chapter four

¹so then shall us (every) man consider, as servants of the Moshiach and as stewards of the mysteries of Hashem.

²here moreover it is required with stewards, that every one shall found to be faithful.

³for me however is it a small thing judged to become by you (PL), or by a human day (of judgment); even alone judge I myself also not.

⁴because I know nothing against me alone; but with the this am I (yet) not justify; it you (PL) however the L-rd, who does me judge.

⁵therefore shall you (PL) nothing judge before the future time, until the L-rd will come, who also lights up the hidden things of the darkness and reveals the desires of the hearts; and then will every one receive his praise from Hashem.

⁶and this, brothers, did I apply to me alone and to Apollos of for your sake; so that you (PL) shall in us learn (what it means): not outside of that, which it stands written! so that anyone shall self not inflate as the one against the other.

⁷because who makes you exceptional? and what (such) have you, which you (SG) have not received? if however you (SG) have (it now indeed) received, why do you boast yourselves, as you (SG) would it not received have?

⁸even now, you (PL) are already filled become, you (PL) are already rich become, you (PL) reign already—without us; and I wish would you (PL) did reign, so that we should reign along with you (PL).

⁹because it seems to us out, that Hashem has us, the Shlichim, brought out as (the very) last, as sentenced to the death; because we have become a spectacle before the world and before angels and before men.

¹⁰we (are) the fools because of Moshiach, you (PL) however (are) wise ones in the Moshiach; we—weak ones, you (PL) however—warriors; you (PL) have honor, we however (become) scorned.

¹¹until to the present hour hunger we and thirst, and are naked, and are beaten and have not any home;

¹²and labor, working with (our) own hands; cursed they us, bless we, being us persecuted, hold we out;

¹³insulted are we, speak we sweet words; like the garbage of the world did we become, everyone's rubbish until now.

¹⁴not you (PL) to shame write I this, but, like beloved children of mine, you (PL) to say warning.

¹⁵because when even you (PL) would have had ten thousand guides in the Moshiach, have you (PL) however not had any many fathers; because in the Moshiach Yehoshua have I you (PL) fathered through the News Good.

¹⁶therefore ask I you (PL), be my imitators.

¹⁷Thus on account of that have I sent to you (PL) Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful child in the L-rd, who will you (PL) remind my ways in the Moshiach Yehoshua, as how I teach everywhere in every kehile.

¹⁸some have themselves conceited, like as I would not come to you (PL).

¹⁹I will however soon come to you (PL), if wills Hashem, and will find out, not the words of the inflated, but the might their.

²⁰because the kingdom of Hashem is not in word, but in might.

²¹what wish you (PL)? shall I come to you (PL) with a rod, or with love and with the spirit of humility?