1 Korint 13
1 Menm si mwen ta konn pale tout kalite lang moun pale ansanm ak lang zanj yo pale, si m' pa gen renmen nan kè m', bèl pawòl mwen yo pa pi plis pase yon tanbou k'ap fè anpil bwi, pase yon klòch k'ap sonnen.
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 Menm si mwen ta gen don pou m' fè konnen mesaj ki soti nan Bondye, menm si mwen ta gen tout kalite konesans, menm si mwen ta konprann tout ti sekrè ki kache, menm si mwen ta gen konfyans anpil nan Bondye pou m' fè mòn yo chanje plas, si m' pa gen renmen nan kè m', mwen pa anyen.
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 Menm si mwen ta bay tout byen mwen yo, menm si mwen ta bay kò m' pou yo boule l', si m' pa gen renmen nan kè m', sa p'ap sèvi m' anyen.
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.
4 Moun ki gen renmen nan kè li gen pasyans, li gen bon kè, li p'ap anvye sò lòt moun. Li p'ap fè grandizè, li p'ap gonfle ak lògèy.
Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,
5 Moun ki gen renmen nan kè li p'ap fè anyen ki pou fè moun wont, li p'ap chache avantaj pa l', li p'ap fè kòlè, li p'ap kenbe moun nan kè.
doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;
6 Moun ki gen renmen nan kè li p'ap pran plezi l' nan sa ki mal, li pran plezi l' nan sa ki vre.
doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
7 Moun ki gen renmen nan kè li sipòte tout bagay: nan nenpòt ki sitiyasyon, li toujou gen konfyans nan Bondye, li p'ap janm pèdi espwa, l'ap toujou moutre jan li gen pasyans.
bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.
8 renmen pa janm fini. Pouvwa pou bay mesaj ki soti nan men Bondye a pa la pou tout tan. Pouvwa pou pale langaj gen pou fini yon lè, konesans gen pou disparèt.
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 Paske, sa nou konnen, nou pa fin konnen l' nèt. Ata mesaj ki soti nan Bondye yo, nou pa fin bay yo nèt.
For we know in part and we prophesy in part;
10 Men, lè sa ki bon nèt la va vini, sa ki poko fin bon an gen pou l' disparèt.
but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.
11 Lè m' te timoun, mwen te pale tankou timoun, mwen te konprann tankou timoun, mwen te fè tèt mwen travay tankou timoun. Men, koulye a mwen fin gran, mwen kite tou sa timoun te konn fè.
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 Konsa tou, sa nou wè koulye a, se tankou yon pòtre n'ap gade yon jan twoub twoub nan yon glas. Men, pita nou pral wè fasafas. Koulye a nou pa fin konn tout bagay. Men, pita n'a konnen nèt ale menm jan Bondye konnen nou an.
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 Koulye a se twa bagay sa yo ki toujou la: se konfyans, se espwa, se renmen. Men, nan twa bagay sa yo, se renmen ki pi gran.
But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.
