1 PBDT Jaka aku tahu bapaner lalam saluruh bahasa kalunen tuntang kaban malaikat, tapie hontae bagora kasih, aku samah kan garantung am bayae nyaring bunginya mah tuntang lonceng am gamarincing. 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 PBDT Jaka aku bagora panahu mangaruh lalu maingat saluruh rahasia lalu saluruh pangasene, lalu jaka aku hompu saluruh iman akan maminahkan gunung-gungun, tapie hontae bagora kasih, aku bukan apa-apa. 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 PBDT Jaka aku mamoriekan saluruh hartaku akan mamorie makan akan urang miskin, lalu manyorahkan tubuhku akan ditutung, tapie hontae bagora kasih, sakoci apa jam hontae baguna akan aku. 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 PBDT Kasih iyah basabar lalu bamurah hatie, kasih iyah hontae ngamuru, hontae maningikan arepnya, lalu hontae sombong, BSB BSB: Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
5 PBDT hontae mangaruh am hontae pantas, hontae mangau kapeting kanirinya hontae murah gusar, hontae mahitung kasalahan urang bukan, BSB BSB: It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.
6 PBDT hontae barami katingi kahontae bujuran, tapie barami basamah kabujuran. BSB BSB: Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.
7 PBDT Kasih iyah tahan mananggang sagala macam, mampercaya sagala macam, maharapkan sagala macam lalu sabar manangung sagala macam. BSB BSB: It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 PBDT Kasih hontae basae bahontie. Tapie, jaka tege mangaruh-ngaruh, akan dihilakan; jaka tege bahasa-bahasa, akan dihontiekan; lalu jaka tege kaharotie, akan dililapkan. 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 PBDT Sabab, diri maingat saruwainya mah lalu diri mangaruh saruwainya mah. BSB BSB: For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
10 PBDT Tapie, metuh am lengkap datang, am saruwainya yah akan dililapkan. BSB BSB: but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.
11 PBDT Metuh aku agie babiya aku bapaner berae babiya, aku bapikir berae babiya, lalu bahitung bareken berae babiya. Pas aku jadi tuhae, aku maingalkan hal-hal am agie babiya iyah 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 PBDT Laie metuh dirie maila lalam caromin baya bayang-bayang, tapi lipas iyah muhae batampai muhae. Metuh iti, aku baya mangansene koci, tapie lipas iyah aku akan kansene urasnya, bera aku jam jadi dikansene urasnya. 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 PBDT Jadi, metuh iti ka tolu hal iti am totap tege iyah amyah iman, pangharapan, lalu kasih; tapie am paling bakah mula katolunya iyah am kasih. BSB BSB: And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.
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