Epistula I ad Corinthios, 3

1. Et ego, fratres, non potui vobis loqui quasi spiritalibus sed qua si carnalibus, tamquam parvulis in Christo.

1. But I, brethren, could not address you as spiritual men, but as men of the flesh, as babes in Christ.

2. Lac vobis potum dedi, non escam, nondum enim poteratis. Sed ne nunc quidem potestis,

2. I fed you with milk, not solid food; for you were not ready for it; and even yet you are not ready,

3. adhuc enim estis carnales. Cum enim sit inter vos zelus et contentio, nonne carnales estis et secundum hominem ambulatis?

3. for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh, and behaving like ordinary men?

4. Cum enim quis dicit: “Ego quidem sum Pauli”, alius autem: “Ego Apollo”, nonne homines estis?

4. For when one says, "I belong to Paul," and another, "I belong to Apol'los," are you not merely men?

5. Quid igitur est Apollo? Quid vero Paulus? Ministri, per quos credidistis, et unicuique sicut Dominus dedit.

5. What then is Apol'los? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each.

6. Ego plantavi, Apollo rigavit, sed Deus incrementum dedit;

6. I planted, Apol'los watered, but God gave the growth.

7. itaque neque qui plantat, est aliquid, neque qui rigat, sed qui incrementum dat, Deus.

7. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.

8. Qui plantat autem et qui rigat unum sunt; unusquisque autem propriam mercedem accipiet secundum suum laborem.

8. He who plants and he who waters are equal, and each shall receive his wages according to his labor.

9. Dei enim sumus adiutores: Dei agri cultura estis, Dei aedificatio estis.

9. For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building.

10. Secundum gratiam Dei, quae data est mihi, ut sapiens architectus fundamentum posui; alius autem superaedificat. Unusquisque autem videat quomodo superaedificet;

10. According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and another man is building upon it. Let each man take care how he builds upon it.

11. fundamentum enim aliud nemo potest ponere praeter id, quod positum est, qui est Iesus Christus.

11. For no other foundation can any one lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

12. Si quis autem superaedificat supra fundamentum aurum, argentum, lapides pretiosos, ligna, fenum, stipulam,

12. Now if any one builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw --

13. uniuscuiusque opus manifestum erit; dies enim declarabit: quia in igne revelatur, et uniuscuiusque opus quale sit ignis probabit.

13. each man's work will become manifest; for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done.

14. Si cuius opus manserit, quod superaedificavit, mercedem accipiet;

14. If the work which any man has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward.

15. si cuius opus arserit, detrimentum patietur, ipse autem salvus erit, sic tamen quasi per ignem.

15. If any man's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.

16. Nescitis quia templum Dei estis, et Spiritus Dei habitat in vobis?

16. Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?

17. Si quis autem templum Dei everterit, evertet illum Deus; templum enim Dei sanctum est, quod estis vos.

17. If any one destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and that temple you are.

18. Nemo se seducat; si quis videtur sapiens esse inter vos in hoc saeculo, stultus fiat, ut sit sapiens.

18. Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.

19. Sapientia enim huius mundi stultitia est apud Deum. Scriptum est enim: “Qui apprehendit sapientes in astutia eorum”;

19. For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, "He catches the wise in their craftiness,"

20. et iterum: “Dominus novit cogitationes sapientium, quoniam vanae sunt”.

20. and again, "The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile."

21. Itaque nemo glorietur in hominibus. Omnia enim vestra sunt,

21. So let no one boast of men. For all things are yours,

22. sive Paulus sive Apollo sive Cephas sive mundus sive vita sive mors sive praesentia sive futura, omnia enim vestra sunt,

22. whether Paul or Apol'los or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future, all are yours;

23. vos autem Christi, Christus autem Dei.

23. and you are Christ's; and Christ is God's.