1 Corinthians 1
1 I, Paul, [am writing this letter]. Sosthenes, our fellow believer, is with [me as I write it]. [God] appointed me to be an apostle of Christ Jesus because that is what God desired.
| این نامه از طرف پولس است که به خواست خدا انتخاب شده تا رسول عیسی مسیح باشد و نیز از طرف برادر ما سوستانیس. |
2 [I am sending this letter] to all you who are God’s believers in Corinth [city]. You have been set apart [by God] {[God] has set you apart} for himself because (of your close relationship with/you belong to) Christ Jesus. God has appointed you to be his people and to live in a morally pure way, just like he has appointed all the people everywhere who belong to him to live in a morally pure way. You and they have trusted in the Lord Jesus Christ [MTY]. He is their sovereign Lord as well as the sovereign Lord of all of us [(inc)] who have trusted in him.
| این نامه را به شما کلیسای خدا در قرنتس می‌نویسم که توسط خدا دعوت شده‌اید تا قوم مقدّس او باشید. او شما و نیز همهٔ مسیحیان را که در هر جای دیگر نام خداوند ما عیسی مسیح را می‌خوانند، که خداوند ما و خداوند ایشان است، توسط مسیح عیسی تقدیس کرده است. |
3 We [(exc)] desire that God, who is our [heavenly] Father, and Jesus Christ, who is our sovereign Lord, will continue to act kindly toward you and cause you to experience [inner] peace.
| از پدرمان خدا، و خداوندمان عیسی مسیح، خواستار فیض و آرامش برای شما هستم. |
4 I very often [HYP] thank God for you because he has acted toward you kindly, acting in ways that you do not deserve. He has done this because of your (having a close relationship with/being united to) Christ Jesus.
| همواره خدا را برای وجود شما شکر می‌کنم به سبب فیضی که به خاطر مسیح عیسی به شما عطا فرموده است. |
5 That is, [God] has [HYP] helped you spiritually very much because of your (having a close relationship with/being united to) Christ. Specifically, God has very much [HYP] enabled you to speak messages [that his Spirit revealed to you], and he has very much enabled you to know many things [HYP] that his Spirit revealed to you.
| زیرا او کلیسای شما را از هر نظر غنی ساخته – با تمام سخنان شیوایتان و تمام شناخت و معرفتتان. |
6 In that way, [he] confirmed to you that what we [(exc)] proclaimed about Christ is true.
| آنچه ما دربارهٔ مسیح به شما گفتیم چنان در شما ریشه دوانید |
7 As a result, while you wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to return, within your group you truly have [LIT] every ability that [God’s] Spirit gives [to believers].
| که شما توانستید از همهٔ عطایای روحانی بهره‌مند گردید و اکنون نیز آماده و چشم به راه بازگشت خداوند ما عیسی مسیح می‌باشید. |
8 God will also cause you to steadfastly [trust Christ to the very end of your lives] [EUP]. The result will be that God will not consider you guilty [of any sin] when our Lord Jesus Christ returns to earth [MTY].
| خدا نیز ایمان شما را تا روز بازگشت عیسی مسیح استوار نگاه خواهد داشت، تا در آن روز از هر گناه و خطایی، مبرا و آزاد محسوب شوید. |
9 You can depend on God to do that. He is the one who chose you to become intimately associated with his Son, Jesus Christ, who is our Lord.
| خدا این کار را برای ما به عمل خواهد آورد، زیرا او در انجام وعده‌های خود امین و وفادار است. او همان خدایی است که شما را دعوت نموده تا با پسرش عیسی مسیح، خداوند ما، دوستی و اتحاد روحانی داشته باشید. |
10 My fellow believers, by the authority of [MTY] our Lord Jesus Christ, I urgently appeal to all of you to agree with one another. What I mean is, stop dividing into groups. Instead, be united [MET] concerning what you understand [about spiritual matters], and be united in what you decide.
| اما ای برادران عزیز، به نام خداوند ما عیسی مسیح به شما التماس می‌کنم که از بحث و جدل دست برداشته، بکوشید با یکدیگر توافق داشته باشید تا در میان شما جدایی و شکاف پیش نیاید. خواهش می‌کنم که در فکر و هدف متحد باشید. |
11 My fellow believers, [I urge this] because some members of Chloe’s household have told me that you are quarreling among yourselves.
| زیرا ای برادران عزیز، چند تن از وابستگان خانوادهٔ «خلویی» به من خبر دادند که در میان شما بحث و جدل و تفرقه وجود دارد. |
12 That is, some of you say, “Paul is the one to whom we [are loyal],” and others say, “Peter is the one to whom we [are loyal],” and still others say, “Christ is the one to whom we [are loyal].”
| به این ترتیب که بعضی از شما می‌گویند پیرو پولس هستند و بعضی دیگر می‌گویند که طرفدار «اپلس» و یا «پطرس» می‌باشند و عده‌ای نیز ادعا می‌کنند که فقط پیرو مسیح هستند. |
13 [It is ridiculous that] [RHQ] [you are quarreling and] dividing up [into groups instead of being loyal to] Christ alone. Christ certainly has not divided himself into parts and distributed those parts out [to groups of people who oppose each other]! [MET, RHQ] I, Paul, certainly did not die on the cross for you! [RHQ] When you were baptized {When someone baptized you}, you certainly did not promise that you were submitting to me! [RHQ]
| آیا مسیح پاره‌پاره شده است؟ آیا این پولس بود که برای آمرزش گناهان شما مصلوب شد؟ آیا کسی از شما به نام پولس تعمید گرفته است؟ |
14 I thank [God] that Crispus and Gaius were the only ones from among you whom I baptized.
| خدا را شکر می‌کنم که به غیر از کریسپوس و گایوس، کسی دیگر از شما را تعمید ندادم! |
15 As a result, no one [there in Corinth except those two] can say, “Paul baptized me so that I would become (his disciple/submissive to him).”
| بنابراین، کسی نمی‌تواند بگوید که من قصد داشته‌ام گروه جدیدی به نام «کلیسای پولس» تشکیل دهم. |
16 [Now I remember that] I also baptized the household of Stephanas, but I do not remember baptizing anyone else [there].
| البته خانوادهٔ «استیفان» را نیز تعمید داده‌ام. ولی دیگر به یاد ندارم کسی را به غیر از اینان تعمید داده باشم. |
17 Christ sent me not [primarily] to baptize people but to preach the good message about him. When I do that, he does not want me to use words that human philosophers [consider] wise [IRO]. I do not want the message about [what] he [accomplished when he was nailed to] the cross [MTY] to lose its power.
| زیرا مسیح مرا نفرستاده تا مردم را تعمید دهم، بلکه تا پیغام انجیل را اعلام کنم. حتی موعظه‌هایم نیز چندان گیرا به نظر نمی‌رسد، زیرا کلمات زیبا و فلسفی به کار نمی‌برم، مبادا از تأثیر نیرومندی که در پیام سادهٔ صلیب مسیح وجود دارد، بکاهم. |
18 Those who are perishing spiritually [because they do not believe that message consider] that the message [about what Christ accomplished when he was nailed to the] cross [MTY] [is] foolish. But to us who are being saved {whom [God] is saving} [spiritually because we believe that message], it [demonstrates that] God acts powerfully [in order to save us].
| من به خوبی می‌دانم که برای آنانی که به سوی هلاکت می‌روند، چقدر احمقانه به نظر می‌رسد وقتی می‌شنوند که عیسی مسیح بر روی صلیب جان خود را فدا کرد تا انسان را نجات بخشد. اما برای ما که در راه نجات پیش می‌رویم، این پیغام نشانهٔ قدرت خداست. |
19 [It is like what God said that] a prophet wrote long ago, [By the things that I will do], I will show that the ideas of those who [think] [IRO] they are wise are completely useless. I will ignore the ideas that they think are [IRO] so smart.
| زیرا در کتب مقدّس نوشته شده: «حکمت حکیمان را از میان خواهم برد و فهم فهیمان را باطل خواهم ساخت.» |
20 So, do you know [what God thinks] about what [RHQ] people who [IRO] consider themselves to be wise and scholars and philosophers say? [He does not pay attention to what they say, because] [RHQ] he has shown clearly that what unbelievers [think is] [IRO] wise is [not wise at all], but is really foolish. (aiōn g165)
| پس کجایند این خردمندان و علمای دین و فلاسفه که دربارهٔ مسائل عمیق دنیا به بحث می‌پردازند؟ خدا ایشان را جاهل ساخته و نشان داده است که عقل و حکمت آنان پوچ و باطل است. (aiōn g165) |
21 God, acting very wisely, made it impossible for unbelievers to know God by doing what they thought was [IRO] wise. Instead, he was happy to save those who trust [in Christ] as the result of their hearing [the message that] was proclaimed to them, a message that others consider to be foolish.
| زیرا خدای حکیم صلاح ندانست که انسان با منطق و حکمت خود او را بشناسد. بلکه او خود به میان ما آمد و همهٔ آنانی را که به پیام او ایمان آوردند نجات بخشید، یعنی همان پیامی که مردم دنیا، چه یهودی و چه غیریهودی، آن را بی‌معنی و پوچ می‌دانند. |
22 The Jews want [people to prove, by performing] miracles, [that their message is true]. The non-Jews want to hear only messages consisting of talk that they consider to be very wise.
| زیرا یهودیان خواستار آنند که پیاممان را با معجزه‌ای ثابت کنیم و یونانیان نیز فقط مسائلی را می‌پذیرند که با فلسفه و حکمتشان منطبق باشد. |
23 As for us, we proclaim [the message about what] Christ [accomplished for us when] he was nailed {[when they] nailed him} to the cross. That message offends Jews [because they do not think that the Messiah will die, and] non-Jews think it is [IRO] a foolish message.
| اما پیام ما این است که مسیح برای نجات انسان مصلوب شد و مرد؛ و این پیام برای یهودیان توهین‌آمیز است و برای یونانیان پوچ و بی‌معنی. |
24 But to us whom God has chosen to belong to himself, both Jews and non-Jews, that message shows that God acted powerfully and wisely [by sending] Christ [to die] for us.
| اما آنانی که از جانب خدا برای دریافت نجات دعوت شده‌اند، چه یهودی و چه یونانی، مسیح قدرت خدا و نقشهٔ حکیمانهٔ اوست برای نجات ایشان. |
25 [Unbelievers may think] [IRO] [that] God was [acting] foolishly [by doing that], but [the truth is that] he was acting more wisely than unbelievers who [just think that] [IRO] they are wise. And unbelievers may think that God was [acting] weakly [by sending his son to die], but he was acting more powerfully than unbelievers who [just think] [IRO] [that they] act powerfully.
| نقشهٔ نجات خدا که در نظر بعضی پوچ و بی‌معنی است، بسی حکیمانه‌تر است از نقشه‌های حکیمانهٔ داناترین مردم؛ و مرگ مسیح بر روی صلیب که در نظر برخی نشانهٔ ضعف خداست، بسیار نیرومندتر از تمام قدرتهای بشری است. |
26 My fellow believers, remember what [kind of people you] were when God chose you. [Not many of you] whom he chose are people whom [unbelievers considered to be] wise. Very few of you were considered to be important. Very few of you came from families with a high social standing.
| برادران و خواهران عزیز، به یاد بیاورید زمانی که برای پیروی از مسیح دعوت شدید، در چه جایگاهی قرار داشتید. بسیاری از شما بر اساس معیارهای این دنیا، حکیم یا صاحب نفوذ یا از خانواده‌ای اصیل نبودید. |
27 Instead, it was [usually] those whom [unbelievers considered to be] foolish whom God chose. He did that in order to shame/discredit those whom [unbelievers consider] [IRO] wise. It was [usually] those [whom unbelievers] considered [IRO] unimportant whom God chose, in order to shame/discredit those whom unbelievers consider important.
| بلکه خدا اشخاصی را برگزیده، که مانند شما در نظر مردم دنیا، نادان و ضعیف هستند، تا از این راه آنانی را که دانا و قدرتمند به حساب می‌آیند، شرمگین سازد. |
28 It was usually those who are despised and considered {whom [unbelievers] despise and consider} worthless whom God chose, in order to make completely ineffective [what unbelievers consider to be important].
| خدا افرادی را انتخاب کرده که طبق معیارهای دنیا از طبقات پایین و مطرود جامعه هستند. بله، خدا همان کسانی را برگزیده که دنیا ایشان را هیچ می‌انگارد، تا نشان دهد آنانی که مهم و بزرگ به نظر می‌آیند، هیچ هستند؛ |
29 [He did that] in order that no one could boast to God about being wise or important.
| و به این ترتیب هیچ بشری نتواند در برابر خدا فخرفروشی کند. |
30 It is because of what God [has done] that you (have a close relationship with/belong to) Christ Jesus. God [put into effect] his wise [plan to save us] by what Christ did for us. As a result of what Christ did, God erases the record of our sins, sets us apart for himself, and frees us from our being guilty [for our sins].
| این خدا بود که شما را به مسیحْ عیسی پیوند داد، و هم او بود که سبب شد مسیح برای ما خودِ حکمت شود. مسیح ما را عادل گردانید، ما را پاک و مقدّس ساخت و از گناه رهایی‌مان بخشید. |
31 So, it is the Lord whom we should boast about, [not about one spiritual leader being better than another]. We should do as ([a prophet/Jeremiah]) wrote [in the Scriptures that we should do]: Those who boast should boast [only] about what the Lord [has done].
| در کتب مقدّس آمده است: «اگر کسی می‌خواهد به چیزی افتخار کند، به کاری که خداوند انجام داده است، افتخار کند.» |
