1 Corinth 15
1 Kasopi deitahte, tumasanga naheng uva Kipana Thupha kahung lhangsap thu chu keiman nahin geldoh sahkit uvinge. Chupet chun nasang uvin chule tugeiyin nading det jing nauvin ahi.
Now, my fellow believers, I want to remind you about the message about Christ that I preached to you. It is the message that you received and that you have continued to trust firmly.
2 Keiman najah uva kaseipeh u thu chu natahsan jom jing uva ahileh hiche Kipana Thupha chun nahuhhingu ahi–apat a pat'a adihlou thu chu tahsana nahilou pouva ahileh.
If you keep on firmly [believing] this message that I preached to you, you will be saved {[God] will save you}. If you do not continue to believe it, your believing [in Christ] was (all for nothing/useless)!
3 Keiman naheng uva akhohpen tah keima henga ana kipe chu kahin pehson nahiuve–Christa chu Pathen Thubun asei dung juiyin ichonset jal'un athin ahi.
The most important part of the message that I received [from the Lord Jesus], and that I told you, was this: Christ died to [take away the guilt] of our sins, as the Scriptures [said that he would do].
4 Ama chu akivuiyin, chule Pathen Thubun asei dung juiyin, ani-thum nin athoudohtai.
His [dead body] was buried {They buried his [body]}. On the third day [after that], [God] caused him to become alive again, as the Scriptures [said would happen].
5 Ama chu Peter in amun chujouvin somle ni ho chun amu uve.
After that, [Christ] was seen by {appeared to} Peter. Then he appeared to [eleven of] the [original] twelve [apostles].
6 Chujouvin, khatveiyin anung jui mi janga val hon khatvei mun amuvin ahi, amaholah a atamjo ahing nalaiyun, hinla phabep chu athi tauve.
Later he was seen by {appeared to} more than 500 of our fellow believers. Most of those are still living, but some of them have died [EUP].
7 Chupet in Jacob in ama chu amun chujouvin solchah jousen amu uve.
Then he was seen by {appeared [to]} [his younger brother] James, [who became the leader of the congregation in Jerusalem]. Then he appeared to all of the apostles.
8 Achaina keiyin, aphat louva peng bangin, keiman jong Ama chu kamun ahi.
Finally, he was seen by {appeared to} me, but I became an apostle in a way that was very unusual [MET].
9 Ajehchu keima solchah ho jouse lah a imacha hiloupen kahi. Ahimongin Pathen houbung ana gimbol hesoh a kahi jeh hin solchah ti dinga jong kiloma kahipoi.
The fact is, I [consider that I] am the least important of the apostles. I do not deserve to be an apostle, because I (persecuted God’s groups of believers/caused God’s groups of believers to suffer) [everywhere I went].
10 Hinlah tun ipi thu um jongleh kahi ahi, Pathen in alungsetna chu kachunga asunlhah ahitah jeh hin-chule hichu phatchomna bei ahidehpoi. Ajeh chu keiman solchah dangho sangin na kaha tohgimjon, hinla hichu keijoh hita louva Pathen in alungsetnaa keiya na atoh ahijo bouve.
But it is because God acted kindly toward me in ways that I did not deserve that I became what I am now. And his acting kindly toward me produced a great result [LIT], which is that I worked harder [for Christ] than all the other apostles. But it was not that I [was working with my own ability]. Instead, God was helping me in a way I did not deserve.
11 Hiti chun keiman seiphong teng ahilouleh amahon ka thusei ma tahsanna nakisanu thudol seiphong kit jongleu ima chom aumpoi, ajeh chu keihon kabon chauva natahsanu thudol chu kasei phong khomu ahi.
So it does not matter whether it was I [who was preaching or whether it was the other apostles who were preaching]. We all preached [the same message], and that message is what you believed.
12 Hinlah hiche hi neiseipeh un-Christa chu thinaa konin athoutai katiu leh, itidan'a nalah uva phabep in athiho thokitna aumpoi tia nahiu ham?
So now [let me ask you this]: Since [we] have all preached to you that Christ was raised again {that [God] caused Christ to become alive} after he died, (no one among you should be saying that [God] will not cause [believers] to become alive again after they die!/why do some of you say that [God] will not cause [believers] to become alive again after they die?) [RHQ]
13 Ajehchu athiho thokitna aumlouva ahileh Christa jong chu kaithouva um dehlou hiding ahitai.
If [it is true that God] will not cause anyone to become alive again, that situation would mean that Christ was not raised from the dead {[he] did not cause Christ to become alive again}!
14 Chule Christa chu kaithoulou anahita leh, thu kaseiphong leu hi mohseh hita ding, chule natahsan'u jong chu mohseh hiding ahitai.
And if Christ was not raised from the dead {if [God] did not cause Christ to become alive again}, then what we preached to you was useless, and your believing [in Christ] is useless.
15 Chule solchah keiho jouse jong hi Pathen lamdola jousei kahi dingu ahitai-ajeh chu keihon Christa chu Pathen in lhan'a konin akaithouve kana tiu ahi. Hinlah thokitna aumlouva ahileh hiche kisei chu dih theilou ding ahitai.
[If it is true that] no one will be raised from the dead {[that God] will not cause anyone to become alive again after he dies}, we [(exc)] have been guilty of lying to you about God, because we told you that God caused Christ to become alive again.
16 Chule athiho thokitna chu umlou hitaleh, Christa chu kaithou hilouding ahitai.
But if it were really true that no one who has died will be raised {that [God will] not cause anyone who has died to become alive} again, then Christ was not raised {[he] did not cause Christ to become alive} again either!
17 Chule Christa chu kaithou hilou anahi khah leh, natahsanu chu panna bei hiding chule nangho hi nachonset nauvin themmo nachanjing nahlai dingu ahiye.
If it were true that Christ was not raised {that [God] did not cause Christ to become alive} again after he died, you have believed in Christ for nothing, [because] God will still [punish] you for [MTY] your sins.
18 Hiche chung chang thua hi, Christa tahsana thiho jouse chu mang thah hidiu ahitai.
And those people who died [EUP] [while they were trusting] in Christ will go to hell. (questioned)
19 Chule Christa itahsanu hi tuhinkhoa ding bou hita leh, vannoiya midang jouse sanga khoto umpen ihi dingu ahitai.
In this life [many of us have suffered much for Christ] because we confidently expect [that he will reward us in heaven]. If we have confidently expected this in vain, people should pity us more than they pity anyone else!
20 Hinlah, Christa chu athiho lah a konin kaithou ahitah behnai. Ama athiho jouse lah a aga masapen chu ahitai.
But [the truth is that] Christ has been raised from the dead {that [God] has caused Christ to live again after he had died}, and (that guarantees/because of that, it is certain) [MET] that he will also cause those [believers] who have died [EUP] to become alive again.
21 Hitia hi mikhat jal'a vannoi a thina ahunglhun banga chu, athiho lah'a kona thokitna hi michom khat jal'a hiding ahi.
What one man, [Adam, did affects us all]. We all die. Similarly, what one man—[Christ]—did [affects us(inc) all]: God will cause [all believers] to become alive again.
22 Eiho ibonchauva Adama hungkon ihijeh uva ithi sohkei dingu ahi tobanga, Christaa hiho jouse chu hinkho thah kipe ding ahi.
Because of what Adam did, all [of us who are descended] from him die. Similarly, because of what [Christ did], all of us who have a close relationship with him will be brought back to life {[God] will make alive all of us who have a close relationship with Christ}.
23 Hinlah hiche thokitna thudol a hin akigontoh dol aume. Christa chu ga kiloh masapen ahi, abana Christaa thiho jouse chu Ama ahungkit tengleh kaithouva umding ahitai.
But we must all take our turn. [God raised] Christ first [MET]. And when Christ returns, [God will cause] those who belong to Christ to become alive again.
24 Aman vaipoho le athunei ho chule athanei ho chu asuhmang soh jou tengleh, Lenggam chu Pa Pathen koma apehdoh a chujou tah leh achaina hung hiding ahi.
Then, after Christ has destroyed all [DOU] the evil powers that oppose God, [the world] will end. Then Christ will give to God, his Father, his kingdom to completely rule over it.
25 Ajehchu Christa hin Amelmate jouse chu akengto noiya akoi tokahsea vai ahom tei ding ahi.
You must realize that Christ must rule [here on earth] until he has completely defeated [MTY] all his enemies.
26 Chule melma anunungpen akisumang ding chu thina ahi.
The last thing that [he] will get rid of is death. [But he certainly will get rid of death, which is like] an enemy [to us].
27 Ajehchu Pathen Thubun aseiyin, “Pathen in ijakai Ama thunoiya akoisohkei ahitai,” ati. (Hichea, “ijakai Ama thuneina noiya akoi” kiti hin Pathen Ama akijaosah thapoi, Ama chun Christa hi Athuneina apehdoh joh ahibouve).
[In the Scriptures the Psalmist wrote that] God will cause everything to be under Christ’s [authority] [MTY]. But it is clear that the word ‘everything’ here does not include God, because God is the one who will cause everything to be under Christ’s [authority] [MTY].
28 Aman ijakai athunoiya akoisohkei tengleh, Chapa Amatah jong chu Pathen thunoiya kikhum lut intin, Pathen Achapa ijakai chunga thuneina pepa chu, ijakai a achungvuma imalam jousea athunei hiding ahitai.
After everything is put under [the authority of] God’s Son, then Christ will put himself completely under [the authority of] God, the one who gave him that authority. Then God will be completely in control of everything [IDM], everywhere.
29 Athisaho kaithouva umlou ding ahia ahileh, thi jal'a baptize chanlona ajeh ipiba hitantem? Athiho chu nikhat le kaithou ding ahilou leh ipi bol ngaiya ham?
[Now think about this: Some among you] are being baptized (OR, are baptizing people) on behalf of those who died [before someone baptized them] (OR, who died [before they became believers]). If, [as some people say, believers] will not be raised [from the dead] {[God] will not cause [believers] to become alive again}, (what is the value in those people doing that?/there is no value in those people doing that!) [RHQ] If [God] will not cause any [believers] to become alive again, it is senseless to be baptized {baptize anyone} on behalf of someone who has died. [RHQ]
30 Chule ipi dinga aphat phat a keiho hin kahinkhou hi hahsatna kathoh jiu hintem?
Furthermore, [if God will not cause us believers to become alive again], it is [RHQ] very foolish for me and the other apostles to be constantly [putting ourselves] in danger [because we tell people the gospel].
31 Ajehchu kasopiteho, kihahselna theijin keiman anitinin thina kakimaitopi jinge. I Pakaiyu Christa Yeshuan nanghoa anatoh hi keima kakiletsahna tahbeh chu ahi.
My fellow believers, every day I [am in danger of] being killed {people killing me}! That is as true as it is that I am pleased with you because of your close relationship with Christ Jesus our Lord.
32 Chule gamsaho toh (Ephesus khomite toh) kakidel lona ipi phatchomna hintem? Athisaho thokitna umlou ding ahia ahileh? Chule thokitna aum louva ahileh, “Eiho kivah'u hitin, donu hite, ajeh chu ajinga kithi tading chu!” itidiu ahitai.
[If God will not cause us believers to become alive again after we die], (I will receive no benefit at all [from having opposed those who attacked me so strongly] in Ephesus [city]./what will I gain [from having opposed those who attacked me so strongly] in Ephesus [city]?) [RHQ] They were [fighting me like] wild beasts! If we [believers] will not be raised [from the dead] {If [God] will not cause us [believers] to live again}, we might as well say [as people often say]: “Tomorrow we are going to die, so we might as well enjoy now everything that we can. We might as well feast and get drunk!”
33 Chutobanga thusei ho chu kingol bolsah hih un, ajeh chu, “kivoppi phalouvin chon chan phalou asoji,” kitia ahi.
Do not let [yourselves be deceived by those who say that God will not cause believers to live again] {Do not let [people who say that God will not cause believers to live again] deceive you}. If you associate with evil people [who say such things], they will (influence you to do evil things/destroy your good moral way of living).
34 Adih chu ipipen ahi geltoh uvin lang, chule chonse tahih un. Ajeh chu hiche hi naja chatna ding uva kasei doh ahi, nangho mi phabep Pathen he tahbeh lou nahiuve.
Start thinking correctly again [about these matters], as you should, and [stop your sinful behavior which has resulted from] your wrong thinking. [I say that] because [it seems that] some among you do not know God, and as a result they [are thinking wrongly]. I say that to make you ashamed.
35 Hinlah khat touvin, “Mithiho itobanga thoudoh dingu ham? Itobang tahsa pum anei dingu ham?” tin dongun te.
But some of you are asking, “How will dead people be raised {How will [God] cause dead people to become alive} again? What kind of bodies will they have?”
36 Itobang ngol hoi thudoh hitam! Nangman muchi tol'a natu chu athi kahsen ahung kehdoh theipoi.
[Anyone who asks such questions is] foolish. You [know that] a seed that is planted in the ground must completely change its form [MET] before it sprouts.
37 Chule nangman leiset a nakoi chu suhlouchang mu hihen ipi pen chu natulut hita jongleh aphung ahung khang ding chu ahihih laiye.
A seed, such as a wheat seed, is very different from the plant that sprouts from it.
38 Chutengleh Pathen in ahin hisahnom ding vouthah chu ahinpeh ding ahi. Muchi khat cheh a kona chu thingphung chom chom hung khang touva ahi.
God gives everything that lives the form that he desires. He gives each seed its own form.
39 Chutobangma a chu tahsa pum jong jatchom chom ahi, mihem tahsa pum le ganhingho tahsa pum, vacha ho tahsa pum, chule ajat chombeh nga tahsa pum geiya uma ahi.
[Similarly], people, animals, birds, and fish all have flesh, but each one has a different kind of flesh.
40 Leiset a tipumho aum tobang'in, Van'a jong tipumho aumin ahi. Van'a tahsapum loupina chu leiset'a tahsapum loupina toh ajatchomin ahi.
Also, there are angelic beings in heaven (OR, stars and planets in the sky), and there are people with bodies on the earth. The angelic beings (OR, stars and planets) are beautiful in one way, and people on earth are beautiful in a different way.
41 Nisa hin loupina jatkhat aneiyin, lhale ahsi hon jong khat cheh hina ma anei cheh uve. Ahsiho jeng jong khat khat hi aloupinau ajatchom cheh in ahi.
The sun is bright in one way, and the moon is bright in a different way, and the stars are bright in a different way. And even the various stars are different from each other in how bright they are.
42 Mithiho thokitna jong chutobangma chu ahi. Leiset a itahsau hi ithiteng uleh leinoiya iphumlut jiuvin, hinla aitih a hing jing dinga hung thoudoh ding ahiuve.
And it is the same way [with our bodies. The bodies that we will have when God causes us] to live again after we die [will not be the same as the bodies that we have now] [MET]. [The bodies that we have now] will die and decay. [The new bodies that we will have] will never die.
43 Itahsau hi abong abaija kiphumlut a ahin, hinla hicheho hi loupina a hung thoudoh ding ahiuve. Amaho hi thanei louva kivuilut'ah ahin, hinla thahat'a hungthoudoh ding ahiuve.
We despise [the bodies that we have now], before we die. But our [new bodies] will be glorious. The [bodies that we have before we die] are weak. But our new bodies will be strong.
44 Amaho hi angaiya mihem vouphea kivuiya ahiuvin, hinla amaho hi lhagaolam vouphea hung thoudoh ding ahiuve. Ajeh chu angaidol'a tahsa vouphe aum tobanga chu lhagaolam dola vouphe aumin ahi.
The bodies that we have before we die are natural bodies. But [our new bodies] will be ones that [God’s] Spirit ([controls/gives us]). Just like there are natural bodies, there are bodies that [God’s] Spirit [completely] controls (OR, makes alive).
45 Pathen Thubun, “Mimasa Adam chu hinna nei mihem ahunghi,” tin eiseipeh uvin ahi. Hinlah Adam nunungpa chu, Christa kiseina, hinna pea Lhagao ahi.
[In the Scriptures] it is written {we read} that [when] the first man, Adam, [was created], he became a living human being. [Christ later also became a human being]. But [he is different from Adam, because he] became a person who gives us [spiritual] life.
46 Amasa tahsa tipumho hung um masaa chujouva lhagaova tipumho chu khonunga hung uma ahi.
But our bodies that God’s Spirit (will completely control/will give us) are not the first bodies that we have. We have our natural bodies first.
47 Mimasa Adam chu leiset leivuiya kona kisema ahin, mihem aninapa Christa chu Vana kona hung'ah ahi.
The first man, [Adam], was created {[God] created the first man, Adam} from the dust of the earth. But [Christ], the one who came later, came from heaven.
48 Leiset mite hi leiset mihem chuto akilou uvin, chule van'a mite chu van'a hungkonpa tobang ahiuve.
Everyone on earth [has a body] like the first man on the earth had. And in heaven, [everyone will have a body like Christ], the man who came from heaven, has.
49 Tua hi eiho leiset a mihempa tobang chu ihiuvin, phatkhatle vana hungkonpa tobang chu ihunghi dingu ahi.
And just like [God] gave us bodies like the first man on earth had, so we [believers will have bodies] like [Christ] has, who is now in heaven.
50 Kasopi deitahteho, keiman kaseihi, itahsapheu hin Pathen Lenggam alotheipoi. Hiche thithei tahsaphe hin tonsot'a umding gou alotheipoi.
My fellow believers, I want you to know that we [(inc)] [SYN] cannot go [to heaven, where] God rules [over everything], with our physical bodies, because our bodies [cannot last forever]. They will die and decay.
51 Hinlah keiman thuguh kidangtah naphondohpeh uvinge. Eiho jouse ibonchauva ithi sohkei dingu hilou, hinla ibonchauva vouso kikhel ding ihiuve.
But I will tell you something that [God] has not revealed [before]: [Some of] us [believers] will not die [EUP]. However, all of us will be changed {[God] will change all of us}.
52 Hichu phulou helouva, mitphetkah sunga sumkon nunungpen chu hung kimutging ding ahi. Ajeh chu sumkon chu ahung kimut ging tengleh, Pakaiya anathisaho chu vou kikhel a thoudoh diu ahi. Chule eiho ahing chengse ivouvu kikhel ding tonsot'a hingding ihitauve.
[It will happen] suddenly, as [fast as someone can] blink his eye [MET], when [we hear the sound of God’s] trumpet for the last time. When we hear that trumpet, all [the believers] who have died will come back to life and will have bodies that are changed {that [God] has changed}, bodies that will never decay.
53 Ajehchu athi ding itahsau hi thilouhel ding tahsavouva kikhel ding, athithei itahsau hi athitheitalou tahsa voupua kikhel ding ahitai.
And the [bodies of us who are alive at that time] will [also] be changed {And [God] will [also] change the [bodies of us who are alive at that time]}. These bodies of ours that die and decay must be transformed into [new bodies that] will never die; [it will be like someone] [MET] getting rid of [his old clothes] and putting on [new ones].
54 Chuteng, athiding tahsa ineihou hi athi talou ding tahsahoa ahung kikhel tengleh, hiche Pathen Thubu in asei, “Thina chu jonain avallhumtai”
When that happens, what is written {what ([a prophet/Isaiah]) wrote} [in the Scriptures] will come true/happen: [God] will completely get rid of [MET] death. Our dying will no longer have any power to defeat us;
55 “Vo thina, hoibaham namijo na? Vo thina, hoibaham namide na?” kiti chu guilhung ding ahi. (Hadēs g86)
Death [APO] will not win a victory over us. Death will not be able to hurt us. (Hadēs g86)
56 Ajehchu chonset hi thina a dinga midep'a panga ahi, chule Danthu hin chonset thaneina apeh ahi.
It is because we sin [MET] [that we die, and it is because we] have God’s laws that we [know that we] have sinned.
57 Hinlah Pathen thangvah in umhen! Aman chonset le thina jo jou theina I Pakaiyu Yeshua Christa jal'in eipeuvin ahi.
But because of what our Lord Jesus Christ [has done], he enables us to be free [from having to obey God’s laws to be saved and to be free of being afraid to die]. We should thank God for that!
58 Hijeh chun, kasopi deitah teho, hat'un chule suhlong theilouvin pangun. Pakaiya dingin thanomtah in tong jingun, ajeh chu nathil bolu chu Pakaiya dingin phatchomna bei imacha aumpoi ti naheuve.
So, my fellow believers whom I love, continue to hold strongly to [the things that you believe]. Do not let anything cause you to doubt them. Always be doing enthusiastically the work that the Lord [gives you]. And remember that the work that you do for the Lord is never (in vain/useless), [as it would be if God will not cause us to live again after we die].
