哥林多前書 1
Chinese Standard Bible (Traditional)
問安
1 照著神的旨意蒙召做基督耶穌使徒的保羅，以及弟兄索提尼，
2 致那在哥林多屬神的教會，就是在基督耶穌裡被分別為聖、蒙召成為聖徒的人，以及所有在各地求告我們主耶穌基督之名的人。基督是他們的主，也是我們的主。
3 願恩典與平安從神我們的父和主耶穌基督臨到你們！
感恩
4 我常常為你們感謝我的[a]神，因你們在基督耶穌裡被賜予了神的恩典， 5 使你們在基督裡凡事都得以富足——在一切話語上、一切知識上—— 6 正如有關基督的見證在你們中間得以確立， 7 以致你們在任何恩賜上都不缺乏，熱切等待著我們主耶穌基督的顯現。 8 他也將使你們堅定到底，使你們在我們主耶穌基督的日子[b]無可指責。 9 神是信實的；你們已經被他召喚，進到與他的兒子——我們主耶穌基督的契合裡。
教會中的紛爭
10 弟兄們，我藉著我們主耶穌基督的名，懇求你們大家言語一致；你們中間不要分裂，而要在同一個心思、同一個目的上得以完備。 11 我的弟兄們，事實上，克洛伊家的一些人告訴了我有關你們的事，說你們中間有紛爭。 12 這就是說：你們各自聲稱「我是屬保羅的」，或「我是屬阿波羅的」，或「我是屬磯法的」，或「我是屬基督的」。 13 難道基督是被分割的嗎？[c]難道保羅為你們被釘十字架了嗎？或者你們受洗[d]是歸入保羅的名[e]嗎？ 14 我感謝神[f]，除了克里斯普和蓋尤斯以外，我沒有給你們任何人施過洗， 15 免得有人說，你們是奉我的名受洗。 16 我雖然也給司提法納的一家人施過洗，此外我卻不記得是否給其他人施過洗。 17 要知道，基督差派我，不是為了施洗[g]，而是為了傳福音——並不用智慧的話語，免得基督的十字架落了空。
基督是神的大能和智慧
18 原來，十字架的福音[h]對那些正在滅亡的人來說，是愚拙的；但是對我們這些正在被拯救的人來說，卻是神的大能。 19 因為經上記著：
「我將要毀滅智慧人的智慧，
廢棄聰明人的聰明。」[i]
20 智慧人在哪裡？經文士在哪裡？這世代的雄辯家在哪裡？神難道不使這世界的智慧成了愚拙嗎？ 21 實際上，在神的智慧中，世界既然憑智慧不認識神，神就樂意藉著傳道的愚拙，拯救那些相信的人。 22 雖然猶太人求神蹟，希臘人尋智慧， 23 但我們卻傳揚被釘十字架的基督——對猶太人來說是絆腳石，對外邦人[j]來說是愚拙的； 24 不過對那些蒙召的人，無論是猶太人、或是希臘人，基督總是神的大能、神的智慧。 25 因為神的愚拙比人更智慧，神的軟弱比人更強壯。
當以主誇耀
26 弟兄們，想一想你們所蒙的召喚：按人的標準[k]，你們當中[l]有智慧的不多，有權勢的不多，出身高貴的也不多。 27 然而神卻揀選了世上愚拙的，為了使那些有智慧的羞愧；神又揀選了世上軟弱的，為了使那些強壯的羞愧； 28 神也揀選了世上出身低微的、被人藐視的，就是那些不是什麼的，為了要廢除那些是個什麼的， 29 好使所有的人[m]在神面前都不能自誇， 30 但本於神，你們卻是在基督耶穌裡的。基督耶穌為我們成了從神而來的智慧、公義、聖潔和救贖， 31 為要像經上所記的：「誇耀的當在主裡誇耀。」[n]
Footnotes
- 哥林多前書 1:4 有古抄本沒有「我的」。
- 哥林多前書 1:8 日子——指「基督再來的日子」。
- 哥林多前書 1:13 難道基督是被分割的嗎？——或譯作「基督竟然被分割了！」
- 哥林多前書 1:13 受洗——或譯作「受浸」。
- 哥林多前書 1:13 歸入保羅的名——或譯作「奉保羅的名」。
- 哥林多前書 1:14 有古抄本沒有「神」。
- 哥林多前書 1:17 施洗——或譯作「施浸」。
- 哥林多前書 1:18 十字架的福音——原文直譯「十字架的話語」或「十字架的道」。
- 哥林多前書 1:19 《以賽亞書》29:14。
- 哥林多前書 1:23 外邦人——有古抄本作「希臘人」。
- 哥林多前書 1:26 按人的標準——原文直譯「按肉體」。
- 哥林多前書 1:26 你們當中——輔助詞語。
- 哥林多前書 1:29 人——原文直譯「肉體」。
- 哥林多前書 1:31 《耶利米書》9:24。
1 Corinthians 1
New Catholic Bible
Greetings and Thanksgiving
Chapter 1
Address to a Church.[a] 1 Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and Sosthenes[b] our brother, 2 to the Church of God in Corinth,[c] to those who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be holy together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord as well as ours. 3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
4 I continually give thanks to my God for you because of his grace that has been granted to you in Christ Jesus. 5 For through him you have been enriched in every way in all facets of speech and knowledge, 6 as our testimony about Christ has been confirmed in you.
7 Therefore, you do not lack any spiritual gift as you wait for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ. 8 He will keep you steadfast until the very end, so that you may be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 God is faithful, and it is by him that you have been called into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Divisions in the Church of Corinth[d]
10 The Existence of Factions. Brethren, I exhort you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to be in full agreement with one another and not permit any divisions to arise among you. Be perfectly united in mind and purpose. 11 For I have heard reports from Chloe’s people, brethren, that there are quarrels among you.[e]
12 What I mean is that each of you is asserting, “I belong to Paul,” or “I belong to Apollos,”[f] or “I belong to Cephas,” or “I belong to Christ.” 13 Has Christ now been divided? Did Paul die on the cross for you? Was it in Paul’s name that you were baptized?
14 I am thankful that I never baptized any of you, aside from Crispus and Gaius, 15 so that no one can say you were baptized in my name. ( 16 I also baptized the household of Stephanas. Aside from those I do not know if I baptized anyone else.)
17 The Message of the Cross and Human Wisdom.[g] For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel—and to do so without words of human wisdom lest the cross of Christ be devoid of its meaning. 18 Indeed, 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 the understanding of the learned I will bring to naught.”[h]
20 Where now are the wise ones? Where are the men of learning? Where are the debaters of this present age? Has God not shown the wisdom of the world to be foolish? 21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world was unable to come to know him through wisdom, he chose, through the folly of preaching, to save those who have faith.
22 Jews demand signs, and Greeks look for wisdom, 23 but we proclaim Christ crucified. This is a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles;[i] 24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.
26 God Has Chosen Those Who Count for Nothing. Consider, brethren, your calling. Not many of you were wise by human standards,[j] not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. 27 Rather, God chose those who were regarded as foolish by the world to shame the wise; God chose those in the world who were weak to shame the strong. 28 God chose those in the world who were lowly and despised, those who count for nothing, to reduce to nothing those who were regarded as worthy, 29 [k]so that no one could boast in the presence of God.
30 It is through him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom of God, as well as righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. 31 Therefore, as it is written, “If anyone wishes to boast, let him boast in the Lord.”
Footnotes
- 1 Corinthians 1:1 From the outset Paul emphasizes his calling as an apostle, because if throughout the Letter he teaches, reproaches, and corrects, he does so in the name of the mission he has received from Christ. See note on Mk 6:30.
- 1 Corinthians 1:1 Sosthenes: perhaps the same person as in Acts 18:17.
- 1 Corinthians 1:2 Church of God in Corinth: see note on 2 Cor 1:1.
- 1 Corinthians 1:10 The divisions in the Church cannot be regarded simply as a phenomenon inevitable in any form of communal life. The divisions here bear on essentials; they show that the Gospel has not been understood and that people had an erroneous idea of the role of the apostles.
- 1 Corinthians 1:11 The name Chloe probably identifies a Christian woman of Corinth, some members of whose household have brought the news to Paul.
- 1 Corinthians 1:12 Apollos: one of the important figures in the beginnings of Christianity, and Paul speaks more than once of his sincerity (see Acts 18:24-28; 1 Cor 3:4-5, 22; 16:12). Some scholars think he may be the author of the Letter to the Hebrews. Cephas: the apostle Peter (see Jn 1:42), who may have paid a visit to Corinth.
- 1 Corinthians 1:17 The most beautiful construction of the human spirit cannot by itself bring salvation to the human race. This section does not oppose faith and philosophy to one another. It affirms above all that people are saved not by an intellectual theory but by God’s intervention in Jesus Christ. Faith does not consist in an ideology.
- 1 Corinthians 1:19 The citation is from Isa 29:14, where the Lord denounces the “wise” for their policy of seeking an alliance with Egypt against King Sennacherib of Assyria. The wise: the 6th-century B.C. Athenian statesman Aristedes remarked that every street in Corinth had its own so-called wise man, who claimed to have a solution to all the problems of the world.
- 1 Corinthians 1:23 Jesus was a stumbling block for the Jews, because they were expecting a Messiah who would perform sensational wonders (see Mt 12:38; Jn 4:48); he was foolishness to Gentiles, because he did not act in accordance with human wisdom.
- 1 Corinthians 1:26 Wise by human standards: literally, “wise according to the flesh,” that is, in the eyes of human beings.
- 1 Corinthians 1:29 “Boasting” refers to a person’s sin in thinking that one is saved by oneself. The truth is that we live only from God and for God. Hence, the only “boasting” possible is “boasting in the Lord.”
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