Men Korint I 4
1 ARAMAJ akan en wia kin kit papa en Krijtuj o jaunkoa pan me rir akan ren Kot.
Let people look on us as Christ’s servants, and as stewards of the hidden truths of God.
2 A iaduen jaunkoa kan? Amen amen en lelapok.
Now what we look for in stewards is that they should be trustworthy.
3 I jota injenoki, me komail de kapun en aramaj kajaui ia da. Pein nai pil jota kajaui ia da.
But it weighs very little with me that I am judged by you or by any human tribunal. No, I do not even judge myself;
4 Pwe jota me i pein aja, a kaidin met, me i pun kila, a Kaun o me kin kajaui ia da.
for, though I am conscious of nothing against myself, that does not prove me innocent. It is the Lord who is my judge.
5 Ari, komail depa kajaui okot me mon a anjau, a lao Kaun o pan kotido, me pan kajanjale dan marain okiok en me rotorot akan o kadiarokada lamalam en nan monioin akan, amen amen ap pan indandeki ren Kot.
Therefore do not pass judgment before the time, but wait until the Lord comes. He will throw light on what is now dark and obscure, and will reveal the motives in people’s minds; and then everyone will receive due praise from God.
6 Ri ai kan, mepukat i kin inda duen nai o Apoloj, pwe komail en ale jan kit, pwe amen ender lamelame, me a jiki jan me intinidier, pwe komail ender aklapalapaki amen, ap palian me teio.
All this, friends, I have, for your sakes, applied to Apollos and myself, so that, from our example, you may learn to observe the precept – ‘Keep to what is written,’ that none of you may speak boastfully of one teacher to the disparagement of another.
7 Pwe ij me mone kin uk? A jota, me mi re om, me koe jota aleer. A ma koe aleer meakaroj, menda koe kin juaiki, likamata koe jota aleer?
For who makes any one of you superior to others? And what have you that was not given you? But if you received it as a gift, why do you boast as if you had not?
8 Komail medier o kapwapwalar, o komail kin kaunda, ap jota ale jan kit. I men, komail en kaunda, pwe kit ap pil pan ian komail kaunda.
Are you all so soon satisfied? Are you so soon rich? Have you begun to reign without us? Would indeed that you had, so that we also might reign with you!
9 Pwe i lamelame, me Kot kotin wiai on kit wanporon akan, en tikitik melel, me mau on mela, pwe kit wialar men kapuriamui eu ni jappa mon tounlan o aramaj akan.
For, as it seems to me, God has exhibited us, the apostles, last of all, as people doomed to death. We are made a spectacle to the universe, both to angels and to people!
10 Kit me jon en pweipwei pweki Krijtuj, a komail me lolekonki Krijtuj; kit me luet, a komail me kelail; komail me indand mau, a kit me indand jued.
We, for Christ’s sake, are fools, but you, by your union with Christ, are people of discernment. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honored, but we are despised.
11 Kokodo lel auer met kit mm manadar, o pil men nim piladar, o kilijo, o je kin kalokolok, o jota deu at.
To this very hour we go hungry, thirsty, and naked; we are beaten; we are homeless;
12 O dodok ni pein pa at; kit me kalok jued, a je kin kapaiada, kit me kalokolok, a je kin nenen la; Ni at pakaraun mal, kit kin kapakap.
we work hard, toiling with our own hands. We meet abuse with blessings, we meet persecution with endurance,
13 Kit wialar tatan kid o kopataun aramaj karoj.
we meet slander with gentle appeals. We have been treated as the scum of the earth, the vilest of the vile, to this very hour.
14 I intiniedier mepukat kaidin pwen kanamenok komail, a pwen panaui komail nai jeri kompok kan.
It is with no wish to shame you that I am writing like this; but to warn you as my own dear children.
15 Pwe ma omail jaunpadak pan Krijtuj me nen, nan jam omail akan me jota non toto, pwe nai me kaipwi komail ren Krijtuj Iejuj ki ronamau.
Though you may have thousands of instructors in the faith of Christ, yet you have not many fathers. It was I who, through union with Christ Jesus, became your father by means of the good news.
16 I ari poeki re omail komail en idauen ia do.
Therefore I entreat you – Follow my example.
17 Pwe i me i kadarki won komail Timoteuj nai jeri kompoke o lelapok pan Kaun o pwen kataman kin komail duen al ai kan pan Krijtuj, duen me i kawewedar ni momodijou karoj.
This is my reason for sending Timothy to you. He is my own dear faithful child in the Master’s service, and he will remind you of my methods of teaching the faith of Christ Jesus – methods which I follow everywhere in every church.
18 Akai komail me aklapalap likomata i jota pan pwar won komail.
Some, I hear, are puffed up with pride, thinking that I am not coming to you.
19 A i pan pwar won komail madan, ma Kaun o pan kotin kupura. I ap pan kilan kaidin padak en me aklapalap akan, a me manaman.
But come to you I will, and that soon, if it please the Lord; and then I will find out, not what words these people use who are so puffed up, but what power they possess;
20 Pwe wein Kot jota mi ni kajoi a ni manaman.
for the kingdom of God is based, not on words, but on power.
21 Da me komail mauki? I en pwar won komail wa jokon, de limpok o nen en opampap?
What do you wish? Am I to come to you with a rod, or in a loving and gentle spirit?
