The English-Kalanga Bilingual Language Learning Bible
New Testament
Read each verse in English beside its African Kalanga equivalent.
1 Corinthians 5English
1 Bakorinta 5African Kalanga
- English1
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that does not occur even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife.
African KalangaTjoselele kolebgwa kuti kuna kuwalilana nhobo pakati kwenyu kusingawang'we nemu banhu basinganamate Ndzimu dumbu, ngoti nlume unowalilana nhobo ne nkadzi wa tate babe.
- English2
And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have been filled with grief and have put out of your fellowship the man who did this?
African KalangaNgono mozwikudza seni! Apa amuzofanila lila kene? Iye wakathama sa ikoko ngaadusiwe mumuli.
- English3
Even though I am not physically present, I am with you in spirit. And I have already passed judgment on the one who did this, just as if I were present.
African KalangaNgono nenguba ndisipo pamuli ndi namwi mu meya, ndizo ndasumikilisa kale se ndiyapo ne zina la He Jesu ngekwe nlume wakathama tjinhu tjakajalo. Ha makakubungana meya yangu i pakati kwenyu ne simba la He Jesu,
- English4
When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus and I am with you in spirit, and the power of our Lord Jesus is present,
African KalangaRead with verses 3–4 above in the source edition.
- English5
hand this man over to Satan, so that the sinful nature may be destroyed and his spirit saved on the day of the Lord.
African Kalangamupe iwoyo nlume Satani kuti mbili uwe ukolomogwe koga meya iye itjidziwe mu hhuba la He Jesu.
- English6
Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast works through the whole batch of dough?
African KalangaKuzwikudza kwenyu akuzolulwama. Apa amutoziba kuti, “Mbidzo* homanana inobidza bgwisa gose gwavangwa kene?”
- English7
Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeast–as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
African KalangaDusani mbidzo ya ntolo, ndizo mube bgwisa butshwa, se muli igo bgwisa gusina mbidzo. Ngobe Khirisiti, i pkhwizana yedu ye Nzano we Pinda Pehhugwi, wakathamiwa tjibhayilo.
- English8
Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth.
African KalangaNdizo ngatitini tilondolodza Nzano we Pinda Pehhugwi, kusibe ne mbidzo ya ntolo, mbidzo ye mbengano ne bubi, koga kube ne tjiwunga tjisina mbidzo, tjiwunga tje bubuya ne malebeswa.
- African Kalanga
Ndakamukwalila mu lukwalo gwangu nditi musihingidzane ne nhu unowalilana thobo kusakalingisana.
- English10
not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world.
African KalangaNdakabe ndisingabve nhu unowalilana kusakalingisana we hango ino, ndisingabve iyawo magovu ne batoleli kene banobvigamila midzimu*, ngobe oko kungabva kuti mufuluke mu hango ino.
- English11
But now I am writing you that you must not associate with anyone who calls himself a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a slanderer, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat.
African KalangaKoga ndakamukwalila kuti musizwizwadzanye ne gamu lina nlandu we kuwalilana kusi iko, kene bugovu, kene unobvigamila midzimu kene etjinya bamwe mazina kene ali tjilaladzi kene ntoleli, musitongo kuma kene dla ne nhu wakajalo.
- English12
What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside?
African KalangaApa n’hingo wangu kene, kusumikilisa bakuhhe? Ate ibo bamukati kwe gubungano bamakafanila sumikilisa kene?
- African Kalanga
Ndzimu unosumikilisa bakuhhe. Whalo* dze Ndzimu dzoti “Tatani nhu mbi pakati kwenyu.”
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.