1 PBDH Andaibobo bahwa ko ngumong berbagai bahasa ntoyan ngan para-malaikat, tetapi jika ko kae mpo kaseh, ko ncodi gong dik nyago atau canang dik gemercing. 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 PBDH Andaibobo bahwa ko mpo karunia bernubuat ngan maham seluruh kebona dik besukan ngan pengetahuan, ngan bahwa ko mpo iman sehingga dopak minoh dohik. Tetapi jika ko kae mpo kaseh, ko kae berarti oneh-oneh. 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 PBDH Ngan andaibobo bahwa ko munyo sodo dik ko mpo nyok munyo-dok nyo miskin, ngan jika bahwa ko munyo sengoloko nyok ticoi. Tetapi jika ko kae mpo kaseh, ko kae ontong oneh-oneh. {Oben versi, nimaco,}" Ko muyo sengolo nyok ticoi." Beberapa versi lobeh otai nimaco, "Ko munyo sengolo ko sehingga ko panai bomegah." 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 PBDH Kaseh adalah sabar ngan baek-oti. Kaseh kae semuhu atau hongkau. Kaseh kae garong BSB BSB: Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
5 PBDH atau kasar. Kaseh kae mudoh nohuh, bahkanpun kaseh kae ngono sejumlah ketosak-ketosak. BSB BSB: It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.
6 PBDH Kaseh kae bersukacita nting ketidakbenaran. Melainkan, kaseh berskacita nting sais kebenaran. BSB BSB: Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.
7 PBDH Kaseh ngihong segalo sesuatu, pucayok segalo sesuatu, mpo keyakinan mengenai segalo sesutau, ngan tekun-nangong segalo sesuatu. BSB BSB: It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 PBDH Kaseh kae-suoh mosik. JIka ise nubuatan-nubuatan, sodo akan berlalu. Jika ise bahasa-bahasa-jiho, sodo akan togok. Jika ise pengetahuan, hanpun akan berlalu. 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 PBDH Kano dek mengetahui sebagian dan dek bernubuat sebagian maeh. BSB BSB: For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
10 PBDH Namun, ketika yang sempurna tiba, yang sebagian itu akan di lenyapkan BSB BSB: but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.
11 PBDH Ketika ko bayu sade, ko ngumong moh sade, ko bepikeh moh sade, ko berpendapat moh sade. Ketika ko ncodi muntuh, ko motan ojau--ojau hal kekanak-kanakan. 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 PBDH Kano ntoh dek ntilek secara-kae-langsong nting sebuah coming, tetapi kemudian bekadok jowi ngan jowi. Ntoh ko mengetahui bagin, tetapi kemudian ko akan mengetahui sepenuhde'e supo moh ko todek jeh ningone sepenuhde'e. 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 PBDH Tetapi ntoh tingal tahuh hal to: iman, kekayo masa-depan, ngan kaseh. Tetapi dik terbesar sae sodode'e ialah kaseh. BSB BSB: And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.
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