The English-Kalanga Bilingual Language Learning Bible
New Testament
Read each verse in English beside its African Kalanga equivalent.
1 Corinthians 2English
1 Bakorinta 2African Kalanga
- English1
When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or superior wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.
African KalangaPandakahha kumuli zwikamu, andizohha ndisumikila masazibgwe e Ndzimu ndihingisa matama makulu kulu kene butjenjebvu,
- African Kalanga
ngobe andizoda kuziba tjimwe pakati kwenyu kuhhe kwa Jesu Khirisiti, iye wakabambugwa.
- African Kalanga
Ndakabe ndi namwi ndisakasima kakale ndina kuhla nditetema,
- English4
My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power,
African Kalangane ndebeleko yangu ne kudiya kwangu azwizobe zwili ne matama e butjenjebvu anolobegwa mhande koga zwakabe zwilakidza simba le Meya yakayengemala,
- African Kalanga
kuti ndizo kugalamoyo kwenyu kusigale mu butjenjebvu gwe banhu koga kugale mu simba le Ndzimu.
- English6
We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.
African KalangaKoga kuna ibabo bakakula tjimeya toleba butjenjebvu nenguba gusi butjenjebvu gwe banhu bangwenu kene gwe babusi bangwenu ibabo be masimba anopela.
- English7
No, we speak of God’s secret wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began.
African KalangaKoga toleba butjenjebvu gwe Ndzimu gwe masazibgwe gwakasumbikala, igo Ndzimu gwawakahaka kuti tikudziwe ndigo hango isanhu ikathamwa.
- English8
None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
African KalangaAkuna mmwe we babusi bangwenu wakawhisisa ikoku, ngobe abakabe bewhisisa banobe basakabulaya He we gudzo.
- English9
However, as it is written: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him”–
African KalangaKoga, se kwakakwagwa kuyi, “Tjisakatongo bong’wa, kene tjikawhika ne zebe, tjisakatongoti mmwe katjikumbula, nditjo Ndzimu tjawakalulwamisila ibabo banouda.”
- African Kalanga
Ndzimu wakatilakidza zwinhu izwezwi ne Meya yawo. Ngobe Meya inohakisisa tjimwe ne tjimwe, nenge zwinhu zwimukatikati zwe Ndzimu.
- English11
The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man’s spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
African KalangaApa ndiani unoziba tjimu moyo we nnhu kuhhe kwe meya ye nhu, iyo imukati kukwe kene? Ndizo akuna unowhisisa zwinhu zwimukatikati kwe Ndzimu kuhhe kwe Meya ye Ndzimu.
- English12
We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.
African KalangaNgwenu atizoamutjila meya ye hango, koga takaamutjila meya inobva ku Ndzimu kuti ndizo tizibisise zwipo zwatinopiwa ne Ndzimu.
- English13
This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.
African KalangaNdizo atitolebeleka ne matama atakadiyiwa ne butjenjebvu gwe nhu, koga ne matama atakadiyiwa ne Meya, titjenesa malebeswa e Meya ye Ndzimu kuna ibabo bana Meya ye Ndzimu.
- English14
The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
African KalangaNhu tjinyama aatoamutjila zwipo zwe Meya ye Ndzimu, ngobe bulengwe kunli, kakale aatozwiwhisisa, ngobe zwakafanila lingisisiwa zwikazibgwa ne bhatsho ye Meya.
- English15
The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man’s judgment:
African KalangaNhu tjimeya unotubula kulingisisa kaziba zwinhu zose, koga iye aana unotubula kunlingisisa kanziba,
- English16
“For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
African Kalangangobe kwakakwagwa kuyi, “Ndiani unoziba nkumbulo wa He kwaangadzina kadiya He?” Koga iswi, tina nkumbulo wa Khirisiti.
Source: The English-Kalanga Bilingual Language Learning Bible, Ndzimu-unami Emmanuel Moyo, 2026. This online edition was extracted and reformatted from the PDF edition. Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.