1 Coríntios 4

1 So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants and stewards of God’s mysteries. 2 Here, moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful. 3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by a human court. Yes, I don’t even judge my own self. 4 For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord. 5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

6 Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another. 7 For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

8 You are already filled. You have already become rich. You have come to reign without us. Yes, and I wish that you did reign, that we also might reign with you! 9 For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men. 10 We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor. 11 Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place. 12 We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure. 13 Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.

14 I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children. 15 For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, you don’t have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News. 16 I beg you therefore, be imitators of me. 17 Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly. 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 is willing. And I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power. 20 For God’s Kingdom is not in word, but in power. 21 What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?

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?