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

¹Mange, phrale, kana gelem tumende, na bare divanosa vai gojasa, avilem te phenav tumenge pa Del.

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

²Te nas ma gindo te zhanav mashkar tumende aver diela, ferdi O Jesus Kristo, ai lesko merimos po trushul.

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

³Me korkorho simas tumende slabo, ai daras, ai izdramasa.

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

⁴Ai murhi vorba ai murho divano nas bare vorbi kai parhuven la gojasa, numa sas dino ande putiera le Swuntsone Duxoski.

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

⁵Kashte tumaro pachamos te na avel kerdo pe goji le manushenge, numa ande putiera le Devleski.

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.

⁶Numa iek goji si kai phenas mashkar le shave le Devleske kai barile ando Del, kadala zhanglimos nai katar e lumia, vai katar le bare kai poronchin adies. Won meren ai vi lengo zhanglimos merel lensa.

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

⁷Ame phenas e goji le Devleski, shodo ai garadi, kai O Del mai anglal sar le bersh shinadisas pe amaro barimos.

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

⁸Goji kai chi iek baro anda kadala bersh chi zhanglia, ke te zhanglino la nashti karfon le Devles le bares.

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

⁹Numa sar si ramome, kai e iakh chi dikhlia, kai o khan chi ashundia, ai kai chi avile ando ilo le manushesko, dieli kai O Del lashardia kodolenge kai si lenge drago.

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

¹⁰O Del sikadia lenge pa Duxo; ke o Duxo zumavel swako fielo vi o garavimos le Devleske.

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.

¹¹Savo andal manush chaches zhanen le dieli le manusheske, te na avela o Duxo le Manushesko kai san ande leste? Saikfielo khonik chi zhanel le dieli le Devleske, de ferdi O Duxo le Devlesko.

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.

¹²Akana chi liam o duxo la lumiako, numa o Duxo kai avel katar O Del; kashte te zhanas le dieli kadia sas O Del ande pesko mishtimos.

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.

¹³Ai ame das duma, na divanonsa kai sicharel e goji la manushenge, numa kodola sas kai sicharel O Swunto Duxo; phenas divano duxosko pel dieluria le duxoske.

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.

¹⁴Numa o manush zhigania (manush kai chi pachalpa ando Del), chi lel le dieli anda Duxo le Devlesko; ke leske si dilimos, ai nashte zhanel le, ke ferdi Duxosa sai haliarel.

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

¹⁵O manush duxosko aver fielo kerel kris pe sa le dieli, ai pe leste korkorho chi kerel kris khonik.

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

¹⁶Ke kon zhanelas o gindo le Devlesko, te sicharel les? Numa si ame o gindo le Kristosko.