1 Corinthians 4
1 So a person should consider us as Christ's servants, and stewards of God's mysteries.
lokā asmān khrīṣṭasya paricārakān īśvarasya nigūṭhavākyadhanasyādhyakṣāṁśca manyantāṁ|
2 Here, moreover, it is required of stewards, that they be found faithful.
kiñca dhanādhyakṣeṇa viśvasanīyena bhavitavyametadeva lokai ryācyate|
3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man's judgment. Yes, I do not judge my own self.
ato vicārayadbhi ryuṣmābhiranyaiḥ kaiścin manujai rvā mama parīkṣaṇaṁ mayātīva laghu manyate 'hamapyātmānaṁ na vicārayāmi|
4 For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.
mayā kimapyaparāddhamityahaṁ na vedmi kintvetena mama niraparādhatvaṁ na niścīyate prabhureva mama vicārayitāsti|
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 one will get his praise from God.
ata upayuktasamayāt pūrvvam arthataḥ prabhorāgamanāt pūrvvaṁ yuṣmābhi rvicāro na kriyatāṁ| prabhurāgatya timireṇa pracchannāni sarvvāṇi dīpayiṣyati manasāṁ mantraṇāśca prakāśayiṣyati tasmin samaya īśvarād ekaikasya praśaṁsā bhaviṣyati|
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 go beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.
he bhrātaraḥ sarvvāṇyetāni mayātmānam āpallavañcoddiśya kathitāni tasyaitat kāraṇaṁ yuyaṁ yathā śāstrīyavidhimatikramya mānavam atīva nādariṣyadhba ītthañcaikena vaiparītyād apareṇa na ślāghiṣyadhba etādṛśīṁ śikṣāmāvayordṛṣṭāntāt lapsyadhve|
7 For who makes you different? And what do you have that you did not receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?
aparāt kastvāṁ viśeṣayati? tubhyaṁ yanna datta tādṛśaṁ kiṁ dhārayasi? adatteneva dattena vastunā kutaḥ ślāghase?
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.
idānīmeva yūyaṁ kiṁ tṛptā labdhadhanā vā? asmāsvavidyamāneṣu yūyaṁ kiṁ rājatvapadaṁ prāptāḥ? yuṣmākaṁ rājatvaṁ mayābhilaṣitaṁ yatastena yuṣmābhiḥ saha vayamapi rājyāṁśino bhaviṣyāmaḥ|
9 For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and people.
preritā vayaṁ śeṣā hantavyāśceveśvareṇa nidarśitāḥ| yato vayaṁ sarvvalokānām arthataḥ svargīyadūtānāṁ mānavānāñca kautukāspadāni jātāḥ|
10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.
khrīṣṭasya kṛte vayaṁ mūḍhāḥ kintu yūyaṁ khrīṣṭena jñāninaḥ, vayaṁ durbbalā yūyañca sabalāḥ, yūyaṁ sammānitā vayañcāpamānitāḥ|
11 Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.
vayamadyāpi kṣudhārttāstṛṣṇārttā vastrahīnāstāḍitā āśramarahitāśca santaḥ
12 We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.
karmmaṇi svakarān vyāpārayantaśca duḥkhaiḥ kālaṁ yāpayāmaḥ| garhitairasmābhirāśīḥ kathyate dūrīkṛtaiḥ sahyate ninditaiḥ prasādyate|
13 Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.
vayamadyāpi jagataḥ sammārjanīyogyā avakarā iva sarvvai rmanyāmahe|
14 I do not write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
yuṣmān trapayitumahametāni likhāmīti nahi kintu priyātmajāniva yuṣmān prabodhayāmi|
15 For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.
yataḥ khrīṣṭadharmme yadyapi yuṣmākaṁ daśasahasrāṇi vinetāro bhavanti tathāpi bahavo janakā na bhavanti yato'hameva susaṁvādena yīśukhrīṣṭe yuṣmān ajanayaṁ|
16 I appeal to you therefore, be imitators of me.
ato yuṣmān vinaye'haṁ yūyaṁ madanugāmino bhavata|
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 Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every church.
ityarthaṁ sarvveṣu dharmmasamājeṣu sarvvatra khrīṣṭadharmmayogyā ye vidhayo mayopadiśyante tān yo yuṣmān smārayiṣyatyevambhūtaṁ prabhoḥ kṛte priyaṁ viśvāsinañca madīyatanayaṁ tīmathiyaṁ yuṣmākaṁ samīpaṁ preṣitavānahaṁ|
18 Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.
aparamahaṁ yuṣmākaṁ samīpaṁ na gamiṣyāmīti buddhvā yuṣmākaṁ kiyanto lokā garvvanti|
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.
kintu yadi prabhericchā bhavati tarhyahamavilambaṁ yuṣmatsamīpamupasthāya teṣāṁ darpadhmātānāṁ lokānāṁ vācaṁ jñāsyāmīti nahi sāmarthyameva jñāsyāmi|
20 For the Kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.
yasmādīśvarasya rājatvaṁ vāgyuktaṁ nahi kintu sāmarthyayuktaṁ|
21 What do you want? Should I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?
yuṣmākaṁ kā vāñchā? yuṣmatsamīpe mayā kiṁ daṇḍapāṇinā gantavyamuta premanamratātmayuktena vā?
