1 IRV Jodi moi manu aru duth laga bhaasha pora koi, kintu moi logote morom nai koile, ami ekta hala kori thaka tina nisena ase nohoilebi ekta awaj di thaka thali nisena ase. 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 IRV Aru jodi moi logote prophecy laga bordan aru buji bole napara kotha aru gyaan khan buji jaa khan ase koile, aru jodi moi logote pahar ke hatabole para laga bisas ase koi, kintu jodi ami logote morom tu nai, tinehoile ami tu eku kaam nai. 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 IRV Aru jodi ami laga dhunsompoti khan sob bhag kori diye, aru jodi moi moilaga gaw ke bolidan nimite daan didiye, kintu ami logote morom nai koile, moi eku bi laab nohobo. 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 IRV Morom tu rukhi bole pare aru norom ase; morom tu suku najule; morom tu phutani nadhikai, tai tu khong nohoi. BSB BSB: Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
5 IRV Tai tu khechera nakure, tai tu nijor nimite nabisare, tai tu joldi gussa nauthe, tai tu golti khan ke mon te narakhe. BSB BSB: It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.
6 IRV Tai tu beya kaam khan te khusi nakure, hoilebi hosa te khusi kore. BSB BSB: Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.
7 IRV Tai sob ke dhoribole pare, sob saman ke bisas kore, sob saman ke akha rakhe, dukh- digdar ke dhuri kene rakhibole pare. BSB BSB: It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 IRV Morom ketiya bi khotom nahoi. Kintu prophecies laga bordan khan bhi sob khotom hoi jabo: alag kisim laga bhaasha koribole para laga bordan bhi, gyan laga bordan bhi, eitu khan sob khotom hoi jabo. 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 IRV Kile koile amikhan etu prophesy aru gyan khan pura bhal pora najane. BSB BSB: For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
10 IRV Kintu jetiya pura thik tu ahibo, juntu khan pura nohoi eitu khan sob khotom hoi jabo. BSB BSB: but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.
11 IRV Jetiya moi bachha thaki sele, moi bacha nisena kotha kori se, moi bachha nisena bhabona kori se, moi bachha nisena kaam kori thaki se. Jetiya moi dangor manu hoise, moi bachha laga kaam khan sob charidise. 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 IRV Kile koile etiya amikhan aina te bhal pora sabole napare, kintu pichete usor pora ekjon- ekjon chehera sabole paribo. Etiya moi olop bhag he jane, kintu pichete moi pura jani jabo, jeneka Isor pora ami ke pura janikena ase. 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 IRV Kintu eitu tin- ta tu thakibo: bisas, akha aru morom. Kintu eitu khan majote sob pora dangor tu morom ase. BSB BSB: And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.
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