1 Corinthians 1
1 Polo, mu luzolo lu Nzambi, wutelo muba mvuala wu Yesu Klisto ayi khomba Sositeni
Paul, called to be an Apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God--and our brother Sosthenes:
2 bafidisidi mboti kuidi Dibundu di Nzambi didi ku Kolinto, kuidi bawu bobo babieko nlongo mu kithuadi mu Yesu Klisto ayi bawu batelo muba banlongo ayi kuidi bobo badi mu kioso-kioso buangu bansambilanga Pfumu eto Yesu Klisto, Pfumu awu ayi Pfumu eto beto mamveto.
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.
3 Bika nlemvo ayi ndembama bibedi kuidi Nzambi, Dise dieto, ayi kuidi Pfumu eto Yesu Klisto bibanga yeno.
May grace and peace be granted to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
4 Minu ndimvutulanga matondo mu zithangu zioso kuidi Nzambi ama mu diambu dieno, mu diambu di nlemvo andi wowo kaluvana mu Klisto Yesu.
I thank my God continually on your behalf for the grace of God bestowed on you in Christ Jesus--
5 Bila mu niandi beno lufulusu mu kimvuama mu mambu moso, mu thubulu ayi mu diela
that you have been so richly blessed in Him, with readiness of speech and fulness of knowledge.
6 boso bu monikina kimbangi ki Klisto mu beno.
Thus my testimony as to the Christ has been confirmed in your experience,
7 Diawu, buabu kadi dikaba dimosi di nlemvo wu Nzambi dikambulu mu beno bu lulembo vingila thangu Pfumu eto Yesu Klisto kela monika.
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,
8 Niandi veka wela kulukindisa nate kuna tsukulu, mu diambu di lukambu tsembolo mu lumbu ki Pfumu eto Yesu Klisto.
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.
9 Nzambi, yoyi yilutela mu kithuadi mu Muanꞌandi Yesu Klisto, Pfumu eto, widi wukuikama.
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.
10 Bakhomba baama, minu ndikululeba, mu dizina di Pfumu eto Yesu Klisto, luzingilanga mu nguizani yimboti mu beno na beno ayi zikhabunu zibika ba mu beno. Vayi luba mu kithuadi mu mabanza mamosi ayi mu mayindu mamosi.
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.
11 Bila, bakhomba ziama, bakhembi kuidi batu bamvuandanga ku nzo Klowe ti ziphaka ziwombo zidi mu beno.
For I have been distinctly informed, my brethren, about you by Chloe's people, that there are dissensions among you.
12 Vayi tala mambu thidi tuba: kadika mutu mu beno weti tuba: “Minu mu dikabu di Polo ndidi”; voti “Minu mu dikabu di Apolo ndidi”; voti diaka: “Minu mu dikabu di Piela ndidi”; voti diaka “Minu mu dikabu di Klisto ndidi.”
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."
13 Klisto wuvasuka kadi e? A buevi, Polo niandi wubandu va dikulusi mu diambu dieno? Voti mu dizina di Polo lubotimina e?
Is the Christ in fragments? Is it Paul who was crucified on your behalf? Or were you baptized to be Paul's adherents?
14 Minu ndimvutula matondo bu ndikambu botika kadi mutu wumosi mu beno, botula kaka Kilisipusi ayi Ngayusi;
I thank God that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius--
15 muingi mutu kabika tuba ti mu dizina diama kabotimina.
for fear people should say that you were baptized to be my adherents.
16 Ndiedi kazimbakana, ndibuela botika nzo yi Sitefanasi. Botula kaka bobo, ndikadi buela zaba kani ndibotika diaka mutu wunkaka.
I did, however, baptize Stephanas' household also: but I do not think that I baptized any one else.
17 Bila Klisto kasia kumfidisa mu diambu di botika ko vayi mu diambu di longa Nsamu Wumboti, bika sia ti mu diela di kimutu muingi dikulusi di Klisto dibika ba dikambu lulendo.
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.
18 Malongi ma lufua lu Klisto vo dikulusi madi mambu ma buvungisi kuidi bawu bazimbala; vayi kuidi beto tuvuka, madi mambu ma lulendo lu Nzambi.
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.
19 Bila disonama ti: Minu ndiela bivisa nduenga yi batu banduenga ayi ndiela sukisa diela di batu badiela.
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."
20 Buna kuevi kuidi mutu widi nduenga? Nsoniki kuevi kadi? Mfindisi wu ziphaka mu thangu yayi kuevi kadi? Nzambi kasi kitula nduenga yi ntoto wawu buvungisi ko? (aiōn g165)
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)
21 Bila ntoto wawu wusia nunga ko mu zaba Nzambi mu nzila yi nduenga yi ntoto. Diawu, dizolakana kuidi Nzambi mu vukisa batu bobo banwilukilanga mu nzila yi buvungisi bu ndongolo yi Nsamu Wumboti.
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.
22 Bayuda bawu bikumu bantomba vayi Bangeleki bawu nduenga bantomba,
Seeing that Jews demand miracles, and Greeks go in search of wisdom,
23 vayi beto Klisto wubandu va dikulusi tueti longa. Bayuda balembo moni diawu diambu di mfiti vayi didi diambu di buvungisi kuidi Bangeleki.
while we proclaim a Christ who has been crucified--to the Jews a stumbling-block, to Gentiles foolishness,
24 Vayi mu diambu di bobo Nzambi katelo, buba Bayuda voti Bandeleki, Klisto niandi lulendo lu Nzambi ayi nduenga yi Nzambi.
but to those who have received the Call, whether Jews or Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
25 Bila “buvungisi” bu Nzambi bulutidi batu mu nduenga ayi lebakana ku Nzambi kulutidi batu mu ngolo.
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.
26 Zikhomba, lutala bumboti lutelo lueno; batu ba nduenga mu nsuni basia ba ko bawombo; batu banneni ba lulendo basi bawombo ko ayi batu ba luzitusu basi bawombo ko.
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.
27 Vayi Nzambi wusobula mambu mammonikanga ma buvungisi ma ntoto mu diambu di fuisa batu banduenga tsoni; ayi wusobula mambu ma lebakana ma ntoto mu diambu di fuisa mambu manneni tsoni.
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;
28 Nzambi wusobula mambu ma kambulu mfunu, momo ntoto keti lenza; momo makambulu, mu diambu di vunza momo madi.
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;
29 Muingi mutu kabika kukiniemisa va meso ma Nzambi;
to prevent any mortal man from boasting in the presence of God.
30 Bila, mu diambu diandi beno luididi mu Klisto Yesu; mutu wowo Nzambi kakitula mutu wu nduenga, mutu wusonga, wunlongo ayi khudulu,
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;
31 mu diambu di kinzika boso busonimina mu Minkanda ti: Enati mutu tidi kukiniemisa
in order that it may be as Scripture says, "He who boasts--let his boast be in the Lord."
