1 PBDK Jika aku kaiyuh bapaner huang bahasa-bahasa marasia dan here malaikat, tapi koi memiliki kasih, aku aye lah gong sa malengan dan canang sa gemerincing. 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 PBDK Jika aku ka ampun karunia bernubuat dan ngarasa kaluhan rahasia dan kaluhan pengetahuan, dan aku ka ampun kaluhan iman pakai ngindah gunung-gunung, tapi bakoi ka ampun kasih, aku koi lah inin ne. 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 PBDK Jika aku ngami kaluhan harta ku mat pakai ngami panguta gi ulun miskin, nihi menyerahkan tenga ku mat na pupui, Tapi, koi naan kasih, duting pun bakoi naan guna e gi aku. 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 PBDK Kasih hio bersabar dan bermurah atei, kasih hio bakoi cemburu, koi memegahkan diri, dan koi sombong, BSB BSB: Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
5 PBDK bakoi ngaraja sa koi pantas, bakoi ngalupui kepentingan diri raerai, koi murah sangit, bakoi memperhitungkan kahalaan ulun lain, BSB BSB: It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.
6 PBDK Bakoi bersukacita ta hambau ketidakbenaran, melainkan bersukacita sasameh ta huang kebenaran. BSB BSB: Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.
7 PBDK Kasih hio sanggup menanggung hadi eha e, mempercayai hadi eha e, mengharapkan hadi eha e, dan sabar menanggung eha e. BSB BSB: It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 PBDK Kasih koi pahindra berakhir. Namun, jika naan nubuatan-nubuatan, mat na sanjawoh; jika naan bahasa-bahasa, mat na tampa ulep; Dan jika naan pengetahuan, mat na lenyapkan. 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 PBDK Ulah gana hio, takam karasa mehe e bo dan takam bernibuat mehe e bo. BSB BSB: For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
10 PBDK Amun, katika sa sempurna hawi, sa sebagian hio mat na lenyapkan. BSB BSB: but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.
11 PBDK Ketika aku masih nakia, aku bapaner sameh nakia, aku bapikir sameh nakia, dan ngareken-reken sameh nakia. Ketika aku haot dewasa, aku nanan hal-hal sa nakia hio. 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 PBDK Ulah wayah ina takam haot ka indi huang caramin secara samar-samar, tapi udi hio ra'i nihi ra'i. Wayah ina, aku ekat mengenal mehe e, tetapi udi hio sagar mengenal sepenuh e, sameh aku lei haot na kenali sepenuhnya. 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 PBDK Jari, wayah iti ka telu hal ina sa tetap muneng, aye hio iman, pengharapan dan kasih; tetapi sa paling hante neke ka telu e ayelah kasih. BSB BSB: And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.
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