1 Coríntios 7

1 Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. 2 But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. 3 Let the husband give his wife the affection owed her,*7:3 NU and TR have "what is owed her" instead of "the affection owed her". and likewise also the wife her husband. 4 The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife does. 5 Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

6 But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment. 7 Yet I wish that all men were like me. However, each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind. 8 But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am. 9 But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn with passion. 10 But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband 11 (but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.

12 But to the rest I—not the Lord—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her. 13 The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband. 14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy. 15 Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace. 16 For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

17 Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.

18 Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised. 19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but what matters is keeping God’s commandments. 20 Let each man stay in that calling in which he was called. 21 Were you called being a bondservant? Don’t let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it. 22 For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord’s free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ’s bondservant. 23 You were bought with a price. Don’t become bondservants of men. 24 Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition he was called, stay in that condition with God.

25 Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy. 26 Therefore I think that because of the distress that is on us, it’s good for a man to remain as he is. 27 Are you bound to a wife? Don’t seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don’t seek a wife. 28 But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you. 29 But I say this, brothers: the time is short. From now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none; 30 and those who weep, as though they didn’t weep; and those who rejoice, as though they didn’t rejoice; and those who buy, as though they didn’t possess; 31 and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.

32 But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord; 33 but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife. 34 There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world—how she may please her husband. 35 This I say for your own benefit, not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction.

36 But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn’t sin. Let them marry. 37 But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no urgency, but has power over his own will, and has determined in his own heart to keep his own virgin, does well. 38 So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who doesn’t give her in marriage does better.

39 A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord. 40 But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgment, and I think that I also have God’s Spirit.

He Pātai mō te Mārenatanga

1 Nā, mō ngā mea i tuhituhi mai nā koutou. He mea pai anō mō te tangata kia kaua e pā ki te wahine. 2 Otiia, he whakaaro kei moepuku, kia rite mā te tāne he wahine māna ake, ā, mā te wahine he tāne māna ake. 3 Kia puta te whakaaro pai o te tāne ki te wahine, hei te mea e tika ana; me tō te wahine hoki ki te tāne. 4 Ehara te wahine i te rangatira o tōna tinana ake, engari, te tāne; me te tāne anō, ehara ia i te rangatira o tōna ake tinana, engari, te wahine. 5 Kaua e kaiponu tētahi i tētahi; hāunga ia ki te āta whakaritea mō tētahi wā, kia ātea ai kōrua ki te nohopuku, ki te īnoi, ka hoki ai anō ki a kōrua, kei ai tō kōrua hiahia taikaha hei whakawai mā Hātana i a kōrua.

6 Otirā, ko tēnei kōrero āku he mea whakaae noa, ehara i te tikanga whakatakoto. 7 Ko tāku ia i pai ai, kia pēnei ngā tāngata katoa i ahau nei. Otirā, e hōmai ana e te Atua te āhua mōna ki ia tangata, ki ia tangata, ki tētahi ko tēnei, ki tētahi ko tērā.

8 Ko tāku kupu ia tēnei ki ngā takakau, ki ngā wāhine pouaru, he mea pai mō rātou kia kāti tonu me ahau nei. 9 Otirā, ki te kore e taea e rāua te whakamanawanui, me mārena. He pai ake hoki te mārena i te kakā o te ngākau.

10 Ko tāku whakahau ia tēnei ki te hunga whai hoa, ehara i ahau, engari ko te Ariki, "Aua te wahine e mawehe kē i tāna tāne." 11 Engari, ki te mawehe ia, me noho hoakore, me hohou rānei te rongo ki tāna tāne. Kaua hoki te tāne e whakarere i tāna wahine.

12 Ki ērā atu ia ko tāku kupu tēnei, ehara i te Ariki. Ki te mea he wahine kore whakapono tā tētahi o ngā tēina, ā, ka whakaae taua wahine kia noho tahi rāua, kaua ia e whakarērea e ia. 13 Ā, ko te wahine, he tāne kore whakapono tāna, ā, ka whakaae kia noho tahi rāua, kaua ia e whakarere tāna tāne. 14 Nō te mea e whakatapua ana te tāne whakapono kore e te wahine e whakatapua ana hoki te wahine e whakapono kore e te tāne. Me he kāhore, kua poke ā kōrua tamariki, tēnā ko tēnei, he tapu rātou.

15 Ki te mawehe kē ia te whakapono kore, māna e mawehe kē. E kore tētahi teina, tuahine rānei, e mau te here e ngā mea pēnā. Otirā, kua karangatia tātou e te Atua ki te rangimārie. 16 Mā te aha koe e mōhio ai, e tai, ka ora rānei i a koe tāu tāne? Ā, koe rānei, e te tāne, mā te aha ka mōhio ai, ka ora i a koe tāu wahine?

Kia Pēnā Tāu Noho i tā te Atua i Whakahau ai

17 Heoi anake, kia rite ki tā te Atua tūwhanga ki tēnā, ki tēnā, ki tāna karangatanga hoki ki tēnā, ki tēnā, kia pērā tāna haere. Nā, ko tāku whakatakoto tēnā i roto i ngā hāhi katoa. 18 He mea kokoti tētahi i tōna karangatanga? Kaua e whakakāhoretia tōna kotinga. He mea kokotikore tētahi i tōna karangatanga? Kaua ia e kotia. 19 He mea kore noa iho te kotinga, he mea kore noa iho anō te kotingakore, engari ia te pupuri i ā te Atua ture. 20 Kia mau ia tangata ki tōna karangatanga, i karangatia ai ia. 21 He pononga koe i tōu karangatanga? Kaua e mānukanuka. Otirā, ki te wātea he haerenga noatanga atu mōu, me pēnā. 22 Ko te tangata hoki he pononga i tōna karangatanga i roto i te Ariki, he tangata tuku noa ia nā te Ariki. Waihoki ko te tangata ehara nei i te pononga i tōna karangatanga, he pononga ia nā te Karaiti. 23 Kua oti koutou te hoko ki te utu; aua e meinga hei pononga koutou mā te tangata. 24 E ōku tēina, ko te mahi a tēnei, a tēnei, i tōna karangatanga kia mau ia ki tēnā me te whakaaro anō ki te Atua.

Ngā Take e Pā ana ki ngā Takakau me ngā Pouaru

25 Nā, mō ngā wāhina, kāhore a te Ariki tikanga ki ahau; tēnei ia tōku whakaaro, arā, tō te tangata i a ia nei tō te Ariki atawhai, i pono ai. 26 Nā reira, ki tōku whakaaro he pai tēnei mō te whakararu a tēnei wā, arā, he pai kia kāti tonu te tangata i a ia nei. 27 Kua herea koe ki te wahine? Kaua e whai kia wetekia. Ka oti koe te wewete i te wahine? Kaua e whāia he wahine. 28 Otiia, ki te mārena koe, kāhore ōu hara; ā, ki te mārena te wāhina, kāhore ōna hara. Otiia, tērā e pā mai he whakararu i te kikokiko ki taua hunga pēnā; heoi, me āta hanga ahau ki a koutou.

29 Ko tāku kupu ia tēnei, e ōku tēina, e tūtata ana te wā. Heoi, ināianei tērā e rite te hunga whai wāhine ki te hunga kāhore nei a rātou; 30 me te hunga e tangi ana, ānō kāhore rātou i te tangi; me te hunga e hari ana, ānō kāhore rātou i te hari; me te hunga e hoko ana, ānō kāhore ā rātou taonga; 31 me te hunga i a rātou tēnei ao, ānō kāhore ā rātou hē ki te ao. E memeha haere ana hoki te āhua o tēnei ao.

32 Otiia, ko tāku mea tēnei kia kaua koutou e mānukanuka. Ko tā te takakau e mānukanuka ai ko ngā mea a te Ariki, me pēhea tāna whakamānawareka ki te Ariki. 33 Ko te tangata whai hoa ia, e mānukanuka ana ki ngā mea o te ao, me pēhea tāna whakamānawareka ki tāna wahine. 34 Nā tērā anō te mea i rerekē ai te wahine whai hoa i te wāhina. Ko te wahine takakau, tāna e mānukanuka ai ko ngā mea a te Ariki, kia tapu tahi ai te tinana me te wairua. Ko te wahine whai hoa ia ka mānukanuka ki ngā mea o te ao, me pēhea tāna whakamānawareka ki tāna tāne.

35 Ko tēnei kōrero āku he mea kia hua ai he pai mō koutou anō; ehara i te mea kia māhangatia ai koutou, engari, mō te mea e haratau ana, kia ū ai koutou ki te Ariki, kāhore he mea hei rorona kē.

36 Nā, ki te whakaaro tētahi tangata e hē ana tāna tikanga ki tāna wāhina, mehemea kua pahure tōna taiohinga, ā, heoi anō tikanga, māna e mea tāna e pai ai, kāhore ōna hara; me mārena rāua. 37 Ko te tangata ia e ū ana i tōna ngākau, ā, kāhore he mea hei akiaki i a ia, kei a ia ake anō te tikanga mō tāna e pai ai, ā, kua oti tēnei te whakatakoto e tōna ngākau, kia waiho tāna wāhina, kei te pai tāna mahi. 38 Nā, he pai te mahi a te tangata e tuku ana kia mārenatia tāna wāhina; pai ake ia te mahi a te tangata kāhore e tuku kia mārenatia.

39 E herea ana te wahine e te ture i te mea e ora ana tāna tāne; ki te mate ia te tāne, kua wātea ia ki te mārena ki tāna e pai ai; otirā i roto i te Ariki. 40 Ki tōku whakaaro ia, nui kē atu tōna hari ki te kāti tonu ia. Ā, ki tāku mahara kei ahau anō hoki te Wairua o te Atua.