¹ Man ci sama bopp, bokk yi, bi ma ñëwee ci yéen, ngir yégle mbóoti Yàlla, ñëwuma ci ay wax yu neex ak xam-xam bu réy.

¹And *I*, when I came to you, brethren, came not in excellency of word, or wisdom, announcing to you the testimony of God.

² Dogu woon naa ci bañ a xam dara ci seen biir lu dul Yeesu Kirist, te muy ki ñu rey ca bant ba.

²For I did not judge [it well] to know anything among you save Jesus Christ, and *him* crucified.

³ Bi ma teewee ci yéen, ànd naa ak ñàkk doole, ragal ak njàqare.

³And *I* was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling;

⁴ Li ma wax ak li ma waare, defuma ko ci làmmiñ wu neex, sukkandikoo ko ci xam-xamu nit, waaye ànd na ak ay firnde yu soqikoo ci kàttanu Xelum Yàlla,

⁴and my word and my preaching, not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of [the] Spirit and of power;

⁵ ngir seen ngëm bañ a wékku ci xam-xamu nit ñi waaye mu wékku ci dooley Yàlla.

⁵that your faith might not stand in men's wisdom, but in God's power.

⁶ Moona am na xam-xam bu nuy yégal ñi mat, xam-xam bu bokkul ci àddina si, te njiiti àddina si xamuñu ko, ñoom ñi nar a wéy.

⁶But we speak wisdom among the perfect; but wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who come to nought.

⁷ Nu ngi yégle mbóotu xam-xamu Yàlla, mu nëbbu woon te Yàlla dogal ko ngir sunu ndam, laata àddina di sosu.

⁷But we speak God's wisdom in [a] mystery, that hidden [wisdom] which God had predetermined before the ages for our glory:

⁸ Kenn ci njiiti àddina amul woon xam-xam boobu. Su ñu ko amoon, kon duñu rey Boroom ndam li ci bant bi.

⁸which none of the princes of this age knew, (for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;)

⁹ Waaye Mbind mi nee na:«Lu bët gisul,nopp déggu kote xel xalaatu ko,loolu la Yàlla dencal ñi ko bëgg.»

⁹but according as it is written, Things which eye has not seen, and ear not heard, and which have not come into man's heart, which God has prepared for them that love him,

¹⁰ Fekk nag nun la ko Yàlla won, jaarale ko ci Xelam. Xelum Yàlla mooy leeral lépp, ba ci xalaati Yàlla yi gën a xóot.

¹⁰but God has revealed to us by [his] Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.

¹¹ Kan ci nit ñi moo xam yëfi nit? Xanaa xelum nit mi nekk ci moom rekk a ko xam. Noonu it kenn xamul yëfi Yàlla, ku dul Xelum Yàlla.

¹¹For who of men hath known the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? thus also the things of God knows no one except the Spirit of God.

¹² Nun nag Xel mi nu jot, jógewul ci àddina, waaye Yàllaa nu ko sol.

¹²But *we* have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which [is] of God, that we may know the things which have been freely given to us of God:

¹³ Te loolu nu Yàlla may, yéglewunu ko ci ay baat yu soqikoo ci xam-xamu nit, waaye nu ngi koy yégle ci baat, yi soqikoo ci Xelum Yàlla, di tekkantal yëfi Xelum Yàlla ci ay baat yu mu nu sol.

¹³which also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, communicating spiritual [things] by spiritual [means].

¹⁴ Nit kese du nangu yëfi Xelum Yàlla. Ag ndof lay doon ci moom, te du ko man a nangu, ndaxte ku yor Xelum Yàlla rekk moo ko man a ràññale.

¹⁴But [the] natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him; and he cannot know [them] because they are spiritually discerned;

¹⁵ Nit ki yor Xelum Yàlla dafay àtte lépp, te moom ci boppam, kenn du ko àtte.

¹⁵but the spiritual discerns all things, and *he* is discerned of no one.

¹⁶ Ndaxte Mbind mi nee na:«Ana ku xam xalaatu Boroom bi?Ku ko doon digal?» Waaye nun am nanu xalaatu Kirist.

¹⁶For who has known the mind of [the] Lord, who shall instruct him? But *we* have the mind of Christ.