1 Korintofo 15
1 Afei anuanom, mepɛ sɛ mekae mo adwene fa Asɛmpa a meka kyerɛɛ mo no a mugye too mu, nam so maa mo gyidi mu yɛɛ den no ho.
But let me recall to you, brethren, the Good News which I brought you, which you accepted, and on which you are standing,
2 Ɛno ne Asɛmpa a meka kyerɛɛ mo no. Sɛ mukura asɛmpa yi mu dennen a, mubenya nkwa; gye sɛ moannye anni.
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.
3 Mekaa asɛm a metee a ɛho hia yiye no kyerɛɛ mo se, yɛn bɔne nti na Kristo wui, sɛnea wɔakyerɛw no Kyerɛwsɛm no mu se
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;
4 wosiee no, na ne nnansa so no, ɔsɔre fii awufo mu sɛnea Kyerɛwsɛm no ka no,
that He was buried; that He rose to life again on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,
5 ɔdaa ne ho adi kyerɛɛ Petro ne asomafo dumien no nyinaa.
and was seen by Peter, and then by the Twelve.
6 Afei mpofirim, ɔdaa ne ho adi kyerɛɛ nʼakyidifo bɛboro ahannum a wɔn mu bi te ase na wɔn mu bi nso awuwu.
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.
7 Afei oyii ne ho adi kyerɛɛ Yakobo ne asomafo no nyinaa.
Afterwards He was seen by James, and then by all the Apostles.
8 Akyiri no koraa na oyii ne ho adi kyerɛɛ me a meyɛ obi a wɔanwo me ntɛm.
And last of all, as to one of untimely birth, He appeared to me also.
9 Meyɛ obi a misua koraa wɔ asomafo no mu na memfata mpo sɛ wɔfrɛ me ɔsomafo efisɛ metaa Onyankopɔn asafo.
For I am the least of the Apostles, and am not fit to be called an Apostle--because I persecuted the Church of God.
10 Nanso Onyankopɔn adom nti, mete sɛnea mete no ara na adom a ɔde dom me no aboa me yiye. Ama matumi ayɛ adwuma dennen asen asomafo a aka no nyinaa a emfi mʼankasa mʼahoɔden mu, na mmom Onyankopɔn adom no na ɛredi dwuma wɔ me mu.
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.
11 Enti sɛ efi me anaa efi wɔn no, Asɛmpa a yɛn nyinaa ka ni, na ɛno nso na mugye di.
But whether it is I or they, this is the way we preach and the way that you came to believe.
12 Afei sɛnea Asɛmpa no ka sɛ wɔama Kristo asɔre afi awufo mu no, adɛn na mo mu bi tumi ka se wɔrentumi mma awufo nsɔre?
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?
13 Sɛ saa yɛ nokware de a, na ɛkyerɛ sɛ wɔamma Kristo ansɔre amfi awufo mu.
If there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead, then Christ Himself has not risen to life.
14 Na sɛ wɔamma Kristo ansɔre amfi awufo mu a, na ɛkyerɛ sɛ, yenni asɛm biara ka, na mo nso munni asɛm biara a mubegye adi.
And if Christ has not risen, it follows that what we preach is a delusion, and that your faith also is a delusion.
15 Ɛno akyi koraa na ɛkyerɛ sɛ, yɛredi atoro afa Onyankopɔn ho, efisɛ yɛka se ɔno na onyan Kristo fii awufo mu. Na sɛ awufo ntumi nsɔre a, ɛno de na wɔamma Kristo nso ansɔre amfi awufo mu.
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.
16 Sɛ awufo ntumi nsɔre a, na Kristo nso ansɔre.
For if none of the dead are raised to life, then Christ has not risen;
17 Na sɛ wɔamma Kristo ansɔre amfi awufo mu a, na mo gyidi no yɛ nnaadaa, na moda so yera wɔ mo bɔne mu.
and if Christ has not risen, your faith is a vain thing--you are still in your sins.
18 Ɛsan kyerɛ sɛ, wɔn a na wogye Kristo di a wɔawuwu no ayera.
It follows also that those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
19 Na sɛ yɛn anidaso wɔ Kristo mu no ye ma saa asetena yi nko ara a, ɛno de na yɛyɛ mmɔbɔ sen obiara a ɔwɔ wiase ha.
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.
20 Nanso nokware a ɛwɔ mu ne sɛ, wɔama Kristo asɔre afi awufo mu de ahyɛ mo den sɛ wɔn a wɔadeda wɔ owu mu no, wɔbɛma wɔasɔresɔre.
But, in reality, Christ has risen from among the dead, being the first to do so of those who are asleep.
21 Na sɛnea owu nam onipa so bae no, saa ara nso na owusɔre nam onipa so ba.
For seeing that death came through man, through man comes also the resurrection of the dead.
22 Owu nam Adam so baa yɛn nyinaa so; saa ara nso na Kristo de nkwa brɛɛ yɛn nyinaa.
For just as through Adam all die, so also through Christ all will be made alive again.
23 Nanso, biribiara bɛyɛ nnidiso nnidiso a Kristo na obedi kan, na sɛ Kristo di kan ba bio a, wɔn a wɔyɛ ne de no nso adi akyi.
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.
24 Afei, sɛ Kristo sɛe ahonhom mu atumfo ahoɔden ne tumi nyinaa a, awiei no bɛba, na ɔde Ahenni no ama Onyankopɔn a ɔyɛ Agya no.
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.
25 Efisɛ ɛsɛ sɛ Kristo di hene kosi sɛ obedi nʼatamfo nyinaa so na ɔde wɔn ahyɛ nʼanan ase.
For He must continue King until He shall have put all His enemies under His feet.
26 Ɔtamfo a obedi ne so atwa to ne owu.
The last enemy that is to be overthrown is Death;
27 Sɛ Kyerɛwsɛm no ka se, “Ɔde nneɛma nyinaa bɛhyɛ ne tumi ase a,” wɔmmfa Onyankopɔn nka ho. Ɛyɛ Onyankopɔn na ɔde nneɛma nyinaa hyɛɛ Kristo tumi ase.
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.
28 Na sɛ wɔde nneɛma nyinaa hyɛ Kristo tumi ase a, ɔno ankasa a ɔyɛ Ɔba no de ne ho bɛhyɛ Onyankopɔn a ɔde nneɛma nyinaa hyɛɛ ne Ba no tumi ase no ase; na Onyankopɔn adi biribiara so.
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.
29 Sɛ owusɔre nni hɔ a, anka wɔn a wɔbɔ awufo din bɔ asu no bɛyɛ dɛn? Wɔn adwene ne dɛn? Sɛ ɛyɛ nokware sɛ nea wɔka se, wonnyan awufo mma nkwa mu a, adɛn nti na wɔbɔ awufo din bɔ wɔn asu?
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?
30 Na adɛn na dɔnhwerew biara yɛde yɛn ho to amane mu?
Why also do we Apostles expose ourselves to danger every hour?
31 Anuanom, da biara mihyia owu. Esiane Yesu nti, ahohoahoa a mewɔ wɔ mo mu no na ɛma meka eyi.
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.
32 Na sɛ ako a me ne “nkekammoa” dii wɔ Efeso no mu anidaso mmoro nnipa de so a anka dɛn na manya? Na sɛ wonnyan awufo mma nkwa mu a, ɛno de “Momma yennidi na yɛnnom, efisɛ ɔkyena yebewu” sɛnea wɔka no.
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.
33 “Mommma wɔnnnaadaa mo. Nkɔmmɔ bɔne sɛe ɔbra pa.”
Do not deceive yourselves: "Evil companionships corrupt good morals."
34 Momma mo ani mmra mo ho so sɛnea ɛsɛ na mumfi mo akwammɔne no so. Meka eyi de hyɛ mo aniwu sɛ mo mu ebinom nnim Onyankopɔn.
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.
35 Obi bebisa se, “Ɛbɛyɛ dɛn na wobetumi ama awufo asɔre aba nkwa mu? Wɔde nipaduasu bɛn na ɛbɛba?”
But some one will say, "How can the dead rise? And with what kind of body do they come back?"
36 Ɔkwasea! Sɛ wodua aba wɔ fam a, gye sɛ ewu ansa na afifi.
Foolish man! the seed you yourself sow has no life given to it unless it first dies;
37 Na nea wodua wɔ fam no yɛ aba kɛkɛ; ebia ɛyɛ ɔmo aba anaa aba foforo a ɛnyɛ afifide no a wɔatu atɛw a, ebenyin.
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,
38 Bɔbea a Onyankopɔn adwene ho sɛ ɔpɛ sɛ ɔde bɔ aba no na ɔde bɔ no; ɔma aba biara bɔbea a ɛfata no.
and to each kind of seed a body of its own.
39 Honam a ɛkata ateasefo ho no nyinaa nyɛ honam koro. Nnipa wɔ honam baako; mmoa wɔ wɔn de; nnomaa wɔ wɔn de na nsumnam nso wɔ wɔn de.
All flesh is not the same: there is human flesh, and flesh of cattle, of birds, and of fishes.
40 Ɔsoro nipadua wɔ hɔ na fam nipadua nso wɔ hɔ. Ahoɔfɛ bi wɔ hɔ ma ɔsoro nipadua nko ara, na ahoɔfɛ bi nso wɔ hɔ ma fam nipadua.
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.
41 Owia wɔ nʼankasa ahoɔfɛ. Ɔsram wɔ ne de nko; nsoromma ahoɔfɛ gu ahorow; na nsoromma no mu nso wɔwɔ ahoɔfɛsu ahorow.
There is one glory of the sun, another of the moon, and another of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.
42 Sɛ wɔma awufo sɔre ba nkwa mu a, saa ara na ɛbɛba. Sɛ wosie nipadua no a, ɛporɔw; wɔma ɛsɔre nso a ɛmporɔw.
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;
43 Sɛ wosie nipadua a, ɛyɛ tan na ɛyɛ mmerɛw, nanso sɛ wɔma ɛsɔre a, ɛyɛ fɛ na enya ahoɔden.
it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power;
44 Sɛ wosie nipadua no a, ɛyɛ honam, na sɛ wɔma ɛsɔre a, ɛyɛ honhom. Ɔhonam wɔ hɔ enti ɛsɛ sɛ honhom nso wɔ hɔ.
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.
45 Kyerɛwsɛm no ka se, “Na Adam a odi kan no yɛ onipa teasefo” nanso Adam a otwa to no yɛ Honhom a ɔma nkwa.
In the same way also it is written, "The first man Adam became a living animal"; the last Adam is a life-giving Spirit.
46 Ɛnyɛ honhom muni na ɔbaa kan. Ɔbaa wɔ nea okura honam fam nipadua no akyi.
Nevertheless, it is not what is spiritual that came first, but what is animal; what is spiritual came afterwards.
47 Wɔde fam mfutuma na ɛbɔɔ Adam a odi kan no. Adam a ɔto so abien no fi ɔsoro.
The first man is a man of earth, earthy; the second man is from Heaven.
48 Wɔn a wɔte asase so no te sɛ nea wɔde dɔte bɔɔ no no; na wɔn a wɔyɛ ɔsoro mma no te sɛ wɔn a wofi ɔsoro.
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.
49 Sɛnea yɛte sɛ nnipa a wɔde dɔte bɔɔ yɛn no, saa ara na yɛbɛyɛ sɛ onipa a ofi ɔsoro no.
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.
50 Anuanom, nea mepɛ sɛ mekyerɛ ne sɛ, nea wɔde honam ne mogya ayɛ no nni kyɛfa wɔ Onyankopɔn ahenni no mu; na nea ɛporɔw no ntumi ntena hɔ.
But this I tell you, brethren: our mortal bodies cannot inherit the Kingdom of God, nor will what is perishable inherit what is imperishable.
51 Muntie saa ahintasɛm yi: Yɛn nyinaa renwu, nanso bere tiaa bi mu, wɔbɛsakra yɛn nyinaa;
I tell you a truth hitherto kept secret: we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 sɛ torobɛnto a etwa to no bɔ a, nsakrae no bɛyɛ anibuei. Sɛ ɛbɔ a, awufo bɛdan ateasefo na yɛn nyinaa bɛsakra.
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.
53 Na nea ɛporɔw no de nea ɛmporɔw akata ne ho, na nea ewu no de nea enwu akata ne ho.
For so it must be: this perishable nature must clothe itself with what is imperishable, and this mortality must clothe itself with immortality.
54 Enti nea ɛporɔw de nea ɛmporɔw kata ne ho na nea ebewu de nea ɛrenwu kata ne ho a, Kyerɛwsɛm no bɛba mu se, “Wɔasɛe owu; nkonim aba!”
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."
"Where, O death, is thy victory? Where, O death, is thy sting?" (Hadēs g86)
56 Owu nya ne tumi fi bɔne mu na bɔne nso nya ne tumi fi mmara no mu.
Now sin is the sting of death, and sin derives its power from the Law;
57 Nanso yɛda Onyankopɔn a ɔnam yɛn Awurade Yesu Kristo so ma yɛn tumi no ase!
but God be thanked who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!
58 Enti me nuanom, munnyina pintinn. Mommma biribiara nhinhim mo. Da biara monyɛ Awurade adwuma, efisɛ munim sɛ moyɛ Awurade adwuma a ɛrenyɛ ɔkwa da.
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.
