1 PBA Mangfede' nariho nameno' ernu, med malaikat ernu o' mateng o' lurung na a'hol, sobo no ukarang a'ai, honi he'e nariho mangfede' ongba o' a'mang baliang honi. BSB BSB: If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal.
2 PBA Mangfede' nariho natafuning tep ei, na tafuning ernu a'hol, na'hol dil ma'ah mitofang, udume mitofang honie na doi matedi a'luil no' honi sobo no ukarang a'ai, honi he'e nariho nanudi a'ai. BSB BSB: If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
3 PBA Mangfede' na no namej tofang med name sah lahal en ade, no bo' mateho na a'lorang name a'pew, sobo no ukarang a'ai, honi he'e, untu pite' a'ra nere'engdi so bolang. BSB BSB: If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing.
4 PBA Ukarangho a'riing fail nene, med om bala amone, ukarangho tom name a'taain nene, tano' lafining nene, med tano' mi a'tino' nene, BSB BSB: Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
5 PBA na ahal panen nene, pi bo' mate ei solo ubaleta nene, mang pite' he'e ariing nene, name o' a'hal ta an nene, BSB BSB: It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.
6 PBA na o' a'hal tapang uno' nene, honi sobo na a'bul horofe a'ra bad a'ra herang. BSB BSB: Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.
7 PBA Ukarangho, an tofangho, u dume toh, an tofang o' a'tino' bit, an tofang udume, no' honi he'e an tofangho a dume toh tabare a'dan. BSB BSB: It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 PBA Ukarangho oh sah. Sobo, mangfede' tafuning a'ra honi he'e ano' a'ai; mangfede' mateng lurungso he'e, tining rameng; med na'hol dil ma'ehso he'e, suhuin a'ai no'. BSB BSB: Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be restrained; where there is knowledge, it will be dismissed.
9 PBA Fede', pi habuden le a'hol, med pi habudenle tep med. BSB BSB: For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
10 PBA Sobo, mangfede' o' mi anho a'ra, honi he'e, habudenho ano' suhuin. BSB BSB: but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.
11 PBA Ho araham na dai ka aiho, na mateng mangfede' aikabar honi, no tanut aikabar honi, na na ta'an mangfede' aikabar honi. Na mate lafining honi he'e, an tofangba aikabar eiho, na meng so oh. BSB BSB: When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways.
12 PBA Fed ho'o pi ukung mi tedun dai maru-maru eh, sobo mi pane'ta honi he'e, tapongfa' sade. Fed ho'mi, na dai habuden a'hol, sobo selnumi he'e na a'hol sobarpi, mangfede' sa na'hol sobarpi honi. BSB BSB: Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13 PBA Honife, fed ho'o, na pa' towho so a'ra o'leh, sariho udume, tom a'puin, med ukarang; honi sobo mimate natow a'naimiho; ukarang. BSB BSB: And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.
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