ’s letter,(B) delivered[a] by us, not written with ink but with the Spirit of the living God(C)—not on tablets of stone(D) but on tablets of human hearts.[b](E)
Paul’s Competence
4 Such is the confidence we have through Christ before God. 5 It is not that we are competent in[c] ourselves to claim anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God.(F) 6 He has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant,(G) not of the letter,(H) but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
New Covenant Ministry
7 Now if the ministry that brought death, chiseled in letters on stones, came with glory,(I) so that the Israelites were not able to gaze steadily at Moses’s face because of its glory, which was set aside, 8 how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious? 9 For if the ministry that brought condemnation had glory, the ministry that brings righteousness overflows with even more glory. 10 In fact, what had been glorious is not glorious now by comparison because of the glory that surpasses it. 11 For if what was set aside(J) was glorious, what endures will be even more glorious.
12 Since, then, we have such a hope,(K) we act with great boldness. 13 We are not like Moses, who used to put a veil over his face(L) to prevent the Israelites from gazing steadily until the end[d] of the glory of what was being set aside, 14 but their minds were hardened.(M) For to this day, at the reading of the old covenant,(N) the same veil remains; it is not lifted, because it is set aside only in Christ.(O) 15 Yet still today, whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their hearts, 16 but whenever a person turns(P) to the Lord, the veil is removed.(Q) 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 18 We all, with unveiled faces, are looking as in a mirror at[e](R) the glory of the Lord(S) and are being transformed(T) into the same image(U) from glory to glory; this is from the Lord who is the Spirit.[f]
2 Corinthians 3
New King James Version
Christ’s Epistle(A)
3 Do (B)we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as some others, (C)epistles of commendation to you or letters of commendation from you? 2 (D)You are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read by all men; 3 clearly you are an epistle of Christ, (E)ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not (F)on tablets of stone but (G)on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart.
The Spirit, Not the Letter
4 And we have such trust through Christ toward God. 5 (H)Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but (I)our sufficiency is from God, 6 who also made us sufficient as (J)ministers of (K)the new covenant, not (L)of the letter but of the [a]Spirit; for (M)the letter kills, (N)but the Spirit gives life.
Glory of the New Covenant
7 But if (O)the ministry of death, (P)written and engraved on stones, was glorious, (Q)so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away, 8 how will (R)the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious? 9 For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, the ministry (S)of righteousness exceeds much more in glory. 10 For even what was made glorious had no glory in this respect, because of the glory that excels. 11 For if what is passing away was glorious, what remains is much more glorious.
12 Therefore, since we have such hope, (T)we use great boldness of speech— 13 unlike Moses, (U)who put a veil over his face so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at (V)the end of what was passing away. 14 But (W)their minds were blinded. For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Testament, because the veil is taken away in Christ. 15 But even to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart. 16 Nevertheless (X)when one turns to the Lord, (Y)the veil is taken away. 17 Now (Z)the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is (AA)liberty. 18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding (AB)as in a mirror (AC)the glory of the Lord, (AD)are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as [b]by the Spirit of the Lord.
Footnotes
- 2 Corinthians 3:6 Or spirit
- 2 Corinthians 3:18 Or from the Lord, the Spirit
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