1 Korinthierbrevet 1
1 Paulus, kallad till Jesu Christi Apostel, genom Guds vilja, och Sosthenes, broderen;
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 Guds församling, som är i Corintho, dem helgadom genom Christum Jesum, kalladom heligom; samt med allom dem som åkalla vårs Herras Jesu Christi Namn, uti hvart och ett rum, deras och vårt.
[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 Nåd vare eder, och frid af Gudi vårom Fader, och Herranom Jesu Christo.
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 Jag tackar min Gud alltid för edra skull, för den Guds nåd, som eder gifven är genom Christum Jesum;
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 Att I uti all stycke rike vordne ären genom honom, i all ord, och all kunskap.
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 Såsom predikanen om Christo i eder kraftig vorden är;
In that way, [he] confirmed to you that what we [(exc)] proclaimed about Christ is true.
7 Så att eder icke fattas någor gåfva, och vänten vårs Herras Jesu Christi uppenbarelse.
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 Hvilken eder ock stadfäster intill ändan, att I ostraffelige ären på vårs Herras Jesu Christi dag.
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 Ty Gud är trofast, genom hvilken I kallade ären till hans Sons Jesu Christi, vårs Herras, delaktighet.
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 Men, käre bröder, jag förmanar eder, vid vårs Herras Jesu. Christi Namn, att I talen alle ett, och att ibland eder ingen tvedrägt är; utan att I ären fullborda uti ett sinne och ene mening.
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 Ty mig är förekommet, mine bröder, om eder, med dem som tjena Chloe, att ibland eder äro trätor.
My fellow believers, [I urge this] because some members of Chloe’s household have told me that you are quarreling among yourselves.
12 Men jag säger, som hvar och en af eder säger: Jag är Paulisk, jag är Apollisk, jag är Cephisk, och jag är Christisk.
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 Månn Christus vara söndrad? Månn Paulus vara korsfäst för eder? Eller ären I döpte i Pauli namn?
[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 Jag tackar Gud, att jag ingen edra döpt hafver, utan Crispum, och Gajum;
I thank [God] that Crispus and Gaius were the only ones from among you whom I baptized.
15 Att ingen kan säga, att jag hafver i mitt namn döpt.
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 Desslikes döpte jag Stephane husfolk; sedan vet jag icke, om jag någon annan döpt hafver.
[Now I remember that] I also baptized the household of Stephanas, but I do not remember baptizing anyone else [there].
17 Ty Christus hafver icke sändt mig till att döpa, utan till att förkunna Evangelium; icke med klokt tal, på det Christi kors icke skulle omintet varda.
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 Ty det tal om korset är en galenskap dem som förtappas; men oss, som salige vardom, är det en Guds kraft;
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 Ty skrifvet är: Jag skall omintet göra de visas visdom, och de förståndigas förstånd skall jag förkasta.
[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 Hvar äro de kloke? Hvar äro de Skriftlärde? Hvar äro denna verldenes vise? Hafver icke Gud denna verldenes vishet gjort till galenskap? (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 Ty efter verlden icke kunde genom sin visdom känna Gud i hans visdom, så täcktes Gudi med dåraktiga predikan frälsa dem som tro.
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 Efter det Judarna begära tecken, och Grekerna söka efter vishet;
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 Men vi predike den korsfästa Christum, Judomen en förargelse, och Grekomen en galenskap.
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 Men dem samma, Judom och Grekom, som kallade äro, predike vi Christum, Guds kraft, och Guds visdom.
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 Ty Guds galenskap är visare än menniskor, och Guds svaghet är starkare än menniskor.
[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 Käre bröder, ser på edor kallelse; icke månge köttsliga vise, icke månge mägtige, icke månge ädlingar äro kallade.
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 Men det, som galet var för verldene, hafver Gud utvalt, på det han skulle göra de visa till skam; och det svagt var för verldene hafver Gud utvalt, på det han skulle göra det till skam som starkt är.
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 Och det, som var oädla, och föraktadt för verldene, hafver Gud utvalt, och det intet är; på det han skulle göra det till intet, som något är;
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 På det intet kött skall kunna berömma sig för honom;
[He did that] in order that no one could boast to God about being wise or important.
30 Af hvilkom I ock ären i Christo Jesu, den oss af Gudi är gjord till visdom, och till rättfärdighet, och till helgelse, och till förlossning;
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 På det, som skrifvet står: Den som berömmer sig, han berömme sig i Herranom.
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].
