1 PBP Ono a'u mebura lalong basa-basa nu manusia o basa nu malaeka, tapi ndau diang garang, a'u selio gong to neati o canang to neriniing. 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 PBP Ono a'u diang karunia bernubuat o mootoi jojoo rahasia o jojoo pootoi, ono a'u memiliki jojoo iman untuk mombali'a buut-buut, tapi ndau diang garang, a'u ndaumo sapa-sapa. 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 PBP Ono a'u mombagi jojoo harta'u untuk momainang sono too maasi, o monyarakana alae'u untuk rarampuni, tapi ndau diang garang, maumpo seide ndau diang tujunyo sono a'u. 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 PBP Garang uo masabar o mamura sule, garang uo ndau mo girang, ndau momangkata alae, o ndau motumpo. BSB BSB: Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
5 PBP Ndau mogau'a to ndau tutuu, ndau melolo asasananong alae mboto, ndau molongkang manasu, ndau moreken sala nu too ntaninyo, BSB BSB: It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.
6 PBP Ndau meteluarriatang to ndau moono melainkan meteluar sono to moono. BSB BSB: Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.
7 PBP Garang uo motahang mepetangguni jojoo sapa-sapa, momparsaya jojoo sapa-sapa, o mengharapkan jojoo sapa-sapa, o mosabar mepetangguni jojoo sapa-sapa. BSB BSB: It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 PBP Garang ndau motou' namun ono diang nubuatan- nubuatan, uo reiigia; ono diang basa-basa, uo rosoroa'; o ono diang pootoi ratabola; 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 PBP Saba ito mootoi sagaat sura o ito bernubuat sagaat sura. BSB BSB: For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
10 PBP Pae dungku to nasempurna uo nodua, to sagaat uo kana reigia. BSB BSB: but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.
11 PBP Riwatu a'u mono unga-unga, a'u mebura selio unga-unga, a'u nemikir selio unga-unga, o mereken- reken seio unga-unga, dungku a'u majari dewasa, a'u mengebiling sapa-sapa to selio unga-unga uo. 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 PBP Apa sao-sao moo ito meteito rilalong nu lilinduan ndau bega manasa, tapi bia rupa sono rupa. Sa'o-sa'o a'u sura nootoi sagaat, tapi bia a'u mootoi jojoo, selio a'u moje niotoi jojoo. 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 PBP Jari sa'o-sa'o totolu hal moo tonomoia, iomo iman toniharap o garang, tapi tonooge ila totolu uo uomo garang. BSB BSB: And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.
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