1 Corinthians 1
1 Paul, called to be an Apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God--and our brother Sosthenes:
此函来自教会兄弟保罗和苏提尼。保罗已奉上帝旨意召唤，成为基督耶稣的使徒。
2 To the Church of God in Corinth, men and women consecrated in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all in every place who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ-- their Lord as well as ours.
本函将送至哥林多的上帝教会，他们已凭耶稣基督成就良善正直，受到召唤成为圣徒。本函还将送至世界各地敬拜主耶稣基督之人。基督是他们的主，也是我们的主。
3 May grace and peace be granted to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
愿你们获得来自天父和主耶稣基督的恩典与平安。
4 I thank my God continually on your behalf for the grace of God bestowed on you in Christ Jesus--
上帝通过基督耶稣赐予你们的恩典，为此我始终都在感谢上帝，
5 that you have been so richly blessed in Him, with readiness of speech and fulness of knowledge.
你们因上帝而万事丰饶，因上帝而表达思想、知识渊博。
6 Thus my testimony as to the Christ has been confirmed in your experience,
事实上，你们的经历证明了基督的见证，
7 so that there is no gift of God in which you consciously come short while patiently waiting for the reappearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,
当你等待主耶稣基督到来之时，才不会错过任何圣灵的恩赐。
8 who will also keep you stedfast to the very End, so that you will be free from reproach on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
他会让你坚强到底，让你们在主耶稣基督之日前始终坚守正义。
9 God is ever true to His promises, and it was by Him that you were, one and all, called into fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ, our Lord.
上帝值得我们信赖，他呼唤你们，就是为了你与他的儿子、我们的主耶稣基督同在。
10 Now I entreat you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to cultivate a spirit of harmony--all of you--and that there be no divisions among you, but rather a perfect union through your having one mind and one judgement.
兄弟姐妹们，以主耶稣基督之名，请大家同心同德，不要分裂，构筑一条心，遵循一个使命。
11 For I have been distinctly informed, my brethren, about you by Chloe's people, that there are dissensions among you.
我的兄弟姐妹们，几名革来氏人曾和我说起你们，讲述了你们内部的纷争。
12 What I mean is that each of you is a partisan. One man says "I belong to Paul;" another "I belong to Apollos;" a third "I belong to Peter;" a fourth "I belong to Christ."
让我对我的意思予以解释：你们的引领者各不相同：“我追随保罗”、“我追随亚波罗”、“我追随矶法”或“我追随基督。”
13 Is the Christ in fragments? Is it Paul who was crucified on your behalf? Or were you baptized to be Paul's adherents?
难道基督是分裂的？为你们钉上十字架的是保罗？你是以保罗的名义受洗的吗？
14 I thank God that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius--
感谢上帝，除了基利司布和该犹以外，我未给你们任何人施洗，
15 for fear people should say that you were baptized to be my adherents.
所以请不要将施洗之名归于我。
16 I did, however, baptize Stephanas' household also: but I do not think that I baptized any one else.
（对了，我还曾给司提芬一家人施洗；再无他人。）
17 Christ did not send me to baptize, but to proclaim the Good News; and not in merely wise words--lest the Cross of Christ should be deprived of its power.
基督派我前来并非为了施洗，而是要传播福音，但不能以人类的伶牙俐齿，否则基督的十字架将失去力量。
18 For the Message of the Cross is foolishness to those who are on the way to perdition, but it is the power of God to those whom He is saving.
十字架之道对于迷失之人而言毫无意义，但对于我们这些获得拯救之人，却体现了上帝的至高力量。
19 For so it stands written, "I will exhibit the nothingness of the wisdom of the wise, and the intelligence of the intelligent I will bring to nought."
正如经文所说：“我将摧毁智者的智慧，抹去聪明人的聪明。”
20 Where is your wise man? Where your expounder of the Law? Where your investigator of the questions of this present age? Has not God shown the world's wisdom to be utter foolishness? (aiōn g165)
那么当代的智者、宗教老师和哲人又如何呢？上帝是将这世界的智慧变成愚蠢吗？ (aiōn g165)
21 For after the world by its wisdom--as God in His wisdom had ordained--had failed to gain the knowledge of God, God was pleased, by the apparent foolishness of the Message which we preach, to save those who accepted it.
既然上帝在他的智慧中允许世界在其智慧中不认识上帝，这是神的恩典计划，通过这愚昧的好消息，那些相信他的人将得到拯救。
22 Seeing that Jews demand miracles, and Greeks go in search of wisdom,
犹太人要求看到神迹，希腊人渴望获得智慧，
23 while we proclaim a Christ who has been crucified--to the Jews a stumbling-block, to Gentiles foolishness,
我们的道却在讲述钉在十字架上的基督——犹太人视其为冒犯，外族人视其为愚蠢。
24 but to those who have received the Call, whether Jews or Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
但对于上帝召唤之人，不论是犹太人或外族人，基督就是上帝的力量，上帝的智慧。
25 Because that which the world deems foolish in God is wiser than men's wisdom, and that which it deems feeble in God is mightier than men's might.
因为即使是上帝的愚蠢也比人类智慧，即使是上帝的软弱也比人类坚强。
26 For consider, brethren, God's call to you. Not many who are wise with merely human wisdom, not many of position and influence, not many of noble birth have been called.
兄弟姐妹们，不要忘记，在那些受到上帝召唤的人中，很少有人是世俗定义中的智慧、权威和尊贵之人。
27 But God has chosen the things which the world regards as foolish, in order to put its wise men to shame; and God has chosen the things which the world regards as destitute of influence, in order to put its powerful things to shame;
相反，上帝所选择的是世人视为愚笨之人，这足以让那些自认为智慧之人感到羞愧。他也选择了世人被视为软弱之人，足以让自认为强壮之人羞愧。
28 and the things which the world regards as base, and those which it sets utterly at nought--things that have no existence--God has chosen in order to reduce to nothing things that do exist;
他还挑选了被世人视为卑贱、被众人轻视之人，甚至还有被世人认为毫无价值之人，
29 to prevent any mortal man from boasting in the presence of God.
让任何人都不能在上帝面前自吹自擂。
30 But you--and it is all God's doing--are in Christ Jesus: He has become for us a wisdom which is from God, consisting of righteousness and sanctification and deliverance;
因为上帝，你们才能与基督耶稣同存，基督就是上帝赐予我们的智慧。他让我们成为正义，保持正义，让我们获得自由，
31 in order that it may be as Scripture says, "He who boasts--let his boast be in the Lord."
正如经文所说：“想要吹嘘，也要吹嘘主。”
