Korineto I 1
1 O PAULO, i kohoia i lunaolelo na Iesu Kristo, no ka manao ana mai o ke Akua, o maua me Sosetene, kekahi hoahanau;
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 Na ka ekalesia o ke Akua ma Korineto, na ka poe i hoomaemaeia iloko o Kristo Iesu, a i hooliloia i poe haipule, a na ka poe a pau ma na wahi a pau loa i hea aku i ka inoa o Iesu Kristo, i ko lakou Haku a me ko kakou.
[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 E alohaia mai oukou, a e maluhia hoi e ke Akua, e ko kakou Makua, a e ka Haku e Iesu Kristo.
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 Ke aloha mau aku nei au i ko'u Akua, no oukou, no ka lokomaikai o ke Akua i haawiia mai ia oukou ma o Iesu Kristo la.
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 No ka mea, ua waiwai oukou ia ia i na mea a pau, i na olelo a pau, a me ka naauao i na mea a pau;
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 No ka hooiaio ana o ka olelo a Kristo iwaena o oukou;
In that way, [he] confirmed to you that what we [(exc)] proclaimed about Christ is true.
7 No ia mea, aole oukou i nele i kekahi haawina; e kali ana i ka hoike ana mai o ko kakou Haku, o Iesu Kristo:
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 Nana no oukou e hooku paa, a hiki aku i ka hopena, i hewa ole oukou i ka la o ko kakou Haku o Iesu Kristo.
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 He Akua malama, ka mea i hea mai ia oukou, i poe hoa no kana Keiki, no Iesu Kristo, ko kakou Haku.
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 Ke noi aku nei au ia oukou, e na hoahanau, ma ka inoa o ko kakou Haku o Iesu Kristo, i olelo oukou a pau i ka mea hookahi, i ole oukou e mokuahana; a i pili pu oukou me ka naau hookahi, a me ka lokahi o ka manao.
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 E na hoahanau o'u, ua haiia mai ia'u no oukou, na ka poe ohua o Keloe; ua kuee oukou.
My fellow believers, [I urge this] because some members of Chloe’s household have told me that you are quarreling among yourselves.
12 Ke hai aku nei au i keia, ua olelo ae kela mea keia mea o oukou, No Paulo wau; a no Apolo wau; a no Kepa wau; a no Kristo wau.
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 Ua maheleia anei o Kristo? I kaulia anei o Paulo ma ke kea no oukou? Ua bapetizoia anei oukou iloko o ka inoa o Paulo?
[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 Ke aloba aku nei au i ke Akua no ka mea, aole au i bapetizo aku i kekahi mea o oukou, o Kerisepo laua o Gaio wale no:
I thank [God] that Crispus and Gaius were the only ones from among you whom I baptized.
15 O olelo paha auanei kekahi, ua bapetizo aku au iloko o ko'u inoa iho.
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 Ua bapetizo no hoi au i ko ka hale o Setepana; a o na mea e, aole au i ike i ko'u bapetizo ana i kekahi mea e.
[Now I remember that] I also baptized the household of Stephanas, but I do not remember baptizing anyone else [there].
17 Aole i hoouna mai o Kristo ia'u e bapetizo, aka, e hai i ka euanelio; aole ma ke akamai i ka olelo, o hooliloia ke kea o Kristo i mea ole.
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 No ka mea, o ka olelo no ke kea, he mea lapuwale ia i ka poe make; aka, ia kakou, i ka poe ola, oia ka mana o ke Akua.
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 No ka mea, ua palapalaia mai, E hoopau au i ke akamai o ka poe akamai, a e hoolilo au i ka naauao o ka poe naauao i mea ole.
[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 Auhea ka mea akamai? Auhea ke kakaolelo? Auhea ka mea hoopaapaa o keia ao? Aole anei i hoolilo ke Akua i ke akamai o keia ao, i mea lapuwale? (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 No ka mea, i ke akamai o ke Akua, aole i ike aku ko ke ao nei i ke Akua, ma ko lakou naauao ana; alaila manao iho la ke Akua, ma ka lapuwale o ka haiolelo ana, e hoola i ka poe manaoio.
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 Ke noi mai nei na Iodaio i hoailona; ke imi mai nei hoi na Helene i ke akamai:
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 Aka, ke hai aku nei makou ia Kristo i kaulia ma ke kea, he mea hina no na Iudaio, a he mea lapuwale no na Helene;
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 Aka, i ka poe i heaia mai, i na Iudaio a me na Helene, o Kristo no ka mana o ke Akua a me ke akamai o ke Akua.
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 No ka mea, o ka lapuwale o ke Akua, ua oi aku ia mamua o ke akamai o kanaka; a o ka nawaliwali o ke Akua mamua o ka ikaika o kanaka.
[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 E na hoahanau, ua ike oukou i ko oukou heaia mai; aole koho nui ia ka poe akamai ma ke kino, aole i nui ka poe maiau, aole i nui na'lii:
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 Aka, ua koho mai ke Akua i ka poe naaupo o keia ao, i hoohilahila ia i ka poe akamai: ua koho mai hoi ke Akua i ka poe nawaliwali o keia ao, i hoohilahila ia i ka poe ikaika:
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 A me ke kuaaina hoi ka ke Akua i koho mai ai a me ka mea hoowahawahaia, a me na mea i ike ole ia i anai aku oia i na mea i ikeia;
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 I ole o hookiekie kekahi kanaka imua i ke alo o ke Akua.
[He did that] in order that no one could boast to God about being wise or important.
30 Nana mai no ko oukou iloko o Kristo Iesu, o ka mea i lilo no kakou i akamai, i mea hoopono, i mea hoomaemae, a i mea hoolapanai mai ke Akua mai.
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 E like me ka palapala ana mai, O ka mea kaena, e kaena oia ma ka Haku.
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].
