¹So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries.

¹Nech tak myslí o nás človek ako o služobníkoch Kristových a o správcoch tajomstiev Božích.

²Here, moreover, it is required of stewards, that they be found faithful.

²Tu ostatne sa vyhľadáva u správcov, aby bol ktosi najdený verný.

³But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man’s judgment. Yes, I don’t judge my own self.

³A mne je to najmenším, aby som bol vami súdený alebo ľudským súdom. Ale ani sám seba nesúdim,

⁴For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

⁴lebo nie som si ničoho povedomý, ale tým nie som ospravedlnený; no, ten, kto ma súdi, je Pán.

⁵Therefore 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.

⁵A tak nesúďte ničoho pred časom, dokiaľ neprijde Pán, ktorý aj osvieti skryté veci tmy a zjaví úmysly sŕdc, a vtedy bude mať jeden každý chválu od Boha.

⁶Now 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.

⁶Ale toto, bratia, som povedal v podobenstve vzťahom na seba a na Apolla, pre vás, aby ste sa na nás učili nemyslieť nad to, čo je napísané, aby ste sa nenadúvali jeden za druhého proti inému.

⁷For 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?

⁷Lebo kto ťa robí rozdielnym od iného? A čo máš, čo by si nebol dostal? A jestli si aj dostal, prečo sa chváliš, ako keby si nebol dostal?

⁸You 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.

⁸Už ste nasýtení, už ste zbohatli, bez nás kraľujete, a bárs by ste len kraľovali, aby sme aj my s vami spolu kraľovali.

⁹For, 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.

⁹Lebo mám za to, že nás apoštolov vykázal Bôh za najposlednejších, na odiv, ako oddaných na smrť, lebo sme sa stali divadlom svetu i anjelom i ľuďom.

¹⁰We 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.

¹⁰My blázni pre Krista, a vy rozumní v Kristu; my slabí, a vy silní; vy slávni a my takí, ktorí nemajú cti.

¹¹Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.

¹¹Až do tejto hodiny i lačnieme i žíznime i nahí sme i pohlavkovaní sme i miesta nikde nemáme

¹²We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.

¹²i namáhame sa robiac vlastnými rukami; nadávajú nám, dobrorečíme; prenasledujú nás, znášame;

¹³Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.

¹³rúhajú sa nám, prosíme. Sme jako smeti sveta, všetkým za povrheľ až doteraz.

¹⁴I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

¹⁴Nepíšem tohoto nato, aby som vás zahanbil, ale napomínam ako svoje milované deti.

¹⁵For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.

¹⁵Lebo keby ste mali hneď desať tisíc pestúnov v Kristu, ale nemôžete mať mnoho otcov, lebo ja som vás splodil v Kristu Ježišovi skrze evanjelium.

¹⁶I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.

¹⁶A tedy vás prosím, nasledujte mňa.

¹⁷Because 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.

¹⁷Preto som vám poslal Timotea, ktorý je mojím milovaným dieťaťom a verným v Pánovi, ktorý vás upomenie na moje cesty v Kristu Ježišovi, jako učím všade v každom sbore.

¹⁸Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.

¹⁸Ale jako keby som nemal prijsť k vám, naduli sa niektorí.

¹⁹But 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.

¹⁹Avšak prijdem k vám skoro, ak bude Pán chcieť, a poznám, nie slovo tých nadutých, ale moc.

²⁰For the Kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.

²⁰Lebo kráľovstvo Božie nezáleží v slove, ale v moci.

²¹What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?

²¹Čo chcete? Či aby som k vám prišiel s palicou a či s láskou a v duchu tichosti?