Brackite wrote:We are almost to 1st Corinthians. While 1st Corinthians comes after Romans within the New Testament, 1st Corinthians was written before Romans.
nobody said that the Bible books were sorted by date (that is, the way we sort historical events)
for example, ruth 4:17 mentions king david, during the birth of obed - the grandfather of david... ... see The Final Countdown (film) about time leaks
or, moses in HIS fifth book - deuteronomy - writes his own death and burying
34:5. So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD. 34:6. And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Beth-peor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.
1. "no man knoweth of my sepulchre but i was there..." - (c) moses, see above 2. "the reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated" - (c) mark twain
anyway, this is a little better than sort any scripture by length of the verses - fyi, the quran does it by its suras
or sorting phone book of new york by first (given, christian, baptized) name is it sorted that way?
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I introduce to you our sister Phoebe, sexton of the congregation at Cenchrea,
so that you may welcome her by the Lord, as God’s people should, and give her whatever assistance she may need from you; for she has been a big help to many people — myself included.
Give my greetings to Priscilla and Aquila, my fellow workers for Jesus the Messiah.
They risked their necks to save my life; not only I thank them, but also all the Messianic communities among the Gentiles.
And give my greetings to the congregation that meets in their house.
Give my greetings to my dear friend Epaenetus, who was the first person in the province of Asia to placed his trust in the Messiah.
Give my greetings to Miryam, who has worked very hard for you.
Greetings to Andronicus and Junia, relatives of mine who were imprisoned with me. They are well known among the apostles. They came to trust in the Messiah before I did.
Greetings to Ampliatus, my dear friend in the Lord.
Greetings to Urbanus, our fellow worker for the Messiah, and to my dear friend Stachys.
Greetings to Appeles, whose trust in the Messiah has been tried and proven.
Greet those in the household of Aristobulus.
Greet my relative, Herodion.
Greet Tryphaena and Tryphosa, women who are working hard for the Lord.
Greet my dear friend Persis, another woman who has done a lot of hard work for the Lord.
Greet Rufus, chosen by the Lord, and his mother, who has been a mother to me too.
Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas and the brothers who are with them.
Greet Philologus, Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all of God’s people with them.
Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the Messiah’s congregations send their greetings to you.
I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and put snares alongside the teaching in which you have been trained. Stay away from them.
For men like these are not serving our Lord the Messiah but their own belly; by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the innocent.
For everyone has heard about your obedience; therefore I rejoice over you. However, I want you to be wise concerning good, but blameless concerning evil.
And God, the source of peace, will soon crush the Adversary under your feet.
The grace of our Lord Yeshua be with you.
Timothy, my fellow-worker, sends greetings to you; so do Lucius, Jason and Sosipater, my relatives.
This is Tertius, who is writing down this letter, greeting you in the Lord.
My host Gaius, in whose home the entire congregation meets, greets you. Erastus the city treasurer and brother Quartus greet you.
Now to God, who can strengthen you, according to my Good Message, in harmony with the revelation of the secret truth being the proclamation of Jesus the Messiah, kept hidden silently for ages and ages,
but evident now through prophetic writings, sticking with the command of God the Eternal, and communicated to all the Gentiles to promote in them trust-grounded obedience —
to the only wise God, through Jesus the Messiah, be the glory eternally! So be it.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
1 And I commend you to Phebe our sister -- being a ministrant of the assembly that [is] in Cenchrea --
2 that ye may receive her in the Lord, as doth become saints, and may assist her in whatever matter she may have need of you -- for she also became a leader of many, and of myself.
3 Salute Priscilla and Aquilas, my fellow-workmen in Christ Jesus --
4 who for my life their own neck did lay down, to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the assemblies of the nations --
5 and the assembly at their house; salute Epaenetus, my beloved, who is first-fruit of Achaia to Christ.
6 Salute Mary, who did labour much for us;
7 salute Andronicus and Junias, my kindred, and my fellow-captives, who are of note among the apostles, who also have been in Christ before me.
8 Salute Amplias, my beloved in the Lord;
9 salute Arbanus, our fellow-workman in Christ, and Stachys, my beloved;
10 salute Apelles, the approved in Christ; salute those of the [household] of Aristobulus;
11 salute Herodion, my kinsman; salute those of the [household] of Narcissus, who are in the Lord;
12 salute Tryphaena, and Tryphosa, who are labouring in the Lord; salute Persis, the beloved, who did labour much in the Lord.
13 Salute Rufus, the choice one in the Lord, and his mother and mine,
14 salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the brethren with them;
15 salute Philologus, and Julias, Nereus, and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints with them;
16 salute one another in a holy kiss; the assemblies of Christ do salute you.
17 And I call upon you, brethren, to mark those who the divisions and the stumbling-blocks, contrary to the teaching that ye did learn, are causing, and turn ye away from them;
18 for such our Lord Jesus Christ do not serve, but their own belly; and through the good word and fair speech they deceive the hearts of the harmless,
19 for your obedience did reach to all; I rejoice, therefore, as regards you, and I wish you to be wise, indeed, as to the good, and harmless as to the evil;
20 and the God of the peace shall bruise the Adversary under your feet quickly; the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you. Amen!
21 Salute you do Timotheus, my fellow-workman, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kindred;
22 I Tertius salute you (who wrote the letter) in the Lord;
23 salute you doth Gaius, my host, and of the whole assembly; salute you doth Erastus, the steward of the city, and Quartus the brother,
24 the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you all. Amen.
25 And to Him who is able to establish you, according to my good news, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the secret, in the times of the ages having been kept silent,
26 and now having been made manifest, also, through prophetic writings, according to a command of the age-during God, having been made known to all the nations for obedience of faith --
27 to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to him [be] glory to the ages. Amen.
From: Paul, called by God’s will to be an apostle of Jesus the Messiah ; and from brother Sosthenes
To: God’s Messianic community in Corinth, consisting of those who have been set apart by Jesus the Messiah and called to be God’s holy people — along with everyone everywhere who calls on the name of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, their Lord as well as ours:
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus the Messiah.
I thank my God continually regarding you because of God’s love and kindness given to you through Jesus the Messiah,
in that you have been enriched by Him in so many ways, particularly in power of speech and depth of knowledge.
Indeed, the testimony about the Messiah has become firmly established in you;
so that you are not lacking any spiritual gift and are eagerly awaiting the unveiling of our Lord Jesus Messiah.
He will allow you to hold out until the end and thus be blameless on the Day of our Lord Jesus the Messiah —
God is trustworthy: it was He who called you into fellowship with His Son, Jesus the Messiah, our Lord.
Regardless, brethren, I call on You in the name of our Lord Jesus the Messiah to agree, all of you, in what you say, and not to let yourselves remain divided into factions but be restored to having a common mind and purpose.
For some of Chloe’s people have made it known to me, my brothers, that there are quarrels among you.
I say this because one of you says, “I follow Paul” Another says, “I follow Apollos” --- another, “I follow Cephas”; while yet another says, “I follow the Messiah!”
Has the Messiah been split in pieces? Was it Paul who was put to death on a cross for you? Were you immersed unto the name of Paul?
I thank God that I didn’t immerse any of you except Crispus and Gaius —
otherwise someone might suggest that you were indeed immersed into my name.
(Oh yes, I did immerse Stephanas and his household; beyond that, I can’t remember whether I immersed anyone else.)
For the Messiah did not send me to immerse but to proclaim the Good News — and to do it without relying on “wisdom” that consists of mere rhetoric, so as not to rob the Messiah’s execution-tree of its significance.
For the message concerning the execution-tree is nonsense to those in the process of being destroyed, but to us in the process of being saved it is the power of God.
Indeed, the Scripture says,
“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and frustrate the intelligence of the intelligent.”
Where does that leave the philosopher, the Law-teacher, or any of today’s thinkers? Hasn’t God made this world’s wisdom look pretty foolish?
For God’s wisdom ordained that the world, using its own wisdom, would not come to know Him. Therefore God decided to use the “nonsense” of what we proclaim as His way of saving those who come to trust in it.
Precisely because Jews ask for signs and Greeks try to find wisdom,
we go on declaring a Messiah executed on a tree as a criminal! To Jews this is an obstacle, and to Greeks it is nonsense;
but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, this same Messiah is God’s power and God’s wisdom!
For God’s “absurdity” is wiser than humanity’s “wisdom.”
And God’s “weakness” is stronger than humanity’s “strength.”
Just look at yourselves, brethren — observe those whom God has called! Not many of you are scholarly by the world’s standards, not many exercise power or boast noble birth.
But God selected what the world considers nonsense in order to shame the wise; God chose what the world considers weak in order to shame the strong;
and God chose what the world labels common or regards as worthless in order to bring to nothing what the world considers important;
so that no one should boast before God.
It is His doing that you are united with Jesus the Messiah. He has become wisdom for us from God, and righteousness and holiness and redemption as well!
Therefore — as the Scripture reveals — “Let anyone who wants to boast, boast about the Lord.”
Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
1 Paul, a called apostle of Jesus Christ, through the will of God, and Sosthenes the brother,
2 to the assembly of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all those calling upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place -- both theirs and ours:
3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!
4 I give thanks to my God always concerning you for the grace of God that was given to you in Christ Jesus,
5 that in every thing ye were enriched in him, in all discourse and all knowledge,
6 according as the testimony of the Christ was confirmed in you,
7 so that ye are not behind in any gift, waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,
8 who also shall confirm you unto the end -- unblamable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ;
9 faithful [is] God, through whom ye were called to the fellowship of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
10 And I call upon you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that the same thing ye may all say, and there may not be divisions among you, and ye may be perfected in the same mind, and in the same judgment,
11 for it was signified to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of Chloe, that contentions are among you;
12 and I say this, that each one of you saith, `I, indeed, am of Paul' -- `and I of Apollos,' -- `and I of Cephas,' -- `and I of Christ.'
13 Hath the Christ been divided? was Paul crucified for you? or to the name of Paul were ye baptized;
14 I give thanks to God that no one of you did I baptize, except Crispus and Gaius --
15 that no one may say that to my own name I did baptize;
16 and I did baptize also Stephanas' household -- further, I have not known if I did baptize any other.
17 For Christ did not send me to baptize, but -- to proclaim good news; not in wisdom of discourse, that the cross of the Christ may not be made of none effect;
18 for the word of the cross to those indeed perishing is foolishness, and to us -- those being saved -- it is the power of God,
19 for it hath been written, `I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the intelligence of the intelligent I will bring to nought;'
20 where [is] the wise? where the scribe? where a disputer of this age? did not God make foolish the wisdom of this world?
21 for, seeing in the wisdom of God the world through the wisdom knew not God, it did please God through the foolishness of the preaching to save those believing.
22 Since also Jews ask a sign, and Greeks seek wisdom,
23 also we -- we preach Christ crucified, to Jews, indeed, a stumbling-block, and to Greeks foolishness,
24 and to those called -- both Jews and Greeks -- Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God,
25 because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men;
26 for see your calling, brethren, that not many [are] wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble;
27 but the foolish things of the world did God choose, that the wise He may put to shame; and the weak things of the world did God choose that He may put to shame the strong;
28 and the base things of the world, and the things despised did God choose, and the things that are not, that the things that are He may make useless --
29 that no flesh may glory before Him;
30 and of Him ye -- ye are in Christ Jesus, who became to us from God wisdom, righteousness also, and sanctification, and redemption,
31 that, according as it hath been written, `He who is glorying -- in the Lord let him glory.'
1 Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,
2 To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who in every place call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:
3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
4 I thank my God always concerning you for the grace of God which was given to you by Christ Jesus, 5 that you were enriched in everything by Him in all utterance and all knowledge, 6 even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you, 7 so that you come short in no gift, eagerly waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ, 8 who will also confirm you to the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
10 Now I plead with you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. 11 For it has been declared to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of Chloe’s household, that there are contentions among you. 12 Now I say this, that each of you says, “I am of Paul,” or “I am of Apollos,” or “I am of Cephas,” or “I am of Christ.” 13 Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?
14 I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius, 15 lest anyone should say that I had baptized in my own name. 16 Yes, I also baptized the household of Stephanas. Besides, I do not know whether I baptized any other. 17 For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect.
18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written:
“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.”[a]
20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? 21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe. 22 For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom; 23 but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness, 24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
26 For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. 27 But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; 28 and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, 29 that no flesh should glory in His presence. 30 But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption— 31 that, as it is written, “He who glories, let him glory in the Lord.”[c]
As for me, brethren, when I arrived among you, it was not with fabulous eloquence or wisdom that I came announcing to you the previously concealed truth about God;
for I had decided that while I was with you I would ignore everything except for Jesus the Messiah, and even Him only as someone who had been executed upon a tree as a criminal.
Also I was with you as somebody weak, nervous and shaking all over from fear;
and neither the delivery nor the content of my message relied on compelling words of “wisdom” but on a demonstration of the power of the Spirit,
so that your trust might not rest on human wisdom but on God’s motivation.
Yet there is a wisdom that we are speaking to those who are perfect. But it is not the wisdom of this world or of this world’s leaders, who are in the process of passing away.
On the contrary, we are communicating a secret wisdom from God which has been hidden until now but which, before history began, God had predetermined would bring us glory.
None of this world’s leaders understood it; because if they had, they would not have executed the Lord from whom this glory flows.
But, as the Scripture says, “No eye has observed, no ear has heard and no one’s heart has imagined all the things that God has prepared for those who accept Him.”
It is to us (Christians), however, that God has revealed these things. How? Through the Spirit. For the Spirit investigates all things, even the profoundest depths of God.
For who understands the inner workings of a person except the person’s own spirit within him? So too no one knows the inner workings of God except God’s Spirit.
Now we have not accepted the spirit of the world but the Spirit of God, so that we might understand the things God has so freely given us.
These are the things we are speaking of when we avoid the manner of speaking that human wisdom would suggest and instead use a manner of speaking instructed through the Spirit, by which we explain things of the Spirit to people who have the Spirit.
Now the worldly man does not receive the things from the Spirit of God — to him they are ridiculous! Moreover, he is unable to grasp them, because they are comprehended through the Spirit.
But the person who possesses the Spirit can evaluate everything, while no one is in a position to evaluate him.
For who understands the mind of the Lord? Who will direct Him? But we (Christians) have the mind of the Messiah!
Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
1 And I, having come unto you, brethren, came -- not in superiority of discourse or wisdom -- declaring to you the testimony of God,
2 for I decided not to know any thing among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified;
3 and I, in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling, was with you;
4 and my word and my preaching was not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power --
5 that your faith may not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
6 And wisdom we speak among the perfect, and wisdom not of this age, nor of the rulers of this age -- of those becoming useless,
7 but we speak the hidden wisdom of God in a secret, that God foreordained before the ages to our glory,
8 which no one of the rulers of this age did know, for if they had known, the Lord of the glory they would not have crucified;
9 but, according as it hath been written, `What eye did not see, and ear did not hear, and upon the heart of man came not up, what God did prepare for those loving Him --'
10 but to us did God reveal [them] through His Spirit, for the Spirit all things doth search, even the depths of God,
11 for who of men hath known the things of the man, except the spirit of the man that [is] in him? so also the things of God no one hath known, except the Spirit of God.
12 And we the spirit of the world did not receive, but the Spirit that [is] of God, that we may know the things conferred by God on us,
13 which things also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Holy Spirit, with spiritual things spiritual things comparing,
14 and the natural man doth not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for to him they are foolishness, and he is not able to know [them], because spiritually they are discerned;
15 and he who is spiritual, doth discern indeed all things, and he himself is by no one discerned;
16 for who did know the mind of the Lord that he shall instruct Him? and we -- we have the mind of Christ.
1 And I, brethren, when I came to you, did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom declaring to you the testimony[a] of God. 2 For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. 3 I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. 4 And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 5 that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.
6 However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory, 8 which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
9 But as it is written:
“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”[c]
10 But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. 11 For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.
13 These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy[d] Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. 16 For “who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?”[e] But we have the mind of Christ.
As for me, brethren, I couldn’t talk to you spiritually but as worldly people, as babies, so far as experience with the Messiah is concerned.
I gave you milk, not solid food, because you were not yet ready for it. But you still are not ready!
For you are still worldly! Isn’t it obvious from all the jealousy and quarrelling among you that you are worldly and living by mere human standards?
For when one says, “I follow Paul” and another, “I follow Apollos,” aren’t you behaving human?
After all, what is Apollos? What is Paul? Only servants through whom you came to trust. Indeed, it was the Lord who brought you to believe through one of us or through another.
I planted the seed, and Apollos watered it, but it was God who made it grow.
So neither the planter nor the waterer is anything, only God who makes things grow — planter and waterer are the same.
However, each will be rewarded according to his work.
For we are God’s co-workers; you are God’s field, God’s structure.
Using the grace God gave me, I laid a foundation, like a skilled master-builder; and another man is building on it. But let each one be careful how he builds.
For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus the Messiah.
Some will use gold, silver or precious stones in building on this foundation; while others will use wood, grass or straw.
But each one’s work will be shown for what it is; time will tell, because it will be revealed by fire — the fire will test the quality of each one’s work.
If the work someone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward;
if it is consumed, he will have to feel the loss: he will still escape with his life, but it will be like escaping through a fire.
Don’t you know that believers are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?
So if anyone ruins God’s temple, God will ruin him. For God’s temple is holy, and you yourselves are that temple.
Let no one kid himself. If someone among you thinks he is wise (by this world’s standards), let him become “foolish,” so that he may become really wise.
For the wisdom of this world is nonsense, as far as God is concerned; inasmuch as the Scripture says, “He traps the wise in their own cleverness,”
and again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are worthless.”
So let no one boast about human beings, for all things are yours —
whether Pauls or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future: they all belong to you,
and you belong to the Messiah, and the Messiah belongs to God.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
1 And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly -- as to babes in Christ;
2 with milk I fed you, and not with meat, for ye were not yet able, but not even yet are ye now able,
3 for yet ye are fleshly, for where [there is] among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not fleshly, and in the manner of men do walk?
4 for when one may say, `I, indeed, am of Paul;' and another, `I -- of Apollos;' are ye not fleshly?
5 Who, then, is Paul, and who Apollos, but ministrants through whom ye did believe, and to each as the Lord gave?
6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God was giving growth;
7 so that neither is he who is planting anything, nor he who is watering, but He who is giving growth -- God;
8 and he who is planting and he who is watering are one, and each his own reward shall receive, according to his own labour,
9 for of God we are fellow-workmen; God's tillage, God's building ye are.
10 According to the grace of God that was given to me, as a wise master-builder, a foundation I have laid, and another doth build on [it],
11 for other foundation no one is able to lay except that which is laid, which is Jesus the Christ;
12 and if any one doth build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw --
13 of each the work shall become manifest, for the day shall declare [it], because in fire it is revealed, and the work of each, what kind it is, the fire shall prove;
14 if of any one the work doth remain that he built on [it], a wage he shall receive;
15 if of any the work is burned up, he shall suffer loss; and himself shall be saved, but so as through fire.
16 have ye not known that ye are a sanctuary of God, and the Spirit of God doth dwell in you?
17 if any one the sanctuary of God doth waste, him shall God waste; for the sanctuary of God is holy, the which ye are.
18 Let no one deceive himself; if any one doth seem to be wise among you in this age -- let him become a fool, that he may become wise,
19 for the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, for it hath been written, `Who is taking the wise in their craftiness;'
20 and again, `The Lord doth know the reasonings of the wise, that they are vain.'
21 So then, let no one glory in men, for all things are yours,
22 whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things about to be -- all are yours,
You (Christians) should regard us as the Messiah’s servants, as trustees of God’s secret truths.
Now one thing asked of a trustee is that he be trustworthy.
And it matters very little to me how I am evaluated by you or by any human court; in fact, I don’t even evaluate myself.
I am not aware of anything I've done wrong, but this does not make me innocent. The one evaluating me is the Lord.
So don’t pronounce judgment prematurely, before the Lord comes; for He will expose what is now hidden in darkness; He will reveal the motives of people’s hearts; and then each will receive from God whatever praise he deserves.
Now in what I have said here, brethren, I have used myself and Apollos as examples to teach you not to venture beyond what the Scripture says, proudly taking the side of one leader against another.
After all, what makes you so special? What do you have that you didn’t receive as a gift? And if in fact it was a gift, why do you boast as if it weren’t?
Are you filled and already rich? You're kings, even though we are not? Well, I wish you really were kings, so that we might share the kingship with you!
For I think God has been placing us apostles on display at the rear of the parade, like men condemned to die in the public arena: we have become a spectacle before the whole universe, angels as well as men.
For the Messiah’s sake we are fools, but united with the Messiah you are wise! We are weak, but you are strong; you are honored, but we are dishonored.
Till this very moment we go hungry and thirsty, we are dressed in rags, we are treated roughly, we have no house,
we exhaust ourselves working with our own hands for our living. When we are cursed, we keep on blessing; when we are persecuted, we go on putting up with it.
When slandered, we continue making our appeal. We are the world’s garbage, the scum of the earth — yes, right up till now!
I am not writing you this to make you feel ashamed, but, as my dear children, to confront you and get you to change.
For even if you have 10,000 trainers in connection with the Messiah, you do not have many fathers; for in connection with Jesus the Messiah it was I who became your father by means of the Good Message.
Therefore I urge you to imitate me.
This is why I have sent you Timothy, my beloved and trustworthy child in the Lord. He will remind you of the way of life I follow in union with Jesus the Messiah and teach everywhere in every congregation.
When I didn’t come to visit you, some of you became arrogant.
But I'm arriving soon, if the Lord wills; and I will take cognizance not of the talk of these arrogant people but of their power.
For the Kingdom of God is not a matter of words but of power.
Which do you prefer — should I come at you with a stick? or with love in a spirit of gentleness?
Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
1 Let a man so reckon us as officers of Christ, and stewards of the secrets of God,
2 and as to the rest, it is required in the stewards that one may be found faithful,
3 and to me it is for a very little thing that by you I may be judged, or by man's day, but not even myself do I judge,
4 for of nothing to myself have I been conscious, but not in this have I been declared right -- and he who is discerning me is the Lord:
5 so, then, nothing before the time judge ye, till the Lord may come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of the darkness, and will manifest the counsels of the hearts, and then the praise shall come to each from God.
6 And these things, brethren, I did transfer to myself and to Apollos because of you, that in us ye may learn not to think above that which hath been written, that ye may not be puffed up one for one against the other,
7 for who doth make thee to differ? and what hast thou, that thou didst not receive? and if thou didst also receive, why dost thou glory as not having received?
8 Already ye are having been filled, already ye were rich, apart from us ye did reign, and I would also ye did reign, that we also with you may reign together,
9 for I think that God did set forth us the apostles last -- as appointed to death, because a spectacle we became to the world, and messengers, and men;
10 we [are] fools because of Christ, and ye wise in Christ; we [are] ailing, and ye strong; ye glorious, and we dishonoured;
11 unto the present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and wander about,
12 and labour, working with [our] own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer;
13 being spoken evil of, we entreat; as filth of the world we did become -- of all things an offscouring -- till now.
14 Not [as] putting you to shame do I write these things, but as my beloved children I do admonish,
15 for if a myriad of child-conductors ye may have in Christ, yet not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus, through the good news, I -- I did beget you;
16 I call upon you, therefore, become ye followers of me;
17 because of this I sent to you Timotheus, who is my child, beloved and faithful in the Lord, who shall remind you of my ways in Christ, according as everywhere in every assembly I teach.
18 And as if I were not coming unto you certain were puffed up;
19 but I will come quickly unto you, if the Lord may will, and I will know not the word of those puffed up, but the power;
20 for not in word is the reign of God, but in power?
21 what do ye wish? with a rod shall I come unto you, or in love, with a spirit also of meekness?
It's being reported that there is sexual sin among you, and it is sexual sin of a kind that is condemned even among pagans — a man is sleeping with his stepmother!
And you remain proud? Shouldn’t you rather have felt some remorse that would have led you to remove from your company the man engaging in such a thing?
For I myself, even though physically distant, I'm with you spiritually; and I have already judged the man who has done this as if I were present.
In the name of the Lord Jesus, when you are gathered, with me present spiritually and with power of our Lord Jesus among us,
hand over such an individual to Satan for his old nature to be destroyed, so that his spirit may be saved in the Day of the Lord.
Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know the saying, “It takes only a little yeast to leaven a whole batch of dough?”
Get rid of the old leaven, so that you can be a new batch of dough, because in reality you are unleavened. For our Passover lamb, the Messiah, has been sacrificed.
So let us celebrate the Seder not with leftover leaven --- that of wickedness and evil, but with the matzah of purity and truth.
In my earlier letter I wrote you not to associate with people who engage in sexual immorality.
I didn’t mean the sexually immoral people outside your community, or the greedy, or the thieves or the idol-worshippers — for then you would have to leave the world altogether!
No, what I wrote you was not to associate with anyone who is supposedly a believer but who also engages in sexual immorality, is greedy, worships idols, is abusive, gets drunk or steals. With such a person you shouldn’t even eat!
For what business is it of mine to judge outsiders? Isn’t it those who are part of the community that you should be judging?
God will judge those who are outside. Just eject the evildoer from among yourselves.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
1 Whoredom is actually heard of among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the nations -- as that one hath the wife of the father! --
2 and ye are having been puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he may be removed out of the midst of you who did this work,
3 for I indeed, as being absent as to the body, and present as to the spirit, have already judged, as being present, him who so wrought this thing:
4 in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ -- ye being gathered together, also my spirit -- with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
5 to deliver up such a one to the Adversary for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
6 Not good [is] your glorying; have ye not known that a little leaven the whole lump doth leaven?
7 cleanse out, therefore, the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, according as ye are unleavened, for also our passover for us was sacrificed -- Christ,
8 so that we may keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of evil and wickedness, but with unleavened food of sincerity and truth.
9 I did write to you in the epistle, not to keep company with whoremongers --
10 and not certainly with the whoremongers of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, seeing ye ought then to go forth out of the world --
11 and now, I did write to you not to keep company with [him], if any one, being named a brother, may be a whoremonger, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner -- with such a one not even to eat together;
12 for what have I also those without to judge? those within do ye not judge?
13 and those without God doth judge; and put ye away the evil from among yourselves.
How dare one of you (Christians) with a complaint against another go to court before pagan judges and not before God’s people?
Don’t you know that God’s people will eventually judge the world? If you are going to judge the world, are you incompetent to judge minor issues?
Don’t you know that we will judge angels, not to mention affairs of everyday life?
So if you require judgments about matters of everyday life, why do you put them in front of men who have no importance in the Messianic Community?
I say, shame on you! Can it be that there isn’t one person among you wise enough to be able to settle a dispute between brethren?
Instead, a brother brings a lawsuit against another brother, and judged by unbelievers!
Actually, if you are bringing lawsuits against each other, it is already a defeat for you. Why not rather remain wronged? Why not rather remain cheated?
Instead, you yourselves wrong and cheat; and you do it to your own brothers!
Don’t you know that unrighteous people will have no part in the Kingdom of God? Don’t delude yourselves — people who engage in sex before marriage, who worship idols, who engage in sex after marriage with someone other than their spouse, who engage in active or passive homosexuality,
who steal, are greedy, get drunk, insult people with contemptuous language, who steal — none of them will exist in the Kingdom of God.
Some of you used to engage in such things. But you have cleansed yourselves, you have been set apart for God, you have come to be counted righteous through the power of the Lord Jesus the Messiah and the Spirit of our God.
You say, “For me, everything is permitted” ---- Maybe, but not everything is helpful. “For me, everything is permitted” ---- Maybe, but as far as I am concerned, I am not going to let anything gain control over me.
“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”--- Maybe, but God will put an end to both of them. Anyhow, the body is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.
God raised up the Lord, and he will raise us up too by His power.
Don’t you know that your bodies are parts of the Messiah? So, am I to take parts of the Messiah and make them portions of a prostitute? Heaven forbid!
Don’t you know that a man who joins himself to a prostitute becomes physically united with her? For the Scripture says, “The two will become one flesh."
but the person who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.
Run from sexual immorality! Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the fornicator sins against his own body.
Or don’t you know that your body is a temple for the Holy Spirit who lives within you, whom you received from God? The fact is, you don’t belong to yourselves;
for you were bought at a price. So use your bodies to glorify God.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
1 Dare any one of you, having a matter with the other, go to be judged before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?
2 have ye not known that the saints shall judge the world? and if by you the world is judged, are ye unworthy of the smaller judgments?
3 have ye not known that we shall judge messengers? why not then the things of life?
4 of the things of life, indeed, then, if ye may have judgment, those despised in the assembly -- these cause ye to sit;
5 unto your shame I speak: so there is not among you one wise man, not even one, who shall be able to discern in the midst of his brethren!
6 but brother with brother doth go to be judged, and this before unbelievers!
7 Already, indeed, then, there is altogether a fault among you, that ye have judgments with one another; wherefore do ye not rather suffer injustice? wherefore be ye not rather defrauded?
8 but ye -- ye do injustice, and ye defraud, and these -- brethren!
9 have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,
10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, the reign of God shall inherit.
11 And certain of you were these! but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were declared righteous, in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.
12 All things are lawful to me, but all things are not profitable; all things are lawful to me, but I -- I will not be under authority by any;
13 the meats [are] for the belly, and the belly for the meats. And God both this and these shall make useless; and the body [is] not for whoredom, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;
14 and God both the Lord did raise, and us will raise up through His power.
15 Have ye not known that your bodies are members of Christ? having taken, then, the members of the Christ, shall I make [them] members of an harlot? let it be not!
16 have ye not known that he who is joined to the harlot is one body? `for they shall be -- saith He -- the two for one flesh.'
17 And he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit;
18 flee the whoredom; every sin -- whatever a man may commit -- is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.
19 Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own,
20 for ye were bought with a price; glorify, then, God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.
