1 Corinthians 4
1 Let people look on us as Christ’s servants, and as stewards of the hidden truths of God.
So a man gesse vs, as mynystris of Crist, and dispenderis of the mynysteries of God.
2 Now what we look for in stewards is that they should be trustworthy.
Now it is souyt here among the dispenderis, that a man be foundun trewe.
3 But it weighs very little with me that I am judged by you or by any human tribunal. No, I do not even judge myself;
And to me it is for the leest thing, that Y be demyd of you, or of mannus dai; but nether Y deme my silf.
4 for, though I am conscious of nothing against myself, that does not prove me innocent. It is the Lord who is my judge.
For Y am no thing ouer trowynge to my silf, but not in this thing Y am iustified; for he that demeth me, is the Lord.
5 Therefore do not pass judgment before the time, but wait until the Lord comes. He will throw light on what is now dark and obscure, and will reveal the motives in people’s minds; and then everyone will receive due praise from God.
Therfor nyle ye deme bifore the tyme, til that the Lord come, which schal liytne the hyd thingis of derknessis, and schal schewe the counseils of hertis; and thanne preisyng schal be to ech man of God.
6 All this, friends, I have, for your sakes, applied to Apollos and myself, so that, from our example, you may learn to observe the precept – ‘Keep to what is written,’ that none of you may speak boastfully of one teacher to the disparagement of another.
And, britheren, Y haue transfigurid these thingis in to me and in to Apollo, for you; that in vs ye lerne, lest ouer that it is writun, oon ayens another be blowun with pride for another.
7 For who makes any one of you superior to others? And what have you that was not given you? But if you received it as a gift, why do you boast as if you had not?
Who demeth thee? And what hast thou, that thou hast not resseyued? And if thou hast resseyued, what gloriest thou, as thou haddist not resseyued?
8 Are you all so soon satisfied? Are you so soon rich? Have you begun to reign without us? Would indeed that you had, so that we also might reign with you!
Nowe ye ben fyllid, now ye ben maad riche; ye regnen with outen vs; and Y wolde that ye regnen, that also we regnen with you.
9 For, as it seems to me, God has exhibited us, the apostles, last of all, as people doomed to death. We are made a spectacle to the universe, both to angels and to people!
And Y gesse, that God schewide vs the laste apostlis, as thilke that ben sent to the deth; for we ben maad a spectacle to the world, and to aungels, and to men.
10 We, for Christ’s sake, are fools, but you, by your union with Christ, are people of discernment. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honored, but we are despised.
We foolis for Crist, but ye prudent in Crist; we sike, but ye stronge; ye noble, but we vnnoble.
11 To this very hour we go hungry, thirsty, and naked; we are beaten; we are homeless;
Til in to this our we hungren, and thirsten, and ben nakid, and ben smytun with buffatis,
12 we work hard, toiling with our own hands. We meet abuse with blessings, we meet persecution with endurance,
and we ben vnstable, and we trauelen worchynge with oure hondis; we ben cursid, and we blessen; we suffren persecucioun, and we abiden longe; we ben blasfemyd, and we bisechen;
13 we meet slander with gentle appeals. We have been treated as the scum of the earth, the vilest of the vile, to this very hour.
as clensyngis of this world we ben maad the `out castyng of alle thingis `til yit.
14 It is with no wish to shame you that I am writing like this; but to warn you as my own dear children.
Y write not these thingis, that Y confounde you, but Y warne as my moste dereworthe sones.
15 Though you may have thousands of instructors in the faith of Christ, yet you have not many fathers. It was I who, through union with Christ Jesus, became your father by means of the good news.
For whi if ye han ten thousynde of vndur maistris in Crist, but not many fadris; for in Crist Jhesu Y haue gendrid you bi the gospel.
16 Therefore I entreat you – Follow my example.
Therfor, britheren, Y preye you, be ye foleweris of me, as Y of Crist.
17 This is my reason for sending Timothy to you. He is my own dear faithful child in the Master’s service, and he will remind you of my methods of teaching the faith of Christ Jesus – methods which I follow everywhere in every church.
Therfor Y sente to you Tymothe, which is my most dereworthe sone, and feithful in the Lord, which schal teche you my weies, that ben in Crist Jhesu; as Y teche euery where in ech chirche.
18 Some, I hear, are puffed up with pride, thinking that I am not coming to you.
As thouy Y schulde not come to you, so summe ben blowun with pride;
19 But come to you I will, and that soon, if it please the Lord; and then I will find out, not what words these people use who are so puffed up, but what power they possess;
but Y schal come to you soone, if God wole; and Y schal knowe not the word of hem that ben blowun with pride, but the vertu.
20 for the kingdom of God is based, not on words, but on power.
For the rewme of God is not in word, but in vertu.
21 What do you wish? Am I to come to you with a rod, or in a loving and gentle spirit?
What wole ye? Schal Y come to you in a yerde, or in charite, and in spirit of myldenesse?
