1 Khawrin 13
1 Hlang kah neh puencawn kah olcal, ka cal dae lungnah ka khueh pawt atah rhohum a cai neh tlaklak a kii bangla ka om.
Although with the tongues of men, I be speaking, and of messengers, and have not, love, I have become resounding brass, or a clanging cymbal;
2 Tonghma ol khaw ka dang tih olhuep boeih neh mingnah boeih ka ming, tlang ke puen thai ham tangnah cungkuem ka khueh dae, lungnah ka khueh pawt atah a honghi lam ni ka om.
And, though I have [the gift of] prophesying, and know all sacred secrets, and all knowledge, —and though I have all faith, so as to be removing mountains, and have not, love, I am, nothing;
3 Ka khuehtawn te boeih ka cah tih hmai ah hoeh ham ka pum te ka paek dae, lungnah ka khueh pawt atah ka hoeikhang moenih.
And, though I morsel out all my goods, —and though I deliver up my body, that I may boast, and have not, love, I am profited, nothing.
4 Lungnah tah a thinsen, lungnah loh a rhen, lungnah tah thatlai pawh, hoemdam pawh, hoemdawk pawh.
Love, is patient, is gracious. Love, is not envious, vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
5 savek pawh, amah ham toem pawh, umyaa pawh, a thae te kuem pawh.
Acteth not unbecomingly, seeketh not her own things, is not easily provoked, imputeth not that which is base,
6 Boethae te omngaih thil pawh. Oltak dongah ni a. omngaih.
Rejoiceth not over unrighteousness, but rejoiceth in sympathy with truth, —
7 A cungkuem te a hlipdah tih, a cungkuem te a tangnah. a cungkuem te a ngaiuep, a cungkuem te a ueh.
All things, covereth, all things, believeth, all things, hopeth, all things, endureth.
8 Lungnah tah cungku pawh. Tedae tonghma ol khaw hmata ni. Ol khaw paa ni, mingnah khaw bawt ni.
Love, at no time, faileth; —but, whether prophesyings, they shall be done away, whether tongues, they shall cease, whether gaining knowledge, it shall be done away;
9 Cungvang la m'ming uh dongah cungvang la m'phong uh.
For, in part, are we gaining knowledge, and, in part, are we prophesying, —
10 Tedae a soep la a pawk vaengah a cungvang tah a hmil ni.
But, as soon as that which is complete is come, that which is in part, shall be done away.
11 Cahmang la ka om vaengah cahmang bangla ka cal, cahmang bangla ka poek, cahmang bangla ka ngai, hlang la ka coeng vaengah cahmang kah ka omih te ka voeih.
When I was a child, I used to speak as a child, to prefer as child, to reason as a child: now I have become a man, I have laid aside the things of the child!
12 Hmaidan dongah lumrhanah la m'hmuh uh pueng dae te vaengah maelhmai neh maelhmai tong uh ni. Tahae ah a cungvang la ka ming dae te vaengah ming tangtae bangla ka ming van ni.
For we see, as yet, through a dim window, obscurely, but, then, face to face: as yet, I gain knowledge, in part, but, then, shall I fully know, even as I was also fully known.
13 Tangnah, ngaiuepnah, lungnah, he rhoek pathum he kuei tangloeng coeng. He rhoek khuiah a tanglue tah lungnah ni.
But, now abide—faith, hope, love, —these three; but, the greatest of these, is, love.
