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

¹Zastran tega pa, kar ste mi pisali: Dobro je človeku, žene se ne dotikati.

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

²A da ne bo nečistosti, zato imej vsak svojo ženo in vsaka imej svojega moža.

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

³Ženi mož izpolnjuj dolžnost, takisto tudi žena možu.

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 nad svojim telesom nima oblasti, temuč mož; takisto tudi nad svojim telesom nima oblasti mož, temuč 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.

⁵Ne odtegujta se drug drugemu, razen z dogovorom za čas, da bi bolj utegnila moliti in bi zopet skupaj bivala, da vaju ne izkuša satan za voljo nezdržljivosti vajine.

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

⁶To pa govorim kot dopuščenje, ne kot zapoved.

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.

⁷Hotel bi pa, da bi bili vsi ljudje, kakor sem jaz; toda vsak ima svoj dar milosti od Boga, ta tako, a drugi tako.

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

⁸Pravim pa neoženjenim in vdovam: Dobro jim je, če ostanejo, kakor jaz.

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

⁹Če se pa ne morejo zdržati, naj stopijo v zakon, ker je bolje stopiti v zakon nego pa goreti.

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

¹⁰Zakonskim pa naročam ne jaz, ampak Gospod, naj se ne loči žena od moža

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

¹¹(če pa se vendar loči, naj ostane brez moža ali pa naj se spravi z možem), in mož naj ne odpušča žene.

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.

¹²Drugim pa pravim jaz, ne Gospod: Če ima kateri brat ženo nevernico in ona privoljuje prebivati ž njim, naj se ne loči ž njo.

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

¹³In žena, če ima moža nevernika in on privoljuje prebivati ž njo, naj se ne loči ž njim.

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.

¹⁴Posvečen je namreč mož nevernik po ženi in žena nevernica je posvečena po bratu; ker bi sicer bili nečisti vaši otroci, sedaj pa so sveti.

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.

¹⁵Če se pa hoče nevernik ločiti, naj se loči. Ni suženjski vezan brat ali sestra v takih slučajih; na mir pa nas je poklical Bog.

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

¹⁶Ker kaj veš, žena, če moža zveličaš? ali kaj veš, mož, če ženo zveličaš?

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.

¹⁷Le kakor je vsakemu podelil Gospod, kakor je vsakega poklical Bog, tako naj ravna. In tako velevam po vseh cerkvah.

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

¹⁸Obrezan li je kdo poklican? Naj se ne dela neobrezanega. V neobrezi je kdo poklican? Naj se ne obrezuje.

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

¹⁹Obreza ni nič in neobreza ni nič, ampak izpolnjevanje Božjih zapovedi.

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

²⁰Vsak naj ostane v tem poklicu, v katerem je bil poklican.

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

²¹Suženj si bil poklican? Ne maraj; ali če moreš postati svoboden, poprimi se rajši svobode.

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.

²²Kajti kdor je v Gospodu poklican suženj, je svobodnik Gospodov, tako tudi kdor je poklican svobodnik, je suženj Kristusov.

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

²³Za drago ceno ste kupljeni; ne postanite sužnji ljudem.

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

²⁴Vsakdo, bratje, naj ostane pri Bogu v tem, v čemer je bil poklican.

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.

²⁵Zastran devic pa nimam Gospodove zapovedi, ali dajem svet, kakor kateri sem prejel milost od Gospoda, da bi bil zvest.

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.

²⁶Menim torej, da je to dobro spričo sedanje nuje, namreč da je dobro biti človeku tako, kakor je.

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

²⁷Si li privezan na ženo, ne išči razveze. Si li prost žene, ne išči žene.

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.

²⁸A če se tudi oženiš, se ne pregrešiš; tudi devica, če se omoži, se ne pregreši; toda telesne nadloge bodo imeli taki; jaz bi vam pa rad prizanesel.

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;

²⁹To pa pravim, bratje: čas je prikrajšan, da bodo odslej tudi tisti, ki imajo žene, kakor bi jih ne imeli;

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;

³⁰in kateri jokajo, kakor bi ne jokali; in kateri se vesele, kakor bi se ne veselili; in kateri kupujejo, kakor bi v lasti ne imeli;

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

³¹in kateri uživajo ta svet, kakor bi ga ne uživali; kajti prehaja obraz tega 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;

³²Hotel bi pa da ste brez skrbi. Kdor je neoženjen, skrbi za to, kar je Gospodovega, kako bi bil Gospodu po volji.

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

³³Kdor se je pa oženil, skrbi za to, kar je na svetu, kako bi ženi ugajal. Razloček je tudi med ženo in devico.

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.

³⁴Katera je brez moža, skrbi za to, kar je Gospodovega, da bi bila sveta s telesom in z duhom. Omožena pa skrbi za to, kar je na svetu, kako bo ugajala možu.

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.

³⁵To pa govorim vam samim na korist, ne da vržem zanko na vas, temuč da spodobno ravnate in stanovitno služite Gospodu brez ovire.

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.

³⁶A če kdo meni, da spravi v sramoto devico svojo, ko bi bila v prezreli dobi, in potreba tako zahteva, kar hoče, naj dela, ne greši; naj se možé!

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.

³⁷Kdor pa stoji trden v srcu svojem in nima potrebe, a ima oblast nad lastno voljo, in je tako odločil v srcu svojem, da obvaruje svojo devico, stori dobro.

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

³⁸Tako kdor moži devico svojo, dela tudi dobro, a kdor je ne omoži, stori bolje.

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 vezana, dokler živi njen mož; ako ji pa mož umre, je prosta, da se moži, s komer hoče, samo v Gospodu.Ali srečnejša je po mojem mnenju, če ostane tako; mislim pa, da imam tudi jaz Duha Božjega.

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

⁴⁰Ali srečnejša je po mojem mnenju, če ostane tako; mislim pa, da imam tudi jaz Duha Božjega.