1 PBDD Jaka aku kate montuh suang basa-basa meresia ali buhan malaikat. Leka doho na'an tuasi, aku siolah gong se menain ali canang se gemerencing. 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 PBDD Jika aku pu'un karunia bernubuat ali ngetahui awis rahasia ali awis pengetahui, ali jaka aku na, an awis iman agin misatkan gunung-gunung, leka doho na, an tuasi, aku belohlah one-one. 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 PBDD Jaka aku ngumi awis hartaku agin ngumi kuman ampe ulunt susah, ali ngumi kompuku agin wasuna, leka beloh pu'un tuasi, didikpun doho na, an gunane bagiku. 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 PBDD Tuasi sio bersabar ali murah hati, tuasi sio doho cemburu, doho memegahkan kompu, ali doho sombong, BSB BSB: Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
5 PBDD Doho melakukan se doho pantas doho meto kepentingan kompu saurang, doho mudah mara, doho memperhitung kesalahan ulunt lain, BSB BSB: It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.
6 PBDD doho bersukacita mundan kedohobenaran, meainkan bersukacita sesama kebenaran. BSB BSB: Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.
7 PBDD Tuasi sio sanggup menanggung segala sesuatu, mempersai segala sesuatu, mengharapkan segala sesuatu, ali sabar menanggung segala sesuatu. BSB BSB: It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 PBDD Tuasi doho suah berahir, namun, jaka na, an nubuatan-nubuatan anta watembawai; jaka na, an basa-basa, anta wahentikaan; ali jaka na, an pengetahui sebagian lou ali ta, am bernubuat sebagian lou. 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 PBDD Sebab, kita mengetahui sebagian saja dan kita bernubuat sebagian saja. BSB BSB: For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
10 PBDD Namun, lau se sempurna awi, se sebagian sio anta wa tembawai. BSB BSB: but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.
11 PBDD Pentung aku anak pea, aku montuh sara anak pea, aku bepikir sara anak pea, ali menghitung-hitung sara anak pea. Desung aku njari bujang, aku ngikeh hal-hal se anak pea sio. 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 PBDD Koe keletu ta, apm minda suang cermin sesara samar-samar, leka sesori wae ali wae. Keletu, aku ekat mengenal sebagian, leka sesori aku anta mengenal seponune, sara aku lou ukah wakenali seponune. 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 PBDD Jari, keletu ketolu hal sina se tatap duloi, sesio iman, pengharapan, ali tuasi; leka se olai tanjak ketolu siolah tuasi. BSB BSB: And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.
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