1 Corinthians 4

1 So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants and stewards of God’s mysteries.

Lanwani li pundi ban ya nua ti ke ti tie Kilisiti naacenba. U Tienu n puogi yaaba ban ya wangi o bondoaginkaala.

2 Here, moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.

Bi ya puogi o nilo li tuonli, ban lingi yaala o kani tie wan ya tie nidugika.

3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by a human court. Yes, I don’t even judge my own self.

Mini yaapo, yi ya jia npo ti buudi, laa tie npo liba. Li bali danba mo ya ya jia nni ti buudi laa tie npo liba.

4 For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

Mini nba mo ki jia n yuli buudi. Npali siedi mo ki bu leni nni liba kuli po. Ama lani ka doagidi ki sa n po imoamoani. Yua n jia n buudi tie o Diedo.

5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

Lanyaapo yin da ja ti buudi liba kuli po hali ke li yogunu daa pundi. Ya gu mani o Diedo cuama, wani yua n baa yendi yaala n wuo li biigili nni, ki go doagidi yaala n den wuo a pala nni. Laa yogunu nilo kuli baa baa U Tienu kani lan pundi wan baa ya pagidi.

6 Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.

N kpiiba n maadi mini leni apolosa maama na nani mi kpanjama yeni, ki baa todi yi yin bandi tikani ki da pendi yaala n diani ki bili ya bianu. Min maadi yaala tie ke yin da pia ti japaadi ki kpiagi niyendo ki fali o lielo.

7 For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

Hme teni ke a cie a lieba? A pia be ke U Tienu ka puni a? Li ya tie yeni, be n teni ke a kpiagi a yuli nani U Tienu ka puni a la yeni?

8 You are already filled. You have already become rich. You have come to reign without us. Yes, and I wish that you did reign, that we also might reign with you!

Moala ke yi pia ke li dagidi! Moala ke yi tua piada! Yi cili ki diedi ke tii ye lienni. N bi sugini yin bi ya die moamoani, ke ti moko bi baa taani leni yi ki ya die.

9 For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

Ama li tie npo nani U Tienu bili ke tinba o tondiba n ya tie puoli yaaba, nani yaaba ya buudi n kadi ke bi baa kpa yeni. Kelima bi sieni ti asala nni handuna, malekinba leni bi nisaaliba kuli nuni po.

10 We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

Tinba ti tie yanluodanba kelima wani kilisiti yaapo, ama yinba wani tie yanfodanba kilisiti nni. Ti tadi, ama yinba wani pa. Bi kpiadi yinba ama bi yuandi tinba.

11 Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.

Hali moala ti ye leni mi koma leni ñunñuunu leni ti cadi leni ti puadi ke ti go tie lianliama.

12 We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.

Ti tuuni leni ti nii hali ki coagi. Bi niba ya sugi ti, ti gaali ba. Bi ya waani ti fala, ti juuni.

13 Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.

Bi ya kuli ti, ti guani ba leni mi madingima. Ti tie nani handuna baadi yeni, ki tie nani bi niba kuli n lu yaala hali moala

14 I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

Laa tie ke n bua ki fiagi yi ka ke n diani yipo, ama n tuodi ki tundi yi kelima yi tie n bibuadimu.

15 For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, you don’t have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.

To baa yi ya pia gobidikaaba tudapiiga kilisiti nni, yii pia baanda wani boncianla.

16 I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.

Lanwani yin mia yi ki tundi yi ke yin ya hua ya fuuli.

17 Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.

Lanyaapo yo ke n soani Timote yikani yua n tie n bibuadiga ki tie nidugika o Diedo nni. O baa tiadi yi min hua kilisiti maama, nani min bangi kilisiti nitaana ya ye i kani kuli maama.

18 Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.

Yi siiga bi nitianba fiini ti japaadi ki tama ke n kan go cua yikani.

19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is willing. And I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.

To, o Diedo ya bua, n baa cua yikani ke li kan waagi. Lanwani n kan bandi bi japaadanba yeni maadi ya maama bebe ka, n baa bandi ban pia ya paalu tie yu.

20 For God’s Kingdom is not in word, but in power.

Kelima U Tienu n diema naa doagidi mi maama nni bebe ka, ama u paalu nni.

21 What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?

Yi bua be? Ke min cua yikani leni u febu bi? Bi min cua leni mi buama leni li padigile?