Corinthios I 4

1 Sic nos existimet homo ut ministros Christi: et dispensatores mysteriorum Dei.

Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

2 Hic iam quaeritur inter dispensatores ut fidelis quis inveniatur.

Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.

3 Mihi autem pro minimo est ut a vobis iudicer, aut ab humano die: sed neque meipsum iudico.

But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.

4 Nihil enim mihi conscius sum: sed non in hoc iustificatus sum: qui autem iudicat me, Dominus est.

For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judges me is the Lord.

5 Itaque nolite ante tempus iudicare, quoadusque veniat Dominus: qui et illuminabit abscondita tenebrarum, et manifestabit consilia cordium: et tunc laus erit unicuique a Deo.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.

6 Haec autem, fratres, transfiguravi in me et Apollo, propter vos: ut in nobis discatis, ne supra quam scriptum est, unus adversus alterum infletur pro alio.

And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that all of you might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.

7 Quis enim te discernit? Quid autem habes quod non accepisti? Si autem accepisti, quid gloriaris quasi non acceperis?

For who makes you to differ from another? and what have you that you did not receive? now if you did receive it, why do you glory, as if you had not received it?

8 Iam saturati estis, iam divites facti estis: sine nobis regnatis: et utinam regnetis, ut et nos vobiscum regnemus.

Now all of you are full, now all of you are rich, all of you have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God all of you did reign, that we also might reign with you.

9 Puto enim quod Deus nos Apostolos novissimos ostendit, tamquam morti destinatos: quia spectaculum facti sumus mundo, et Angelis, et hominibus.

For I think that God has set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.

10 Nos stulti propter Christum, vos autem prudentes in Christo: nos infirmi, vos autem fortes: vos nobiles, nos autem ignobiles.

We are fools for Christ's sake, but all of you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but all of you are strong; all of you are honourable, but we are despised.

11 Usque in hanc horam et esurimus, et sitimus, et nudi sumus, et colaphis caedimur, et instabiles sumus,

Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling place;

12 et laboramus operantes manibus nostris: maledicimur, et benedicimus: persecutionem patimur, et sustinemus:

And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:

13 blasphemamur, et obsecramus: tamquam purgamenta huius mundi facti sumus, omnium peripsema usque adhuc.

Being defamed, we implore: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the waste of all things unto this day.

14 Non ut confundam vos, haec scribo, sed ut filios meos charissimos moneo.

I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.

15 Nam si decem millia paedagogorum habeatis in Christo: sed non multos patres. Nam in Christo Iesu per Evangelium ego vos genui.

For though all of you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have all of you not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

16 Rogo ergo vos, imitatores mei estote, sicut et ego Christi.

Wherefore I plead to you, be all of you followers of me.

17 Ideo misi ad vos Timotheum, qui est filius meus charissimus, et fidelis in Domino: qui vos commonefaciet vias meas, quae sunt in Christo Iesu, sicut ubique in omni Ecclesia doceo.

For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.

18 Tamquam non venturus sim ad vos, sic inflati sunt quidam.

Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.

19 Veniam autem ad vos cito, si Dominus voluerit: et cognoscam non sermonem eorum, qui inflati sunt, sed virtutem.

But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech (logos) of them which are puffed up, but the power.

20 Non enim in sermone est regnum Dei, sed in virtute.

For the kingdom of God is not in word, (logos) but in power.

21 Quid vultis? in virga veniam ad vos, an in charitate, et spiritu mansuetudinis?

What will all of you? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, (agape) and in the spirit (pneuma) of meekness?