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

¹Tako naj o nas misli človek, kakor da smo služabniki Kristusovi oskrbniki skrivnosti Božjih.

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

²Seveda se tu zahteva od oskrbnikov, da se vsak izkaže zvestega.

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.

³Meni je pa to najmanjše, da me sodite vi ali človeški sodni dan; ali tudi sam sebe ne sodim;

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

⁴kajti ničesar nimam sam sebi očitati, ali to me ne opravičuje; sodnik pa mi je Gospod.

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.

⁵Tako ne sodite ničesar pred časom, dokler ne pride Gospod, ki razsvetli, kar je skritega v temi, in odkrije misli src; in tedaj se hvala zgodi vsakemu od Boga.

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.

⁶To sem pa, bratje, obrnil nase in na Apola zavoljo vas, da se od naju naučite ne više meriti, nego je pisano, da se nihče ne napihuje, vnet za enega zoper drugega.

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?

⁷Ker kdo je, ki te odlikuje? kaj pa imaš, česar nisi prejel? Če si pa tudi prejel, kaj se hvališ, kakor da nisi prejel?

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.

⁸Že ste nasičeni, že ste obogateli, brez nas ste zakraljevali; in želim, da bi bili res zakraljevali, da bi mogli tudi mi z vami kraljevati!

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.

⁹Mislim namreč, da je Bog nas apostole poslednje postavil kakor tiste, ki so odločeni za smrt, ker smo postali gledišče svetu, i angelom i ljudem.

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.

¹⁰Mi smo neumni za voljo Kristusa, a vi razumni v Kristusu, mi slabi, a vi močni, vi slavni, a mi brez časti.

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

¹¹Prav dosore trpimo lakoto in žejo, in goli smo in bijejo nas za ušesa, in nimamo stalnega mesta

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

¹²in trudimo se, delajoč z lastnimi rokami; ko nas zmerjajo, blagoslavljamo; ko nas preganjajo, voljno trpimo;

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

¹³ko nas preklinjajo, molimo; kakor smeti sveta smo postali, izvržek vseh, prav do sedaj.

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

¹⁴Ne pišem tega, da bi vas sramotil, marveč svarim vas kakor svoje ljubljene otroke.

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.

¹⁵Zakaj čeprav bi imeli deset tisoč učiteljev v Kristusu, vendar nimate mnogo očetov, ker v Kristusu Jezusu po evangeliju sem vas jaz rodil.

¹⁶I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.

¹⁶Prosim vas torej, bodite moji posnemalci.

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.

¹⁷Zato sem vam poslal Timoteja, ki je dete moje ljubljeno in verno v Gospodu, ki vas opomni mojih poti, ki so v Kristusu, kakor učim povsod v vsaki cerkvi.

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

¹⁸Nekateri pa so se napihnili, češ, da ne pridem k vam.

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.

¹⁹Ali pridem kmalu k vam, če Gospod hoče, in spoznam ne besed napihnjencev, ampak njih moč.

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

²⁰Kajti ni v besedah kraljestvo Božje, temuč v moči.Kaj hočete? da naj pridem k vam s šibo, ali z ljubeznijo in v duhu krotkosti?

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

²¹Kaj hočete? da naj pridem k vam s šibo, ali z ljubeznijo in v duhu krotkosti?