1 Corinthians 2
1 When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.
Ndugu, mimi nilipokuja kwenu sikuwahubiria siri ya ujumbe wa Mungu kwa ufasaha wa lugha, au kwa hekima ya binadamu.
2 For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
Nilipokuwa kwenu niliamua kutojua chochote kile isipokuwa tu kumjua Yesu Kristo; naam, Kristo aliyesulubiwa.
3 I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.
Nilipokuwa kwenu nilikuwa dhaifu, natetemeka kwa hofu nyingi.
4 My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
Hotuba zangu na mahubiri yangu sikuyatoa kwa maneno ya kuvutia na ya hekima, bali kwa uthibitisho mwingi na nguvu ya Roho.
5 that your faith would not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
Nilifanya hivyo kusudi imani yenu ipate kutegemea nguvu ya Mungu, na si hekima ya binadamu.
6 We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown, yet a wisdom not of this age (aiōn g165) nor of the rulers of this age (aiōn g165) who are coming to nothing.
Hata hivyo, sisi tunatumia lugha ya hekima kwa wale waliokomaa kiroho; lakini hekima hiyo si ya hapa duniani, wala si ya watawala wa dunia hii ambao wako katika mkumbo wa kupotea. (aiōn g165)
7 But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the ages (aiōn g165) for our glory,
Hekima tunayotumia ni hekima ya siri ya Mungu, hekima iliyofichika, ambayo Mungu aliiazimia tangu mwanzo kwa ajili ya utukufu wetu. (aiōn g165)
8 which none of the rulers of this age (aiōn g165) has known. For had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
Ni hekima ambayo watawala wa dunia hii hawakuielewa; maana wangalielewa, hawangalimsulubisha Bwana wa utukufu. (aiōn g165)
9 But as it is written, “Things which an eye did not see, and an ear did not hear, which did not enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”
Lakini, ni kama yasemavyo Maandiko Matakatifu: “Mambo ambayo jicho halijapata kuyaona wala sikio kuyasikia, mambo ambayo binadamu hajapata kuyafikiria moyoni, hayo ndiyo Mungu aliyowatayarishia wale wampendao.”
10 But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.
Hayo ndiyo mambo Mungu aliyotufunulia kwa njia ya Roho wake. Maana Roho huchunguza kila kitu hata mambo ya ndani kabisa ya Mungu.
11 For 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.
Nani awezaye kujua mambo ya ndani ya mtu isipokuwa roho yake mtu huyo? Hali kadhalika, hakuna ajuaye mambo ya Mungu isipokuwa Roho wa Mungu.
12 But 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.
Sasa sisi hatukuipokea roho ya ulimwengu, bali tumepokea Roho atokaye kwa Mungu ili atuwezeshe kujua yale tuliyojaliwa na Mungu.
13 We also speak these things, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.
Basi sisi twafundisha, si kwa maneno tuliyofundishwa kwa hekima ya binadamu, bali kwa maneno tuliyofundishwa na Roho, tukifafanua mambo ya kiroho kwa walio na huyo Roho.
14 Now the natural man does not receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Mtu wa kidunia hapokei mambo ya Roho wa Mungu. Kwake mtu huyo mambo hayo ni upumbavu mtupu; yanapita akili yake; maana yanaweza tu kutambuliwa kwa msaada wa Roho.
15 But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is to be judged by no one.
Lakini mtu aliye na huyo Roho anaweza kubainisha ubora wa kila kitu, naye mwenyewe hahukumiwi na mtu mwingine.
16 “For who has known the mind of the Lord that he should instruct him?” But we have Christ’s mind.
Maandiko yasema: “Nani awezaye kuifahamu akili ya Bwana? Nani awezaye kumshauri?” Lakini sisi tunayo akili ya Kristo.
