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.

¹When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming 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 determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

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

³I was with you in weakness, 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,

⁴My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human 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 wouldn’t stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

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.

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.

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, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds 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 rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn’t 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 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

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

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

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.

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 things also we speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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