¹Zvino ini, hama, pandakauya kwamuri, handina kuuya neunyanzvi hwekutaura kana nenjere, ndichikuparidzirai uchapupu hwaMwari.

¹And I, having come unto you, brethren, came — not in superiority of discourse or wisdom — declaring to you the testimony of God,

²Nekuti ndakafunga kusaziva chinhu pakati penyu, kunze kwaJesu Kristu, naiye wakarovererwa pamuchinjikwa.

²for I decided not to know any thing among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified;

³Uye ndakanga ndinemwi muutera nemukutya nemukudedera kukuru.

³and I, in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling, was with you;

⁴Nekutaura kwangu nekuparidza kwangu hakuna kuva nemashoko ekukwezva euchenjeri hwevanhu asi mukuratidza kweMweya nekwesimba;

⁴and my word and my preaching was not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power —

⁵kuti rutendo rwenyu rwurege kuva munjere dzevanhu, asi musimba raMwari.

⁵that your faith may not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

⁶Asi njere tinodzitaura pakati pevakakwana, asi uchenjeri hwusati hwuri hwenyika ino, kana hwevatongi venyika ino, vanozoshaiswa maturo.

⁶And wisdom we speak among the perfect, and wisdom not of this age, nor of the rulers of this age — of those becoming useless,

⁷Asi tinotaura uchenjeri hwaMwari muchakavanzika, hwakavigwa, hwakagara hwagadzwa naMwari nyika isati yavapo hwuve kubwinya kwedu;

⁷but we speak the hidden wisdom of God in a secret, that God foreordained before the ages to our glory,

⁸ihwo hwusina kuzivikamwa neumwe wevatongi venyika ino; nekuti dai vakaziva, vangadai vasina kuroverera Ishe wekubwinya pamuchinjikwa.

⁸which no one of the rulers of this age did know, for if they had known, the Lord of the glory they would not have crucified;

⁹Asi sezvazvakanyorwa zvichinzi: Izvo ziso zvarisina kuona, nenzeve zvadzisina kunzwa, kana kupinda mumoyo wemunhu, Mwari zvaakavagadzirira vanomuda;

⁹but, according as it hath been written, `What eye did not see, and ear did not hear, and upon the heart of man came not up, what God did prepare for those loving Him —`

¹⁰Mwari wakazvizarurira kwatiri neMweya wake; nekuti Mweya unonzvera zvinhu zvose, kunyange zvinhu zvakadzika zvaMwari.

¹⁰but to us did God reveal [them] through His Spirit, for the Spirit all things doth search, even the depths of God,

¹¹Nekuti munhu ndeupi unoziva zvinhu zvemunhu, kunze kwemweya wemunhu uri maari? Saizvozvo hakuna munhu unoziva zvinhu zvaMwari, kunze kweMweya waMwari.

¹¹for who of men hath known the things of the man, except the spirit of the man that [is] in him? so also the things of God no one hath known, except the Spirit of God.

¹²Zvino isu hatina kugamuchira mweya wenyika, asi Mweya unobva kuna Mwari, kuti tizive zvinhu zvatakangopiwa pachena naMwari;

¹²And we the spirit of the world did not receive, but the Spirit that [is] of God, that we may know the things conferred by God on us,

¹³zvatinotaurawo, kwete mumashoko anodzidziswa nenjere dzevanhu, asi anodzidziswa neMweya Mutsvene; tichienzanisa zvinhu zveMweya neMweya.

¹³which things also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Holy Spirit, with spiritual things spiritual things comparing,

¹⁴Zvino munhu wechisikigo haagamuchiri zvinhu zveMweya waMwari; nekuti upenzi kwaari; uye haagoni kunzwisisa, nekuti zvinonzverwa neMweya.

¹⁴and the natural man doth not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for to him they are foolishness, and he is not able to know [them], because spiritually they are discerned;

¹⁵Asi weMweya unonzvera zvinhu zvose, asi iye amene haanzverwi nemunhu.

¹⁵and he who is spiritual, doth discern indeed all things, and he himself is by no one discerned;

¹⁶Nekuti ndiani wakaziva fungwa yaIshe, kuti amuraire? Asi isu tine fungwa yaKristu.

¹⁶for who did know the mind of the Lord that he shall instruct Him? and we — we have the mind of Christ.