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1 And when I preached to you, I had to approach you as men with natural, not with spiritual thoughts. You were little children in Christ’s nursery, 2 and I gave you milk, not meat; you were not strong enough for it. You are not strong enough for it even now; nature still lives in you. 3 Do not these rivalries, these dissensions among you shew that nature is still alive, that you are guided by human standards? 4 When one of you says, I am for Paul, and another, I am for Apollo, are not these human thoughts? Why, what is Apollo, what is Paul? 5 Only the ministers of the God in whom your faith rests, who have brought that faith to each of you in the measure God granted.[1] 6 It was for me to plant the seed, for Apollo to water it, but it was God who gave the increase. 7 And if so, the man who plants, the man who waters, count for nothing; God is everything, since it is he who gives the increase. 8 This man plants, that man waters; it is all one. And yet either will receive his own wages, in proportion to his own work. 9 You are a field of God’s tilling, a structure of God’s design; and we are only his assistants. | 1 Et ego, fratres, non potui vobis loqui quasi spiritualibus, sed quasi carnalibus. Tamquam parvulis in Christo, 2 lac vobis potum dedi, non escam: nondum enim poteratis: sed nec nunc quidem potestis: adhuc enim carnales estis. 3 Cum enim sit inter vos zelus, et contentio: nonne carnales estis, et secundum hominem ambulatis? 4 Cum enim quis dicat: Ego quidem sum Pauli; alius autem: Ego Apollo: nonne homines estis? Quid igitur est Apollo? quid vero Paulus? 5 ministri ejus, cui credidistis, ut unicuique sicut Dominus dedit. 6 Ego plantavi, Apollo rigavit: sed Deus incrementum dedit. 7 Itaque neque qui plantat est aliquid, neque qui rigat: sed qui incrementum dat, Deus. 8 Qui autem plantat, et qui rigat, unum sunt. Unusquisque autem propriam mercedem accipiet, secundum suum laborem. 9 Dei enim sumus adjutores: Dei agricultura estis, Dei ædificatio estis. |
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10 With what grace God has bestowed on me, I have laid a foundation as a careful architect should; it is left for someone else to build upon it. Only, whoever builds on it must be careful how he builds. 11 The foundation which has been laid is the only one which anybody can lay; I mean Jesus Christ. 12 But on this foundation different men will build in gold, silver, precious stones, wood, grass, or straw, 13 and each man’s workmanship will be plainly seen. It is the day of the Lord that will disclose it, since that day is to reveal itself in fire, and fire will test the quality of each man’s workmanship. 14 He will receive a reward, if the building he has added on stands firm; 15 if it is burnt up, he will be the loser; and yet he himself will be saved, though only as men are saved by passing through fire.[2] | 10 Secundum gratiam Dei, quæ data est mihi, ut sapiens architectus fundamentum posui: alius autem superædificat. Unusquisque autem videat quomodo superædificet. 11 Fundamentum enim aliud nemo potest ponere præter id quod positum est, quod est Christus Jesus. 12 Si quis autem superædificat super fundamentum hoc, aurum, argentum, lapides pretiosos, ligna, fœnum, stipulam, 13 uniuscujusque opus manifestum erit: dies enim Domini declarabit, quia in igne revelabitur: et uniuscujusque opus quale sit, ignis probabit. 14 Si cujus opus manserit quod superædificavit, mercedem accipiet. 15 Si cujus opus arserit, detrimentum patietur: ipse autem salvus erit, sic tamen quasi per ignem. |
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16 Do you not understand that you are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit has his dwelling in you? 17 If anybody desecrates the temple of God, God will bring him to ruin. It is a holy thing, this temple of God which is nothing other than yourselves.[3] 18 You must not deceive yourselves, any of you, about this. If any of you thinks he is wise, after the fashion of his fellow men, he must turn himself into a fool, so as to be truly wise. 19 This world’s wisdom, with God, is but folly. So we read in scripture, I will entrap the wise with their own cunning.[4] 20 And again, The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, and how empty they are.[5] 21 Nobody, therefore, should repose his confidence in men. 22 Everything is for you, whether it be Paul, or Apollo, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or the present, or the future; it is all for you,[6] 23 and you for Christ, and Christ for God. | 16 Nescitis quia templum Dei estis, et Spiritus Dei habitat in vobis? 17 Si quis autem templum Dei violaverit, disperdet illum Deus. Templum enim Dei sanctum est, quod estis vos. 18 Nemo se seducat: si quis videtur inter vos sapiens esse in hoc sæculo, stultus fiat ut sit sapiens. 19 Sapientia enim hujus mundi, stultitia est apud Deum. Scriptum est enim: Comprehendam sapientes in astutia eorum. 20 Et iterum: Dominus novit cogitationes sapientium quoniam vanæ sunt. 21 Nemo itaque glorietur in hominibus. 22 Omnia enim vestra sunt, sive Paulus, sive Apollo, sive Cephas, sive mundus, sive vita, sive mors, sive præsentia, sive futura: omnia enim vestra sunt: 23 vos autem Christi: Christus autem Dei. |
[1] This is the sense of the Latin; the Greek has, ‘Only serving-men, who have brought you faith, brought it to each of you in the measure God granted’.
[2] vv. 10-15: In its immediate reference, this passage seems to imply that we cannot decide yet how much good the influence of any Christian teacher (e.g. Apollo) has done; it is only at the last day that such things will be made known to us. (Cf. 4.5 below.) But it has always been understood as having a wider application; each one of us is building upon the foundation of Christian faith which has been laid in him, and the merits or demerits of his building will be made known only at his judgement. At the same time, we are to recognize that many whose actions in this world have had little value, will themselves escape condemnation, though only by passing through the fires of Purgatory.
[3] vv. 16, 17: Here St Paul, though keeping to the same metaphor, turns to a different subject: the position of those who destroy the unity of the Church by schism. Thus he returns to his main theme, the dissensions among the Christians at Corinth.
[4] Job 5.13.
[5] Ps. 93.11.
[6] ‘Everything is for you’; that is, you must not say, ‘I am for Paul’, and ‘I am for Apollo’, and ‘I am for Cephas’; Paul and Apollo and Cephas, like all God’s gifts, exist for you.
Knox Translation Copyright © 2013 Westminster Diocese
Nihil Obstat. Father Anton Cowan, Censor.
Imprimatur. +Most Rev. Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster. 8th January 2012.
Re-typeset and published in 2012 by Baronius Press Ltd
