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.
Paul, élu apôtre de Jésus-Christ par la volonté de Dieu, et Sosthènes notre frère,
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.
aux fidèles sanctifiés en Jésus-Christ, les élus saints de l’église de Dieu qui est à Corinthe, et à tous ceux qui, en tout lieu, invoquent le nom de Jésus-Christ, leur Seigneur et le nôtre:
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.
que la grâce et la paix vous soient donnée par Dieu notre Père, et par notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ!
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.
Je ne cesse de bénir mon Dieu de la grâce qu'il vous a faite en Jésus-Christ:
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.
il vous a comblés en lui de toutes sortes de richesses, richesses de parole et richesses de science,
6 In that way, [he] confirmed to you that what we [(exc)] proclaimed about Christ is true.
par la manière dont le témoignage de Christ a été solidement établi parmi vous;
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].
de sorte que vous ne manquez d'aucun don, en attendant la venue de notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ.
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].
Il vous affermira jusqu'à la fin, pour que vous soyez sans reproche au jour de notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ:
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.
Dieu, qui vous a appelés à la communion de son Fils Jésus-Christ, notre Seigneur, est fidèle.
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.
Je vous conjure, mes frères, au nom de notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ, d'avoir tous un même langage. Qu'il n'y ait point de divisions parmi vous, mais soyez bien unis dans un même esprit et dans une même pensée;
11 My fellow believers, [I urge this] because some members of Chloe’s household have told me that you are quarreling among yourselves.
car, mes frères, j'ai appris par les gens de Chloé, qu'il y a des disputes parmi vous.
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].”
J'entends par là que chacun dit: «Moi, je suis à Paul; — moi, à Apollos; — moi, à Céphas; — moi, à Christ.»
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]
Est-ce que Christ est divisé? Est-ce que Paul a été crucifié pour vous? Est-ce au nom de Paul que vous avez été baptisés?
14 I thank [God] that Crispus and Gaius were the only ones from among you whom I baptized.
Je bénis Dieu de ce que je n'ai baptisé aucun d'entre vous, si ce n'est Crispus et Caïus,
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).”
pour que l'on ne puisse pas dire que vous avez été baptisés en mon nom.
16 [Now I remember that] I also baptized the household of Stephanas, but I do not remember baptizing anyone else [there].
J'ai encore baptisé la famille de Stephanas; du reste, personne d'autre, que je sache.
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.
Christ ne m'a pas envoyé pour baptiser, mais pour prêcher l'évangile, et pour le prêcher sans la sagesse, ni l'art de la parole, afin de ne pas ôter sa puissance à la croix de Christ.
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].
La prédication de la croix est, en effet, une folie pour ceux qui périssent; pour ceux qui sont sauvés, pour nous, elle est la puissance de Dieu;
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.
car il est écrit: «Je perdrai la sagesse des sages, et j'anéantirai la science des savants.»
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)
où est le sage? où est le scribe? où est le dialecticien de ce siècle? Dieu n'a-t-il pas fait voir que la sagesse du monde est folie? (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.
Car le monde, avec sa sagesse, n'ayant pas su connaître Dieu dans la sagesse de ses autres, il a plu à Dieu de sauver les croyants par la folie de la prédication.
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.
Les Juifs demandent des miracles; les Grecs recherchent la sagesse;
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.
pour nous, nous prêchons Christ crucifié, qui est scandale aux Juifs, folie aux Gentils,
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.
mais qui, pour les élus, soit juifs, soit grecs, est Christ, puissance de Dieu et sagesse de Dieu;
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.
car la folie de Dieu est plus sage que les hommes, et la faiblesse de Dieu, plus forte que les hommes.
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.
Vous voyez bien, mes frères, que parmi vous, élus, il n'y a pas beaucoup de sages selon la chair, pas beaucoup de puissants, pas beaucoup de nobles.
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.
Dieu a choisi les choses folles du monde, pour confondre les sages; il a choisi les choses faibles du monde, pour confondre les fortes;
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].
il a choisi celles qui sont de basse extraction dans ce monde, les méprisées, ce qui est néant, pour anéantir ce qui est,
29 [He did that] in order that no one could boast to God about being wise or important.
afin que personne ne se glorifie en sa présence.
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].
C'est à lui que vous devez d'être en Jésus-Christ, qui a été fait sagesse pour nous par la volonté de Dieu, ainsi que justice, sanctification et délivrance;
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].
afin, comme il est écrit, que «celui qui se glorifie, se glorifie dans le Seigneur.»
