1 Corinthians 4

1 Let men this wyse esteme vs eve as the ministers of Christ and disposers of ye secretes of God.

Thus let us be accounted of you as ministers of the Meshiha, and stewards of the mysteries of Aloha.

2 Furthermore it is requyred of the disposers that they be founde faithfull.

So now is it required of a steward that he be one found faithful.

3 With me is it but a very smal thinge that I shuld be iudged of you ether of (mans daye) No I iudge not myn awne selfe.

But to me it is a little thing to be Judged by you, or by any man; neither do I judge myself,

4 I know nought by my selfe: yet am I not therby iustified. It is the Lorde that iudgeth me.

for of nothing in myself am I conscious; but not by this am I justified, but my judge is the Lord.

5 Therfore iudge no thinge before the tyme vntill the Lorde come which will lighten thinges that are hyd in darcknes and ope the counsels of the hertes. And then shall every man have prayse of God.

Therefore, do not judge before the time, until the Lord come, who will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the thoughts of hearts. Then will there be praise to each man from Aloha.

6 These thinges brethre I have described in myn awne person and Apollos for youre sakes that ye myght learne by vs that no man coute of him selfe beyonde that which is above written: that one swell not agaynst another for eny mans cause.

BUT these things, my brethren, for your sakes I have applied to the person of myself and of Apolo, that through us you may learn not to think of us beyond what is written; and that one above his neighbour may not be exalted on account of any thing.

7 For who preferreth the? What hast thou that thou hast not receaved? Yf thou have receaved it why reioysest thou as though thou haddest not receaved it?

For who distinguisheth thee? Or, what hast thou which thou hast not received? And if thou hast received, why dost thou boast as if thou hadst not received?

8 Now ye are full: now ye are made rych: ye raygne as kinges with out vs: and I wold to god ye dyd raygne that we might raygne with you.

Now you are satiated, and are rich, and without us have reigned. But I would that you did reign, that we might also reign with you!

9 Me thinketh that God hath set forth vs which are Apostles for the lowest of all as it were me appoynted to deeth. For we are a gasyngestocke vnto the worlde and to ye angels and to men.

But I consider that us, the apostles, Aloha hath set last, as unto death, to be a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men,

10 We are foles for Christes sake and ye are wyse thorow Christ. We are weake and ye are stroge. Ye are honorable and we are despised.

We are fools for the sake of the Meshiha, but we are wise in the Meshiha; we are the weak, but you are the mighty; you are glorified, and we abased.

11 Eve vnto this daye we honger and thyrst and are naked and are boffetted wt fistes and have no certayne dwellinge place

Until this hour we hunger and thirst, we are naked and beaten and have no fixed dwelling;

12 and laboure workinge with oure awne hondes. We are revysed and yet we blesse. We are persecuted and suffer it.

and we labour, working with our hands. They revile us, and we bless; they persecute us, and we endure;

13 We are evyll spoken of and we praye. We are made as it were the filthynes of the worlde the ofscowringe of all thinges even vnto this tyme.

they maltreat us, and we pray for them; as the refuse of the world are we made and the execration of all men until now.

14 I write not these thinges to shame you: but as my beloved sonnes I warne you.

Not as to shame you write I these things, but as my beloved children I admonish (you).

15 For though ye have ten thousande instructours in Christ: yet have ye not many fathers. In Christ Iesu I have begotten you thorowe ye gospell.

For if you have ten thousand teachers in the Meshiha, yet not many fathers; for in Jeshu Meshiha I have begotten you through the gospel.

16 Wherfore I desyre you to folowe me.

I entreat then of you that you be like me.

17 For this cause have I sent vnto you Timotheus which is my deare sonne and faithfull in the Lorde which shall put you in remembrauce of my wayes which I have in Christ eve as I teache every where in all congregacios.

WHEREFORE I have sent to you Timotheos, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, that he may remind you of my ways in the Meshiha, according to that which I teach in all the churches.

18 Some swell as though I wolde come no more at you.

But as if I were not coming to you, some of you are inflated.

19 But I will come to you shortely yf God will: and will knowe not ye wordes of the which swell but ye power:

But if the Lord will, quickly come I unto you; and I will know not the words of them who exalt themselves, but their power.

20 for ye kyngdome of God is not in wordes but in power.

For the kingdom of Aloha is not in word, but in power.

21 What will ye? Shall I come vnto you with a rodde or els in love and in the sprete of mekenes?

How are you willing? with a rod shall I come to you, or with love and with the spirit of kindliness?