1 PBM Ba piakanika yawwa baku panewi ti dalu silu-silu tu dangu ndo malalkat, takka attaku mangngu amma nggi ni mbbussa, yawwa samanika ni mamongu ma puli dangu ni mamongu dikku nimima panjakinna. 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 PBM Yawwa ba okaka karunia manyurra dangu palakkasa ni ngaran duka makka mbuni dangu ngaranduka palakkasa, dangu baku mangngu karija ni ngarandukani nippa wai yawwa atta o amma pani-pani. 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 PBM Nikka yawwa baku ya"l ndaba karika ni ngairi nggu tutu ba yai panga ti tu milla, dangu baku yai ni kalitta nggu ba tunnu, takka atto ku mangngu kanja ni mbussa, sakuduka pongu atta o amma nggunami ti yawwa. 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 PBM Ni mbussa nggo radda ati dango ndasa ati, ni mbussa atta millamai, attana wullaka wikki, dangu atta kaborangu ma. BSB BSB: Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
5 PBM Atta na malu ammai nimma atta piana, attana manyarra amanggi ni sanjungara wikkina, atta maddasa ma pambani, attana kira ammai ni njala tusawawi. BSB BSB: It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.
6 PBM Attana sannang amma ti pannu ma atta pulipia, takka sannangu dangngu nggi nimma pulupia. BSB BSB: Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.
7 PBM Nimbusa nggo taha wikkina ba ditai anduka ndabani, na pawai ti ngaranduka ndabani, na wukkui ngaranduka adabni, dangu radda ati ba dita ndabari. BSB BSB: It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 PBM Ni mbusa atta o ma kanjuppu ni. Tu ammunilsa, ba okaka manyurrata-manyurrata enga pamallasai; ba okaka silu-silu, enga dappandangu; dangu ba okaka malakasa, enga da pambutta. 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 PBM Mabba, yitta ni lakkasai sakkadappu ndai dangu yitta manyorrata sakkadappu waiki ndai. BSB BSB: For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
10 PBM Tu ammunisa, nimma mbada tutu ba ndukku linni, nimma sakudukana nggo na mallasai. BSB BSB: but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.
11 PBM Yawwa baku alakawa, dangu baku kirawa sammatuni alakawa wa. Bana tomasa baku mattuluama, yawwa ku dunja kandi ni ngera-ngera pa allakawa ndanga. 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 PBM Mabba nggiana yitta panganndu ndai ti dalu kaninnu sammatuni ma pakkarambana, takka toma ngora dangngu ngora. Nggiana, yawwa tandanggui ninima sakkadappu, tamaka yawwa dukku tanda mbanni, sammatuni yawwa badda tanda mbannu wa. 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 PBM Tunika hai, nggiana ni taya ngera ma engapunna, ma ni pawai, nippa wukku, dangu ni mbussa; takka nimma risi pakkalada walliti nimma kataulanna nikadai nimbussa. BSB BSB: And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.
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