1 Corinthians 15
1 But let me recall to you, brethren, the Good News which I brought you, which you accepted, and on which you are standing,
Ụmụnna m, ugbu a achọrọ m ime ka unu cheta oziọma ahụ m ziri unu mgbe m buru ụzọ bịakwute unu, nke unu kweere na ya, na nke unu guzosikwara ike nʼelu ya.
2 through which also you are obtaining salvation, if you bear in mind the words in which I proclaimed it--unless indeed your faith has been unreal from the very first.
E si nʼoziọma a zọpụta unu, ma ọ bụrụ na unu ejiri obi unu niile jidesie ihe unu kweere na ya ike. Inwe okwukwe nʼihe ọzọ dị iche agaghị enyere unu aka.
3 For I repeated to you the all-important fact which also I had been taught, that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures;
Ihe m nyefere unu nʼaka na mbụ bụ ozi ahụ m natara ị debe, nke dị oke mkpa, na Kraịst nwụrụ ọnwụ nʼihi mmehie anyị, dịka akwụkwọ nsọ kwuru na ọ ga-anwụ.
4 that He was buried; that He rose to life again on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,
Na e liri ya, ma e mere ka o si nʼọnwụ bilie nʼụbọchị nke atọ, dịka akwụkwọ nsọ kwukwara na ọ ga-eme.
5 and was seen by Peter, and then by the Twelve.
O gosiri Sefas onwe ya, emesịa, ndị ozi iri na abụọ ahụ hụkwara ya.
6 Afterwards He was seen by more than five hundred brethren at once, most of whom are still alive, although some of them have now fallen asleep.
Emesịakwa, o gosiri ihe karịrị narị mmadụ ise nʼime ụmụnna onwe ya, nʼotu mgbe, ọtụtụ nʼime ndị ahụ ka nọ ndụ taa, ọ bụ ezie na ụfọdụ nʼime ha adaala nʼụra ọnwụ.
7 Afterwards He was seen by James, and then by all the Apostles.
Emesịa, Jemis hụrụ ya; o mekwara ka ndị ozi niile hụ ya.
8 And last of all, as to one of untimely birth, He appeared to me also.
Nʼikpeazụ, mụ onwe m hụkwara ya, dịka a ga-asị na m bụ nwa a na-amụghị nʼoge.
9 For I am the least of the Apostles, and am not fit to be called an Apostle--because I persecuted the Church of God.
Nʼihi na ọ bụ m kachasị nta nʼime ndị ozi. O kwesikwaghị ka a akpọọ m onyeozi ya nʼihi na alụsoro m nzukọ Chineke ọgụ nke ukwuu.
10 But what I am I am by the grace of God, and His grace bestowed upon me did not prove ineffectual. But I labored more strenuously than all the rest--yet it was not I, but God's grace working with me.
Ma site nʼamara nke Chineke, abụ m ihe m bụ. Ọ pụtakwara na amara ya nʼebe m nọ abụghị ihe efu. Kama arụsịrị m ọrụ ike karịchasịa ndị ozi niile. Ma nʼezie, ọ bụghị m na-arụ ọrụ a, kama ọ bụ Chineke nʼonwe ya na-arụ ọrụ ya nʼime m.
11 But whether it is I or they, this is the way we preach and the way that you came to believe.
Ma ọ bụ m, maọbụ ndị ọzọ, otu a ka anyị siri kwusaa, otu a ka unu sikwa kwere.
12 But if Christ is preached as having risen from the dead, how is it that some of you say that there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead?
Ma ọ bụrụ na a na-ekwusa na Kraịst si nʼọnwụ bilie, gịnị mere ụfọdụ unu ji na-ekwu na ndị nwụrụ anwụ apụghị isi nʼọnwụ bilie ọzọ.
13 If there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead, then Christ Himself has not risen to life.
Ọ bụrụ na ndị nwụrụ anwụ a pụghị i si nʼọnwụ bilie, nke a pụtara na e meghị ka Kraịst site nʼọnwụ bilie.
14 And if Christ has not risen, it follows that what we preach is a delusion, and that your faith also is a delusion.
Ọ bụrụkwa na e meghị ka Kraịst si nʼọnwụ bilie, ihe anyị na-ezisa bụ ihe efu, okwukwe unu nwere bụkwa ihe efu.
15 Nay more, we are actually being discovered to be bearing false witness about God, because we have testified that God raised Christ to life, whom He did not raise, if in reality none of the dead are raised.
Ma karịa nke a, a na-ahụta anyị ka ndị ama ụgha nke Chineke, nʼihi na anyị gbara ama banyere Chineke, na-asị na o mere ka Kraịst si nʼọnwụ bilie, bụ onye ọ na-emeghị ka o si nʼọnwụ bilie ma ọ bụrụ na-emeghị ka ndị nwụrụ anwụ dị ndụ ọzọ.
16 For if none of the dead are raised to life, then Christ has not risen;
Nʼihi na, ọ bụrụ na a pụghị ime ka ndị nwụrụ anwụ bilie dị ndụ ọzọ, emekwaghị ka Kraịst si nʼọnwụ bilie.
17 and if Christ has not risen, your faith is a vain thing--you are still in your sins.
Ma ọ bụrụ na-emeghị ka Kraịst si nʼọnwụ bilie, okwukwe unu bụ ihe efu, unu ka ga-anwụ na mmehie unu.
18 It follows also that those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
Mgbe ahụ ndị nwụrụ anwụ nʼime Kraịst lara nʼiyi.
19 If in this present life we have a hope resting on Christ, and nothing more, we are more to be pitied than all the rest of the world.
Ọ bụrụkwa na olileanya anyị nʼime Kraịst gwụrụ naanị na ndụ anyị nʼime ụwa a, anyị bụ ndị e kwesiri ka e mere ebere.
20 But, in reality, Christ has risen from among the dead, being the first to do so of those who are asleep.
Ma e mere ka Kraịst si nʼọnwụ bilie nʼezie, onye mbụ nʼetiti ndị niile nwụrụ anwụ.
21 For seeing that death came through man, through man comes also the resurrection of the dead.
Nʼihi na dịka ọnwụ si site nʼaka otu nwoke bịa, otu a kwa ka mbilite nʼọnwụ si site nʼaka otu nwoke bịa.
22 For just as through Adam all die, so also through Christ all will be made alive again.
Dịka mmadụ niile si anwụ site nʼaka Adam, otu a kwa ka mmadụ niile ga-esi dịkwa ndụ nʼime Kraịst.
23 But this will happen to each in the right order--Christ having been the first to rise, and afterwards Christ's people rising at His return.
Onye ọbụla ga-ebili nʼusoro nke ya, Kraịst mkpụrụ mbụ si nʼọnwụ bilie. Mgbe ọ lọghachiri, ndị niile bụ ndị nke Kraịst ga-esote.
24 Later on, comes the End, when He is to surrender the Kingship to God, the Father, when He shall have overthrown all other government and all other authority and power.
Mgbe nke a gasịrị, ọgwụgwụ ihe niile ga-abịa, mgbe ọ ga-enyefe alaeze nʼaka Chineke bụ Nna, nʼihi na o meriela ịchị isi niile, na ikike niile na ike niile.
25 For He must continue King until He shall have put all His enemies under His feet.
Nʼihi na ọ ga-abụ eze tutu ruo mgbe ọ lụgburu ndị iro ya niile, doo ha nʼokpuru ụkwụ ya.
26 The last enemy that is to be overthrown is Death;
Onye iro ikpeazụ a ga-emeri bụ ọnwụ.
27 for He will have put all things in subjection under His feet. And when He shall have declared that "All things are in subjection," it will be with the manifest exception of Him who has reduced them all to subjection to Him.
Nʼihi na “O doola ihe niile nʼokpuru ụkwụ ya.” Ma mgbe ọbụla asịrị, “e doola ihe niile” nʼokpuru ụkwụ ya, o doro anya na Chineke agụnyeghị onwe ya, nʼihi na ọ bụ ya tinyere ihe niile nʼokpuru Kraịst.
28 But when the whole universe has been made subject to Him, then the Son Himself will also become subject to Him who has made the universe subject to Him, in order that GOD may be all in all.
Mgbe e merela ka ihe niile nọrọ nʼokpuru ya, mgbe ahụ, Ọkpara ya nʼonwe ya, ga-edobe onwe ya nʼokpuru onye ahụ dobere ihe niile nʼokpuru ya, ka Chineke bụrụ onye na-achị ihe niile.
29 Otherwise what will become of those who got themselves baptized for the dead? If the dead do not rise at all, why are these baptized for them?
Ma ọ bụghị otu a, gịnị mere ụfọdụ ji eme ndị otu ha baptizim nʼọnọdụ ndị nwụrụ anwụ? Ọ bụrụ na e meghị ka ndị nwụrụ anwụ si nʼọnwụ bilie ma ọlị, nʼihi gịnị ka a na-eme mmadụ ndị a baptizim nʼọnọdụ ha?
30 Why also do we Apostles expose ourselves to danger every hour?
Gịnị mere anyị ji nọrọ nʼize ndụ nʼoge awa ọbụla?
31 I protest, brethren, as surely as I glory over you--which I may justly do in Christ Jesus our Lord--that I die day by day.
Nʼịgwa unu eziokwu, ụmụnna m, ana m ezute ọnwụ kwa ụbọchị. Ihe m ji kwupụta nke a bụ nʼihi ịnya isi nke m ji unu anya nʼime Jisọs Kraịst, Onyenwe anyị.
32 If from merely human motives I have fought with wild beasts in Ephesus, what profit is it to me? If the dead do not rise, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we are to die.
Ọ bụrụ na ndụ anyị na-agwụ nʼụwa a, dịka ndị mmadụ na-ekwu, gịnị bụkwanụ uru m nwere nʼihi ọgụ m na-alụso anụ ọhịa, bụ ndị ikom Efesọs? Ọ bụrụ na a gaghị eme ka ndị nwụrụ anwụ bilie, “Ka anyị rienụ, ṅụọkwanụ, nʼihi na echi anyị ga-anwụ.”
33 Do not deceive yourselves: "Evil companionships corrupt good morals."
Unu ekwela ka e duhie unu. Nʼihi na mkparịkọta agwa ọjọọ na-emebi ezi agwa.
34 Wake from this drunken fit; live righteous lives, and cease to sin; for some have no knowledge of God: I speak thus in order to move you to shame.
Sitenụ na ndụ enweghị nghọta unu lọghachita dịka unu kwesiri, unu emehiekwala ọzọ. Nʼihi na-enwere ụfọdụ bụ ndị na-amaghị Chineke. Ana m ekwu nke a ka ihere mee unu.
35 But some one will say, "How can the dead rise? And with what kind of body do they come back?"
Ma ụfọdụ ga-ajụ, “Olee otu a ga-esi mee ka onye nwụrụ anwụ bilie? Olee ụdị ahụ ha ga-enwe mgbe ha ga-apụta?”
36 Foolish man! the seed you yourself sow has no life given to it unless it first dies;
Onye nzuzu! Mkpụrụ ọka i tinyere nʼala agaghị epu ma ọ bụrụ na o bughị ụzọ nwụọ.
37 and as for what you sow, it is not the plant which is to be that you are sowing, but a bare grain, of wheat (it may be) or of something else, and God gives it a body as He has seen fit,
Mgbe ị na-agha mkpụrụ, ọ bụghị anụ ahụ nke ga-apụta ka ị na-agha, kama ọ bụ naanị mkpụrụ nkịtị, eleghị anya mkpụrụ ọka wiiti, maọbụ mkpụrụ ọzọ.
38 and to each kind of seed a body of its own.
Ma Chineke na-enye ya ahụ dịka o si chọọ. Ọ na-enyekwa mkpụrụ ọbụla nʼime mkpụrụ niile ahụ nke kwesiri ya.
39 All flesh is not the same: there is human flesh, and flesh of cattle, of birds, and of fishes.
Anụ ahụ niile abụghị otu, mmadụ nwere anụ ahụ dị iche, anụ ọhịa nwere ụdị anụ ahụ nke ha. Anụ ufe nwere anụ ahụ ha, azụ nwekwara nke ha.
40 There are bodies which are celestial and there are bodies which are earthly, but the glory of the celestial ones is one thing, and that of the earthly ones is another.
Ahụ nke eluigwe na ahụ nke ụwa dịkwa. Ma ịma mma na ebube nke ahụ nke eluigwe bụ otu, ịma mma na ebube nke ahụ nke ụwa dịkwa iche.
41 There is one glory of the sun, another of the moon, and another of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.
Anyanwụ nwere ebube nke ya, ọnwa nwekwa nke ya, kpakpando nwekwara ebube nke ya. Kpakpando dịkwa iche site nʼibe ya nʼịma mma na ebube.
42 It is the same with the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in a state of decay, it is raised free from decay;
Otu a ka ọ dị nʼebe mbilite nʼọnwụ ndị nwụrụ anwụ dị. Mgbe e liri anụ ahụ anyị, ihe nwụrụ anwụ na nke pụrụ ire ure ka ọ bụ, ma mgbe e mere ka o si nʼọnwụ bilie, ọ gaghị anwụkwa ọzọ.
43 it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power;
A na-eli ahụ onye nwụrụ anwụ dịka ihe enweghị ugwu, ma a na-eme ka o si nʼọnwụ bilie nʼebube. A na-eli onye nwụrụ anwụ nʼadịghị ike, ma a na-eme ka o si nʼọnwụ bilie nʼịdị ike.
44 an animal body is sown, a spiritual body is raised. As surely as there is an animal body, so there is also a spiritual body.
A na-eli onye nwụrụ anwụ dịka anụ ahụ nkịtị, ma a na-eme ka o jiri ahụ nke mmụọ kulite. Ọ bụrụ na e nwere anụ ahụ nkịtị, e nwekwara ahụ nke mmụọ.
45 In the same way also it is written, "The first man Adam became a living animal"; the last Adam is a life-giving Spirit.
E dere ya, “Mmadụ mbụ, bụ Adam, ghọrọ mkpụrụobi dị ndụ, Adam nke ikpeazụ bụ mmụọ na-enye ndụ.”
46 Nevertheless, it is not what is spiritual that came first, but what is animal; what is spiritual came afterwards.
Ma mmụọ e bughị ụzọ, kama ọ bụ ahụ nkịtị, ma mmụọ bịara nʼikpeazụ.
47 The first man is a man of earth, earthy; the second man is from Heaven.
Mmadụ nke nwoke sitere nʼala, ejikwa aja kpụọ ya; mmadụ nke abụọ si nʼeluigwe bịa.
48 What the earthy one is, that also are those who are earthy; and what the heavenly One is, that also are those who are heavenly.
Dị ka mmadụ nke mbụ ahụ e jiri aja kpụọ dị, otu a ka ndị niile si nʼaja pụta dịkwa. Ma dị ka mmadụ nke eluigwe ahụ dị, otu a ka ndị niile bụ ụmụ eluigwe dịkwa.
49 And as we have borne a resemblance to the earthy one, let us see to it that we also bear a resemblance to the heavenly One.
Dịka anyị niile yikwasịrị onyinyo nke nwoke e jiri aja kpụọ, otu ahụkwa ka anyị ga-esi yikwasị onyinyo nke nwoke nke eluigwe.
50 But this I tell you, brethren: our mortal bodies cannot inherit the Kingdom of God, nor will what is perishable inherit what is imperishable.
Ihe m na-ekwu, ụmụnna m, bụ na anụ ahụ na ọbara enweghị ike iketa alaeze Chineke. Ihe na-ere ure agaghịkwa eketa ereghị ure.
51 I tell you a truth hitherto kept secret: we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
Ma geenụ ntị ka m gwa unu ihe omimi a! Ọ bụghị anyị niile na-aga ịnwụ, kama, a ga-enye anyị anụ ahụ ọhụrụ nke pụrụ iche.
52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the sounding of the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incapable of decay, and we shall be changed.
Nʼotu mgbe, nʼotu ntabi anya, mgbe a ga-afụ opi ike ikpeazụ. Nʼihi na opi ga-ada, a ga-eme ka ndị nwụrụ anwụ si nʼọnwụ bilite na-ereghị ure. A ga-agbanwekwa anyị.
53 For so it must be: this perishable nature must clothe itself with what is imperishable, and this mortality must clothe itself with immortality.
Nʼihi na a ghaghị ịgbanwe anụ ahụ anyị a nke na-anwụ anwụ, nyekwa anyị ahụ nke na-agaghị anwụ ọzọ.
54 But when this perishable nature has put on what is imperishable, and this mortality has put on immortality, then will the words of Scripture be fulfilled, "Death has been swallowed up in victory."
Mgbe ahụ nke a pụrụ ire ure ga-eyikwasị ereghị ure, nke a pụrụ ịnwụ anwụ ga-eyikwasị anwụghị anwụ. Mgbe ahụ, okwu ahụ e dere nʼakwụkwọ nsọ ga-emezu, okwu ahụ sịrị, “Elomiela ọnwụ, meriekwa ike ya niile.”
“Ọnwụ, olee ebe mmeri gị dị? Ọnwụ, olee ebe ihe ụfụ gị dị?” (Hadēs g86)
56 Now sin is the sting of death, and sin derives its power from the Law;
Nʼihi na ihe ahụ ọnwụ ji agbata mmadụ bụ mmehie, ma ihe na-enye mmehie ike bụ iwu.
57 but God be thanked who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!
Ka ekele dịrị Chineke onye na-enye anyị mmeri site nʼOnyenwe anyị Jisọs Kraịst.
58 Therefore, my dear brethren, be firm, unmovable, busily occupied at all times in the Lord's work, knowing that your toil is not fruitless in the Lord.
Ya mere, ụmụnna m ndị m hụrụ nʼanya, kwụsienụ ike, bụrụnụ akwaa akwụrụ. Nọgidenụ nʼọrụ Onyenwe anyị mgbe niile, ebe unu maara na ọrụ unu na-arụ nʼime Onyenwe anyị abụghị ihe efu.
