١ كورنثوس 4

١ 1 هَكَذَا فَلْيَحْسِبْنَا ٱلْإِنْسَانُ كَخُدَّامِ ٱلْمَسِيحِ، وَوُكَلَاءِ سَرَائِرِ ٱللهِ،

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

٢ 2 ثُمَّ يُسْأَلُ فِي ٱلْوُكَلَاءِ لِكَيْ يُوجَدَ ٱلْإِنْسَانُ أَمِينًا.

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

٣ 3 وَأَمَّا أَنَا فَأَقَلُّ شَيْءٍ عِنْدِي أَنْ يُحْكَمَ فِيَّ مِنْكُمْ، أَوْ مِنْ يَوْمِ بَشَرٍ. بَلْ لَسْتُ أَحْكُمُ فِي نَفْسِي أَيْضًا.

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.

٤ 4 فَإِنِّي لَسْتُ أَشْعُرُ بِشَيْءٍ فِي ذَاتِي. لَكِنَّنِي لَسْتُ بِذَلِكَ مُبَرَّرًا. وَلَكِنَّ ٱلَّذِي يَحْكُمُ فِيَّ هُوَ ٱلرَّبُّ.

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

٥ 5 إِذًا لَا تَحْكُمُوا فِي شَيْءٍ قَبْلَ ٱلْوَقْتِ، حَتَّى يَأْتِيَ ٱلرَّبُّ ٱلَّذِي سَيُنِيرُ خَفَايَا ٱلظَّلَامِ وَيُظْهِرُ آرَاءَ ٱلْقُلُوبِ. وَحِينَئِذٍ يَكُونُ ٱلْمَدْحُ لِكُلِّ وَاحِدٍ مِنَ ٱللهِ.

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.

٦ 6 فَهَذَا أَيُّهَا ٱلْإِخْوَةُ حَوَّلْتُهُ تَشْبِيهًا إِلَى نَفْسِي وَإِلَى أَبُلُّوسَ مِنْ أَجْلِكُمْ، لِكَيْ تَتَعَلَّمُوا فِينَا: «أَنْ لَا تَفْتَكِرُوا فَوْقَ مَا هُوَ مَكْتُوبٌ»، كَيْ لَا يَنْتَفِخَ أَحَدٌ لِأَجْلِ ٱلْوَاحِدِ عَلَى ٱلْآخَرِ.

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.

٧ 7 لِأَنَّهُ مَنْ يُمَيِّزُكَ؟ وَأَيُّ شَيْءٍ لَكَ لَمْ تَأْخُذْهُ؟ وَإِنْ كُنْتَ قَدْ أَخَذْتَ، فَلِمَاذَا تَفْتَخِرُ كَأَنَّكَ لَمْ تَأْخُذْ؟

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?

٨ 8 إِنَّكُمْ قَدْ شَبِعْتُمْ! قَدِ ٱسْتَغْنَيْتُمْ! مَلَكْتُمْ بِدُونِنَا! وَلَيْتَكُمْ مَلَكْتُمْ لِنَمْلِكَ نَحْنُ أَيْضًا مَعَكُمْ!

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.

٩ 9 فَإِنِّي أَرَى أَنَّ ٱللهَ أَبْرَزَنَا نَحْنُ ٱلرُّسُلَ آخِرِينَ، كَأَنَّنَا مَحْكُومٌ عَلَيْنَا بِٱلْمَوْتِ. لِأَنَّنَا صِرْنَا مَنْظَرًا لِلْعَالَمِ، لِلْمَلَائِكَةِ وَٱلنَّاسِ.

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.

١٠ 10 نَحْنُ جُهَّالٌ مِنْ أَجْلِ ٱلْمَسِيحِ، وَأَمَّا أَنْتُمْ فَحُكَمَاءُ فِي ٱلْمَسِيحِ! نَحْنُ ضُعَفَاءُ، وَأَمَّا أَنْتُمْ فَأَقْوِيَاءُ! أَنْتُمْ مُكَرَّمُونَ، وَأَمَّا نَحْنُ فَبِلَا كَرَامَةٍ!

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.

١١ 11 إِلَى هَذِهِ ٱلسَّاعَةِ نَجُوعُ وَنَعْطَشُ وَنَعْرَى وَنُلْكَمُ وَلَيْسَ لَنَا إِقَامَةٌ،

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

١٢ 12 وَنَتْعَبُ عَامِلِينَ بِأَيْدِينَا. نُشْتَمُ فَنُبَارِكُ. نُضْطَهَدُ فَنَحْتَمِلُ.

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

١٣ 13 يُفْتَرَى عَلَيْنَا فَنَعِظُ. صِرْنَا كَأَقْذَارِ ٱلْعَالَمِ وَوَسَخِ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ إِلَى ٱلْآنَ.

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.

١٤ 14 لَيْسَ لِكَيْ أُخَجِّلَكُمْ أَكْتُبُ بِهَذَا، بَلْ كَأَوْلَادِي ٱلْأَحِبَّاءِ أُنْذِرُكُمْ.

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

١٥ 15 لِأَنَّهُ وَإِنْ كَانَ لَكُمْ رَبَوَاتٌ مِنَ ٱلْمُرْشِدِينَ فِي ٱلْمَسِيحِ، لَكِنْ لَيْسَ آبَاءٌ كَثِيرُونَ. لِأَنِّي أَنَا وَلَدْتُكُمْ فِي ٱلْمَسِيحِ يَسُوعَ بِٱلْإِنْجِيلِ.

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.

١٦ 16 فَأَطْلُبُ إِلَيْكُمْ أَنْ تَكُونُوا مُتَمَثِّلِينَ بِي.

Wherfore I desyre you to folowe me.

١٧ 17 لِذَلِكَ أَرْسَلْتُ إِلَيْكُمْ تِيمُوثَاوُسَ، ٱلَّذِي هُوَ ٱبْنِي ٱلْحَبِيبُ وَٱلْأَمِينُ فِي ٱلرَّبِّ، ٱلَّذِي يُذَكِّرُكُمْ بِطُرُقِي فِي ٱلْمَسِيحِ كَمَا أُعَلِّمُ فِي كُلِّ مَكَانٍ، فِي كُلِّ كَنِيسَةٍ.

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.

١٨ 18 فَٱنْتَفَخَ قَوْمٌ كَأَنِّي لَسْتُ آتِيًا إِلَيْكُمْ.

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

١٩ 19 وَلَكِنِّي سَآتِي إِلَيْكُمْ سَرِيعًا إِنْ شَاءَ ٱلرَّبُّ، فَسَأَعْرِفُ لَيْسَ كَلَامَ ٱلَّذِينَ ٱنْتَفَخُوا بَلْ قُوَّتَهُمْ.

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

٢٠ 20 لِأَنَّ مَلَكُوتَ ٱللهِ لَيْسَ بِكَلَامٍ، بَلْ بِقُوَّةٍ.

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

٢١ 21 مَاذَا تُرِيدُونَ؟ أَبِعَصًا آتِي إِلَيْكُمْ أَمْ بِٱلْمَحَبَّةِ وَرُوحِ ٱلْوَدَاعَةِ؟

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