1 Corinthians · Church Slavonic Bible (Elizabeth Bible)
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- Church Slavonic in its traditional (Synodal) spelling, with accents, breathings and titlo abbreviations, shown in the Ponomar font (SIL Open Font License).
- Exodus 36–39 follow the Septuagint's order; the digital source has no verse divisions there, so Exodus 36:8–end and chapters 37, 38 and 39 each appear as one block.
- Not shown: the lectionary pericope numbers (зача́ло) and the marginal glosses of the digital source. The Prayer of Manasseh stands at the end of 2 Chronicles (36:24), as in the Slavonic Bible; the prologue of Sirach and the opening verse of Lamentations are joined to verse 1.
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1 Нѣ́смь ли а҆пⷭ҇лъ; Нѣ́смь ли свобо́дь; Не і҆и҃са хрⷭ҇та́ ли гдⷭ҇а на́шего ви́дѣхъ; Не дѣ́ло ли моѐ вы̀ є҆стѐ ѡ҆ гдⷭ҇ѣ;
1 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord?
2 А҆́ще и҆ны̑мъ (и҆) нѣ́смь а҆пⷭ҇лъ, но ѻ҆ба́че ва́мъ є҆́смь: печа́ть бо моегѡ̀ а҆пⷭ҇льства вы̀ є҆стѐ ѡ҆ гдⷭ҇ѣ.
2 If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
3 Мо́й ѿвѣ́тъ востѧзꙋ́ющымъ менѐ се́й є҆́сть.
3 My defense to those who examine me is this:
4 Є҆да̀ не и҆́мамы вла́сти ꙗ҆́сти и҆ пи́ти;
4 Have we no right to eat and to drink?
5 Є҆да̀ не и҆́мамы вла́сти сестрꙋ̀ женꙋ̀ води́ти, ꙗ҆́кѡ и҆ про́чїи а҆пⷭ҇ли, и҆ бра́тїѧ гдⷭ҇нѧ, и҆ ки́фа;
5 Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
6 И҆лѝ є҆ди́нъ а҆́зъ и҆ варна́ва не и҆́мамы вла́сти є҆́же не дѣ́лати;
6 Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?
7 Кто̀ во́инствꙋетъ свои́ми ѡ҆брѡ́ки когда̀; И҆лѝ кто̀ насажда́етъ вїногра́дъ, и҆ ѿ плода̀ є҆гѡ̀ не ꙗ҆́стъ; И҆лѝ кто̀ пасе́тъ ста́до, и҆ ѿ млека̀ ста́да не ꙗ҆́стъ;
7 What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn’t eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn’t drink from the flock’s milk?
8 Є҆да̀ по человѣ́кꙋ сїѧ̑ глаго́лю; Не и҆ зако́нъ ли сїѧ̑ глаго́летъ;
8 Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn’t the law also say the same thing?
9 Въ мѡѷсе́овѣ бо зако́нѣ пи́сано: да не загради́ши ᲂу҆стнꙋ̀ вола̀ молотѧ́ща. Є҆да̀ ѡ҆ волѣ́хъ ради́тъ бг҃ъ;
9 For it is written in the law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.” Is it for the oxen that God cares,
10 И҆лѝ на́съ ра́ди всѧ́кѡ глаго́летъ; На́съ бо ра́ди написа́сѧ, ꙗ҆́кѡ ѡ҆ наде́жди до́лженъ є҆́сть ѡ҆рѧ́й ѡ҆ра́ти, и҆ молотѧ́й съ наде́ждею своегѡ̀ ᲂу҆пова́нїѧ причаща́тисѧ.
10 or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.
11 А҆́ще мы̀ дꙋхѡ́внаѧ сѣ́ѧхомъ ва́мъ, вели́ко ли, а҆́ще мы̀ ва̑ша тѣлє́снаѧ по́жнемъ;
11 If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?
12 А҆́ще и҆ні́и вла́сти ва́шеѧ причаща́ютсѧ, не па́че ли мы̀; Но не сотвори́хомъ по ѡ҆́бласти се́й: но всѧ̑ терпи́мъ, да не прекраще́нїе ко́е да́мы бл҃говѣствова́нїю хрⷭ҇то́вꙋ.
12 If others partake of this right over you, don’t we yet more? Nevertheless we didn’t use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.
13 Не вѣ́сте ли, ꙗ҆́кѡ дѣ́лающїи сщ҃є́ннаѧ ѿ свѧти́лища ꙗ҆дѧ́тъ; (и҆) слꙋжа́щїи ѻ҆лтарю̀ со ѻ҆лтаре́мъ дѣ́лѧтсѧ;
13 Don’t you know that those who serve around sacred things eat from the things of the temple, and those who wait on the altar have their portion with the altar?
14 Та́кѡ и҆ гдⷭ҇ь повелѣ̀ проповѣ́дающымъ бл҃говѣ́стїе ѿ бл҃говѣ́стїѧ жи́ти.
14 Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.
15 А҆́зъ же ни є҆ди́но сотвори́хъ ѿ си́хъ. Не писа́хъ же сїѧ̑, да та́кѡ бꙋ́детъ ѡ҆ мнѣ̀: до́брѣе бо мнѣ̀ па́че ᲂу҆мре́ти, не́жели похвалꙋ̀ мою̀ кто̀ да и҆спраздни́тъ.
15 But I have used none of these things, and I don’t write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.
16 А҆́ще бо благовѣствꙋ́ю, нѣ́сть мѝ похвалы̀, нꙋ́жда бо мѝ належи́тъ: го́ре же мнѣ̀ є҆́сть, а҆́ще не благовѣствꙋ́ю.
16 For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about, for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me if I don’t preach the Good News.
17 А҆́ще ᲂу҆́бѡ во́лею сїѐ творю̀, мздꙋ̀ и҆́мамъ: а҆́ще же нево́лею, строе́нїе мѝ є҆́сть пре́дано.
17 For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.
18 Ка́ѧ ᲂу҆̀бо мѝ є҆́сть мзда̀; Да благовѣствꙋ́ѧй без̾ мзды̀ положꙋ̀ бл҃говѣ́стїе хрⷭ҇то́во, во є҆́же не твори́ти мѝ по ѡ҆́бласти мое́й въ бл҃говѣствова́нїи.
18 What then is my reward? That when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.
19 Свобо́денъ бо сы́й ѿ всѣ́хъ, всѣ̑мъ себѐ порабо́тихъ, да мно́жайшыѧ приѡбрѧ́щꙋ:
19 For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
20 бы́хъ і҆ꙋде́ємъ ꙗ҆́кѡ і҆ꙋде́й, да і҆ꙋдє́и приѡбрѧ́щꙋ: подзакѡ́ннымъ ꙗ҆́кѡ подзако́ненъ, да подзакѡ́нныѧ приѡбрѧ́щꙋ:
20 To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;
21 беззакѡ́ннымъ ꙗ҆́кѡ беззако́ненъ, не сы́й беззако́нникъ бг҃ꙋ, но зако́нникъ хрⷭ҇тꙋ̀, да приѡбрѧ́щꙋ беззакѡ́нныѧ.
21 to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law.
22 Бы́хъ немощны́мъ ꙗ҆́кѡ не́мощенъ, да немощны́ѧ приѡбрѧ́щꙋ. Всѣ̑мъ бы́хъ всѧ̑, да всѧ́кѡ нѣ̑кїѧ спасꙋ̀.
22 To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.
23 Сїе́ же творю̀ за бл҃говѣ́стїе, да соѻ́бщникъ є҆мꙋ̀ бꙋ́дꙋ.
23 Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.
24 Не вѣ́сте ли, ꙗ҆́кѡ текꙋ́щїи въ позо́рищи всѝ ᲂу҆́бѡ текꙋ́тъ, є҆ди́нъ же прїе́млетъ по́честь; Та́кѡ тецы́те, да пости́гнете.
24 Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, so that you may win.
25 Всѧ́къ же подвиза́ѧйсѧ ѿ всѣ́хъ воздержи́тсѧ: и҆ ѻ҆нѝ ᲂу҆́бѡ да и҆стлѣ́ненъ вѣне́цъ прїи́мꙋтъ, мы́ же неистлѣ́ненъ.
25 Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
26 А҆́зъ ᲂу҆́бѡ та́кѡ текꙋ̀, не ꙗ҆́кѡ безвѣ́стнѡ, та́кѡ подвиза́юсѧ, не ꙗ҆́кѡ воздꙋ́хъ бїѧ́й:
26 I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air,
27 но ᲂу҆мерщвлѧ́ю тѣ́ло моѐ и҆ порабоща́ю, да не ка́кѡ, и҆ны̑мъ проповѣ́дꙋѧ, са́мъ неключи́мь бꙋ́дꙋ.
27 but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.
Cross references (27)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Acts 9:17; Acts 9:3; 1 Timothy 2:7; Acts 23:11; 1 Corinthians 9:19
- 2 2 Corinthians 12:12; 2 Corinthians 3:1–3; John 6:27
- 3 Acts 25:16; 2 Timothy 4:16; Philippians 1:7; Acts 22:1; Philippians 1:17
- 4 1 Thessalonians 2:6; 2 Thessalonians 3:8–9; Luke 10:7; 1 Thessalonians 2:9; Matthew 10:10
- 5 John 1:42; Matthew 8:14; 1 Corinthians 7:39; 1 Corinthians 7:7; Galatians 1:19
- 6 2 Thessalonians 3:7–9; Acts 13:1–2; Acts 18:3; Acts 4:36; 1 Thessalonians 2:9
- 7 Proverbs 27:18; Deuteronomy 20:6; 2 Timothy 2:3–4; 1 Corinthians 3:6–8; 1 Timothy 1:18
- 8 Romans 6:19; Isaiah 8:20; 1 Corinthians 14:34; Romans 3:31; 1 Corinthians 7:40
- 9 Deuteronomy 25:4; 1 Timothy 5:18; Psalm 104:27; Psalm 145:15–16; Jonah 4:11
- 10 Romans 15:4; 2 Timothy 2:6; Romans 4:23–24; 2 Corinthians 4:15; 1 Corinthians 3:9
- 11 Romans 15:27; Galatians 6:6; Matthew 10:10; 2 Corinthians 11:15; Malachi 3:8–9
- 12 2 Corinthians 11:12; 1 Corinthians 9:15; 1 Corinthians 9:18; 2 Corinthians 11:7–10; 1 Thessalonians 2:6–9
- 13 Numbers 5:9–10; Leviticus 6:26; Numbers 18:8–20; 1 Samuel 2:28; 1 Corinthians 10:18
- 14 Matthew 10:10; 1 Timothy 5:17–18; 1 Corinthians 9:4; Galatians 6:6; Luke 10:7
- 15 1 Thessalonians 2:9; 2 Thessalonians 3:8; 1 Corinthians 9:12; 2 Corinthians 11:9–12; Acts 20:34
- 16 Romans 1:14; Jeremiah 20:9; Colossians 4:17; Luke 9:62; Acts 4:20
- 17 Galatians 2:7; 1 Corinthians 3:8; Colossians 1:25; 1 Chronicles 28:9; Matthew 10:41
- 18 2 Corinthians 11:7–9; 2 Thessalonians 3:8–9; 1 Corinthians 10:33; 1 Corinthians 8:9; 1 Thessalonians 2:6
- 19 Galatians 5:13; Matthew 18:15; 1 Corinthians 10:33; James 5:19–20; Matthew 20:26–28
- 20 Acts 16:3; Galatians 5:18; Acts 21:20–26; Acts 17:2–3; Acts 18:18
- 21 Romans 2:12; Galatians 3:2; Romans 2:14; Matthew 5:17–20; 1 Corinthians 7:19–22
- 22 1 Corinthians 10:33; Romans 15:1; 1 Corinthians 9:19; Romans 11:14; Galatians 6:1
- 23 2 Timothy 2:10; 1 Corinthians 9:25–27; Mark 8:35; 1 John 1:3; Galatians 2:5
- 24 Philippians 3:14; Hebrews 12:1; 2 Timothy 4:7–8; Revelation 3:11; Philippians 2:16
- 25 2 Timothy 2:5; Revelation 2:10; 1 Timothy 6:12; 2 Timothy 4:7–8; James 1:12
- 26 2 Timothy 2:5; 2 Peter 1:10; Philippians 1:21; Colossians 1:29; 2 Timothy 1:12
- 27 Romans 8:13; 1 Corinthians 9:25; Colossians 3:5; 2 Corinthians 13:5–6; 1 Peter 2:11
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Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
Inasmuch as he had said, "If meat make my brother to stumble I will eat no flesh forever;" a thing which he had not yet done, but professed he would do if need require: lest any man should say, "Thou vauntest thyself at random, and art severe in discourse, and utterest words of promise, a thing easy to me or …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 12 (1889)
But I so run, not as uncertainty; I fight, not as one beating the air; but I make my body livid, and bring it into subjection, lest by any means, when preaching to others, I may myself be rendered a castaway." This able wrestler, therefore, exhorts us to the struggle for immortality, that we may be crowned, and may deem …
But now is necessity sweet unto me, and against this sweetness do I fight, lest I be enthralled; and I carry on a daily war by fasting, oftentimes "bringing my body into subjection," and my pains are expelled by pleasure.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
… said, "Go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice." Thus doth Paul also: when he had first established his reasoning by illustrations from common things, and had said, "Who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk thereof?" then he brings in the Scriptures also, saying, "It is written in the law of …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
… candle on a candlestick, when he says, "So fight I, not as one that beateth the air; but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection, lest that by any means, when I preach to others, I myself should be found a castaway." When He says, however, "that it may give light to all who are in the …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)