1 PBL Ba ne nauwa bagu hanewe wayge hanewe-hanewe ka dadi ata monno rade malaikat, tayiduwe walle ladamage manawara, nauwa duna tala ka punyi monno kaballo naka ka ngura. 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 PBL Ba ne nauwa badakage manyurra etawe monno tadawe tangngage kabunyi monno tangngad hatada, monno ba ne nauwa badakage tangngage hatena tutu makkage hadikkige leten- letena, tanyiduwe walle ladamage manawara, nauwa walle ladama gaugu. 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 PBL Ba ne nauwa bagu yikayi tangngad hadaugu tutuge ba yidi ha ya tabara ata milla, monno yiwe taugu ba tunnuwe, tanyiduwe ailakage manawara, wu hodi dummo walle ladama gauge tutugu. 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 PBL Manawara inno tahge monno libawa ate, manawara nedo walle hakirri ma, walle hali dete wikkina, monno walle na wu togo ma, BSB BSB: Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
5 PBL walle rayi mage na ayka dahha, walle mayega damage habay dauna, walle na geha da bana bani, walle na yapu damage pirra taudi jalada rade ata wadeka, BSB BSB: It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.
6 PBL walle gu lagaharra da mawa tutuge na ayka tena, tayiduwe gu lagaharawa ledege katena. BSB BSB: Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.
7 PBL Manawar nedo tahge ditawe tangnga kahha ge, hatenawe tangnga kahhage, way mannege tangnga kahhage, monno tagorage ditawe tangnga kahhage. BSB BSB: It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 PBL Manawara awalle ladamage bana hadukkawe. Nyiduwe, ba daka hatada-hatada iay pa hudda; ba daka hanewe-hanewe, enga daha ngahuyi; monno badaka na ha tada, enga ba pungngad ge. 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 PBL Oroge, yitta tadawe na wadeka dana monno yitta pahadawe kahodina nyihewe. BSB BSB: For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
10 PBL Nyiduwe, bana naka banna dikki kawe, na wadekage engage ba pungngage. BSB BSB: but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.
11 PBL Nutna nauwa ba lakawa howa, nauwa gu hanewewa katujana lakwa marraha nauwa paha ngadagu na tujjadawe lakawa marraha, monno bagu yapu- yapukanna na tujay ana lakawa marraha. Bagu dikkina matuyo, nauwa gu tannadi kanogo lakawa gu nedo. 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 PBL Oroge batauge yitta etawe lar ta ninno bana gau-gaula howe, tanyidu murge ha etana mata monno mata. Batauge, nauw a tada he guge na wadeka, tanyiduwe murrige nauwa enga bagu tadawe na tangngage. 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 PBL Nyiwe, batauge kataudana hada inne enga ge dage, nyi duwe na hatena, naha manne, monno manawara; tanyiduwe na rehi madakka wall kataudana nyidawe ne manawara. BSB BSB: And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.
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