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

¹Huan, unaute aw, kei jaw Pathian thuguk nou honhilh dinga na kiang ua ka hong laiin, thu gen thupi leh pilna thupi toh hong ka hi kei hi.

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

²Jesu Kris, amah mah kilhdena om thu kia loungal na lak uah bangmah himhim theih ka tum kei a.

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

³Huan, hatlou leh lauin, nakpi taka lingkawmin na lak uah ka om a.

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

⁴Ka paukam suak leh ka thu gente thu pila khemna thuin ahi kei hi. Kha leh thilhihtheihna theihsaknain ahi jaw hi.

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

⁵Huchia, na ginna uh mihing pilnaa kinga loua, Pathian thilhihtheihna a kinga a a om theih jawkna dingin.

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.

⁶Ahihhangin pichingte lakah ahihleh thu pil i hilh jela, himahleh hiai khovel thupil jaw ahi kei; hiai khovel vaihawmte mangthang dingte thupil leng ahi sam kei hi:

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

⁷Pathian pilna guk leh kisel, i thupina dinga Pathianin khovel om maa a sehkholhsa pen i hilh zonak.

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

⁸Huai tuh hiai khovel vaihawmte himhimin a theikei uh; thei le ujaw thupina Toupa kilhden lou ding hi ve un.

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

⁹Mita muh ngei louh, bila jak ngeilouh, mihing lungtanga lut ngeilou, Pathianin mah itte adia a bawl, chih gelh bangin.

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

¹⁰Pathianin Khain huaite ei a honthei sakta ahi; Khain bangkim a sui khe vek ngala; ahi, Pathian thugil leng.

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.

¹¹Mihing ngaihtuahte mihing lungsim a sunga om mah louin, kuan ahia thei ding? Huchimahbangin Pathian ngaihtuahte Pathian Kha mahlouin kuamahin a theikei uhi.

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.

¹²Huan, a thawna Pathianin thil honpiakte i theihna dingin, eiten jaw khovel kha hi louin, Kha, Pathian kianga ngei, i mu jaw uhi

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.

¹³Hiai tuh mihing pilnaa sinsak thute-a hilh louin Kha sinsakin i hilh jaw ua, Kha neite kiangah khalam thutakte i hilhchian uhi.

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.

¹⁴Khovel min Pathian Kha thilpiakte a sang kei nak hi, amah ngaihdanin haihuai ahi ngala, kha a theihchet ahihjiakin a theithei kei himhim ahi.

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

¹⁵Khamiin bel thil bangkim achian jela, amah lah kuamahin achian kei uhi.Kuan ahia Toupa lungsim theikhin a, amah thuhilh thei ding? Eiten bel Kris lungsim i pu ahi.

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

¹⁶Kuan ahia Toupa lungsim theikhin a, amah thuhilh thei ding? Eiten bel Kris lungsim i pu ahi.