1 PBPE Biar aku tau bapaner hawuang bamasam basa murunsia anri basa kawan malaikat, kude puang makai sinta, aku iyalah agung sa maeau anri kangkanung sa gamarinsing. 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 PBPE Biar aku naan karunia ngulah nubuat nelang karasa uras sa tasanina anri kataru katuluh kawan hal, nelang biar aku naan uras kaparisayaen ma Alatalla hampe tau ngidar kawan gunung, kude mahi sinta, aku budas puang bariran. 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 PBPE Biar aku nyarah uras paramanaku pakai ngami kuman ulun pauwa, anri nyarah tengaku himpan natutung, kude puang makai sinta, katuluh yiru mahi budas riranni ma 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 PBPE Sinta yiru sabar nelang maeh atei, sinta yiru puang ngadidit, puang ngampi tamam tenga, anri puang sakah, BSB BSB: Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
5 PBPE puang ngulah gawi sapuang patut, puang ngantara kauntungen ma tengani raerai, puang maraat, puang ngitung kahalaen 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 PBPE puang miarai hang amau pikurun, kude miarai hang wuang pikaeh. BSB BSB: Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.
7 PBPE Sinta yiru tau nadap ala katantuluh, parisaya ma katantuluh, piharapen ma katantuluh, nelang sabar narime katantuluh. BSB BSB: It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 PBPE Sinta puang suah galis. Kude, amun naan kawan nubuat, sagar na samawai; amun naan bamasam basa, sagar na ampi tariye; anri amun naan pangarasaen hawuang hane hal, sagar na samawai. 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 PBPE Daya, pangarasaen takam ekat butit anri takam banubuat ekat butit. BSB BSB: For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
10 PBPE Kuder, hantek sa panga maeh yiru hawi, sa ekat butit yiru sagar na samawai. BSB BSB: but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.
11 PBPE Hantek aku kawan iya, aku bapaner ialah kawan iya, aku bapikir ialah kawan iya, anri bareken ialah kawan iya. Hantek aku bujang, aku nanan kawan hal sa kawan iya yiru. 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 PBPE Dagana itati takam ninung hawuang saramin ekat babayanya, kude udihiye uruwawa anri uruwawa. Itati, aku ekat kataru butit, kude udihiye aku sagar kataru katuluhni, ialah aku pada haut na kataru katuluhni. 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 PBPE Jari, itati katelu hal yiti sa magun muneng, hanyeyiru kaparisayaen ma Alatalla, piharapen, anri sinta; kude sa panga hante hingka kateluni hanyeyiru sinta. BSB BSB: And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.
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