1 Coríntios 2

Te Kōrero mō Īhu Karaiti i Rīpeka

1 Ko ahau, e ōku tēina, i ahau i haere atu ai ki a koutou, kīhai ahau i haere atu me te pai kupu, me te hua rānei o te whakaaro, i ahau i kauwhau ai ki a koutou i te mea ngaro a te Atua. 2 I takoto hoki tōku whakaaro, kia kaua ahau e mātau ki tētahi mea i roto i a koutou, ko Īhu Karaiti anake, ko ia hoki i rīpekatia. 3 Ā, i a koutou ahau me te ngoikore, me te wehi, me te tūiri nui. 4 Ko tāku kōrero me tāku kauwhau ehara i te kupu whakapati nā tō te tangata whakaaro nui, engari, he whakakitenga nā te Wairua, nā te kaha, 5 kia kore ai tō koutou whakapono e tū i runga i o te tangata whakaaro nui, engari, i tō te Atua kaha.

Te Mātauranga o te Atua

6 He ahakoa rā e kōrero ana mātou i te whakaaro nui ki waenganui i te hunga tino tika. Ehara anō ia i te whakaaro mōhio nō tēnei ao, nō ngā rangatira rānei o tēnei ao, e memeha haere nei. 7 Engari, e kōrero ana mātou i te whakaaro nui o te Atua i roto i te mea ngaro, i te whakaaro mōhio i huna rā, ko tā te Atua i whakatakoto ai i mua o ngā ao, hei whakakorōria mō tātou. 8 Kīhai nei tētahi o ngā rangatira o tēnei ao i mātau; me i mātau hoki rātou, kua kāhore e rīpekatia e rātou te Ariki o te korōria. 9 Engari, ka rite ki te mea i tuhituhia rā:

"Ko ngā mea kāhore te kanohi i kite,

kāhore te taringa i rongo,

kāhore anō i tapoko noa ki te ngākau o te tangata,

ko ngā mea kua rite i te Atua mō te hunga e aroha ana ki a ia."

10 Otiia, kua whakakitea mai aua mea ki a tātou e te Atua mā tōna Wairua. E rapu ana hoki te Wairua i ngā mea katoa, āe, i ngā mea hōhonu a te Atua. 11 Ko wai oti o ngā tāngata e mātau ana ki ngā mea a te tangata? Ko te wairua anake o te tangata i roto i a ia? Waihoki ko ngā mea a te Atua e kore e mātauria e tētahi, engari e te Wairua o te Atua. 12 Otiia, ko te wairua i riro mai nei i a tātou, ehara i te wairua o te ao, engari, ko te Wairua e ahu mai nei i te Atua; kia mātau ai tātou ki ngā mea kua oti nei te hōmai e te Atua ki a tātou.

13 Nā, ka kōrero mātou i aua mea, ehara ngā kupu i te whakaaro mōhio o te tangata i whakaako mai, engari, he mea whakaako nā te Wairua Tapu; e whakariterite ana i ngā mea wairua ki ngā mea wairua. 14 Nā, e kore te tangata i te ngākau māori e tango i ngā mea o te Wairua o te Atua. Ki a ia he mea kūware ērā, ā, e kore ia e āhei te mātau, he mea mā te Wairua ka kitea ai. 15 Otiia, ki te mea kei tētahi te Wairua, ka kitea e ia ngā mea katoa, e kore anō ia e kitea e tētahi.

16 "Ko wai hoki te mātau ana

ki te hinengaro o te Ariki,

e whakaako ai ia i a ia?"

Kei a tātou ia te hinengaro o te Karaiti.

1 And I, brethren, when I came unto you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. 2 For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. 3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. 4 And my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: 5 that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

6 We speak wisdom, however, among them that are fullgrown: yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nought: 7 but we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, even the wisdom that hath been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds unto our glory: 8 which none of the rulers of this world hath known: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory: 9 but as it is written,

Things which eye saw not, and ear heard not,

And which entered not into the heart of man,

Whatsoever things God prepared for them that love him.

10 But unto us God revealed them through the Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. 11 For who among men knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of the man, which is in him? even so the things of God none knoweth, save the Spirit of God. 12 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 of God. 13 Which things also we speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Spirit teacheth; combining spiritual things with spiritual words. 14 Now the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him; and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually judged. 15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, and he himself is judged of no man. 16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.