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

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

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

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

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

³Uye ndakanga ndinemwi muutera nemukutya nemukudedera kukuru.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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