1 Corinthians 4
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)Translation
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
1Let a man so account of us as of the ministers of Christ, and the dispensers of the mysteries of God.
1Sic nos existimet homo ut ministros Christi, et dispensatores mysteriorum Dei.
2Here now it is required among the dispensers, that a man be found faithful.
2Hic jam quæritur inter dispensatores ut fidelis quis inveniatur.
3But to me it is a very small thing to be judged by you, or by man’s day; but neither do I judge my own self.
3Mihi autem pro minimo est ut a vobis judicer, aut ab humano die: sed neque meipsum judico.
4For I am not conscious to myself of any thing, yet am I not hereby justified; but he that judgeth me, is the Lord.
4Nihil enim mihi conscius sum, sed non in hoc justificatus sum: qui autem judicat me, Dominus est.
5Therefore judge not before the time; until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and then shall every man have praise from God.
5Itaque nolite ante tempus judicare, quoadusque veniat Dominus: qui et illuminabit abscondita tenebrarum, et manifestabit consilia cordium: et tunc laus erit unicuique a Deo.
6But these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollo, for your sakes; that in us you may learn, that one be not puffed up against the other for another, above that which is written.
6Hæc autem, fratres, transfiguravi in me et Apollo, propter vos: ut in nobis discatis, ne supra quam scriptum est, unus adversus alterum infletur pro alio.
7For who distinguisheth thee? Or what hast thou that thou hast not received? And if thou hast received, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?
7Quis enim te discernit? quid autem habes quod non accepisti? si autem accepisti, quid gloriaris quasi non acceperis?
8You are now full; you are now become rich; you reign without us; and I would to God you did reign, that we also might reign with you.
8Jam saturati estis, jam divites facti estis: sine nobis regnatis: et utinam regnetis, ut et nos vobiscum regnemus.
9For I think that God hath set forth us apostles, the last, as it were men appointed to death: we are made a spectacle to the world, and to angels, and to men.
9Puto enim quod Deus nos Apostolos novissimos ostendit, tamquam morti destinatos: quia spectaculum facti sumus mundo, et angelis, et hominibus.
10We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are honourable, but we without honour.
10Nos stulti propter Christum, vos autem prudentes in Christo: nos infirmi, vos autem fortes: vos nobiles, nos autem ignobiles.
11Even unto this hour we both hunger and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no fixed abode;
11Usque in hanc horam et esurimus, et sitimus, et nudi sumus, et colaphis cædimur, et instabiles sumus,
12And we labour, working with our own hands: we are reviled, and we bless; we are persecuted, and we suffer it.
12et laboramus operantes manibus nostris: maledicimur, et benedicimus: persecutionem patimur, et sustinemus:
13We are blasphemed, and we entreat; we are made as the refuse of this world, the offscouring of all even until now.
13blasphemamur, et obsecramus: tamquam purgamenta hujus mundi facti sumus, omnium peripsema usque adhuc.
14I write not these things to confound you; but I admonish you as my dearest children.
14Non ut confundam vos, hæc scribo, sed ut filios meos carissimos moneo.
15For if you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, by the gospel, I have begotten you.
15Nam si decem millia pædagogorum habeatis in Christo, sed non multos patres. Nam in Christo Jesu per Evangelium ego vos genui.
16Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me, as I also am of Christ.
16Rogo ergo vos, imitatores mei estote, sicut et ego Christi.
17For this cause have I sent to you Timothy, who is my dearest son and faithful in the Lord; who will put you in mind of my ways, which are in Christ Jesus; as I teach every where in every church.
17Ideo misi ad vos Timotheum, qui est filius meus carissimus, et fidelis in Domino: qui vos commonefaciet vias meas, quæ sunt in Christo Jesu, sicut ubique in omni ecclesia doceo.
18As if I would not come to you, so some are puffed up.
18Tamquam non venturus sim ad vos, sic inflati sunt quidam.
19But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will: and will know, not the speech of them that are puffed up, but the power.
19Veniam autem ad vos cito, si Dominus voluerit: et cognoscam non sermonem eorum qui inflati sunt, sed virtutem.
20For the kingdom of God is not in speech, but in power.
20Non enim in sermone est regnum Dei, sed in virtute.
21What will you? shall I come to you with a rod; or in charity, and in the spirit of meekness?
21Quid vultis? in virga veniam ad vos, an in caritate, et spiritu mansuetudinis?
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