Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:
奉上帝旨意作基督耶穌使徒的保羅和兄弟提摩太,寫信給在哥林多上帝的教會,並亞該亞遍處的眾聖徒。
1:2
ሰላምለክሙወጸጋእግዚአብሔርአቡነወእግዚእነኢየሱስክርስቶስ።
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
我們在一切患難中,他就安慰我們,叫我們能用上帝所賜的安慰去安慰那遭各樣患難的人。
1:5
ወበከመበዝኀሕማሙለክርስቶስላዕሌነከማሁይፈደፍድፍሥሓነበክርስቶስ።
For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.
But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.
For we don’t desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia: that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.
弟兄們,我們不要你們不曉得,我們從前在亞細亞遭遇苦難,被壓太重,力不能勝,甚至連活命的指望都絕了;
1:9
ወአጥባዕነለመዊትከመኢንትአመንበርእስነዘእንበለበእግዚአብሔርዘያሐይዎሙለምዉታን።
Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,
自己心裏也斷定是必死的,叫我們不靠自己,只靠叫死人復活的上帝。
1:10
ዘአድኀነነእመጠነዝሞትወዓዲኪያሁንትአመንከመያድኅነነ።
who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver, on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us,
you also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift given to us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on your behalf.
For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
When I therefore planned this, did I show fickleness? Or the things that I plan, do I plan according to the flesh, that with me there should be the “Yes, yes” and the “No, no?”
我有此意,豈是反覆不定嗎?我所起的意,豈是從情慾起的,叫我忽是忽非嗎?
1:18
ጻድቅእግዚአብሔርወኢኮነሐሰተቃልነዘኀቤክሙወኢተቶስሐእወወአልቦ።
But as God is faithful, our word toward you was not “Yes and no.”