哥林多前書 4
Chinese Union Version, punctuated (Traditional)
World English Bible
1人應當以我們為基督的執事，為上帝奧祕事的管家。
1So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants and stewards of God’s mysteries.
2所求於管家的，是要他有忠心。
2Here, moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.
3我被你們論斷，或被別人論斷，我都以為極小的事；連我自己也不論斷自己。
3But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by a human court. Yes, I don’t even judge my own self.
4我雖不覺得自己有錯，卻也不能因此得以稱義；但判斷我的乃是主。
4For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.
5所以，時候未到，甚麼都不要論斷，只等主來，他要照出暗中的隱情，顯明人心的意念。那時，各人要從上帝那裏得着稱讚。
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.
6弟兄們，我為你們的緣故，拿這些事轉比自己和 亞波羅 ，叫你們效法我們不可過於 聖經 所記，免得你們自高自大，貴重這個，輕看那個。
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.
7使你與人不同的是誰呢？你有甚麼不是領受的呢？若是領受的，為何自誇，彷彿不是領受的呢？
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?
8你們已經飽足了！已經豐富了！不用我們，自己就作王了！我願意你們果真作王，叫我們也得與你們一同作王。
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!
9我想上帝把我們使徒明明列在末後，好像定死罪的囚犯；因為我們成了一臺戲，給世人和天使觀看。
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.
10我們為基督的緣故算是愚拙的，你們在基督裏倒是聰明的；我們軟弱，你們倒強壯；你們有榮耀，我們倒被藐視。
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.
11直到如今，我們還是又飢又渴，又赤身露體，又挨打，又沒有一定的住處，
11Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.
12並且勞苦，親手做工。被人咒罵，我們就祝福；被人逼迫，我們就忍受；
12We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.
13被人毀謗，我們就善勸。直到如今，人還把我們看作世界上的污穢，萬物中的渣滓。
13Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.
14我寫這話，不是叫你們羞愧，乃是警戒你們，好像我所親愛的兒女一樣。
14I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
15你們學基督的，師傅雖有一萬，為父的卻是不多，因我在基督耶穌裏用福音生了你們。
15For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, you don’t have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.
16所以，我求你們效法我。
16I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.
17因此我已打發 提摩太 到你們那裏去。他在主裏面，是我所親愛、有忠心的兒子。他必提醒你們，記念我在基督裏怎樣行事，在各處各教會中怎樣教導人。
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.
18有些人自高自大，以為我不到你們那裏去；
18Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.
19然而，主若許我，我必快到你們那裏去，並且我所要知道的，不是那些自高自大之人的言語，乃是他們的權能。
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.
20因為上帝的國不在乎言語，乃在乎權能。
20For God’s Kingdom is not in word, but in power.
21你們願意怎麼樣呢？是願意我帶着刑杖到你們那裏去呢？還是要我存慈愛溫柔的心呢？
21What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?
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