OrthJBC - I Corinthians - 1

1:1  From Sha'ul given the keri'ah (calling) of Hashem and summoned to be a shliach of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach b'ratzon Hashem and from Sosthenes (Acts 18:17) the Ach b'Moshiach

1:2  to the Kehillah (congregation) of Hashem existing in Corinth, to the ones having been set apart unto kedusha in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, given the keri'ah to be kedoshim, with all the ones who in every place call on the name of Adoneinu, theirs and ours, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua.

1:3  Chen v'Chesed Hashem and shalom from Elohim Avinu and Adoneinu Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua. MODEH ANI THAT THE GEVURAH (POWER) OF OTOT U'MOFTIM (SIGNS AND WONDERS) AND MATANOT HARUACH HAKODESH ARE EVIDENCE CONFIRMING OUR EDUT AT CORINTH ABOUT THE REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH

1:4  Modeh Ani (I give thanks) to my G-d always concerning you for the Chen v'Chesed Hashem having been given to you in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua

1:5  that in everything you were enriched in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach in kol lashon (all speaking) and kol da'as (all da'as),

1:6  even as the edut (testimony) of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was confirmed in you,

1:7  so that you are not fardoost (lacking) in any matnat Elohim, awaiting the revelation of Adoneinu Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua,

1:8  who also with chizzuk will confirm you to AD ET KETZ ("until the time of the End" DANIEL 11:35), unreprovable in the Yom Hashem, the Yom Adoneinu, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua. [Amos 5:18]

1:9  Ne'eman (faithful) is Hashem through whom you were called into the chavurah (company, fellowship, society) of His Ben haElohim Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua Adoneinu. A DVAR HACHIZZUK REGARDING IKKARIM (BASIC PRINCIPLES); MACHALOKOT IN THE KEHILLAH

1:10  Now I exhort you, Achim b'Moshiach, b'Shem Adoneinu Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua, that you all speak the same thing and that there not be among you machalokot (divisions of dissension--11:18), but, you may have achdus (unity) in the same way of thinking, the same ikkarim (basic principles) and in the same tachlis (raison d'etre).

1:11  For it was made clear to me about you, Achim b'Moshiach of mine, by the ones of Chloe that there is merivah (strife) among you.

1:12  Now I say this, because each of you says, "I am of Sha'ul," or, "I am of Apollos," or "I am of Kefa," or "I of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach!"

1:13  Has Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach been divided? Surely Sha'ul was not for your korban m'cholal (sacrifice being pierced) and hanged on the Aitz haKelalat Hashem (Tree of the Curse of G-d--Devarim 21:23)? Surely it was not in the name of Sha'ul that the Moshiach's tevilah in the mikveh mayim was given to you?

1:14  Modeh Ani Hashem that to not one of you I did the Moshiach's tevilah except Crispus and Gaius (Rom.16:23),

1:15  lest anyone should say that in my name you given the Moshiach's tevilah.

1:16  Now I did the Moshiach's tevilah also to Stephanas' household; as to the rest, I do not have da'as if to any other I did. REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH: THE GEVURAT HASHEM (POWER OF G-D) AND THE CHOCHMAT HASHEM (THE CHOCHMAH OF G-D) WHO RESCUES FROM DIN (JUDGMENT) BY THE "SICHLUT" OF WHAT IS PROCLAIMED: REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH AND NIVLATO AL HAAITZ (HIS GUF (BODY) [BERESHIS 47:18; TEHILLIM 16:9-10; IYOV 19:25-27; YESHAYAH 53:11 ON THE TREE) DEVARIM 21:23; IN VIEW OF THE TURNING OF THE AGES, AND HASHEM'S TURNING EVERYTHING ON ITS HEAD IN THE DAWN OF THE OLAM HABAH, WHERE DOES THAT LEAVE THE TALMID CHACHAM OF OLAM HAZEH?

1:17  For Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach did not send me to administer Moshiach's tevilah in the mikveh mayim but to preach the Besuras HaGeulah, not by means of the lomdus (cleverness) of the rhetoric of Bnei Adam, lest HaGevurah of HaAitz haKelalat Hashem (Tree of the Curse of G-d--Devarim 21:23) of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach be buttel (cancelled out) 1:18,24;2:4,5;4:19,20; 5:4; 6:14; 12:10; 12:28;,29; 14:11; 15:24,43,56). REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH THE GEVURAT AND THE CHOCHMAH OF HASHEM

1:18  For the message of the Aitz haKelalat Hashem (Tree of the Curse of G-d--Devarim 21:23) is narrishkeit (foolishness) to the ones perishing. But to us being delivered in Yeshu'at Eloheinu, it is the gevurat Hashem (the power of G-d).

1:19  For it has been written, V'AVEDAH CHOCHMAT CHACHAMAV U'VINAT NEVONAV TISTATAR ("I will destroy the chochmah of the wise ones and the binah of the intelligent I will set aside" TEHILLIM 29:14). [Yeshayah 29:14]

1:20  Where is the chacham (wise man)? Where is the sofer (scribe) of the yeshiva, the Talmid Chacham? Where is the philosophical debater of Olam Hazeh? Did not Hashem make the so-called chochmah (wisdom) of Olam Hazeh to become sichlut (foolishness)? [Yeshayah 19:11,12; Iyov 12:17; Yeshayah 44:25; Yirmeyah 8:9]

1:21  For, als (since), and this was by the chochmah of Hashem, the Olam Hazeh did not by its chochmah have da'as Hashem, G-d was pleased through the "sichlut" (foolishness) of the Hachrazah (Proclamation, Kyrygma) to save the ma'aminim (believers).

1:22  Yehudim ask for otot (signs--SHEMOT 7:3) and Yevanim (Greeks) seek chochmah,

1:23  but, we proclaim Korban Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and hu m'cholal mipeyshaeinu and hanging on haAitz haKillat HaShem (the Tree of the Curse of G-d, Yehayah 53:5; Devarim 21:23) having been pierced on the Aitz haKelalat Hashem (Tree of the Curse of G-d--Devarim 21:23): to Jews, a michshol (YESHAYAH 8:14); to Goyim, sichlut (foolishness).

1:24  Yet, to those whom Hashem has given the keri'ah (1:1-2) and summoned, to haKeru'im (to the Called Ones), both to Yehudim and to Yevanim--Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, the Gevurat Hashem and the Chochmat Hashem.

1:25  For the so-called sichlut (foolishness) of Hashem has more chochmah than Bnei Adam, and the weakness of G-d has more chazakah (strength) than Bnei Adam (1:18). CORINTHIANS, SEE AND DISCERN THE TURNING OF THE AGES IN THE REBBE, MELECH HAMOSHIACH'S MAVET AND TECHIYAS HAMESIM: HASHEM CHOSE THE AM HA'ARETZ TO SHAME THOSE OF MISHPOCHAH ATZILAH (NOBLE BIRTH), HUMBLING WHAT IS EXALTED IN THE OLAM HAZEH IN ORDER TO EXALT IN THE DAWN OF THE OLAM HABAH WHAT IS HUMBLED

1:26  For you see your keri'ah (calling), Achim b'Moshiach, what you were, that not many of you were chachamim (wise ones), by the standards of Bnei Adam, not many ba'alei hashpa'ah (people of influence), not many ba'alei zchus (privileged).

1:27  But Hashem in His bechirah (selection) chose the things of sichlut (foolishness), that He might bring the chachamim to bushah (shame), and Hashem in His bechirah (selection) chose the things of weakness that He might bring the bnei chayil ("able" men) to bushah (shame).

1:28  And those without mishpochah atzilah (noble birth) of Olam Hazeh and the those which are nivzot (despised--YESHAYAH 53:3) Hashem chose, choosing the things that are not in order to bring to naught (nothing) the things that are.

1:29  His tachlis (purpose) is that no basar (fallen humanity sold under the power fo slavemaster Chet Kadmon, Original Sin, Rom.7:14) may boast before Hashem.

1:30  But you are of Hashem in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua--who became to us chochmah (wisdom) from Hashem, our Tzidkanut (Righteousness) and our Kedusha (Holiness) and our Geulah laOlam (Redemption to the world), [Yirmeyah 23:5,6; 33:16;]

1:31  al menat (in order that), as it has been written, KI YITHALLEL HAMITHALLEL B'HASHEM ("The one boasting let him boast in the L-rd" YIRMEYAH 9:23). [Yirmeyah 9:23,24; Tehillim 34:2; 44:8]