1 Corinthians 13
1 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.
Hlang kah neh puencawn kah olcal, ka cal dae lungnah ka khueh pawt atah rhohum a cai neh tlaklak a kii bangla ka om.
2 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.
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.
3 If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing.
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.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
Lungnah tah a thinsen, lungnah loh a rhen, lungnah tah thatlai pawh, hoemdam pawh, hoemdawk pawh.
5 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.
savek pawh, amah ham toem pawh, umyaa pawh, a thae te kuem pawh.
6 Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.
Boethae te omngaih thil pawh. Oltak dongah ni a. omngaih.
7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
A cungkuem te a hlipdah tih, a cungkuem te a tangnah. a cungkuem te a ngaiuep, a cungkuem te a ueh.
8 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.
Lungnah tah cungku pawh. Tedae tonghma ol khaw hmata ni. Ol khaw paa ni, mingnah khaw bawt ni.
9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
Cungvang la m'ming uh dongah cungvang la m'phong uh.
10 but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.
Tedae a soep la a pawk vaengah a cungvang tah a hmil ni.
11 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.
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.
12 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.
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.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.
Tangnah, ngaiuepnah, lungnah, he rhoek pathum he kuei tangloeng coeng. He rhoek khuiah a tanglue tah lungnah ni.
