Verse 1: Ngokuba angithandi, bazalwane, ukuba ningazi ukuthi okhokho bethu bonke babephansi kwefu, bonke badabula ulwandle;
Verse 2: bonke baphapathizwa kuMose efwini naselwandle;
Verse 3: bonke badla kudla kunye komoya;
Verse 4: bonke baphuza kuphuza kunye komoya; ngokuba baphuza edwaleni lomoya elabalandelayo. Idwala lelo lalinguKristu.
Verse 5: Kepha iningi labo uNkulunkulu wayengathokozi ngabo; ngokuba bashaywa phansi ehlane.
Verse 6: Kepha lokho kwaba yizibonelo kithi, size singafisi okubi, njengalokho bona babekufisa.
Verse 7: Futhi ningabi ngabakhonza izithombe njengabanye kubo, njengokulotshiweyo ukuthi: “Abantu bahlala phansi ukuba badle, baphuze, basukuma ukuba badlale.”
Verse 8: Futhi asingenzi ubufebe njengokuba abanye kubo benza ubufebe, bafa ngalusuku lunye abayizinkulungwane ezingamashumi amabili nantathu.
Verse 9: Futhi asingayilingi iNkosi njengabanye kubo bayilinga, babhujiswa yizinyoka.
Verse 10: Futhi ningakhononi njengabanye kubo bakhonona, babhujiswa ngumbulali.
Verse 11: Kepha lezo zinto zabehlela bona kube yisibonelo; kulotshelwe ukusiyala thina, osekufikile kithi ukugcina kwezikhathi.
Verse 12: Ngakho-ke osuka ethi umi, akaqaphele ukuba angawi.
Verse 13: Anifikelwanga ukulingwa okungenjengokwabantu; kepha uNkulunkulu uthembekile, ongayikuvuma ukuba nilingwe ngokungaphezu kwamandla enu, kepha oyakuthi kanye nokulingwa anenzele indlela yokuphepha, nize nibe namandla okukuthwala.
Verse 14: Ngalokho-ke, bathandwa bami, kubalekeleni ukukhonza izithombe.
Verse 15: Ngikhuluma njengakwabahlakaniphileyo; qondani engikushoyo.
Verse 16: Isitsha sesibusiso esisibusisayo asiyiyo inhlanganyelo yegazi likaKristu na? Isinkwa esisihlephulayo asiyiyo inhlanganyelo yomzimba kaKristu na?
Verse 17: Ngokuba isinkwa sisinye, thina esibaningi singumzimba munye, lokhu thina sonke sihlanganyela leso sinkwa sinye.
Verse 18: Bhekani u-Israyeli ngokwenyama. Abadla imihlatshelo abasibo abahlanganyela ne-altare na?
Verse 19: Ngakho ngithini pho? Ngithi okuhlatshelwe isithombe kuyinto na? nokuthi isithombe siyinto na?
Verse 20: Kodwa ngithi: Lokho okuhlatshwa ngabezizwe bakuhlabela amademoni, kabakuhlabeli uNkulunkulu. Kepha angithandi ukuba nibe nenhlanganyelo namademoni.
Verse 21: Ningesiphuze isitsha seNkosi kanye nesitsha samademoni; ningelihlanganyele itafula leNkosi kanye netafula lamademoni.
Verse 22: Kumbe siyayivusela iNkosi ulaka na? Kanti sinamandla kunayo na?
Verse 23: Kuvunyelwe konke, kodwa akusizi konke; kuvunyelwe konke, kodwa akwakhi konke.
Verse 24: Akungabikho ozifunela okwakhe, kodwa akube yilowo nalowo afunele omunye.
Verse 25: Konke okuthengiswa esilaheni kudleni, ningahloli lutho ngenxa kanembeza,
Verse 26: ngokuba umhlaba ungoweNkosi, nakho konke okukuwo.
Verse 27: Uma omunye kwabangakholwayo enimema, nithanda ukuya, kudleni konke okubekwa phambi kwenu, ningabuzi lutho ngenxa kanembeza.
Verse 28: Kepha uma umuntu ethi kini: “Lokhu kuhlatshelwe izithombe,” ningakudli ngenxa yalowo okushiloyo nangenxa kanembeza,
Verse 29: kangisho owakho unembeza, ngisho owalowo omunye. Ngokuba yini ukuba inkululeko yami yahlulwe ngunembeza womunye na?
Verse 30: Uma ngidla ngokubonga, ngihlanjalazelwani ngalokho engikubongayo na?
Verse 31: Ngakho-ke noma nidla, noma niphuza, noma nenzani, konke kwenzeleni udumo lukaNkulunkulu.
Verse 32: Ningakhubekisi nabaJuda, namaGreki, nabandla likaNkulunkulu,
Verse 33: njengokuba nami ngithokozisa bonke ngakho konke, ngingafuni okungisiza mina kodwa okusiza abaningi, ukuze basindiswe.