1 Corinthiens 1
1 Paul, élu, par la volonté de Dieu, apôtre de Jésus-Christ, et le frère Sosthènes, à l'église de Dieu qui est à Corinthe,
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.
2 aux sanctifiés en Jésus-Christ, aux fidèles élus, et à tous ceux qui invoquent le nom de notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ dans tout ce pays, qui est le nôtre comme le leur.
[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.
3 Grâce et paix vous soient accordées par Dieu notre Père et par le Seigneur Jésus-Christ.
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.
4 Je ne cesse de remercier Dieu de la grâce qu'il vous a accordée en Jésus-Christ.
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.
5 Vous avez été, par lui, comblés de richesses; vous avez reçu beaucoup d'instruction et d'intelligence,
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.
6 et le témoignage du Christ a été bien solidement établi au milieu de vous.
In that way, [he] confirmed to you that what we [(exc)] proclaimed about Christ is true.
7 Aussi ne vous manque-t-il aucun don de la grâce, à vous qui attendez l'apparition de notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ.
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].
8 Dieu, de son côté, vous fortifiera jusqu'à la fin, et vous serez irréprochables le jour de notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ.
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].
9 Ah! il est fidèle, le Dieu qui vous a appelés à la communion avec son fils Jésus-Christ notre Seigneur.
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.
10 Je vous conseille cependant, mes frères, au nom de notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ, d'être tous d'accord dans vos paroles; qu'il n'y ait pas de scission entre vous; soyez tous bien unis d'esprit et de sentiment.
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.
11 Qu'ai-je appris, en effet, mes frères, par les fils de Chloé? qu'il y a de la discorde parmi vous.
My fellow believers, [I urge this] because some members of Chloe’s household have told me that you are quarreling among yourselves.
12 Je m'explique: Voici ce qu'on vous entend dire: «Moi, je suis du parti de Paul!» — «Moi, de celui d'Apollos!» — «Moi, de celui de Képhas!» — «Moi, de celui de Christ!»
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].”
13 — Est-ce que le Christ est divisé? Est-ce que Paul a été crucifié pour vous? Est-ce que vous avez été baptisés au nom de Paul?
[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]
14 Je rends grâces de n'avoir baptisé aucun de vous - (sauf toutefois Crispus et Caïus) —
I thank [God] that Crispus and Gaius were the only ones from among you whom I baptized.
15 pour que personne ne puisse dire que vous avez été baptisés en mon nom.
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).”
16 J'ai bien baptisé aussi la maison de Stephanas; à cela près, personne d'autre que je sache.
[Now I remember that] I also baptized the household of Stephanas, but I do not remember baptizing anyone else [there].
17 Christ ne m'a pas fait apôtre pour baptiser, mais pour prêcher l'Évangile, pour le prêcher sans aucune des habiletés de la philosophie, afin de ne pas rendre inutile la croix du Christ.
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.
18 La prédication de la croix, en effet, est folie pour ceux qui vont périr; pour nous, les sauvés, elle est une puissance de Dieu,
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].
19 car il est écrit: «Je perdrai la sagesse des sages, Et la prudence des prudents je la rendrai vaine.»
[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.
20 Où est le philosophe? où est le docteur de la Loi? où est le raisonneur mondain? Dieu n'a-t-il pas changé en folie la sagesse de ce monde? (aiōn g165)
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)
21 Puisque Dieu a permis, dans sa sagesse, que le monde ne parvînt pas avec sa philosophie à le connaître, il a bien voulu par une prédication appelée folie, sauver les croyants:
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.
22 les Juifs exigent des miracles, les Grecs veulent de la philosophie;
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.
23 nous, nous prêchons Christ crucifié; il est pour les Juifs un scandale;
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.
24 il est pour les païens une folie; mais pour les appelés, soit Juifs, soit Grecs, il est Christ, puissance de Dieu, sagesse de Dieu.
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.
25 Ah! cette «folie» de Dieu, elle est plus sage que ce qui vient des hommes; cette «faiblesse» de Dieu, elle est plus forte que ce qui vient des hommes!
[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.
26 Voyez, mes frères, comment vous avez été appelés: il n'y a pas parmi vous beaucoup de philosophes, comme on les appelle, ni beaucoup d'hommes influents ou de haute naissance;
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.
27 mais Dieu a choisi ce qui est insensé selon le monde pour confondre les philosophes, il a choisi ce qui est faible selon le monde pour confondre les forts;
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.
28 oui, ceux d'une condition inférieure, les méprisés, Dieu les a choisis; ceux qui n'étaient rien
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].
29 pour réduire au néant ceux qui étaient quelque chose, afin qu'aucun être mortel ne puisse s'enorgueillir en sa présence.
[He did that] in order that no one could boast to God about being wise or important.
30 Par lui, vous appartenez à Jésus-Christ, qui, grâce à Dieu, est devenu notre «philosophie», je veux dire notre justice, notre sanctification et notre rédemption,
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].
31 afin, comme dit l'Écriture, «Que celui qui veut se glorifier se glorifie...au sujet du Seigneur.»
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].
