1 Corinthians 7
1 Now concerning the things whereof you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Nangmouh ni kai na poe e ca dawk kaawm e naw teh, tongpa teh napui hoi tak hmawng hoehpawiteh ahawi ei,
2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
kamsoumhoehe napui tongpa yonnae sak hoeh nahanelah, tongpa pueng a yu tawn naseh. Napui pueng amae vâ tawn naseh.
3 Let the husband render to the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife to the husband.
Tongpa ni a yu koe yuvâ lah onae kuep sak naseh. A yu ni hai a vâ dawk kuep sak naseh.
4 The wife has not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband has not power of his own body, but the wife.
Yu ni amae tak dawk kâtawnnae tawn hoeh, vâ ni doeh a tawn. Hot patetvanlah, vâ ni amae tak dawk kâtawnnae tawn hoeh, yu ni doeh a tawn.
5 Defraud you not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
Ratoum nahan atueng dawngdeng kahawicalah hno thai nahanelah, buet touh hoi buet touh hnâbonae awm laipalah, alouklouk lah awm awh hanh. Hottelah na awm awh pawiteh, Setan ni na tacuek awh hoeh nahanlah cungtalah reirei bout awm awh.
6 But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.
Hottelah ka dei navah, nangmouh ni na tarawi hane la doeh ka dei. Kâpoelawk na poe e nahoeh.
7 For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man has his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
Tongpa pueng kai patetlah o sak hane ka ngai. Hatei tami pueng ni Cathut koe e poehno teh rip coe awh. Buet touh ni alouke a tawn, alouke buet touh ni hai alouke a tawn van.
8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
A yu ka lat hoeh e tongpanaw hoi, a vâ ka sak hoeh e lahmai napuinaw koe, kai ni ka dei e teh, kai patetlah na awm awh pawiteh ahawi.
9 But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
Hatei, namahoima na ka cakuep thai hoehpawiteh, yu lat van awh naseh. Kâcakuep thai hoeh e hlak teh yu la vâ sak e ahawihnawn.
10 And to the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
Yuvâ lah kaawm naw koe, kai ni laipalah, Bawipa koehoi e kâ poe, kai ni na poe awh e teh, yu ni a vâ mat hanh naseh.
11 But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.
Mat pawiteh vâ sak laipalah awm lawiseh. Nahoeh pawiteh apasuek e vâ hoi bout kâmaihawi naseh. Vâ ni hai a yu mat nahanh seh.
12 But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother has a wife that believes not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.
Alouke taminaw hanelah Bawipa ni a dei e nahoeh, kai ni ka dei e teh, hmaunawngha buet touh ni ka yuem hoeh e napui a yu navah, hote napui ni a vâ hoi pou o hane ngai pawiteh, a yu a ma hanelah awmhoeh.
13 And the woman which has an husband that believes not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.
Hot patetvanlah, napui buet touh ni ka yuem hoeh e a vâ navah, hote tongpa ni a yu hoi pou o hane ngai pawiteh, napui ni mat hanh naseh.
14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
Ka yuem hoeh e tongpa teh a yu hanelah a thoung. Ka yuem hoeh e napui hai, yuemnae ka tawn e a vâ hanelah a thoung. Telah nahoeh pawiteh, a canaw thoung mahoeh. Atuteh a thoung awh.
15 But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God has called us to peace.
Hatei ka yuem hoeh e ni, kamphei hanlah ngai pawiteh, cettakhai lawiseh. Hot patet e dawk teh ka yuem e tongpa hai, ka yuem e napui hai kateknae awmhoeh.
16 For what know you, O wife, whether you shall save your husband? or how know you, O man, whether you shall save your wife?
Napui nang na vâ na rungngang han, rungngang mahoeh tie bangtelamaw na panue thai han. Tongpa nang na yu rungngang hane hoi rungngang hoeh hane bangtelamaw na panue thai han.
17 But as God has distributed to every man, as the Lord has called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.
Cathut ni a kaw teh Bawipa ni thaw a poe e dawkvah tami pueng ni a hring na thungvah awm awh naseh. Het heh kawhmounnaw pueng koe ka poe e lawk doeh.
18 Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.
Kaw lah kaawm e tongpa, vuensom ka a tangcoung e teh, vuensom ka a hoeh e tami patetlah awm hanh naseh. Kaw lah ao nah vuensom ka a hoeh e tami teh, vuensoma sak awh hanh lawih.
19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
Vuensoma e heh alawkpui nahoeh. Cathut e kâpoelawk doeh alawkpuihnawn.
20 Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.
Cathut ni a kaw e patetlah tami pueng ama a onae hmuen dawk awm awh naseh.
21 Are you called being a servant? care not for it: but if you may be made free, use it rather.
Kaw e lah ao nah san lah na awm pawiteh, hot ni lungpuennae tawn sak hanh naseh.
22 For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord’s freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ’s servant.
Hateiteh, Bawipa ni a kaw navah san lah kaawm e teh Bawipa dawk kahlout e tami lah ao. Hot patetlah a kaw nah kahlout e teh, Khrih e san lah ao.
23 You are bought with a price; be not you the servants of men.
Nangmouh teh aphu hoi ran e lah na o awh dawk taminaw koe san lah awm a hanh lawih.
24 Brothers, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God.
Hmaunawnghanaw, kaw lah kaawm e tami pueng teh, a tawk e thaw hah Cathut hmalah tawk naseh.
25 Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that has obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.
Tanglakacuem hoi kâkuen e dawk, Bawipa kâpoelawk na poe e ka coe hoeh eiteh, Bawipa e lungmanae ka coe teh, yuemkamcu e lah ka o dawkvah, kai ni hettelah lawk na poe awh.
26 I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.
Atu e rektapnae kecu dawkvah, vâ na tawn hoehpawiteh ahawi. Tongpa hai atu ao e patetlah awm pawiteh ahawi.
27 Are you bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
Yuvâ lah na awm awh toung pawiteh, kâkapek awh hanh lawih. Yuvâ lah na awm awh hoeh rah pawiteh, yu tawng awh hanh lawih.
28 But and if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she has not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.
Hatei yu na lat toung pawiteh, het heh yonnae nahoeh. Tangla ni vâ sak pawiteh, yonnae nahoeh. Hatei ahnimanaw teh talai runae a kâhmo awh han. Kai ni teh hote runae dawk hoi hlout sak hanlah na ngaikhai a dawk doeh.
29 But this I say, brothers, the time is short: it remains, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;
Hmaunawnghanaw, dei ka ngai e teh, a tue abaw tawmlei toung dawkvah, atu hoi teh yu ka tawn ni yu ka tawn hoeh patetlah,
30 And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;
Ka khuikap e ni khuikap hoeh e patetlah a kokanawm ni a kokanawm hoeh e patetlah, hnopai ka ran e ni bangcahai ka tawn hoeh e patetlah ao awh han.
31 And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passes away.
Talaivan hnopai ka hnonaw ni hai ka hno hoeh e patetlah awm naseh. Bangkongtetpawiteh, talai hoi a thung e hnopai pueng teh be kahmat han.
32 But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried cares for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:
Kai ni nangmouh lungpuen hane na ngaikhai a hoeh. Yu ka tawn hoeh e tongpanaw ni teh Bawipa lunghawi nahanlah Bawipa dawk doeh a lungpuen awh.
33 But he that is married cares for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.
Yu ka tawn e tongpa ni teh yu bangtelane lunghawi sak thai han, titeh talaivan hno dawk a kâhruetcuet.
34 There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married cares for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
Hot patetlah doeh, vâ ka tawn hoeh e napui hoi tanglakacuem teh, tak hoi muitha thoungsak thai nahanlah Cathut e thaw dawk a kâhruetcuet awh. Hatei, vâ ka tawn e napui teh a vâ lunghawi nahanelah talaivan hno hah ouk a pouk.
35 And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare on you, but for that which is comely, and that you may attend on the Lord without distraction.
Hettelah ka dei ngainae teh, nangmouh ahawi nahane lah doeh ka dei. Nangmouh khak na cakâ hane ka ngai dawk nahoeh. Kahawi e hno sak awh nateh lungthin katang hoi Bawipa koe na kâpoe thai awh nahane lah doeh.
36 But if any man think that he behaves himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sins not: let them marry.
Tangla teh vâ sak laipalah, vâ sak tue lawn pawiteh hawihoeh telah tangla katawnkung ni pouk pawiteh, vâ sak hanelah hai kâvoe pawiteh, vâ sak naseh. Yon nahoeh.
37 Nevertheless he that stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own will, and has so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, does well.
Hatei, a lungthung lawk tâtuengnae a tawn hnukkhu, a counghoeh dawk vâ sak laipalah, a kâcakuep thai dawk vâ sak laipalah awm thai pawiteh ahawi.
38 So then he that gives her in marriage does well; but he that gives her not in marriage does better.
Hatdawkvah, hote tangla hah vâ ka sak sak e tami teh hnokahawi a sak. Vâ ka sak sak hoeh e tami hai hnokahawi hoe a sak.
39 The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband lives; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
Yu teh a vâ a hring nathung vâsaknae phung ni a katek. Hatei, a vâ dout pawiteh a ngai e tongpa koe vâ sak hanelah Bawipa dawk kâ ao.
40 But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.
Hote napui ama o lah duem awm pawiteh yawhawinae hoe ao telah ka pouk. Kai koehai Cathut e Muitha ao telah ka pouk.
