१ करिन्थिनः 4
1 लोका अस्मान् ख्रीष्टस्य परिचारकान् ईश्वरस्य निगूठवाक्यधनस्याध्यक्षांश्च मन्यन्तां।
Let people look on us as Christ’s servants, and as stewards of the hidden truths of God.
2 किञ्च धनाध्यक्षेण विश्वसनीयेन भवितव्यमेतदेव लोकै र्याच्यते।
Now what we look for in stewards is that they should be trustworthy.
3 अतो विचारयद्भि र्युष्माभिरन्यैः कैश्चिन् मनुजै र्वा मम परीक्षणं मयातीव लघु मन्यते ऽहमप्यात्मानं न विचारयामि।
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 मया किमप्यपराद्धमित्यहं न वेद्मि किन्त्वेतेन मम निरपराधत्वं न निश्चीयते प्रभुरेव मम विचारयितास्ति।
for, though I am conscious of nothing against myself, that does not prove me innocent. It is the Lord who is my judge.
5 अत उपयुक्तसमयात् पूर्व्वम् अर्थतः प्रभोरागमनात् पूर्व्वं युष्माभि र्विचारो न क्रियतां। प्रभुरागत्य तिमिरेण प्रच्छन्नानि सर्व्वाणि दीपयिष्यति मनसां मन्त्रणाश्च प्रकाशयिष्यति तस्मिन् समय ईश्वराद् एकैकस्य प्रशंसा भविष्यति।
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 हे भ्रातरः सर्व्वाण्येतानि मयात्मानम् आपल्लवञ्चोद्दिश्य कथितानि तस्यैतत् कारणं युयं यथा शास्त्रीयविधिमतिक्रम्य मानवम् अतीव नादरिष्यध्ब ईत्थञ्चैकेन वैपरीत्याद् अपरेण न श्लाघिष्यध्ब एतादृशीं शिक्षामावयोर्दृष्टान्तात् लप्स्यध्वे।
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 अपरात् कस्त्वां विशेषयति? तुभ्यं यन्न दत्त तादृशं किं धारयसि? अदत्तेनेव दत्तेन वस्तुना कुतः श्लाघसे?
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 इदानीमेव यूयं किं तृप्ता लब्धधना वा? अस्मास्वविद्यमानेषु यूयं किं राजत्वपदं प्राप्ताः? युष्माकं राजत्वं मयाभिलषितं यतस्तेन युष्माभिः सह वयमपि राज्यांशिनो भविष्यामः।
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 प्रेरिता वयं शेषा हन्तव्याश्चेवेश्वरेण निदर्शिताः। यतो वयं सर्व्वलोकानाम् अर्थतः स्वर्गीयदूतानां मानवानाञ्च कौतुकास्पदानि जाताः।
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 ख्रीष्टस्य कृते वयं मूढाः किन्तु यूयं ख्रीष्टेन ज्ञानिनः, वयं दुर्ब्बला यूयञ्च सबलाः, यूयं सम्मानिता वयञ्चापमानिताः।
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 वयमद्यापि क्षुधार्त्तास्तृष्णार्त्ता वस्त्रहीनास्ताडिता आश्रमरहिताश्च सन्तः
To this very hour we go hungry, thirsty, and naked; we are beaten; we are homeless;
12 कर्म्मणि स्वकरान् व्यापारयन्तश्च दुःखैः कालं यापयामः। गर्हितैरस्माभिराशीः कथ्यते दूरीकृतैः सह्यते निन्दितैः प्रसाद्यते।
we work hard, toiling with our own hands. We meet abuse with blessings, we meet persecution with endurance,
13 वयमद्यापि जगतः सम्मार्जनीयोग्या अवकरा इव सर्व्वै र्मन्यामहे।
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 युष्मान् त्रपयितुमहमेतानि लिखामीति नहि किन्तु प्रियात्मजानिव युष्मान् प्रबोधयामि।
It is with no wish to shame you that I am writing like this; but to warn you as my own dear children.
15 यतः ख्रीष्टधर्म्मे यद्यपि युष्माकं दशसहस्राणि विनेतारो भवन्ति तथापि बहवो जनका न भवन्ति यतोऽहमेव सुसंवादेन यीशुख्रीष्टे युष्मान् अजनयं।
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 अतो युष्मान् विनयेऽहं यूयं मदनुगामिनो भवत।
Therefore I entreat you – Follow my example.
17 इत्यर्थं सर्व्वेषु धर्म्मसमाजेषु सर्व्वत्र ख्रीष्टधर्म्मयोग्या ये विधयो मयोपदिश्यन्ते तान् यो युष्मान् स्मारयिष्यत्येवम्भूतं प्रभोः कृते प्रियं विश्वासिनञ्च मदीयतनयं तीमथियं युष्माकं समीपं प्रेषितवानहं।
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 अपरमहं युष्माकं समीपं न गमिष्यामीति बुद्ध्वा युष्माकं कियन्तो लोका गर्व्वन्ति।
Some, I hear, are puffed up with pride, thinking that I am not coming to you.
19 किन्तु यदि प्रभेरिच्छा भवति तर्ह्यहमविलम्बं युष्मत्समीपमुपस्थाय तेषां दर्पध्मातानां लोकानां वाचं ज्ञास्यामीति नहि सामर्थ्यमेव ज्ञास्यामि।
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 यस्मादीश्वरस्य राजत्वं वाग्युक्तं नहि किन्तु सामर्थ्ययुक्तं।
for the kingdom of God is based, not on words, but on power.
21 युष्माकं का वाञ्छा? युष्मत्समीपे मया किं दण्डपाणिना गन्तव्यमुत प्रेमनम्रतात्मयुक्तेन वा?
What do you wish? Am I to come to you with a rod, or in a loving and gentle spirit?
