၁ ကရိန္ထိနး 7
1 အပရဉ္စ ယုၐ္မာဘိ ရ္မာံ ပြတိ ယတ် ပတြမလေခိ တသျောတ္တရမေတတ်, ယောၐိတော'သ္ပရ္ၑနံ မနုဇသျ ဝရံ;
With reference to the subjects about which you wrote to me: It is good for a man to remain single.
2 ကိန္တု ဝျဘိစာရဘယာဒ် ဧကဲကသျ ပုံသး သွကီယဘာရျျာ ဘဝတု တဒွဒ် ဧကဲကသျာ ယောၐိတော 'ပိ သွကီယဘရ္တ္တာ ဘဝတု၊
But, owing to the prevalence of immorality, I advise every man to have his own wife, and every woman her husband.
3 ဘာရျျာယဲ ဘရ္တြာ ယဒျဒ် ဝိတရဏီယံ တဒ် ဝိတီရျျတာံ တဒွဒ် ဘရ္တြေ'ပိ ဘာရျျယာ ဝိတရဏီယံ ဝိတီရျျတာံ၊
A husband should give his wife her due, and a wife her husband.
4 ဘာရျျာယား သွဒေဟေ သွတွံ နာသ္တိ ဘရ္တ္တုရေဝ, တဒွဒ် ဘရ္တ္တုရပိ သွဒေဟေ သွတွံ နာသ္တိ ဘာရျျာယာ ဧဝ၊
It is not the wife, but the husband, who exercises power over her body; and so, too, it is not the husband, but the wife, who exercises power over his body.
5 ဥပေါၐဏပြာရ္ထနယေား သေဝနာရ္ထမ် ဧကမန္တြဏာနာံ ယုၐ္မာကံ ကိယတ္ကာလံ ယာဝဒ် ယာ ပၖထက္သ္ထိတိ ရ္ဘဝတိ တဒနျော ဝိစ္ဆေဒေါ ယုၐ္မန္မဓျေ န ဘဝတု, တတး ပရမ် ဣန္ဒြိယာဏာမ် အဓဲရျျာတ် ၑယတာန် ယဒ် ယုၐ္မာန် ပရီက္ၐာံ န နယေတ် တဒရ္ထံ ပုနရေကတြ မိလတ၊
Do not deprive each other of what is due – unless it is only for a time and by mutual consent, so that your minds may be free for prayer until you again live as man and wife – otherwise Satan might take advantage of your want of self-control and tempt you.
6 ဧတဒ် အာဒေၑတော နဟိ ကိန္တွနုဇ္ဉာတ ဧဝ မယာ ကထျတေ,
I say this, however, as a concession, not as a command.
7 ယတော မမာဝသ္ထေဝ သရွွမာနဝါနာမဝသ္ထာ ဘဝတွိတိ မမ ဝါဉ္ဆာ ကိန္တွီၑွရာဒ် ဧကေနဲကော ဝရော'နျေန စာနျော ဝရ ဣတ္ထမေကဲကေန သွကီယဝရော လဗ္ဓး၊
I should wish everyone to be just what I am myself. But everyone has his own gift from God – one in one way, and one in another.
8 အပရမ် အကၖတဝိဝါဟာန် ဝိဓဝါၑ္စ ပြတိ မမဲတန္နိဝေဒနံ မမေဝ တေၐာမဝသ္ထိတိ ရ္ဘဒြာ;
My advice, then, to those who are not married, and to widows, is this: It would be good for them to remain as I am myself.
9 ကိဉ္စ ယဒိ တဲရိန္ဒြိယာဏိ နိယန္တုံ န ၑကျန္တေ တရှိ ဝိဝါဟး ကြိယတာံ ယတး ကာမဒဟနာဒ် ဝျူဎတွံ ဘဒြံ၊
But, if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to be consumed with passion.
10 ယေ စ ကၖတဝိဝါဟာသ္တေ မယာ နဟိ ပြဘုနဲဝဲတဒ် အာဇ္ဉာပျန္တေ၊
To those who are married my direction is – yet it is not mine, but the Master’s – that a woman is not to leave her husband
11 ဘာရျျာ ဘရ္တ္တၖတး ပၖထက် န ဘဝတု၊ ယဒိ ဝါ ပၖထဂ္ဘူတာ သျာတ် တရှိ နိရွိဝါဟာ တိၐ္ဌတု သွီယပတိနာ ဝါ သန္ဒဓာတု ဘရ္တ္တာပိ ဘာရျျာံ န တျဇတု၊
(If she has done so, she should remain as she is, or else be reconciled to her husband) and also that a man is not to divorce his wife.
12 ဣတရာန် ဇနာန် ပြတိ ပြဘု ရ္န ဗြဝီတိ ကိန္တွဟံ ဗြဝီမိ; ကသျစိဒ် ဘြာတုရျောၐိဒ် အဝိၑွာသိနီ သတျပိ ယဒိ တေန သဟဝါသေ တုၐျတိ တရှိ သာ တေန န တျဇျတာံ၊
To all others I say – I, not the Master – If a follower of the Lord is married to a woman, who is an unbeliever but willing to live with him, he should not divorce her;
13 တဒွတ် ကသျာၑ္စိဒ် ယောၐိတး ပတိရဝိၑွာသီ သန္နပိ ယဒိ တယာ သဟဝါသေ တုၐျတိ တရှိ သ တယာ န တျဇျတာံ၊
and a woman who is married to a man, who is an unbeliever but willing to live with her, should not divorce her husband.
14 ယတော'ဝိၑွာသီ ဘရ္တ္တာ ဘာရျျယာ ပဝိတြီဘူတး, တဒွဒဝိၑွာသိနီ ဘာရျျာ ဘရ္တြာ ပဝိတြီဘူတာ; နောစေဒ် ယုၐ္မာကမပတျာနျၑုစီနျဘဝိၐျန် ကိန္တွဓုနာ တာနိ ပဝိတြာဏိ သန္တိ၊
For, through his wife, the husband who is an unbeliever has become associated with Christ’s people; and the wife who is an unbeliever has become associated with Christ’s people through the Lord’s follower whom she has married. Otherwise your children would be “defiled,” but, as it is, they belong to Christ’s people.
15 အဝိၑွာသီ ဇနော ယဒိ ဝါ ပၖထဂ် ဘဝတိ တရှိ ပၖထဂ် ဘဝတု; ဧတေန ဘြာတာ ဘဂိနီ ဝါ န နိဗဓျတေ တထာပိ ဝယမီၑွရေဏ ၑာန္တယေ သမာဟူတား၊
However, if the unbeliever wishes to be separated, let them be so. Under such circumstances neither is bound; God has called you to live in peace.
16 ဟေ နာရိ တဝ ဘရ္တ္တုး ပရိတြာဏံ တွတ္တော ဘဝိၐျတိ န ဝေတိ တွယာ ကိံ ဇ္ဉာယတေ? ဟေ နရ တဝ ဇာယာယား ပရိတြာဏံ တွတ္တေ ဘဝိၐျတိ န ဝေတိ တွယာ ကိံ ဇ္ဉာယတေ?
How can you tell, wife, whether you may not save your husband? And how can you tell, husband, whether you may not save your wife?
17 ဧကဲကော ဇနး ပရမေၑွရာလ္လဗ္ဓံ ယဒ် ဘဇတေ ယသျာဉ္စာဝသ္ထာယာမ် ဤၑွရေဏာဟွာယိ တဒနုသာရေဏဲဝါစရတု တဒဟံ သရွွသမာဇသ္ထာန် အာဒိၑာမိ၊
In any case, a person should continue to live in the condition which the Lord has allotted to them, and in which they were when God called them. This is the rule that I lay down in every church.
18 ဆိန္နတွဂ် ဘၖတွာ ယ အာဟူတး သ ပြကၖၐ္ဋတွက် န ဘဝတု, တဒွဒ် အဆိန္နတွဂ် ဘူတွာ ယ အာဟူတး သ ဆိန္နတွက် န ဘဝတု၊
Was a man already circumcised when he was called? Then he should not efface his circumcision. Has a man been called when uncircumcised? Then he should not be circumcised.
19 တွက္ဆေဒး သာရော နဟိ တဒွဒတွက္ဆေဒေါ'ပိ သာရော နဟိ ကိန္တွီၑွရသျာဇ္ဉာနာံ ပါလနမေဝ၊
Circumcision is nothing; the want of it is nothing; but to keep the commands of God is everything.
20 ယော ဇနော ယသျာမဝသ္ထာယာမာဟွာယိ သ တသျာမေဝါဝတိၐ္ဌတာံ၊
Let everyone remain in that condition of life in which they were when the call came to them.
21 ဒါသး သန် တွံ ကိမာဟူတော'သိ? တန္မာ စိန္တယ, တထာစ ယဒိ သွတန္တြော ဘဝိတုံ ၑက္နုယာသ္တရှိ တဒေဝ ဝၖဏု၊
Were you a slave when you were called? Do not let that trouble you. No, even if you are able to gain your freedom, still do your best.
22 ယတး ပြဘုနာဟူတော ယော ဒါသး သ ပြဘော ရ္မောစိတဇနး၊ တဒွဒ် တေနာဟူတး သွတန္တြော ဇနော'ပိ ခြီၐ္ဋသျ ဒါသ ဧဝ၊
For the person who was a slave when they were called to the master’s service is the Master’s freedman; so, too, the person who was free when called is Christ’s slave.
23 ယူယံ မူလျေန ကြီတာ အတော ဟေတော ရ္မာနဝါနာံ ဒါသာ မာ ဘဝတ၊
You were bought, and the price was paid. Do not let yourselves become slaves to people.
24 ဟေ ဘြာတရော ယသျာမဝသ္ထာယာံ ယသျာဟွာနမဘဝတ် တယာ သ ဤၑွရသျ သာက္ၐာတ် တိၐ္ဌတု၊
Friends, let everyone remain in the condition in which they were when they were called, in close communion with God.
25 အပရမ် အကၖတဝိဝါဟာန် ဇနာန် ပြတိ ပြဘေား ကော'ပျာဒေၑော မယာ န လဗ္ဓး ကိန္တု ပြဘောရနုကမ္ပယာ ဝိၑွာသျော ဘူတော'ဟံ ယဒ် ဘဒြံ မနျေ တဒ် ဝဒါမိ၊
With regard to unmarried women, I have no command from the Master to give you, but I tell you my opinion, and the Master in his mercy has made me worthy to be trusted.
26 ဝရ္တ္တမာနာတ် က္လေၑသမယာတ် မနုၐျသျာနူဎတွံ ဘဒြမိတိ မယာ ဗုဓျတေ၊
I think, then, that, in view of the time of suffering that has now come upon us, what I have already said is best – that a man should remain as he is.
27 တွံ ကိံ ယောၐိတိ နိဗဒ္ဓေါ'သိ တရှိ မောစနံ ပြာပ္တုံ မာ ယတသွ၊ ကိံ ဝါ ယောၐိတော မုက္တော'သိ? တရှိ ဇာယာံ မာ ဂဝေၐယ၊
Are you married to a wife? Then do not seek to be separated. Are you separated from a wife? Then do not seek for a wife.
28 ဝိဝါဟံ ကုရွွတာ တွယာ ကိမပိ နာပါရာဓျတေ တဒွဒ် ဝျူဟျမာနယာ ယုဝတျာပိ ကိမပိ နာပရာဓျတေ တထာစ တာဒၖၑော် ဒွေါ် ဇနော် ၑာရီရိကံ က္လေၑံ လပ္သျေတေ ကိန္တု ယုၐ္မာန် ပြတိ မမ ကရုဏာ ဝိဒျတေ၊
Still, if you should marry, that is not wrong; nor, if a young woman marries, is that wrong. But those who marry will have much trouble to bear, and my wish is to spare you.
29 ဟေ ဘြာတရော'ဟမိဒံ ဗြဝီမိ, ဣတး ပရံ သမယော'တီဝ သံက္ၐိပ္တး,
What I mean, friends, is this – the time is short. Meanwhile, let those who have wives live as if they had none,
30 အတး ကၖတဒါရဲရကၖတဒါရဲရိဝ ရုဒဒ္ဘိၑ္စာရုဒဒ္ဘိရိဝ သာနန္ဒဲၑ္စ နိရာနန္ဒဲရိဝ ကြေတၖဘိၑ္စာဘာဂိဘိရိဝါစရိတဝျံ
those who are weeping as if not weeping, those who are rejoicing as if not rejoicing, those who buy as if not possessing,
31 ယေ စ သံသာရေ စရန္တိ တဲ ရ္နာတိစရိတဝျံ ယတ ဣဟလေကသျ ကော်တုကော ဝိစလတိ၊
and those who use the good things of the world as using them sparingly; for this world as we see it is passing away.
32 ကိန္တု ယူယံ ယန္နိၑ္စိန္တာ ဘဝေတေတိ မမ ဝါဉ္ဆာ၊ အကၖတဝိဝါဟော ဇနော ယထာ ပြဘုံ ပရိတောၐယေတ် တထာ ပြဘုံ စိန္တယတိ,
I want you to be free from anxiety. The unmarried man is anxious about the Master’s cause, desiring to please him;
33 ကိန္တု ကၖတဝိဝါဟော ဇနော ယထာ ဘာရျျာံ ပရိတောၐယေတ် တထာ သံသာရံ စိန္တယတိ၊
while the married man is anxious about worldly matters, desiring to please his wife;
34 တဒွဒ် ဦဎယောၐိတော 'နူဎာ ဝိၑိၐျတေ၊ ယာနူဎာ သာ ယထာ ကာယမနသေား ပဝိတြာ ဘဝေတ် တထာ ပြဘုံ စိန္တယတိ ယာ စောဎာ သာ ယထာ ဘရ္တ္တာရံ ပရိတောၐယေတ် တထာ သံသာရံ စိန္တယတိ၊
and so his interests are divided. Again, the unmarried woman, whether she is old or young, is anxious about the Master’s cause, striving to be pure both in body and in spirit, while the married woman is anxious about worldly matters, desiring to please her husband.
35 အဟံ ယဒ် ယုၐ္မာန် မၖဂဗန္ဓိနျာ ပရိက္ၐိပေယံ တဒရ္ထံ နဟိ ကိန္တု ယူယံ ယဒနိန္ဒိတာ ဘူတွာ ပြဘေား သေဝနေ'ဗာဓမ် အာသက္တာ ဘဝေတ တဒရ္ထမေတာနိ သရွွာဏိ ယုၐ္မာကံ ဟိတာယ မယာ ကထျန္တေ၊
I say this for your own benefit, not with any intention of putting a halter round your necks, but in order to secure for the Master seemly and constant devotion, free from all distraction.
36 ကသျစိတ် ကနျာယာံ ယော်ဝနပြာပ္တာယာံ ယဒိ သ တသျာ အနူဎတွံ နိန္ဒနီယံ ဝိဝါဟၑ္စ သာဓယိတဝျ ဣတိ မနျတေ တရှိ ယထာဘိလာၐံ ကရောတု, ဧတေန ကိမပိ နာပရာတ္သျတိ ဝိဝါဟး ကြိယတာံ၊
If, however, a father thinks that he is not acting fairly by his unmarried daughter, when she is past her youth, and if under these circumstances her marriage ought to take place, he should act as he thinks right. He is doing nothing wrong – let the marriage take place.
37 ကိန္တု ဒုးခေနာက္လိၐ္ဋး ကၑ္စိတ် ပိတာ ယဒိ သ္ထိရမနောဂတး သွမနော'ဘိလာၐသာဓနေ သမရ္ထၑ္စ သျာတ် မမ ကနျာ မယာ ရက္ၐိတဝျေတိ မနသိ နိၑ္စိနောတိ စ တရှိ သ ဘဒြံ ကရ္မ္မ ကရောတိ၊
On the other hand, a father, who has definitely made up his mind, and is under no compulsion, but is free to carry out his own wishes, and who has come to the decision, in his own mind, to keep his unmarried daughter at home will be doing right.
38 အတော ယော ဝိဝါဟံ ကရောတိ သ ဘဒြံ ကရ္မ္မ ကရောတိ ယၑ္စ ဝိဝါဟံ န ကရောတိ သ ဘဒြတရံ ကရ္မ္မ ကရောတိ၊
In short, the one who consents to his daughter’s marriage is doing right, and yet the other will be doing better.
39 ယာဝတ္ကာလံ ပတိ ရ္ဇီဝတိ တာဝဒ် ဘာရျျာ ဝျဝသ္ထယာ နိဗဒ္ဓါ တိၐ္ဌတိ ကိန္တု ပတျော် မဟာနိဒြာံ ဂတေ သာ မုက္တီဘူယ ယမဘိလၐတိ တေန သဟ တသျာ ဝိဝါဟော ဘဝိတုံ ၑက္နောတိ, ကိန္တွေတတ် ကေဝလံ ပြဘုဘက္တာနာံ မဓျေ၊
A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives; but, if the husband should pass to his rest, the widow is free to marry anyone she wishes, provided he is a believer.
40 တထာစ သာ ယဒိ နိၐ္ပတိကာ တိၐ္ဌတိ တရှိ တသျား က္ၐေမံ ဘဝိၐျတီတိ မမ ဘာဝး၊ အပရမ် ဤၑွရသျာတ္မာ မမာပျန္တ ရွိဒျတ ဣတိ မယာ ဗုဓျတေ၊
Yet she will be happier if she remains as she is – in my opinion, for I think that I also have the Spirit of God.
