1 Corinthians 1
1 Paul, called to be an Apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God--and our brother Sosthenes:
Njame Paulo walakwiwa kuba mutumwa wa Klistu Yesu kwelana ne kuyanda kwa Lesa. Ndili pamo ne mukwetu Sositene.
2 To the Church of God in Corinth, men and women consecrated in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all in every place who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ-- their Lord as well as ours.
Tulalembelenga njamwe mubungano wa bantu bashoma Lesa bali mu Kolinto, Lesa walamusala kuba bakendi muli Yesu Klistu kayi, ne kuba baswepa pamo ne bantu bonse bali mumisena yonse, abo bonse balakunga pa Lina lya Mwami Yesu Klistu Mwami wabo nenjafwe eMwami wetu.
3 May grace and peace be granted to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Kwina moyo ne lumuno lwa Lesa Ishetu ne Mwami Yesu Klistu bibe palinjamwe.
4 I thank my God continually on your behalf for the grace of God bestowed on you in Christ Jesus--
Cindi conse ndalumbunga Lesa wakame cebo canjamwe pa kwina moyo kwakendi nshalamulesha muli Klistu Yesu.
5 that you have been so richly blessed in Him, with readiness of speech and fulness of knowledge.
Pacebo cakuba muli Klistu, Lesa lamuleleke mubintu byonse mbuli mung'ambilo ne lwinshibo.
6 Thus my testimony as to the Christ has been confirmed in your experience,
Makani alambanga sha Klistu alabonekele kuba ancine ncine mulinjamwe.
7 so that there is no gift of God in which you consciously come short while patiently waiting for the reappearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Pacebo cilico, paliya cipo naba cimo ncemwabula pacino cindi mpomulapembelelenga kwisa kwa Mwami wetu Yesu Klistu.
8 who will also keep you stedfast to the very End, so that you will be free from reproach on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Lesa nakamuyuminishe mpaka kumapwililisho kwambeti pabusuba bwakwisa Mwami wetu Yesu Klistu mukacanike babula kampenda.
9 God is ever true to His promises, and it was by Him that you were, one and all, called into fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ, our Lord.
Lesa washomeka pakwinga endiye walamukuweti mube pamo mu Mwanendi Yesu Klistu Mwami wetu.
10 Now I entreat you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to cultivate a spirit of harmony--all of you--and that there be no divisions among you, but rather a perfect union through your having one mind and one judgement.
Lino ndamusengenga mobanse mu Lina lya Mwami wetu Yesu Klistu kwambeti kamusuminishananga kapatabanga kupansana pakati penu, kamunyumfwananga cakupwililila, muyeyo umo, ne nshila imo yakwinshilamo bintu.
11 For I have been distinctly informed, my brethren, about you by Chloe's people, that there are dissensions among you.
Pakwinga nabambi bansebendi Kuloyi balang'ambileti mulalondolonga.
12 What I mean is that each of you is a partisan. One man says "I belong to Paul;" another "I belong to Apollos;" a third "I belong to Peter;" a fourth "I belong to Christ."
Ncendambanga nici, uliyense palinjamwe lambanga shakendi, umbi lambangeti, “Ame ndakonkelenga Paulo.” Naumbi lambangeti, “Ame ndakonkelenga Apolo.” Naumbi lambangeti, “Ame ndakonkelenga Petulo.” “Kayi naumbi lambangeti, ame ndakonkelenga Klistu.”
13 Is the Christ in fragments? Is it Paul who was crucified on your behalf? Or were you baptized to be Paul's adherents?
Sena Klistu layabaniki? Sena ni Paulo walapopwa pacebo cenu? Sena mwalabatishiwa mulina lya Paulo?
14 I thank God that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius--
Ndalumbunga Lesa kwambeti paliya naba umo mulinjamwe ngondalabatisha, ame ndalabatishowa Klispo ne Gayo.
15 for fear people should say that you were baptized to be my adherents.
Neco paliya wela kwambeti walabatishiwa mu lina lyakame.
16 I did, however, baptize Stephanas' household also: but I do not think that I baptized any one else.
Nabambi mbondanukako mbondalabatisha ni Stefano ne bakashendi ne banabendi, nkandanukunga kwambeti ndalabatishapo nabambi.
17 Christ did not send me to baptize, but to proclaim the Good News; and not in merely wise words--lest the Cross of Christ should be deprived of its power.
Pakwinga Klistu uliya kuntumapo kuya kubatisha, nsombi kuya kukambauka Mulumbe Waina. Nteko kukambauka kwakulipa maswi amano sobwe, pakwinga ndenseco, ngofu sha lufu lwa Klistu palusanda ngashiyeyelwa kuba shabulyo.
18 For the Message of the Cross is foolishness to those who are on the way to perdition, but it is the power of God to those whom He is saving.
Makani alambanga sha lufu lwa Klistu palusanda nabulyo kulyabo balataikinga, nomba kulinjafwe tulimunshila yakupulushiwa ningofu sha Lesa.
19 For so it stands written, "I will exhibit the nothingness of the wisdom of the wise, and the intelligence of the intelligent I will bring to nought."
Pakwinga Lesa mu Mabala akendi lambangeti, “Ninkononge mano abantu balalibonongeti bacenjela kwambeti buchenjeshi bwa bacenjela nkabutenshika.”
20 Where is your wise man? Where your expounder of the Law? Where your investigator of the questions of this present age? Has not God shown the world's wisdom to be utter foolishness? (aiōn g165)
Inga lino bantu ba mano balalibikinga papeyo? Inga bantu baiya bintu bingi balibikinga papeyo? Inga bantu balatangalanga cebo cakuba nemano apacishi ca panshi nabo balikupeyo? Pakwinga Lesa latuleshe kwambeti mano abantu nabulyo! (aiōn g165)
21 For after the world by its wisdom--as God in His wisdom had ordained--had failed to gain the knowledge of God, God was pleased, by the apparent foolishness of the Message which we preach, to save those who accepted it.
Mu mano a Lesa, bantu bapacishi capanshi calabalila kumwinshiba Lesa kupitila mu mano abo, pakwinga makani ngotulakambaukunga ngobalabononga bantu kuba abulyo, Lesa walakondweti apulushilemo abo bashoma muli endiye.
22 Seeing that Jews demand miracles, and Greeks go in search of wisdom,
Bayuda balayandanga kubona bishikukankamanisha, kakuli balo Bagiliki balayandanga kubona bintu byamano.
23 while we proclaim a Christ who has been crucified--to the Jews a stumbling-block, to Gentiles foolishness,
Nomba afwe tulakambaukunga Klistu walapopwa palusanda, makani awa kuli Bayuda nicisesemyo, kubantu bakunsa balo nabulyo.
24 but to those who have received the Call, whether Jews or Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
Nsombi Bayuda nambi bantu bakunsa abo mbwalakuwa Lesa, bacinshi cena kwambeti Klistu ningofu, kayi emano a Lesa.
25 Because that which the world deems foolish in God is wiser than men's wisdom, and that which it deems feeble in God is mightier than men's might.
Pakwinga ico cilabonekengeti buluya bwa Lesa, capita mano abantu. Kayi ico cilaboneshenga kuba cabula ngofu kuli Lesa, cikute ngofu kupita sha bantu.
26 For consider, brethren, God's call to you. Not many who are wise with merely human wisdom, not many of position and influence, not many of noble birth have been called.
Mobanse bame, kamuyeyani ncemwalikuba mpwalamukuwa Lesa, abo balikuboneka bamano kubantu, kayi bangofu nambi abo balasemwa kubantu balemekwa, nibang'ana pakati penu.
27 But God has chosen the things which the world regards as foolish, in order to put its wise men to shame; and God has chosen the things which the world regards as destitute of influence, in order to put its powerful things to shame;
Neco Lesa walasala bintu ibyo bantu mbyobakute kuyeyeti nibya buluya, kwambeti bipe nsoni bantu ba mano, ne kusala bintu byabula ngofu kwambeti bikape nsoni abo balabonekengeti bakute ngofu.
28 and the things which the world regards as base, and those which it sets utterly at nought--things that have no existence--God has chosen in order to reduce to nothing things that do exist;
Kayi Lesa walasala bintu byabula kulemekwa nambi byabula mpuwo kwambeti abo bakute kuboneka balemekwa babe babulyo pacebo ca bintu byabo bya bula kumutwi.
29 to prevent any mortal man from boasting in the presence of God.
Neco paliya muntu wela kulisumpula pamenso a Lesa.
30 But you--and it is all God's doing--are in Christ Jesus: He has become for us a wisdom which is from God, consisting of righteousness and sanctification and deliverance;
Lesa mwine ewalayanda kwambeti amwe mube pamo muli Klistu nendi abe mumano etu, walatutwala pamenso a Lesa mubululami, walatuswepesha ne kutusungulula.
31 in order that it may be as Scripture says, "He who boasts--let his boast be in the Lord."
Neco mbuli Mabala a Lesa ncalambangeti, “Uyo layandanga kulisumpula alisumpule kwelana ne ncalensa Mwami.”
