༡ ཀརིནྠིནཿ 7
1 ཨཔརཉྩ ཡུཥྨཱབྷི རྨཱཾ པྲཏི ཡཏ྄ པཏྲམལེཁི ཏསྱོཏྟརམེཏཏ྄, ཡོཥིཏོ྅སྤརྴནཾ མནུཛསྱ ཝརཾ;
With reference to the subjects about which you wrote to me: It is good for a man to remain single.
2 ཀིནྟུ ཝྱབྷིཙཱརབྷཡཱད྄ ཨེཀཻཀསྱ པུཾསཿ སྭཀཱིཡབྷཱཪྻྱཱ བྷཝཏུ ཏདྭད྄ ཨེཀཻཀསྱཱ ཡོཥིཏོ ྅པི སྭཀཱིཡབྷརྟྟཱ བྷཝཏུ།
But, owing to the prevalence of immorality, I advise every man to have his own wife, and every woman her husband.
3 བྷཱཪྻྱཱཡཻ བྷརྟྲཱ ཡདྱད྄ ཝིཏརཎཱིཡཾ ཏད྄ ཝིཏཱིཪྻྱཏཱཾ ཏདྭད྄ བྷརྟྲེ྅པི བྷཱཪྻྱཡཱ ཝིཏརཎཱིཡཾ ཝིཏཱིཪྻྱཏཱཾ།
A husband should give his wife her due, and a wife her husband.
4 བྷཱཪྻྱཱཡཱཿ སྭདེཧེ སྭཏྭཾ ནཱསྟི བྷརྟྟུརེཝ, ཏདྭད྄ བྷརྟྟུརཔི སྭདེཧེ སྭཏྭཾ ནཱསྟི བྷཱཪྻྱཱཡཱ ཨེཝ།
It is not the wife, but the husband, who exercises power over her body; and so, too, it is not the husband, but the wife, who exercises power over his body.
5 ཨུཔོཥཎཔྲཱརྠནཡོཿ སེཝནཱརྠམ྄ ཨེཀམནྟྲཎཱནཱཾ ཡུཥྨཱཀཾ ཀིཡཏྐཱལཾ ཡཱཝད྄ ཡཱ པྲྀཐཀྶྠིཏི རྦྷཝཏི ཏདནྱོ ཝིཙྪེདོ ཡུཥྨནྨདྷྱེ ན བྷཝཏུ, ཏཏཿ པརམ྄ ཨིནྡྲིཡཱཎཱམ྄ ཨདྷཻཪྻྱཱཏ྄ ཤཡཏཱན྄ ཡད྄ ཡུཥྨཱན྄ པརཱིཀྵཱཾ ན ནཡེཏ྄ ཏདརྠཾ པུནརེཀཏྲ མིལཏ།
Do not deprive each other of what is due – unless it is only for a time and by mutual consent, so that your minds may be free for prayer until you again live as man and wife – otherwise Satan might take advantage of your want of self-control and tempt you.
6 ཨེཏད྄ ཨཱདེཤཏོ ནཧི ཀིནྟྭནུཛྙཱཏ ཨེཝ མཡཱ ཀཐྱཏེ,
I say this, however, as a concession, not as a command.
7 ཡཏོ མམཱཝསྠེཝ སཪྻྭམཱནཝཱནཱམཝསྠཱ བྷཝཏྭིཏི མམ ཝཱཉྪཱ ཀིནྟྭཱིཤྭརཱད྄ ཨེཀེནཻཀོ ཝརོ྅ནྱེན ཙཱནྱོ ཝར ཨིཏྠམེཀཻཀེན སྭཀཱིཡཝརོ ལབྡྷཿ།
I should wish everyone to be just what I am myself. But everyone has his own gift from God – one in one way, and one in another.
8 ཨཔརམ྄ ཨཀྲྀཏཝིཝཱཧཱན྄ ཝིདྷཝཱཤྩ པྲཏི མམཻཏནྣིཝེདནཾ མམེཝ ཏེཥཱམཝསྠིཏི རྦྷདྲཱ;
My advice, then, to those who are not married, and to widows, is this: It would be good for them to remain as I am myself.
9 ཀིཉྩ ཡདི ཏཻརིནྡྲིཡཱཎི ནིཡནྟུཾ ན ཤཀྱནྟེ ཏརྷི ཝིཝཱཧཿ ཀྲིཡཏཱཾ ཡཏཿ ཀཱམདཧནཱད྄ ཝྱཱུཌྷཏྭཾ བྷདྲཾ།
But, if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to be consumed with passion.
10 ཡེ ཙ ཀྲྀཏཝིཝཱཧཱསྟེ མཡཱ ནཧི པྲབྷུནཻཝཻཏད྄ ཨཱཛྙཱཔྱནྟེ།
To those who are married my direction is – yet it is not mine, but the Master’s – that a woman is not to leave her husband
11 བྷཱཪྻྱཱ བྷརྟྟྲྀཏཿ པྲྀཐཀ྄ ན བྷཝཏུ། ཡདི ཝཱ པྲྀཐགྦྷཱུཏཱ སྱཱཏ྄ ཏརྷི ནིཪྻིཝཱཧཱ ཏིཥྛཏུ སྭཱིཡཔཏིནཱ ཝཱ སནྡདྷཱཏུ བྷརྟྟཱཔི བྷཱཪྻྱཱཾ ན ཏྱཛཏུ།
(If she has done so, she should remain as she is, or else be reconciled to her husband) and also that a man is not to divorce his wife.
12 ཨིཏརཱན྄ ཛནཱན྄ པྲཏི པྲབྷུ རྣ བྲཝཱིཏི ཀིནྟྭཧཾ བྲཝཱིམི; ཀསྱཙིད྄ བྷྲཱཏུཪྻོཥིད྄ ཨཝིཤྭཱསིནཱི སཏྱཔི ཡདི ཏེན སཧཝཱསེ ཏུཥྱཏི ཏརྷི སཱ ཏེན ན ཏྱཛྱཏཱཾ།
To all others I say – I, not the Master – If a follower of the Lord is married to a woman, who is an unbeliever but willing to live with him, he should not divorce her;
13 ཏདྭཏ྄ ཀསྱཱཤྩིད྄ ཡོཥིཏཿ པཏིརཝིཤྭཱསཱི སནྣཔི ཡདི ཏཡཱ སཧཝཱསེ ཏུཥྱཏི ཏརྷི ས ཏཡཱ ན ཏྱཛྱཏཱཾ།
and a woman who is married to a man, who is an unbeliever but willing to live with her, should not divorce her husband.
14 ཡཏོ྅ཝིཤྭཱསཱི བྷརྟྟཱ བྷཱཪྻྱཡཱ པཝིཏྲཱིབྷཱུཏཿ, ཏདྭདཝིཤྭཱསིནཱི བྷཱཪྻྱཱ བྷརྟྲཱ པཝིཏྲཱིབྷཱུཏཱ; ནོཙེད྄ ཡུཥྨཱཀམཔཏྱཱནྱཤུཙཱིནྱབྷཝིཥྱན྄ ཀིནྟྭདྷུནཱ ཏཱནི པཝིཏྲཱཎི སནྟི།
For, through his wife, the husband who is an unbeliever has become associated with Christ’s people; and the wife who is an unbeliever has become associated with Christ’s people through the Lord’s follower whom she has married. Otherwise your children would be “defiled,” but, as it is, they belong to Christ’s people.
15 ཨཝིཤྭཱསཱི ཛནོ ཡདི ཝཱ པྲྀཐག྄ བྷཝཏི ཏརྷི པྲྀཐག྄ བྷཝཏུ; ཨེཏེན བྷྲཱཏཱ བྷགིནཱི ཝཱ ན ནིབདྷྱཏེ ཏཐཱཔི ཝཡམཱིཤྭརེཎ ཤཱནྟཡེ སམཱཧཱུཏཱཿ།
However, if the unbeliever wishes to be separated, let them be so. Under such circumstances neither is bound; God has called you to live in peace.
16 ཧེ ནཱརི ཏཝ བྷརྟྟུཿ པརིཏྲཱཎཾ ཏྭཏྟོ བྷཝིཥྱཏི ན ཝེཏི ཏྭཡཱ ཀིཾ ཛྙཱཡཏེ? ཧེ ནར ཏཝ ཛཱཡཱཡཱཿ པརིཏྲཱཎཾ ཏྭཏྟེ བྷཝིཥྱཏི ན ཝེཏི ཏྭཡཱ ཀིཾ ཛྙཱཡཏེ?
How can you tell, wife, whether you may not save your husband? And how can you tell, husband, whether you may not save your wife?
17 ཨེཀཻཀོ ཛནཿ པརམེཤྭརཱལླབྡྷཾ ཡད྄ བྷཛཏེ ཡསྱཱཉྩཱཝསྠཱཡཱམ྄ ཨཱིཤྭརེཎཱཧྭཱཡི ཏདནུསཱརེཎཻཝཱཙརཏུ ཏདཧཾ སཪྻྭསམཱཛསྠཱན྄ ཨཱདིཤཱམི།
In any case, a person should continue to live in the condition which the Lord has allotted to them, and in which they were when God called them. This is the rule that I lay down in every church.
18 ཚིནྣཏྭག྄ བྷྲྀཏྭཱ ཡ ཨཱཧཱུཏཿ ས པྲཀྲྀཥྚཏྭཀ྄ ན བྷཝཏུ, ཏདྭད྄ ཨཚིནྣཏྭག྄ བྷཱུཏྭཱ ཡ ཨཱཧཱུཏཿ ས ཚིནྣཏྭཀ྄ ན བྷཝཏུ།
Was a man already circumcised when he was called? Then he should not efface his circumcision. Has a man been called when uncircumcised? Then he should not be circumcised.
19 ཏྭཀྪེདཿ སཱརོ ནཧི ཏདྭདཏྭཀྪེདོ྅པི སཱརོ ནཧི ཀིནྟྭཱིཤྭརསྱཱཛྙཱནཱཾ པཱལནམེཝ།
Circumcision is nothing; the want of it is nothing; but to keep the commands of God is everything.
20 ཡོ ཛནོ ཡསྱཱམཝསྠཱཡཱམཱཧྭཱཡི ས ཏསྱཱམེཝཱཝཏིཥྛཏཱཾ།
Let everyone remain in that condition of life in which they were when the call came to them.
21 དཱསཿ སན྄ ཏྭཾ ཀིམཱཧཱུཏོ྅སི? ཏནྨཱ ཙིནྟཡ, ཏཐཱཙ ཡདི སྭཏནྟྲོ བྷཝིཏུཾ ཤཀྣུཡཱསྟརྷི ཏདེཝ ཝྲྀཎུ།
Were you a slave when you were called? Do not let that trouble you. No, even if you are able to gain your freedom, still do your best.
22 ཡཏཿ པྲབྷུནཱཧཱུཏོ ཡོ དཱསཿ ས པྲབྷོ རྨོཙིཏཛནཿ། ཏདྭད྄ ཏེནཱཧཱུཏཿ སྭཏནྟྲོ ཛནོ྅པི ཁྲཱིཥྚསྱ དཱས ཨེཝ།
For the person who was a slave when they were called to the master’s service is the Master’s freedman; so, too, the person who was free when called is Christ’s slave.
23 ཡཱུཡཾ མཱུལྱེན ཀྲཱིཏཱ ཨཏོ ཧེཏོ རྨཱནཝཱནཱཾ དཱསཱ མཱ བྷཝཏ།
You were bought, and the price was paid. Do not let yourselves become slaves to people.
24 ཧེ བྷྲཱཏརོ ཡསྱཱམཝསྠཱཡཱཾ ཡསྱཱཧྭཱནམབྷཝཏ྄ ཏཡཱ ས ཨཱིཤྭརསྱ སཱཀྵཱཏ྄ ཏིཥྛཏུ།
Friends, let everyone remain in the condition in which they were when they were called, in close communion with God.
25 ཨཔརམ྄ ཨཀྲྀཏཝིཝཱཧཱན྄ ཛནཱན྄ པྲཏི པྲབྷོཿ ཀོ྅པྱཱདེཤོ མཡཱ ན ལབྡྷཿ ཀིནྟུ པྲབྷོརནུཀམྤཡཱ ཝིཤྭཱསྱོ བྷཱུཏོ྅ཧཾ ཡད྄ བྷདྲཾ མནྱེ ཏད྄ ཝདཱམི།
With regard to unmarried women, I have no command from the Master to give you, but I tell you my opinion, and the Master in his mercy has made me worthy to be trusted.
26 ཝརྟྟམཱནཱཏ྄ ཀླེཤསམཡཱཏ྄ མནུཥྱསྱཱནཱུཌྷཏྭཾ བྷདྲམིཏི མཡཱ བུདྷྱཏེ།
I think, then, that, in view of the time of suffering that has now come upon us, what I have already said is best – that a man should remain as he is.
27 ཏྭཾ ཀིཾ ཡོཥིཏི ནིབདྡྷོ྅སི ཏརྷི མོཙནཾ པྲཱཔྟུཾ མཱ ཡཏསྭ། ཀིཾ ཝཱ ཡོཥིཏོ མུཀྟོ྅སི? ཏརྷི ཛཱཡཱཾ མཱ གཝེཥཡ།
Are you married to a wife? Then do not seek to be separated. Are you separated from a wife? Then do not seek for a wife.
28 ཝིཝཱཧཾ ཀུཪྻྭཏཱ ཏྭཡཱ ཀིམཔི ནཱཔཱརཱདྷྱཏེ ཏདྭད྄ ཝྱཱུཧྱམཱནཡཱ ཡུཝཏྱཱཔི ཀིམཔི ནཱཔརཱདྷྱཏེ ཏཐཱཙ ཏཱདྲྀཤཽ དྭཽ ཛནཽ ཤཱརཱིརིཀཾ ཀླེཤཾ ལཔྶྱེཏེ ཀིནྟུ ཡུཥྨཱན྄ པྲཏི མམ ཀརུཎཱ ཝིདྱཏེ།
Still, if you should marry, that is not wrong; nor, if a young woman marries, is that wrong. But those who marry will have much trouble to bear, and my wish is to spare you.
29 ཧེ བྷྲཱཏརོ྅ཧམིདཾ བྲཝཱིམི, ཨིཏཿ པརཾ སམཡོ྅ཏཱིཝ སཾཀྵིཔྟཿ,
What I mean, friends, is this – the time is short. Meanwhile, let those who have wives live as if they had none,
30 ཨཏཿ ཀྲྀཏདཱརཻརཀྲྀཏདཱརཻརིཝ རུདདྦྷིཤྩཱརུདདྦྷིརིཝ སཱནནྡཻཤྩ ནིརཱནནྡཻརིཝ ཀྲེཏྲྀབྷིཤྩཱབྷཱགིབྷིརིཝཱཙརིཏཝྱཾ
those who are weeping as if not weeping, those who are rejoicing as if not rejoicing, those who buy as if not possessing,
31 ཡེ ཙ སཾསཱརེ ཙརནྟི ཏཻ རྣཱཏིཙརིཏཝྱཾ ཡཏ ཨིཧལེཀསྱ ཀཽཏུཀོ ཝིཙལཏི།
and those who use the good things of the world as using them sparingly; for this world as we see it is passing away.
32 ཀིནྟུ ཡཱུཡཾ ཡནྣིཤྩིནྟཱ བྷཝེཏེཏི མམ ཝཱཉྪཱ། ཨཀྲྀཏཝིཝཱཧོ ཛནོ ཡཐཱ པྲབྷུཾ པརིཏོཥཡེཏ྄ ཏཐཱ པྲབྷུཾ ཙིནྟཡཏི,
I want you to be free from anxiety. The unmarried man is anxious about the Master’s cause, desiring to please him;
33 ཀིནྟུ ཀྲྀཏཝིཝཱཧོ ཛནོ ཡཐཱ བྷཱཪྻྱཱཾ པརིཏོཥཡེཏ྄ ཏཐཱ སཾསཱརཾ ཙིནྟཡཏི།
while the married man is anxious about worldly matters, desiring to please his wife;
34 ཏདྭད྄ ཨཱུཌྷཡོཥིཏོ ྅ནཱུཌྷཱ ཝིཤིཥྱཏེ། ཡཱནཱུཌྷཱ སཱ ཡཐཱ ཀཱཡམནསོཿ པཝིཏྲཱ བྷཝེཏ྄ ཏཐཱ པྲབྷུཾ ཙིནྟཡཏི ཡཱ ཙོཌྷཱ སཱ ཡཐཱ བྷརྟྟཱརཾ པརིཏོཥཡེཏ྄ ཏཐཱ སཾསཱརཾ ཙིནྟཡཏི།
and so his interests are divided. Again, the unmarried woman, whether she is old or young, is anxious about the Master’s cause, striving to be pure both in body and in spirit, while the married woman is anxious about worldly matters, desiring to please her husband.
35 ཨཧཾ ཡད྄ ཡུཥྨཱན྄ མྲྀགབནྡྷིནྱཱ པརིཀྵིཔེཡཾ ཏདརྠཾ ནཧི ཀིནྟུ ཡཱུཡཾ ཡདནིནྡིཏཱ བྷཱུཏྭཱ པྲབྷོཿ སེཝནེ྅བཱདྷམ྄ ཨཱསཀྟཱ བྷཝེཏ ཏདརྠམེཏཱནི སཪྻྭཱཎི ཡུཥྨཱཀཾ ཧིཏཱཡ མཡཱ ཀཐྱནྟེ།
I say this for your own benefit, not with any intention of putting a halter round your necks, but in order to secure for the Master seemly and constant devotion, free from all distraction.
36 ཀསྱཙིཏ྄ ཀནྱཱཡཱཾ ཡཽཝནཔྲཱཔྟཱཡཱཾ ཡདི ས ཏསྱཱ ཨནཱུཌྷཏྭཾ ནིནྡནཱིཡཾ ཝིཝཱཧཤྩ སཱདྷཡིཏཝྱ ཨིཏི མནྱཏེ ཏརྷི ཡཐཱབྷིལཱཥཾ ཀརོཏུ, ཨེཏེན ཀིམཔི ནཱཔརཱཏྶྱཏི ཝིཝཱཧཿ ཀྲིཡཏཱཾ།
If, however, a father thinks that he is not acting fairly by his unmarried daughter, when she is past her youth, and if under these circumstances her marriage ought to take place, he should act as he thinks right. He is doing nothing wrong – let the marriage take place.
37 ཀིནྟུ དུཿཁེནཱཀླིཥྚཿ ཀཤྩིཏ྄ པིཏཱ ཡདི སྠིརམནོགཏཿ སྭམནོ྅བྷིལཱཥསཱདྷནེ སམརྠཤྩ སྱཱཏ྄ མམ ཀནྱཱ མཡཱ རཀྵིཏཝྱེཏི མནསི ནིཤྩིནོཏི ཙ ཏརྷི ས བྷདྲཾ ཀརྨྨ ཀརོཏི།
On the other hand, a father, who has definitely made up his mind, and is under no compulsion, but is free to carry out his own wishes, and who has come to the decision, in his own mind, to keep his unmarried daughter at home will be doing right.
38 ཨཏོ ཡོ ཝིཝཱཧཾ ཀརོཏི ས བྷདྲཾ ཀརྨྨ ཀརོཏི ཡཤྩ ཝིཝཱཧཾ ན ཀརོཏི ས བྷདྲཏརཾ ཀརྨྨ ཀརོཏི།
In short, the one who consents to his daughter’s marriage is doing right, and yet the other will be doing better.
39 ཡཱཝཏྐཱལཾ པཏི རྫཱིཝཏི ཏཱཝད྄ བྷཱཪྻྱཱ ཝྱཝསྠཡཱ ནིབདྡྷཱ ཏིཥྛཏི ཀིནྟུ པཏྱཽ མཧཱནིདྲཱཾ གཏེ སཱ མུཀྟཱིབྷཱུཡ ཡམབྷིལཥཏི ཏེན སཧ ཏསྱཱ ཝིཝཱཧོ བྷཝིཏུཾ ཤཀྣོཏི, ཀིནྟྭེཏཏ྄ ཀེཝལཾ པྲབྷུབྷཀྟཱནཱཾ མདྷྱེ།
A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives; but, if the husband should pass to his rest, the widow is free to marry anyone she wishes, provided he is a believer.
40 ཏཐཱཙ སཱ ཡདི ནིཥྤཏིཀཱ ཏིཥྛཏི ཏརྷི ཏསྱཱཿ ཀྵེམཾ བྷཝིཥྱཏཱིཏི མམ བྷཱཝཿ། ཨཔརམ྄ ཨཱིཤྭརསྱཱཏྨཱ མམཱཔྱནྟ ཪྻིདྱཏ ཨིཏི མཡཱ བུདྷྱཏེ།
Yet she will be happier if she remains as she is – in my opinion, for I think that I also have the Spirit of God.
