¹When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.

¹Daymi ay atmaten mi n-ṛuḥeɣ ɣuṛ wen iwakken a wen mmeslayeɣ ɣef lbaḍna n Sidi Ṛebbi, ur a wen mmeslayeɣ ara s yimeslayen yeččuṛen d zzux neɣ s tmusni yessewhamen.

²For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

²Axaṭer ur nudaɣ ara a d mmeslayeɣ gar-awen ɣef wayen nniḍen anagar ɣef Ɛisa Lmasiḥ ; Ɛisa Lmasiḥ i gețwaṣemmṛen ɣef wumidag.

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

³Ula d nekk asmi lliɣ ɣuṛ-wen, lliɣ fecleɣ, kukraɣ yerna tekcem-iyi tugdi.

⁴My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

⁴Ayen i wen-slemdeɣ d wayen i wen-beccṛeɣ ur yebni ara ɣef tmusni n wemdan, lameɛna d ayen yebnan ɣef tezmert n Ṛṛuḥ iqedsen.

⁵that your faith wouldn’t stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

⁵Akka, liman-nwen ur yețrus ara ɣef tmusni n yemdanen, meɛna ɣef tezmert n Sidi Ṛebbi.

⁶We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown; yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing.

⁶Nesselmad tamusni-agi i wid yesɛan liman iǧehden ; tamusni-agi, mačči ț-țamusni n ddunit-agi neɣ ț-țin n tezmar n igelliden n ddunit-agi iteddun ɣer nnger.

⁷But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,

⁷Nețbecciṛ tamusni n Sidi Ṛebbi yellan d lbaḍna yeffren ɣef yemdanen, i ghegga si zik i lɛezz-nneɣ.

⁸which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn’t have crucified the Lord of glory.

⁸Ula d yiwen deg igelliden n zzman-agi ur ț-yessin, lemmer ssnen-ț tili ur semmṛen ara Bab n tmanegt ɣef wumidag.

⁹But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.” Isaiah 64:4

⁹Am akken i t-id-nnant tira iqedsen : Ayen ur twala tiṭ, ayen ur yesli umeẓẓuɣ+ , ayen ɣef ur ixemmem ara wemdan,+ d ayen i ghegga Sidi Ṛebbi i wid i t-iḥemmlen+ .

¹⁰But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.

¹⁰Sidi Ṛebbi ibeggen-aɣ-t-id i nukni s Ṛṛuḥ iqedsen. Axaṭer Ṛṛuḥ iqedsen yezmer ad iẓer ulamma d lecɣal yeffren n Sidi Ṛebbi.

¹¹For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God, except God’s Spirit.

¹¹Anwa i geẓran ayen yellan deg wul n wemdan ? Anagar ṛṛuḥ-ines i geẓran ayen yellan deg wul-is. Yiwen ur yessin daɣen ixemmimen n Ṛebbi anagar Ṛṛuḥ n Sidi Ṛebbi.

¹²But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.

¹²Nukni mačči d ṛṛuḥ n ddunit i neqbel, meɛna d Ṛṛuḥ i d-yekkan s ɣuṛ Sidi Ṛebbi, iwakken a nissin ayen akk i ɣ-d-yefka s ṛṛeḥma-ines.

¹³Which things also we speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

¹³Nukni ur nețmeslay ara s yimeslayen i tesselmad tmusni n wemdan, meɛna nețmeslay s yimeslayen i ɣ-isselmad Ṛṛuḥ n Sidi Ṛebbi. Akka i nessefham tideț n Ṛṛuḥ iqedsen i wid yesɛan Ṛṛuḥ-agi.

¹⁴Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

¹⁴Amdan ițeddun s lɛeqliya n ddunit ur iqebbel ara ayen i d-ițțasen s ɣuṛ Ṛṛuḥ n Sidi Ṛebbi imi ɣuṛ-es ayagi d lehbala ; ur yezmir ara a t-yissin axaṭer s Ṛṛuḥ n Sidi Ṛebbi i nezmer a t-nefhem.

¹⁵But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.

¹⁵Amdan yesɛan Ṛṛuḥ iqedsen n Sidi Ṛebbi yezmer ad ifhem kullec, ma d nețța, yiwen ur izmir a t-iḥaseb.

¹⁶“For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?” Isaiah 40:13 But we have Christ’s mind.

¹⁶Akken yura di tira iqedsen : Anwa i gessnen ixemmimen n+ Sidi Ṛebbi,+ anwa i gzemren a t-yenhu + ? Ma d nukni, nesɛa axemmem n Lmasiḥ.