1 Corinthians 4
1 So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants and stewards of God’s mysteries.
Ite uu umuntu wakualye use, anga keitumi ang'wa Kilisto neilhiwa niaunkunku wa tai ang'wi Tunda.
2 Here, moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.
Mueli ite, nilitakewe muilihwa inge kina atule akuhuelwa.
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.
Kuite kung'waane unene inge kintu kiniino kukila, kutula kulamulwa nunyenye angwi ulamulwi nuakiuntu. Kunsoko singa kilamuiilya nunene gaa.
4 For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.
Singakilamuilya uneneeudu, ite kutile anga ndogoilyo kina unene nkite tai. Itunda winamuilya.
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.
Kuite gwa, muleke kutambula lehi kulamula imatungo angeze akili kupika, nuakile kiza Umukulu. Ukumaleta muyelu imakani nipihile muhili nukukunukula uulimeili nuamunkolo. Uu kukila ung'wi ukusengilya lukumo lakwe kupuma kung'wi Tunda.
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.
Itungo ile, akaka niadada ane, unene lukulu nu Apolo nkiiteye inzila iye kunsoko anyu. Inge kina kupuma kitaitu mukusaga kumanya indogoilyo antambu, “Uleke kenda kukila anga nikiandekilwe.” Iki inge kina kutile anga nung'wi wanyu nukihumbula kumuya.
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?
Indogoilyo nyenyu nuine kuhita kimpana kung'wanyu numuya? Ukete ntuni nusinga usingieye nekanda? Ang'wi wasingilya nekanda, kuniki mukihumbula anga shanga mutendile itee?
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!
Akonda kulula mukete ehi aya nemutakile! Yakonda kulula miagole! Manza utemi nukikie lukulu kukila usese! Tai, numutakie utemi uza inge kina kutemye palung'we nunye.
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.
Kuite nsegile Itunda ukuekile usese anga keitumi kualagiila impelo nalukilili nuakandamana hange ang'wi iantu nae alamuewe kubulagwa. Katula anga kilumbi muunkumbigulu, kuamalaika niantu.
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.
Use kiapungu kunsoko ang'wa Kilisto, kuite unye mukete ikulye mung'wa Kilisto. Kiakia, kuile unye mukete ingulu. Mukuiigwe kuite usese kumeilwe.
11 Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.
Inge nitungo ele kukete nzala ni nyota, kiagila iang'wenda, kukete mapigo, nikange kiagila anga wikalo.
12 We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.
Kuituma imilemo kungulu, kumekono itu usese. Nekumeilwe, kukakembeta. Imatungo nikuagigwa, hakigigimeilya.
13 Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.
Nekuutukilwa, kikasusha kuupolo. Kakula, hange kukile kuaigwe kulula anga kuhitilwe nuunkumbigulu nemumakani ehi.
14 I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
Singa nimaandekile imakani aya kumuhumya munyala unye, kuite kumusukila unyenye anga mianino ana nenemoloilwe.
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.
Hatize anga mukete amanyisi makumi anzugu mung'wa Kilisto, miagila iatata nudu. Kunsoko natula nitata wanyu mung'wa Yesu Kilisto kukiila utananti.
16 I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.
Ite kumupepeelya mumbige unene.
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.
Iyi yeyi nsoko akumtuma u Timoteo, mulowa nuane hange mung'endya numuhueli Mumukulu. Ukumukembusha inzila yane mung'wa Kilisto, anga ninimanyisa kukela ikianza hange kela itekeelo.
18 Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.
Itungo ile ang'wi anyu akihumbula, akutenda anga singa nzile kung'waanyu.
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.
Kiute nzila kitalanyu pakupe, anga Umukulu walowe. Ulu niikiza nkani yaoudu neendi humbula, Kuite kumiona engulu ao.
20 For God’s Kingdom is not in word, but in power.
Kunsoko utemi wang'wi Tunda wikitile munkani inge mungulu.
21 What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?
Mutakile ntunii? Neze numulanga nee kitalanyu ang'wi kuuluwa nikunkolo naupolo.
