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

¹ Ay mo, nya-izey, waato kaŋ ay kaa araŋ do, ay mana kaa da sanni gonitaray, wala laakal wane, ka Irikoy seeda waazu araŋ se.

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

² Zama ay miila ay ma si hay kulu bay araŋ game ra kala day Yesu Almasihu hinne, nga kaŋ i kanji.

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

³ Ay goro araŋ do da londibuunay, da humburkumay, da jijiriyaŋ gumo.

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

⁴ Ay sanno d'ay waazo mo manti nda fahamay sanni waaniyaŋ no kaŋ ga te sigaw, amma i te da Biya* _Hanno|_ cabeyaŋo da dabari mo,

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

⁵ hal araŋ cimbeero ma si bara boro laakal boŋ, amma a ma bara Irikoy dabaro boŋ.

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.

⁶ Amma iri goono ga laakal salaŋ toonantey game ra, day manti zamana wo laakalo, wala zamana wo koyey wano, ngey kaŋ yaŋ goono ga bisa.

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

⁷ Amma iri goono ga Irikoy laakalo salaŋ, gundu* wane, sanda wo kaŋ doŋ a go tugante, kaŋ Irikoy waadu iri darza se za waato zamaney mana te.

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

⁸ Zamana wo koyey kulu mana bay laakalo din gaa, zama d'i bay a gaa, doŋ i si Rabbi darzakoyo kanji.

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

⁹ Amma a te mate kaŋ i n'a hantum ka ne: «Hayey kaŋ mo mana di, kaŋ hanga mana maa, kaŋ mana furo boro bine ra mo, hayey din no Irikoy soola borey kaŋ ga ba r'a se.»

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

¹⁰ Amma iri se no Irikoy n'i bangandi Biya _Hanno|_ do. Zama Biya _Hanno|_ goono ga hay kulu fintal. Baa Irikoy hayey kaŋ ga guusu, a g'i fintal.

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.

¹¹ Zama may no ga boro muraadey bay, da manti bora biya* kaŋ go a ra? Yaadin mo no, boro kulu si Irikoy muraadey bay, kala day Irikoy Biya.

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.

¹² Iri wo, manti ndunnya biya no iri du bo, amma Biya kaŋ fun Irikoy do, hal iri ma hayey kaŋ Irikoy n'iri no nga gomno do bay.

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.

¹³ Hayey wo iri goono g'i salaŋ, manti nda sanni kaŋ Adam-ize laakal ga boro dondonandi, amma iri goono g'i salaŋ da wo kaŋ Biya Hanno g'iri dondonandi. Iri goono ga Biya Hanno harey deedandi nda Biya Hanna sanney.

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.

¹⁴ Amma boro kaŋ ga nga Adam-ize daa laala gana si Irikoy Biya harey ta. I ga ciya a se saamotaray. A si hin k'i bay mo, zama Biya Hanno do no boro g'i fayanka.

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

¹⁵ Amma boro kaŋ ga Irikoy Biya gana ga hay kulu fayanka. Nga bumbo mo, boro kulu s'a fintal.

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

¹⁶ Zama i ne: «May no na Rabbi miila bay hala bora m'a dondonandi?» Amma iri wo, iri gonda Almasihu miila.