1 Corinthians 13
1 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.
Tuseme kwamba ninanena kwa lugha za wanadamu na za malaika. Lakini kama sina upendo, nimekuwa shaba iliayo au upatu uvumao.
2 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.
Na kwamba nina karama ya unabii na ufahamu wa kweli zilizofichika na maarifa, na kwamba ninayo imani ya kuhamisha milima. Lakini ikiwa sina upendo, mimi si kitu.
3 If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.
Na tuseme kwamba ninatoa milki yangu yote na kuwalisha masikini, na kwamba ninautoa mwili wangu ili nichomwe moto. Lakini kama sina upendo, hainifaidii kitu.
4 Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,
Upendo huvumilia na hufadhili. Upendo haujisifu au kujivuna. Hauna kiburi
5 doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;
au ukorofi. Hautafuti mambo yake, hauoni uchungu haraka, wala hauhesabu mabaya.
6 doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
Haufurahii udhalimu. Badala yake, hufurahi katika kweli.
7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.
Upendo huvumilia mambo yote; huamini mambo yote, una ujasiri katika mambo yote, na hustahimili mambo yote.
8 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.
Upendo haukomi. Ikiwa kuna unabii, wote utapita. Ikiwa kuna lugha, zitakoma. Ikiwa kuna maarifa, yatapita.
9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part;
Kwa kuwa tunajua kwa sehemu na tunafanya unabii kwa sehemu.
10 but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.
Lakini ijapo ile iliyo kamili, ile isiyo kamili itapita.
11 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.
Nilipokuwa mtoto, nilisema kama mtoto, nilifikiri kama mtoto, niliamua kama mtoto. Nilipokuwa mtu mzima, niliweka mbali nami mambo ya kitoto.
12 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.
Kwa kuwa sasa tunaona kama kwa kioo, kama sura gizani, lakini wakati ule tutaona uso kwa uso. Sasa ninajua kwa sehemu, lakini wakati ule nitajua sana kama na mimi ninavyojulikana sana.
13 But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.
Lakini sasa mambo haya matatu yanadumu: imani, tumaini lijalo, na upendo. Lakini lililo kuu zaidi ya haya ni upendo.
