1 Corinthians 4
1 So let a man think of us as Messiah’s servants and stewards of God’s mysteries.
Kastoy ti rumbeng a panangibilang dagiti tao kadakami, kas dagiti adipen ni Cristo ken dagiti mangay-aywan kadagiti nailimed a kinapudno ti Dios.
2 Here, moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.
Iti kasta nagrud, kasapulan para kadagiti mangay-aywan nga agbalinda a mapagtalkan.
3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by a human court. Yes, I don’t even judge my own self.
Ngem para kaniak bassit unay a banag a maukomak babaen kadakayo wenno babaen iti aniaman a pangukoman iti tao. Ta saanko pay nga uk-ukomen ti bagik.
4 For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.
Saanko nga ammo ti aniaman a pammabasol a naaramid maibusor kaniak, ngem saanna a kayat a sawen dayta nga awan ti basolko. Ti Apo ti mangukom kaniak.
5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.
Ngarud, saankayo nga agibalikas iti panangukom maipanggep iti aniaman a banag sakbay ti tiempo, sakbay nga umay ti Apo. Ipannanto iti lawag dagiti nailimed a banbanag iti sipnget ken iparangna dagiti panggep iti puso. Ket awatento ti tunggal maysa ti pammadayawna manipud iti Dios.
6 Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.
Ita, kakabsat a lallaki ken babbai, inusarko dagitoy a pagannurotan iti bagik ken ni Apolos para iti pagimbaganyo, tapno mabalinyo masursuro kadakami ti kayat a sawen iti pagsasao a, “Saankayo a lumabes iti naisurat.” Daytoy ket tapno awan kadakayo ti mangitangsit iti maysa a tao maibusor ti sabali.
7 For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?
Ta siasino ti makakita ti aniaman a nagdumaanyo ken dagiti sabali? Ania iti adda kadakayo a saanyo a siwawaya a naawat? No siwawaya a naawatyo daytoy, apay nga agpalanggguadkayo a kasla saanyo a siwaya-waya a naawat daytoy?
8 You are already filled. You have already become rich. You have come to reign without us. Yes, and I wish that you did reign, that we also might reign with you!
Addan kadakayo iti amin a kayatyo! Bimmaknangkayon! Nangrugikayon nga agturay—nga adayo manipud kadakami! Pudno, tarigagayak a nagturaykayo koma, tapno mabalinkami a makipagturay kadakayo.
9 For I think that God has displayed us, the emissaries, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.
Ta ti pagarupko ket inkabilnakami ti Dios nga apostol a maiparang a kas ti kaudian iti pila ti prusision ken kasla kadagiti lallaki a naikeddeng a mapapatay. Nagbalinkami a naisangsangayan a pabuya iti lubong, kadagiti anghel ken kadagiti tattao.
10 We are fools for Messiah’s sake, but you are wise in Messiah. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honour, but we have dishonour.
Maagkami para kenni Cristo, ngem masiribkayo kenni Cristo. Nakapuykami, ngem napigsakayo. Napadayawankayo, ngem naum-umsikami.
11 Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.
Agingga iti daytoy nga agdama a tiempo, mabisin ken mawawkami, nakawesankami a sikukurapay, nakabilkabilkami iti nakaro, ken awan ti pagtaenganmi.
12 We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.
Agtrabahokami ti kasta unay, agtrabtrabahokami babaen kadagiti bukodmi nga ima. No mailunodkami, mangbendisionkami. No maidadaneskami, agibturkami.
13 Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.
No napadakeskami, agsaokami ti kinaimbag. Nagbalinkami, ken maibilbilang pay laeng a basura ti lubong ken ti karugitan kadagiti amin a banbanag.
14 I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
Saanko nga isursurat dagitoy a banbanag tapno pabainankayo, ngem tapno ilintegkayo a kas ay-ayatek nga annakko.
15 For though you have ten thousand tutors in Messiah, you don’t have many fathers. For in Messiah Yeshua, I became your father through the Good News.
Ta uray no addaankayo iti sangapulo a ribu a mangay-aywan kenni Cristo, awan ti adu nga ammayo. Ta nagbalinak nga amayo kenni Cristo Jesus babaen iti ebanghelio.
16 I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.
Isu a guyugoyenkayo a tuladendak.
17 Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Messiah, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.
Isu nga imbaonko ni Timoteo kadakayo, ti ay-ayatek ken napudno nga anakko iti Apo. Ipalagipna kadakayo dagiti wagasko kenni Cristo, kas isursurok dagitoy iti sadinoman ken iti tunggal iglesia.
18 Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.
Ita, napalangguad unay ti sumagmamano kadakayo, nga agtigtignay a kasla saanakon nga umay kadakayo.
19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is willing. And I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.
Ngem umayakto kadakayo iti mabiit, no pagayatan ti Apo. Ken maammoakto saan laeng nga iti sasao dagitoy a napalangguad unay, ngem makitakto ti bilegda.
20 For God’s Kingdom is not in word, but in power.
Ta ti pagarian ti Dios ket saan a nabukel iti sasao ngem ti pannakabalin.
21 What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?
Ania ti kayatyo? Umayak kadi kadakayo nga addaan ti pang-or wenno addaan ti ayat ken espiritu iti kinaalumamay?
