1 Korontiyawa 13
1 Ta bwenno yilam miki tok kero ki biyendi nuber, kange wo nob tomangeb kwama bo cori cano mimanki chwikari, min yilam na dinglinge ki dikereu, kaka nyorako kidineru.
If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.
2 Ca bwenno yilam minwiki ker neka dukumeri, dila min nyumom bilenke yurangum yurange, kange nyomka gwamm, cano miki bilenker tenang tenangeu nawuro matungum cwelaktiyero. Tano mi manki cwikari, mi kebo dike kange.
If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.
3 Ta bwenno min neken dike micike gwam nacin nob buneberi, nan neten bwimiu naci twime.
If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burnt, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.
4 Cwika wiki yobka nerek kange dikero ken, cwika mani ma kurom kaka cukka dorek. Cwika mani dang kunka dorek.
Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,
5 Kaka mani wab dorcer. Mani kang ner wulom, mani kiye tenanka kereko bwir.
doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;
6 Mani nyori, ci ma bilangtumti, ki bilinkerer.
doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
7 Cwika binerti mor diker gwam ne bilenketi. diker gwam, we ki ciyaka dikerek gwam, bwa nerti ki diker gwam.
bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.
8 Cwika mani dir, Tano tomange dukum tinim wiri, anbou ya cum. Tano biyentinim wiri, ciyan lerangum. Tona nyomka wiri ciya kom.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.
9 Wori biki nyomka dii-dii takri biki dii-dil.
For we know in part and we prophesy in part;
10 Kambo wuro dimdiyeu boweri ciro dibeu ancum.
but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.
11 Min bi bweu, miki tok kero na bwe, miki kwadikero na bwe, miki hujo na bwe. kambo malam niiyeri min cutang bibwetiwowi.
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.
12 Naweu bititoi mwin mor nuwe tirome, dila diye tikob kange tikobe, naweu min nyimom biduwar, dila diyecori man fiya nyomkako dimdiyeu kambbo cii mameu nyumkako dimdiyeu.
For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.
13 lawnaweu dikerewo taareu inwi. neka bilingkek, yoka nerek kange cwika, dila wo teneg moere ceu cwika.
But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.
