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:
1:2
ሰላምለክሙወጸጋእግዚአብሔርአቡነወእግዚእነኢየሱስክርስቶስ።
願恩惠、平安從上帝我們的父和主耶穌基督歸與你們!
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.
1:5
ወበከመበዝኀሕማሙለክርስቶስላዕሌነከማሁይፈደፍድፍሥሓነበክርስቶስ።
我們既多受基督的苦楚,就靠基督多得安慰。
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.
1:7
ወትውክልትነሂጽኑዕዘበእንቲኣክሙወበከመዐረይክሙሕማመነከማሁተኀብሩበፍሥሓነሂ።
我們為你們所存的盼望是確定的,因為知道你們既是同受苦楚,也必同得安慰。
Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so you are also of the comfort.
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.
1:9
ወአጥባዕነለመዊትከመኢንትአመንበርእስነዘእንበለበእግዚአብሔርዘያሐይዎሙለምዉታን።
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。
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,
1:10
ዘአድኀነነእመጠነዝሞትወዓዲኪያሁንትአመንከመያድኅነነ።
他曾救我們脫離那極大的死亡,現在仍要救我們,並且我們指望他將來還要救我們。
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?”
1:18
ጻድቅእግዚአብሔርወኢኮነሐሰተቃልነዘኀቤክሙወኢተቶስሐእወወአልቦ።
我指着信實的上帝說,我們向你們所傳的道,並沒有是而又非的。
But as God is faithful, our word toward you was not “Yes and no.”