Korintotɔwo 1 13
1 Ne metsɔ amewo kple mawudɔlawo ƒe gbegbɔgblɔ ƒo nui, evɔ lɔlɔ̃ mele asinye o la, ɖeko mele abe gakogoe alo ayawagba ƒe ɖiɖi ene.
Though I could speak with the tongues of men, of angels, but have not love, I become as sounding brass, or a noisy cymbal.
2 Ne nyagblɔɖi ƒe nunana le asinye, eye nunya katã hã le asinye be mate ŋu ase nu ɣaɣlawo gɔme, eye ne xɔse le asinye be maɖe gbe na towo be woaho, evɔ lɔlɔ̃ mele asinye o la, nyemenyo na naneke o.
And though I have prophecy, and know all secrets, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
3 Nenye ɖe matsɔ nu sia nu si le asinye la ana ame dahewo, eye matsɔ nye ŋutilã ana be woatɔ dzoe, gake nyemelɔ̃a amewo o la, viɖe aɖeke kura manɔ nu sia ŋu o.
And though I spend all my goods in feeding the poor, and though I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I am nothing profited.
4 Lɔlɔ̃ gbɔa dzi ɖi blewuu, eye wònyoa dɔme. Lɔlɔ̃ mebiã ŋu hã o; meƒoa adegbe o, eye medana o.
Love suffers long, and is kind. Love envies not. Love does not vaunt; is not puffed up;
5 Lɔlɔ̃ medoa eɖokui ɖe dzi o, media eɖokui tɔ o, eye mefiaa amemabumabu hã o. Lɔlɔ̃ mebiaa dzi o, meléa ehavi ɖe dɔ me o, eye medea dzesi nu vɔ̃ siwo amewo wɔ ɖe eŋu ɖi o.
does not behave itself unbecomingly; does not seek its own things; is not exasperated; does not imagine evil;
6 Lɔlɔ̃ medzɔa dzi le nu madzɔmadzɔ ŋu o, ke ekpɔa dzidzɔ le nyateƒe la me.
does not rejoice in iniquity, but greatly rejoices in the truth:
7 Lɔlɔ̃ menaa ta o, ekana ɖe nu dzi ɣe sia ɣi, ekpɔa mɔ ɣe sia ɣi, eye wòdoa vevi nu ɣe sia ɣi.
covers all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Lɔlɔ̃ la nu metsina gbeɖe o. Nyagblɔɖiwo katã nu ava yi, afi si aɖe yeye gbɔgblɔ le la atɔ eye afi si sidzedze le la, enu ava yi,
Love never fails: but, whether prophecies, they will be out of use: or foreign languages, they shall cease: or science, it shall be abolished.
9 elabena míenya nu afã kple afã, eye míegblɔa nya ɖi afã kple afã,
For we know only in part, and prophesy in part.
10 gake ne blibodede va la, ekema nu si mede blibo o la abu ɖa.
But when perfection is come, then what is in part will be done away.
11 Esi menye ɖevi la, meƒo nu, eye mebu ta me abe ɖevi ene. Ke esi metsi la, nye susuwo tsi sãa wu nye ɖevimesusuwo, eye azɔ la meɖe asi le ɖevimenuwo ŋu.
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I conceived as a child, I reasoned as a child. But when I became a man, I put away childish things.
12 Ke azɔ la, nu siwo li la ƒe vɔvɔli ko kpɔm míele le ahuhɔ̃e me, emegbe míakpɔ nuawo ŋkume kple ŋkume. Azɔ la, menya nu afã kple afã; emegbe la, manyae blibo, abe ale si wonyam keŋkeŋkeŋ egbea ene.
For now we seek through a glass obscurely; but then, face to face: now, I know in part; but then, I shall fully know, even as I am fully known.
13 Nu etɔ̃e nɔa anyi ɖaa. Esiawoe nye xɔse, mɔkpɔkpɔ kple lɔlɔ̃, eye nu si ƒo wo katã ta lae nye lɔlɔ̃.
And now abide faith, hope, love, these three: but the greatest of these is love.
