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3:1
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我们岂是又举荐自己吗？岂像别人用人的荐信给你们或用你们的荐信给人吗？
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Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? or need we, as do some, epistles of commendation to you or from you?
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3:2
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你们就是我们的荐信，写在我们的心里，被众人所知道所念诵的。
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Ye are our epistle, written in our hearts, known and read of all men;
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3:3
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你们明显是基督的信，借着我们修成的。不是用墨写的，乃是用永生神的灵写的；不是写在石版上，乃是写在心版上。
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being made manifest that ye are an 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 tables [that are] hearts of flesh.
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3:4
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我们因基督，所以在神面前才有这样的信心。
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And such confidence have we through Christ to God-ward:
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3:5
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并不是我们凭自己能承担什么事；我们所能承担的，乃是出于神。
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not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;
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3:6
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他叫我们能承当这新约的执事，不是凭着字句，乃是凭着精意；因为那字句是叫人死，精意（或作：圣灵）是叫人活。
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who also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
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3:7
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那用字刻在石头上属死的职事尚且有荣光，甚至以色列人因摩西面上的荣光，不能定睛看他的脸；这荣光原是渐渐退去的，
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But if the ministration of death, written, [and] engraven on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look stedfastly upon the face of Moses for the glory of his face; which [glory] was passing away:
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3:8
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何况那属灵的职事岂不更有荣光吗？
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how shall not rather the ministration of the spirit be with glory?
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3:9
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若是定罪的职事有荣光，那称义的职事荣光就越发大了。
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For if the ministration of condemnation hath glory, much rather doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
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3:10
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那从前有荣光的，因这极大的荣光就算不得有荣光了；
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For verily that which hath been made glorious hath not been made glorious in this respect, by reason of the glory that surpasseth.
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3:11
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若那废掉的有荣光，这长存的就更有荣光了。
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For if that which passeth away [was] with glory, much more that which remaineth [is] in glory.
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3:12
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我们既有这样的盼望，就大胆讲说，
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Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,
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3:13
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不像摩西将帕子蒙在脸上，叫以色列人不能定睛看到那将废者的结局。
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and [are] not as Moses, [who] put a veil upon his face, that the children of Israel should not look stedfastly on the end of that which was passing away:
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3:14
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但他们的心地刚硬，直到今日诵读旧约的时候，这帕子还没有揭去。这帕子在基督里已经废去了。
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but their minds were hardened: for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remaineth, it not being revealed [to them] that it is done away in Christ.
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3:15
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然而直到今日，每逢诵读摩西书的时候，帕子还在他们心上。
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But unto this day, whensoever Moses is read, a veil lieth upon their heart.
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3:16
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但他们的心几时归向主，帕子就几时除去了。
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But whensoever it shall turn to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
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3:17
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主就是那灵；主的灵在那里，那里就得以自由。
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Now the Lord is the Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, [there] is liberty.
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3:18
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我们众人既然敞着脸得以看见主的荣光，好像从镜子里反照，就变成主的形状，荣上加荣，如同从主的灵变成的。
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But 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.
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