1 Coríntios 4

He Āpōtoro a te Karaiti

1 Me pēnei te whakaaro o te tangata ki a mātou nā, he kaimahi nā te Karaiti, he tuari hoki nō ngā mea ngaro a te Atua. 2 Nā, hei konei ko te mea o te tuari e matenuitia ana, kia kitea he tangata pono ia. 3 Ki ahau ia he mea nohinohi rawa kia whai kupu koutou mōku, te tangata rānei; kāhore nei hoki āku kupu mōku anō. 4 Kāhore hoki ahau i mātau ki tētahi aha ōku; heoi, e kore tēnā e ai hei whakatika mōku. Otirā, ko te Ariki hei whai kupu mōku. 5 Nā reira, kaua e whakawākia wawetia tētahi mea, kia tae mai rā anō te Ariki, māna e whakamārama ngā mea huna o te pōuri, e whakakite hoki ngā whakaaro o ngā ngākau; hei reira ia tangata whakamoemititia ai e te Atua.

6 Nā, ko ēnei mea, e ōku tēina, nāku i huri mai te āhua ki a māua ko Aporo, he whakaaro ki a koutou, kia ai māua hei whakaako i a koutou, kia kaua te whakaaro e hipa atu i te mea i tuhituhia; kia kaua tētahi o koutou e whakapehapeha mō tētahi ki runga atu i tētahi. 7 Ko wai kei te mea kia rerekē koe? Ko tēhea mea hoki āu ehara i te mea hoatu ki a koe? Nā, he mea i hoatu ki a koe, he aha koe ka whakamanamana ai, me te mea nei ehara i te mea hoatu?

8 Kua mākona kē nā hoki koutou! Kua hua kē ō koutou taonga! Kua kīngi koutou ahakoa motu mai mātou! Āe rā, e pai ana ki ahau kia kīngi tonu koutou, kia kīngi tahi ai tātou. 9 Ki tōku whakaaro hoki kua waiho mātou, ngā āpōtoro, e te Atua mō muri rawa, ānō he hunga mō te mate; kua meinga hoki mātou hei mātakitakinga mā te ao, mā ngā anahera, ā, mā ngā tāngata. 10 Ko mātou he kūware mō tā te Karaiti, ko koutou ia he hunga whai whakaaro i roto i a te Karaiti; ko mātou he ngoikore, ko koutou ia he hunga kaha; tō koutou he korōria, tō mātou ia he hōnorekore. 11 Tae tonu mai ki tēnei hāora nei e matekai ana mātou, e matewai ana, e haere tahanga ana, e kurua ana, kāhore hoki ō mātou kāinga tūmau. 12 E māuiui ana mātou, ko ō mātou ringa ake hei mahi. E taunutia ana, manaaki tonu mātou; e whakatoia ana, whakaririka kau mātou; 13 ka kōrerotia kinotia, ka whakangāwari atu mātou. Kua meinga mātou kia rite ki te paru rukenga o te ao, ki te para o ngā mea katoa, taea noatia tēnei rā.

14 Kāhore ahau i te tuhituhi atu i ēnei mea kia whakamā ai koutou, engari, hei whakatūpato i a koutou, i āku tamariki aroha. 15 Nō te mea ahakoa whiwhi koutou i ngā kaiwhakaako tekau mano i roto i a te Karaiti, kāhore i tokomaha ō koutou mātua; he whānau hoki koutou nāku i roto i a Karaiti Īhu i runga i te rongopai. 16 Koia ahau ka tohe nei ki a koutou, kia rite tā koutou ki tāku. 17 Nā reira i tonoa atu ai e ahau ki a koutou a Tīmoti, tāku tama aroha, tama pono i roto i te Ariki, māna koutou e whakamahara ki ōku ara i roto i a te Karaiti, ki tāku e whakaako nei i ngā wāhi katoa i roto i ngā hāhi katoa.

18 Nā, ko ētahi e whakapehapeha ana, e mea ana e kore ahau e haere atu ki a koutou. 19 Otirā, e kore e roa ka haere atu ahau ki a koutou, ki te pai te Ariki; ā hei reira, ehara i te kupu, engari, ko te kaha o te hunga e whakapehapeha ana, tāku e titiro ai. 20 Nō te mea, ehara te rangatiratanga o te Atua i te kupu, engari he kaha. 21 Ko tēhea tā koutou e pai ai? Kia haere atu ahau ki a koutou me te whiu, i runga rānei i te aroha me te wairua māhaki?

1 Let a man so account of us, as of ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. 2 Here, moreover, it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful. 3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man’s judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self. 4 For I know nothing against myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord. 5 Wherefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and then shall each man have his praise from God.

6 Now these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us ye might learn not to go beyond the things which are written; that no one of you be puffed up for the one against the other. 7 For who maketh thee to differ? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? but if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory as if thou hadst not received it? 8 Already are ye filled, already ye are become rich, ye have come to reign without us: yea and I would that ye did reign, that we also might reign with you. 9 For, I think, God hath set forth us the apostles last of all, as men doomed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, both to angels and men. 10 We are fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye have glory, but we have dishonor. 11 Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place; 12 and we toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure; 13 being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things, even until now.

14 I write not these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children. 15 For though ye have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I begat you through the gospel. 16 I beseech you therefore, be ye imitators of me. 17 For this cause have I sent unto you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who shall put you in remembrance of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every church. 18 Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you. 19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will; and I will know, not the word of them that are puffed up, but the power. 20 For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power. 21 What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?