¹Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

¹A čo do toho, o čom ste mi písali, dobre by bolo človekovi nedotýkať sa ženy.

²But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

²Ale pre smilstvá nech má každý svoju vlastnú ženu, a každá nech má svojho vlastného muža.

³Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

³Muž nech preukazuje žene povinnú dobroprajnosť a podobne aj žena mužovi.

⁴The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife.

⁴Žena nemá v moci svojho vlastného tela, ale muž; a podobne ani muž nemá v moci svojho vlastného tela, ale žena.

⁵Don’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.

⁵Neukracujte sa navzájom, iba ak čo z obapolného súhlasu na čas, aby ste stihli na pôst a na modlitbu, a zase sa vedno sídite, aby vás nepokúšal satan pre vašu nezdržanlivosť.

⁶But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.

⁶Ale to hovorím ako pripustenie a nie ako nariadenie.

⁷Yet 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.

⁷Lebo by som chcel, aby boli všetci ľudia ako i ja sám; ale každý má svoj vlastný dar od Boha, jeden tak a druhý inak.

⁸But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.

⁸A však hovorím neženatým, nevydatým a vdovám, že dobre im, keď zostanú jako i ja.

⁹But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.

⁹Ale ak sa nevedia zdržať, nech sa oženia, poťažne vydajú, lebo je lepšie oženiť sa, poťažne vydať sa než horieť.

¹⁰But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband

¹⁰A ženatým, poťažne vydatým, prikazujem, nie ja, ale Pán: Žena nech neodchádza od muža.

¹¹(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.

¹¹A keby aj odišla, nech zostane nevydatá, alebo nech sa smieri s mužom. A muž nech neopúšťa ženy.

¹²But 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.

¹²A ostatným hovorím ja, nie Pán: Ak má niektorý brat neveriacu ženu, a volí bývať s ním, nech jej neopúšťa.

¹³The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband.

¹³A zase žena, ktorá má neveriaceho muža, a on volí bývať s ňou, nech neopúšťa muža.

¹⁴For 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.

¹⁴Lebo neveriaci muž je posvätený ženou, a neveriaca žena je posvätená mužom, bratom. Ináče by vaše deti boly nečisté, ale teraz sú sväté.

¹⁵Yet 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.

¹⁵Ale ak neveriaci ide ta, nech ide. V takých veciach brat alebo sestra nie je rabom, ale ku pokoju nás povolal Bôh.

¹⁶For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

¹⁶Lebo veď čo ty vieš, ženo, či zachrániš muža? Alebo čo ty vieš, mužu, či zachrániš ženu?

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

¹⁷Každý len tak, ako mu udelil Pán, každý, jako ho povolal Bôh, tak nech chodí, robí a žije. A tak nariaďujem vo všetkých sboroch.

¹⁸Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.

¹⁸Je niekto povolaný obrezaný? Nech neberie na seba neobrezanosti. Je ktosi povolaný v neobriezke, nech sa neobrezuje.

¹⁹Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

¹⁹Obriezka nie je ničím, ani neobriezka nie je ničím, ale zachovávanie prikázaní Božích.

²⁰Let each man stay in that calling in which he was called.

²⁰Každý nech zostáva v povolaní, v ktorom je povolaný.

²¹Were you called being a bondservant? Don’t let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.

²¹Si povolaný jako sluha? Nedbaj na to; ale ak tiež môžeš byť slobodný, radšej použi.

²²For 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.

²²Lebo v Pánovi povolaný sluha je oslobodený Pánov; podobne aj povolaný slobodný je sluha Kristov.

²³You were bought with a price. Don’t become bondservants of men.

²³Kúpení ste za drahú cenu. Nebuďte sluhami ľudí!

²⁴Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition he was called, stay in that condition with God.

²⁴Každý, v čom je povolaný, bratia, v tom nech zostáva u Boha.

²⁵Now 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.

²⁵O pannách nemám nariadenia Pánovho, ale poviem, čo myslím, ako taký, ktorý dostal milosrdenstvo od Pána byť verným.

²⁶I think that it is good therefore, because of the distress that is on us, that it is good for a man to be as he is.

²⁶Nazdám sa tedy, že je to dobré pre terajšie ťažkosti, že je dobré človekovi, aby bol takto.

²⁷Are you bound to a wife? Don’t seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don’t seek a wife.

²⁷Si priviazaný k žene? Nehľadaj rozviazania. Si rozviazaný, prostý ženy? Nehľadaj ženy.

²⁸But 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.

²⁸Ale keby si sa oženil, nezhrešil si. A keby sa panna vydala, nezhrešila; ale takí budú mať trápenie v tele. No, ja vás šetrím.

²⁹But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

²⁹Ale to hovorím, bratia, že čas je krátky, aby ostatne aj tí, ktorí majú ženy, boli, jako keby ich nemali;

³⁰and 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;

³⁰a ktorí plačú, jako čo by neplakali; a ktorí sa radujú, jako čo by sa neradovali; a ktorí kupujú, jako čo by tým nevládli;

³¹and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.

³¹a ktorí používajú tento svet, ako takí, ktorí nezneužívajú. Lebo ta ide spôsob tohoto sveta.

³²But 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;

³²A chcel by som, aby ste boli bez starostí. Neženatý stará sa o to, čo je Pánovo, jako by sa ľúbil Pánovi;

³³but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

³³ale ten, kto sa oženil, stará sa o veci sveta, jako by sa ľúbil žene.

³⁴There 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.

³⁴A je rozdiel aj medzi ženou a pannou. Nevydatá sa stará o to, čo je Pánovo, aby bola svätá i telom i duchom; ale tá, ktorá sa vydala, stará sa o veci sveta, jako by sa ľúbila mužovi.

³⁵This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction.

³⁵Ale to hovorím na váš vlastný užitok, nie aby som vám zahodil slučku na krk, ale aby ste sa slušne a stále pridŕžali Pána bez rozptýlenia mysle.

³⁶But 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.

³⁶Ale ak niekto myslí, že neslušne robí voči svojej dcére - panne, ak by mala nevydatá prejsť svoj kvetúci vek, a jestli treba, aby sa tak stalo, nech urobí, čo chce, nehreší; nech sa vydajú.

³⁷But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own heart, to keep his own virgin, does well.

³⁷Ale ten, kto stojí pevný vo svojom srdci a nie je nútený, ale má moc ohľadom svojej vlastnej vôle a usúdil to vo svojom srdci, zachovať svoju pannu, dobre robí.

³⁸So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who doesn’t give her in marriage does better.

³⁸A tak tedy i ten, kto vydáva svoju pannu, dobre robí, i ten, kto nevydáva, lepšie robí.

³⁹A 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.

³⁹Žena je viazaná zákonom, dokiaľ žije jej muž; ale keby zosnul jej muž, je slobodná a môže sa vydať, za koho chce, len nech je to v Pánovi.

⁴⁰But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgment, and I think that I also have God’s Spirit.

⁴⁰Ale je blahoslavenejšia, keď zostane tak, podľa mojej mienky. A nazdám sa, že i ja mám Ducha Božieho.