2 Corinthians 3

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition	NOVA VULGATA
1 Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you, or from you?	1 Incipimus iterum nosmetipsos commendare? Aut numquid egemus, sicutquidam, commendaticiis epistulis ad vos aut ex vobis?
2 You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on your hearts, to be known and read by all men;	2 Epistula nostra vosestis, scripta in cordibus nostris, quae scitur et legitur ab omnibus hominibus;
3 and you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.	3 manifestati quoniam epistula estis Christi ministrata a nobis, scripta nonatramento sed Spiritu Dei vivi, non in tabulis lapideis sed in tabulis cordiscarnalibus.
4 Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God.	4 Fiduciam autem talem habemus per Christum ad Deum.
5 Not that we are competent of ourselves to claim anything as coming from us; our competence is from God,	5 Non quod sufficientessimus cogitare aliquid a nobis quasi ex nobis, sed sufficientia nostra ex Deoest,
6 who has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not in a written code but in the Spirit; for the written code kills, but the Spirit gives life.	6 qui et idoneos nos fecit ministros Novi Testamenti, non litterae sedSpiritus: littera enim occidit, Spiritus autem vivificat.
7 Now if the dispensation of death, carved in letters on stone, came with such splendor that the Israelites could not look at Moses' face because of its brightness, fading as this was,	7 Quod si ministratio mortis, litteris deformata in lapidibus, fuit in gloria,ita ut non possent intendere filii Israel in faciem Moysis propter gloriamvultus eius, quae evacuatur,
8 will not the dispensation of the Spirit be attended with greater splendor?	8 quomodo non magis ministratio Spiritus erit ingloria?
9 For if there was splendor in the dispensation of condemnation, the dispensation of righteousness must far exceed it in splendor.	9 Nam si ministerium damnationis gloria est, multo magis abundatministerium iustitiae in gloria.
10 Indeed, in this case, what once had splendor has come to have no splendor at all, because of the splendor that surpasses it.	10 Nam nec glorificatum est, quod claruit inhac parte, propter excellentem gloriam;
11 For if what faded away came with splendor, what is permanent must have much more splendor.	11 si enim, quod evacuatur, per gloriamest, multo magis, quod manet, in gloria est.
12 Since we have such a hope, we are very bold,	12 Habentes igitur talem spem multa fiducia utimur,
13 not like Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the Israelites might not see the end of the fading splendor.	13 et non sicut Moyses:ponebat velamen super faciem suam, ut non intenderent filii Israel in finemillius quod evacuatur.
14 But their minds were hardened; for to this day, when they read the old covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, because only through Christ is it taken away.	14 Sed obtusi sunt sensus eorum. Usque in hodiernum enimdiem idipsum velamen in lectione Veteris Testamenti manet non revelatum, quoniamin Christo evacuatur;
15 Yes, to this day whenever Moses is read a veil lies over their minds;	15 sed usque in hodiernum diem, cum legitur Moyses,velamen est positum super cor eorum.
16 but when a man turns to the Lord the veil is removed.	16 Quando autem conversus fuerit adDominum, aufertur velamen.
17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.	17 Dominus autem Spiritus est; ubi autem SpiritusDomini, ibi libertas.
18 And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being changed into his likeness from one degree of glory to another; for this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.	18 Nos vero omnes revelata facie gloriam Dominispeculantes, in eandem imaginem transformamur a claritate in clarita tem tamquam a Domini Spiritu.