၁ ကရိန္ထိနး 4

1 လောကာ အသ္မာန် ခြီၐ္ဋသျ ပရိစာရကာန် ဤၑွရသျ နိဂူဌဝါကျဓနသျာဓျက္ၐာံၑ္စ မနျန္တာံ၊

So, people ought to consider us [apostles] (OR, Apollos and me) to be [merely] servants of Christ. God has given to us [(exc) the work of] telling others the message that God has now revealed to us.

2 ကိဉ္စ ဓနာဓျက္ၐေဏ ဝိၑွသနီယေန ဘဝိတဝျမေတဒေဝ လောကဲ ရျာစျတေ၊

With respect to doing that, those who are given work are required {give others some work to do require them} to do that work faithfully.

3 အတော ဝိစာရယဒ္ဘိ ရျုၐ္မာဘိရနျဲး ကဲၑ္စိန် မနုဇဲ ရွာ မမ ပရီက္ၐဏံ မယာတီဝ လဃု မနျတေ 'ဟမပျာတ္မာနံ န ဝိစာရယာမိ၊

I am not concerned whether you or [the judges in] some court decide whether I have done my work faithfully or not. I do not even judge myself [about that].

4 မယာ ကိမပျပရာဒ္ဓမိတျဟံ န ဝေဒ္မိ ကိန္တွေတေန မမ နိရပရာဓတွံ န နိၑ္စီယတေ ပြဘုရေဝ မမ ဝိစာရယိတာသ္တိ၊

I do not think that I have done anything wrong, but that does not prove that I have done nothing wrong. The Lord is the one who judges me.

5 အတ ဥပယုက္တသမယာတ် ပူရွွမ် အရ္ထတး ပြဘောရာဂမနာတ် ပူရွွံ ယုၐ္မာဘိ ရွိစာရော န ကြိယတာံ၊ ပြဘုရာဂတျ တိမိရေဏ ပြစ္ဆန္နာနိ သရွွာဏိ ဒီပယိၐျတိ မနသာံ မန္တြဏာၑ္စ ပြကာၑယိၐျတိ တသ္မိန် သမယ ဤၑွရာဒ် ဧကဲကသျ ပြၑံသာ ဘဝိၐျတိ၊

So, stop evaluating any of us [(exc)] before the time [when God judges everyone] [MTY]! Do not judge us before the Lord comes. He is the one who will reveal the sinful things that people have done secretly. He will even reveal what people have thought. At that time God will praise each person as [each one of them deserves].

6 ဟေ ဘြာတရး သရွွာဏျေတာနိ မယာတ္မာနမ် အာပလ္လဝဉ္စောဒ္ဒိၑျ ကထိတာနိ တသျဲတတ် ကာရဏံ ယုယံ ယထာ ၑာသ္တြီယဝိဓိမတိကြမျ မာနဝမ် အတီဝ နာဒရိၐျဓ္ဗ ဤတ္ထဉ္စဲကေန ဝဲပရီတျာဒ် အပရေဏ န ၑ္လာဃိၐျဓ္ဗ ဧတာဒၖၑီံ ၑိက္ၐာမာဝယောရ္ဒၖၐ္ဋာန္တာတ် လပ္သျဓွေ၊

My fellow believers, I have [told you] all these things as illustrations of myself and Apollos. I have done this for your sake, in order that you may learn [to live according to] the saying, “Do not act contrary to what is {what they have} written [in the Scriptures].” If you follow that rule, you will not be proud of one [spiritual leader] and despise another.

7 အပရာတ် ကသ္တွာံ ဝိၑေၐယတိ? တုဘျံ ယန္န ဒတ္တ တာဒၖၑံ ကိံ ဓာရယသိ? အဒတ္တေနေဝ ဒတ္တေန ဝသ္တုနာ ကုတး ၑ္လာဃသေ?

(No one has made any of you superior to others!/Why do any of you think that you are superior to others?) [RHQ] [All the abilities] that you have, you received [from God]. [RHQ] So if you received them all [from God], (you should not boast [thinking], “I got these abilities [from myself], [not from God]!”/why do you boast [thinking], “I got these abilities [from myself], [not from God]?”) [RHQ]

8 ဣဒါနီမေဝ ယူယံ ကိံ တၖပ္တာ လဗ္ဓဓနာ ဝါ? အသ္မာသွဝိဒျမာနေၐု ယူယံ ကိံ ရာဇတွပဒံ ပြာပ္တား? ယုၐ္မာကံ ရာဇတွံ မယာဘိလၐိတံ ယတသ္တေန ယုၐ္မာဘိး သဟ ဝယမပိ ရာဇျာံၑိနော ဘဝိၐျာမး၊

[It is disgusting that you act as though] [IRO] you have already received everything that you need [spiritually]. You act as though [IRO] you were [spiritually] rich (OR, you had received all [the spiritual gifts you need]). You act as though [IRO] you had already begun to rule as kings with Christ. Well, I wish that you really were ruling [with him], in order that we [apostles] might also rule with you!

9 ပြေရိတာ ဝယံ ၑေၐာ ဟန္တဝျာၑ္စေဝေၑွရေဏ နိဒရ္ၑိတား၊ ယတော ဝယံ သရွွလောကာနာမ် အရ္ထတး သွရ္ဂီယဒူတာနာံ မာနဝါနာဉ္စ ကော်တုကာသ္ပဒါနိ ဇာတား၊

But it seems as though God has put us [apostles] on display, [like prisoners] at the end [of the victor’s parade]. We [(exc)] are like men who have been condemned to die, who have been put in the arena where everyone can see [the wild animals] killing them. And not only people, but even angels all over the world [are watching us, as people] watch those who are performing a play [in a theater].

10 ခြီၐ္ဋသျ ကၖတေ ဝယံ မူဎား ကိန္တု ယူယံ ခြီၐ္ဋေန ဇ္ဉာနိနး, ဝယံ ဒုရ္ဗ္ဗလာ ယူယဉ္စ သဗလား, ယူယံ သမ္မာနိတာ ဝယဉ္စာပမာနိတား၊

Many people consider us to be [IRO] fools because [we preach about] Christ, but you proudly [think [IRO] that] you are wise because (of your close relationship with/you belong to) Christ. Many people [consider us] [IRO] to be unimpressive, but you [proudly think that you] impress others. People respect you, but they do not respect us.

11 ဝယမဒျာပိ က္ၐုဓာရ္တ္တာသ္တၖၐ္ဏာရ္တ္တာ ဝသ္တြဟီနာသ္တာဍိတာ အာၑြမရဟိတာၑ္စ သန္တး

Up to this present time we have often been hungry. We have often been thirsty. We have ragged clothes. Often we have been beaten {others have beaten us}. We [have traveled so much that we] have no regular homes to live in.

12 ကရ္မ္မဏိ သွကရာန် ဝျာပါရယန္တၑ္စ ဒုးခဲး ကာလံ ယာပယာမး၊ ဂရှိတဲရသ္မာဘိရာၑီး ကထျတေ ဒူရီကၖတဲး သဟျတေ နိန္ဒိတဲး ပြသာဒျတေ၊

We work very hard [to earn a living]. When we are cursed [by people] {When [people] curse us}, we [ask God to] bless them. When we are persecuted {When [people] cause us to suffer}, we endure it.

13 ဝယမဒျာပိ ဇဂတး သမ္မာရ္ဇနီယောဂျာ အဝကရာ ဣဝ သရွွဲ ရ္မနျာမဟေ၊

When we are slandered [by people] {When [people] slander us}, we reply kindly to them. Up to now, [unbelievers consider us to be worthless] [MET], [as though we were] just garbage.

14 ယုၐ္မာန် တြပယိတုမဟမေတာနိ လိခါမီတိ နဟိ ကိန္တု ပြိယာတ္မဇာနိဝ ယုၐ္မာန် ပြဗောဓယာမိ၊

I am writing this to you, not to make you feel ashamed, but instead to warn you as [though you were] my own dear children.

15 ယတး ခြီၐ္ဋဓရ္မ္မေ ယဒျပိ ယုၐ္မာကံ ဒၑသဟသြာဏိ ဝိနေတာရော ဘဝန္တိ တထာပိ ဗဟဝေါ ဇနကာ န ဘဝန္တိ ယတော'ဟမေဝ သုသံဝါဒေန ယီၑုခြီၐ္ဋေ ယုၐ္မာန် အဇနယံ၊

I say that because as [an apostle of] Christ Jesus I [was the first one who] proclaimed the good message to you. As a result, I was the one who enabled you to have eternal life. So even if there were thousands of Christians who instruct you [MET], I am the only one who became [like] a father to you.

16 အတော ယုၐ္မာန် ဝိနယေ'ဟံ ယူယံ မဒနုဂါမိနော ဘဝတ၊

So I urge you to [live for Christ] the way I do.

17 ဣတျရ္ထံ သရွွေၐု ဓရ္မ္မသမာဇေၐု သရွွတြ ခြီၐ္ဋဓရ္မ္မယောဂျာ ယေ ဝိဓယော မယောပဒိၑျန္တေ တာန် ယော ယုၐ္မာန် သ္မာရယိၐျတျေဝမ္ဘူတံ ပြဘေား ကၖတေ ပြိယံ ဝိၑွာသိနဉ္စ မဒီယတနယံ တီမထိယံ ယုၐ္မာကံ သမီပံ ပြေၐိတဝါနဟံ၊

In order to [help you do that], I have sent/will be sending Timothy to you. I love him [as though he were] my son. He serves the Lord faithfully. He will remind you of the way I conduct my life [as one who] (has a close relationship with/belongs to) the Lord. The way I conduct my life is the same as how I teach [others to live] in all the congregations [to whom I have spoken].

18 အပရမဟံ ယုၐ္မာကံ သမီပံ န ဂမိၐျာမီတိ ဗုဒ္ဓွာ ယုၐ္မာကံ ကိယန္တော လောကာ ဂရွွန္တိ၊

Some of you have become proud, thinking that I will not come there [to rebuke your congregation about what they are doing].

19 ကိန္တု ယဒိ ပြဘေရိစ္ဆာ ဘဝတိ တရှျဟမဝိလမ္ဗံ ယုၐ္မတ္သမီပမုပသ္ထာယ တေၐာံ ဒရ္ပဓ္မာတာနာံ လောကာနာံ ဝါစံ ဇ္ဉာသျာမီတိ နဟိ သာမရ္ထျမေဝ ဇ္ဉာသျာမိ၊

But if the Lord wants me to come, I will come to you soon. Then I will not [pay any attention to] what those proud people say. Instead, I will find out [whether they have God’s] power.

20 ယသ္မာဒီၑွရသျ ရာဇတွံ ဝါဂျုက္တံ နဟိ ကိန္တု သာမရ္ထျယုက္တံ၊

Remember that God [judges whether or not we are letting him] rule [our lives], not by [listening to how we] talk, but [by seeing whether his] power [is present] ([among us/in our lives]).

21 ယုၐ္မာကံ ကာ ဝါဉ္ဆာ? ယုၐ္မတ္သမီပေ မယာ ကိံ ဒဏ္ဍပါဏိနာ ဂန္တဝျမုတ ပြေမနမြတာတ္မယုက္တေန ဝါ?

So which do you prefer? Do you want me to come to you and punish you [because you have not changed your ways], or shall I come to you and act lovingly and gently toward you [because you have done what I told you to do]?