1 Bakolinto 2

1 Yango wana bandeko, tango ngai mpe nayaki epai na bino mpo na kosakola mabombami ya Nzambe, nasalelaki te boyebi makasi ya koloba to ya bwanya.

When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.

2 Pamba te, wana nazalaki elongo na bino, nazwaki mokano ya koluka koyeba likambo mosusu te, longola kaka Yesu-Klisto mpe Yesu-Klisto oyo babakaki na ekulusu.

For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

3 Mpe tango nayaki epai na bino, nazalaki kati na bolembu, na kobanga mpe na kolenga.

I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.

4 Maloba mpe mateya na ngai ewutaki te na maloba ya bwanya ya bomoto mpo na kondimisa bino, kasi ewutaki na kotalisama ya Molimo mpe ya nguya,

My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

5 mpo ete moboko ya kondima na bino ezala te bwanya ya bomoto, kasi ezala nde nguya ya Nzambe.

that your faith wouldn’t stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

6 Nzokande, toteyaka bwanya epai ya Baklisto oyo bakemba na kondima; mpe bwanya yango ezali ya mokili oyo te to mpe ya bakonzi ya tango oyo te, oyo babongisami mpo na libebi. (aiōn g165)

We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown, yet a wisdom not of this world nor of the rulers of this world who are coming to nothing. (aiōn g165)

7 Te! Toteyaka nde mabombami ya bwanya ya Nzambe, bwanya oyo ebombama na miso ya bato ya mokili, bwanya oyo Nzambe abongisa mpo na nkembo na biso, liboso ete akela mokili. (aiōn g165)

But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory, (aiōn g165)

8 Kati na bakonzi ya mokili oyo, moko te asosolaki yango; pamba te soki basosolaki yango, balingaki te kobaka Nkolo ya nkembo na ekulusu. (aiōn g165)

which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn’t have crucified the Lord of glory. (aiōn g165)

9 Kasi, kolanda ndenge ekomama: « Oyo liso etikala nanu komona te, oyo litoyi etikala nanu koyoka te, mpe oyo moto atikala nanu kokanisa te kati na motema na ye, yango nde Nzambe abongisi mpo na bato oyo balingaka Ye. »

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

10 Nzokande, Nzambe atalisaki biso yango na nzela ya Molimo na Ye; pamba te Molimo ayebaka nyonso, ezala bozindo ya makanisi ya Nzambe.

But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.

11 Nani kati na bato ayebi makanisi ya moto, soki kaka molimo oyo ezali kati na moto yango te? Ndenge moko mpe moko te ayebi makanisi ya Nzambe, longola kaka Molimo na Ye.

For who among men knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God except God’s Spirit.

12 Nzokande biso, tozwaki molimo ya mokili te, kasi tozwaki Molimo kowuta na Nzambe, mpo ete tokoka kososola biloko oyo Nzambe apesi biso na nzela ya ngolu.

But we received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.

13 Ezali biloko yango nde tolobelaka, na maloba ya bwanya ya bomoto te kasi na maloba oyo Molimo alakisaka. Boye, tolobelaka makambo ya Molimo na nzela ya maloba oyo Molimo apesaka.

We also speak these things, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

14 Moto oyo azangi Molimo ya Nzambe akoki te koyamba makambo kowuta na Molimo ya Nzambe, pamba te ezali lokola liboma na miso na ye; akoki mpe te koyeba yango, pamba te basosolaka yango kaka na nzela ya Molimo.

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him; and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

15 Moto oyo atambolisamaka na Molimo asosolaka makambo nyonso; kasi ye, bato basosolaka ye te, pamba te ekomama:

But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is to be judged by no one.

16 « Nani ayebi makanisi ya Nkolo mpo akoka kopesa Ye toli? » Nzokande biso, makanisi ya Klisto ezali kati na biso.

“For who has known the mind of the Lord that he should instruct him?” But we have Christ’s mind.