1. उन बातों के विषय में जो तुम ने लिखीं, यह अच्छा है, कि पुरूष स्त्री को न छुए।

1. NOW AS to the matters of which you wrote me. It is well [and by that I mean advantageous, expedient, profitable, and wholesome] for a man not to touch a woman [to cohabit with her] but to remain unmarried.

2. परन्तु व्यभिचार के डर से हर एक पुरूष की पत्नी, और हर एक सत्री का पति हो।

2. But because of the temptation to impurity and to avoid immorality, let each [man] have his own wife and let each [woman] have her own husband.

3. पति अपनी पत्नी का हक्क पूरा करे; और वैसे ही पत्नी भी अपने पति का।

3. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights (goodwill, kindness, and what is due her as his wife), and likewise the wife to her husband.

4. पत्नी को अपनी देह पर अधिकार नहीं पर उसके पति का अधिकार है; वैसे ही पति को भी अपनी देह पर अधिकार नहीं, परन्तु पत्नी को।

4. For the wife does not have [exclusive] authority and control over her own body, but the husband [has his rights]; likewise also the husband does not have [exclusive] authority and control over his body, but the wife [has her rights].

5. तुम एक दूसरे से अलग न रहो; परन्तु केवल कुछ समय तक आपस की सम्मति से कि प्रार्थना के लिये अवकाश मिले, और फिर एक साथ रहो, ऐसा न हो, कि तुम्हारे असंयम के कारण शैतान तुम्हें परखे।

5. Do not refuse and deprive and defraud each other [of your due marital rights], except perhaps by mutual consent for a time, so that you may devote yourselves unhindered to prayer. But afterwards resume marital relations, lest Satan tempt you [to sin] through your lack of restraint of sexual desire. [Exod. 19:15.]

6. परन्तु मैं जो यह कहता हूं वह अनुमति है न कि आज्ञा।

6. But I am saying this more as a matter of permission and concession, not as a command or regulation.

7. मैं यह चाहता हूं, कि जैसा मैं हूं, वैसा ही सब मनुष्य हों; परन्तु हर एक को परमेश्वर की ओर से विशेष विशेष बरदान मिले हैं; किसी को किसी प्रकार का, और किसी को किसी और प्रकार का।।

7. I wish that all men were like I myself am [in this matter of self-control]. But each has his own special gift from God, one of this kind and one of another.

8. परन्तु मैं अविवाहितों और विधवाओं के विषय में कहता हूं, कि उन के लिये ऐसा ही रहना अच्छा है, जैसा मैं हूं।

8. But to the unmarried people and to the widows, I declare that it is well (good, advantageous, expedient, and wholesome) for them to remain [single] even as I do.

9. परन्तु यदि वे संयम न कर सकें, तो विवाह करें; क्योंकि विवाह करना कामतुर रहने से भला है।

9. But if they have not self-control (restraint of their passions), they should marry. For it is better to marry than to be aflame [with passion and tortured continually with ungratified desire].

10. जिन का ब्याह हो गया है, उन को मैं नहीं, बरन प्रभु आज्ञा देता है, कि पत्नी अपने पति से अलग न हो।

10. But to the married people I give charge--not I but the Lord--that the wife is not to separate from her husband.

11. (और यदि अलग भी हो जाए, तो बिन दूसरा ब्याह किए रहे; या अपने पति से फिर मेल कर ले) और न पति अपनी पत्नी को छोड़े।

11. But if she does [separate from and divorce him], let her remain single or else be reconciled to her husband. And [I charge] the husband [also] that he should not put away or divorce his wife.

12. दूसरें से प्रभु नहीं, परन्तु मैं ही कहता हूं, यदि किसी भाई की पत्नी विश्वास न रखती हो, और उसके साथ रहते से प्रसन्न हो, तो वह उसे न छोड़े।

12. To the rest I declare--I, not the Lord [for Jesus did not discuss this]--that if any brother has a wife who does not believe [in Christ] and she consents to live with him, he should not leave or divorce her.

13. और जिस स्त्री का पति विश्वास न रखता हो, और उसके साथ रहने से प्रसन्न हो; वह पति को न छोड़े।

13. And if any woman has an unbelieving husband and he consents to live with her, she should not leave or divorce him.

14. क्योंकि ऐसा पति जो विश्वास न रखता हो, वह पत्नी के कारण पवित्रा ठहरता है, और ऐसी पत्नी जो विश्वास नहीं रखती, पति के कारण पवित्रा ठहरती है; नहीं तो तुम्हारे लड़केबालें अशुद्ध होते, परन्तु अब तो पवित्रा हैं।

14. For the unbelieving husband is set apart (separated, withdrawn from heathen contamination, and affiliated with the Christian people) by union with his consecrated (set-apart) wife, and the unbelieving wife is set apart and separated through union with her consecrated husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean (unblessed heathen, outside the Christian covenant), but as it is they are prepared for God [pure and clean].

15. परन्तु जो पुरूष विश्वास नहीं रखता, यदि वह अलग हो, तो अलग होने दो, ऐसी दशा में कोई भाई या बहिन बन्धन में नहीं; परन्तु परमेश्वर ने तो हमें मेल मिलाप के लिये बुलाया है।

15. But if the unbelieving partner [actually] leaves, let him do so; in such [cases the remaining] brother or sister is not morally bound. But God has called us to peace.

16. क्योंकि हे स्त्री, तू क्या जानती है, कि तुम अपने पति का उद्धार करा ले? और हे पुरूष, तू क्या जानता है कि तू अपनी पत्नी का उद्धार करा ले?

16. For, wife, how can you be sure of converting and saving your husband? Husband, how can you be sure of converting and saving your wife?

17. पर जैसा प्रभु ने हर एक को बांटा है, और परमेश्वर ने हर एक को बुलाया है; वैसा ही वह चले: और मैं सब कलीसियाओं में ऐसा ही ठहराताह हूं।

17. Only, let each one [seek to conduct himself and regulate his affairs so as to] lead the life which the Lord has allotted and imparted to him and to which God has invited and summoned him. This is my order in all the churches.

18. जो खतना किया हुअ बुलाया गया हो, वह खतनारहित न बने: जो खतनारहित बुलाया गया हो, वह खतना न कराए।

18. Was anyone at the time of his summons [from God] already circumcised? Let him not seek to remove the evidence of circumcision. Was anyone at the time [God] called him uncircumcised? Let him not be circumcised.

19. न खतना कुछ है, और न खतनारहित परन्तु परमेश्वर की आज्ञाओं को मानना ही सब कुछ है।

19. For circumcision is nothing and counts for nothing, neither does uncircumcision, but [what counts is] keeping the commandments of God.

20. हर एक जन जिस दशा में बुलाया गया हो, उसी में रहे।

20. Everyone should remain after God calls him in the station or condition of life in which the summons found him.

21. यदि तू दास की दशा में बुलाया गया हो तो चिन्ता न कर; परन्तु यदि तू स्वतंत्रा हो सके, तो ऐसा ही काम कर।

21. Were you a slave when you were called? Do not let that trouble you. But if you are able to gain your freedom, avail yourself of the opportunity.

22. क्योंकि जो दास की दशा में प्रभु में बुलाया गया है, वह प्रभु का स्वतंत्रा किया हुआ है: और वैसे ही जो स्वतंत्राता की दशा में बुलाया गया है, वह मसीह का दास है।

22. For he who as a slave was summoned in [to union with] the Lord is a freedman of the Lord, just so he who was free when he was called is a bond servant of Christ (the Messiah).

23. तुम दाम देकर मोल लिये गए हो, मनुष्यों के दास न बनो।

23. You were bought with a price [purchased with a preciousness and paid for by Christ]; then do not yield yourselves up to become [in your own estimation] slaves to men [but consider yourselves slaves to Christ].

24. हे भाइयो, जो कोई जिस दशा में बुलाया गया हो, वह उसी में परमेश्वर के साथ रहे।।

24. So, brethren, in whatever station or state or condition of life each one was when he was called, there let him continue with and close to God.

25. कुंवारियों के विषय में प्रभु की कोई आज्ञा मुझे नहीं मिली, परन्तु विश्वासयोग्य होने के लिये जैसी दया प्रभु ने मुझ पर की है, उसी के अनुसार सम्मति देता हूं।

25. Now concerning the virgins (the marriageable maidens) I have no command of the Lord, but I give my opinion and advice as one who by the Lord's mercy is rendered trustworthy and faithful.

26. सो मेरी समझ में यह अच्छा है, कि आजकल क्लेश के कारण मनुष्य जैसा है, वैसा ही रहे।

26. I think then, because of the impending distress [that is even now setting in], it is well (expedient, profitable, and wholesome) for a person to remain as he or she is.

27. यदि तेरे पत्नी है, तो उस से अलग होने का यत्न न कर: और यदि तेरे पत्नी नहीं, तो पत्नी की खोज न कर:

27. Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

28. परन्तु यदि तू ब्याह भी करे, तो पाप नहीं; और यदि कुंवारी ब्याही जाए तो कोई पाप नहीं; परन्तु ऐसों को शारीरिक दुख होगा, और मैं बचाना चाहता हूं।

28. But if you do marry, you do not sin [in doing so], and if a virgin marries, she does not sin [in doing so]. Yet those who marry will have physical and earthly troubles, and I would like to spare you that.

29. हे भाइयो, मैं यह कहता हूं, कि समय कम किया गया है, इसलिये चाहिए कि जिन के पत्नी हों, वे ऐसे हों मानो उन के पत्नी नहीं।

29. I mean, brethren, the appointed time has been winding down and it has grown very short. From now on, let even those who have wives be as if they had none,

30. और रोनेवाले ऐसे हों, मानो रोते नहीं; और आनन्द करनेवाले ऐसे हों, मानो आनन्द नहीं करते; और मोल लेनेवाले एसे हों, कि मानो उन के पास कुछ है नहीं।

30. And those who weep and mourn as though they were not weeping and mourning, and those who rejoice as though they were not rejoicing, and those who buy as though they did not possess anything,

31. और इस संसार के बरतनेवाले ऐसे हों, कि संसार ही के न हो लें; क्योंकि इस संसार की रीति और व्यवहार बदलते जाते हैं।

31. And those who deal with this world [overusing the enjoyments of this life] as though they were not absorbed by it and as if they had no dealings with it. For the outward form of this world (the present world order) is passing away.

32. सो मैं यह चाहता हूं, कि तुम्हें चिन्ता न हो: अविवाहित पुरूष प्रभु की बातों की चिन्ता में रहता है, कि प्रभु को क्योंकर प्रसन्न रखे।

32. My desire is to have you free from all anxiety and distressing care. The unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord--how he may please the Lord;

33. परन्तु विवाहित मनुष्य संसार की बातों की चिन्ता में रहता है, कि अपनी पत्नी को किस रीति से प्रसन्न रखे।

33. But the married man is anxious about worldly matters--how he may please his wife--

34. विवाहिता और अविवाहिता में भी भेद है: अविवाहिता प्रभु की चिन्ता में रहती है, कि वह देह और आत्मा दोनों में पवित्रा हो, परन्तु विवाहिता संसार की चिन्ता में रहती है, कि अपने पति को प्रसन्न रखे।

34. And he is drawn in diverging directions [his interests are divided and he is distracted from his devotion to God]. And the unmarried woman or girl is concerned and anxious about the matters of the Lord, how to be wholly separated and set apart in body and spirit; but the married woman has her cares [centered] in earthly affairs--how she may please her husband.

35. यह बात तुम्हारे ही लाभ के लिये कहता हूं, न कि तुम्हें फंसाने के लिये, बरन इसलिये कि जैसा सोहता है, वैसा ही किया जाए; कि तुम एक चित्त होकर प्रभु की सेवा में लगे रहो।

35. Now I say this for your own welfare and profit, not to put [a halter of] restraint upon you, but to promote what is seemly and in good order and to secure your undistracted and undivided devotion to the Lord.

36. और यदि कोई यह समझे, कि मैं अपनी उस कुंवारी का हक्क मान रहा हूं, जिस की जवानी ढल चली है, और प्रयोजन भी होए, तो जैसा चाहे, वैसा करे, इस में पाप नहीं, वह उसका ब्याह होने दे।

36. But if any man thinks that he is not acting properly toward and in regard to his virgin [that he is preparing disgrace for her or incurring reproach], in case she is passing the bloom of her youth and if there is need for it, let him do what to him seems right; he does not sin; let them marry.

37. परन्तु जो मन में दृढ़ रहता है, और उस को प्रयोजन न हो, बरन अपनी इच्छा पूरी करने में अधिकार रखता हो, और अपने मन में यह बात ठान ली हो, कि मैं अपनी कुंवारी लड़की को बिन ब्याही रखूंगा, वह अच्छा करता है।

37. But whoever is firmly established in his heart [strong in mind and purpose], not being forced by necessity but having control over his own will and desire, and has resolved this in his heart to keep his own virginity, he is doing well.

38. सो जो अपनी कुंवारी का ब्याह कर देता है, वह अच्छा करता है और जो ब्याह नहीं कर देता, वह और भी अच्छा करता है।

38. So also then, he [the father] who gives his virgin (his daughter) in marriage does well, and he [the father] who does not give [her] in marriage does better.

39. जब तक किसी स्त्री का पति जीवित रहता है, तब तक वह उस से बन्धी हुई है, परन्तु जब उसका पति मर जाए, तो जिस से चाहे विवाह कर सकती है, परन्तु केवल प्रभु में।

39. A wife is bound to her husband by law as long as he lives. If the husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she will, only [provided that he too is] in the Lord.

40. परनतु जेसी है यदि वैसी ही रहे, तो मेरे विचार में और भी धन्य है, और मैं समझता हूं, कि परमेश्वर का आत्मा मुझ में भी है।।

40. But in my opinion [a widow] is happier (more blessed and to be envied) if she does not remarry. And also I think I have the Spirit of God.