¹Let a man so account of us as servants of Christ, and stewards of [the] mysteries of God.

¹¶ Me penei i te whakaaro o te tangata ki a matou na, he kaimahi na te Karaiti, he tuari hoki no nga mea ngaro a te Atua.

²Here, further, it is sought in stewards, that a man be found faithful.

²Na hei konei ko te mea o te tuari e matenuitia ana, kia kitea he tangata pono ia.

³But for me it is the very smallest matter that I be examined of you or of man's day. Nor do I even examine myself.

³Ki ahau ia he mea nohinohi rawa kia whai kupu koutou moku, te tangata ranei; kahore nei hoki aku kupu moku ano.

⁴For I am conscious of nothing in myself; but I am not justified by this: but he that examines me is the Lord.

⁴Kahore hoki ahau i matau ki tetahi aha oku; heoi e kore tena e ai hei whakatika moku: otira ko te Ariki hei whai kupu moku.

⁵So that do not judge anything before [the] time, until the Lord shall come, who shall also both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and shall make manifest the counsels of hearts; and then shall each have [his] praise from God.

⁵Na reira kaua e whakawakia wawetia tetahi mea, kia tae mai ra ano te Ariki, mana e whakamarama nga mea huna o te pouri, e whakakite hoki nga whakaaro o nga ngakau; hei reira ia tangata whakamoemititia ai e te Atua.

⁶Now these things, brethren, I have transferred, in their application, to myself and Apollos, for your sakes, that ye may learn in us the [lesson of] not [letting your thoughts go] above what is written, that ye may not be puffed up one for [such a] one against another.

⁶Na ko enei mea, e oku teina, naku i huri mai te ahua ki a maua ko Aporo, he whakaaro ki a koutou: kia ai maua hei whakaako i a koutou, kia kaua te whakaaro e hipa atu i te mea i tuhituhia; kia kaua tetahi o koutou e whakapehapeha mo tetahi ki run ga atu i tetahi.

⁷For who makes thee to differ? and what hast thou which thou hast not received? but if also thou hast received, why boastest thou as not receiving?

⁷¶ Ko wai kei te mea kia rere ke koe? ko tehea mea hoki au ehara i te mea hoatu ki a koe? Na he mea i hoatu ki a koe, he aha koe ka whakamanamana ai, me te mea nei ehara i te mea hoatu?

⁸Already ye are filled; already ye have been enriched; ye have reigned without us; and I would that ye reigned, that *we* also might reign with you.

⁸Kua makona ke na hoki koutou, kua hua ke o koutou taonga, kua kingi koutou ahakoa motu mai matou: ae ra, e pai ana ki ahau kia kingi tonu koutou, kia kingi tahi ai tatou.

⁹For I think that God has set us the apostles for the last, as appointed to death. For we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

⁹Ki toku whakaaro hoki kua waiho matou, nga apotoro, e te Atua mo muri rawa, ano he hunga mo te mate: kua meinga hoki matou hei matakitakinga ma te ao, ma nga anahera, a ma nga tangata.

¹⁰*We* [are] fools for Christ's sake, but *ye* prudent in Christ: *we* weak, but *ye* strong: *ye* glorious, but *we* in dishonour.

¹⁰Ko matou he kuware mo ta te Karaiti, ko koutou ia he hunga whai whakaaro i roto i a te Karaiti; ko matou he ngoikore, ko koutou ia he hunga kaha; to koutou he kororia, to matou ia he honorekore.

¹¹To the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are in nakedness, and buffeted, and wander without a home,

¹¹Tae tonu mai ki tenei haora nei e matekai ana matou, e matewai ana, e haere tahanga ana, e kurua ana, kahore hoki o matou kainga tumau:

¹²and labour, working with our own hands. Railed at, we bless; persecuted, we suffer [it];

¹²E mauiui ana matou, ko o matou ringa ake hei mahi: e taunutia ana, manaaki tonu matou; e whakatoia ana, whakaririka kau matou:

¹³insulted, we entreat: we are become as [the] offscouring of the world, [the] refuse of all, until now.

¹³Ka korerotia kinotia, ka whakangawari atu matou: kua meinga matou kia rite ki te paru rukenga o te ao, ki te para o nga mea katoa, taea noatia tenei ra.

¹⁴Not [as] chiding do I write these things to you, but as my beloved children I admonish [you].

¹⁴¶ Kahore ahau i te tuhituhi atu i enei mea kia whakama ai koutou, engari hei whakatupato i a koutou, i aku tamariki aroha.

¹⁵For if ye should have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus *I* have begotten you through the glad tidings.

¹⁵No te mea ahakoa whiwhi koutou i nga kaiwhakaako tekau mano i roto i a te Karaiti, kahore i tokomaha o koutou matua; he whanau hoki koutou naku i roto i a Karaiti Ihu i runga i te rongopai.

¹⁶I entreat you therefore, be my imitators.

¹⁶Koia ahau ka tohe nei ki a koutou, kia rite ta koutou ki taku.

¹⁷For this reason I have sent to you Timotheus, who is my beloved and faithful child in [the] Lord, who shall put you in mind of my ways [as] they [are] in Christ, according as I teach everywhere in every assembly.

¹⁷¶ Na reira i tonoa atu ai e ahau ki a koutou a Timoti, taku tama aroha, tama pono i roto i te Ariki, mana koutou e whakamahara ki oku ara i roto i a te Karaiti, ki taku e whakaako nei i nga wahi katoa i roto i nga hahi katoa.

¹⁸But some have been puffed up, as if I were not coming to you;

¹⁸Na ko etahi e whakapehapeha ana, e mea ana e kore ahau e haere atu ki a koutou.

¹⁹but I will come quickly to you, if the Lord will; and I will know, not the word of those that are puffed up, but the power.

¹⁹Otira e kore e roa ka haere atu ahau ki a koutou, ki te pai te Ariki; a hei reira, ehara i te kupu, engari ko te kaha o te hunga e whakapehapeha ana, taku e titiro ai.

²⁰For the kingdom of God [is] not in word, but in power.

²⁰No te mea ehara te rangatiratanga o te Atua i te kupu, engari he kaha.

²¹What will ye? that I come to you with a rod; or in love, and [in] a spirit of meekness?

²¹Ko tehea ta koutou e pai ai? kia haere atu ahau ki a koutou me te whiu, i runga ranei i te aroha me te wairua mahaki?