1 Korintho 13

1 Kulunge kina kunene kuntambu akeuntu niye naamalaika. Kuile ang'wi numugila uulowa, anga ishaba nilila ang'wi uupatu nuijika.

If I speak with the tongues of humans and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong, or a clanging cymbal.

2 Hange kulunge kina nkete kipegwa kakinyakidagu nuulengi nuatai neyipihile nimahala, nikina nkete uhueli nuakuhamya imalugulu. Kuite ang'wi nemugila uulowa, unene singa kentu.

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 do not have love, I am nothing.

3 Hange kulunga kina kupumya insao yane yehi nukualesa iaula, nehange kupumya umuili wane upye umoto. Kuite ang'wi numugila uulowa, shayukunzailya anga kentu.

If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.

4 Uulowa wigigimiilya nukupumya. Uulowa singa wikulya ang'wi kilolya. Ugila ulogoha,

Love is patient and is kind; love does not envy. Love does not brag, is not proud,

5 ang'wi uulei. Shawiduma imakani akwe, shawikaya kuona uuwai, ang'wi kualya nimabii.

does not behave itself inappropriately, does not seek its own way, is not irritable, does not keep a record of wrongs;

6 Shawilowa uubi. Kuleka ite, wilowa mutai.

does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

7 Ulowa wigigimiilya mumakani ehi, wihuela imakani ehi, ukete ugimya mumakani ehi, nukikie mumakani ehi.

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8 Ulowa shawihila. Angeze kikole kidagu, ukukila wehi. Angeze ukole uneni ukuhila. Angeze akole mahala akukila.

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are tongues, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.

9 Kunsoko kulengile inino nukutenda ikidagu ininoo.

For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;

10 Kuite iye nekondile, iye neshangekondile ikikila.

but when that which is complete has come, that which is partial will be done away with.

11 Nae nemung'enya, aenamue anga numung'enya. Penanekatula nemuntu mukulu, nikaika kuli imakani aking'enya.

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 an adult, I have put away childish things.

12 Kunsoko itungo ele kuuone anga mukioo, anga esula mukiti kuite imatungo nanso kuuona usu nu usu. Itungo ele nengile ininoo, kuite kumatungo nanso kulenga kukila anga nunene nenengekile kukila.

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 Kuite itungo ele imakani aya nataatu akusaga: kuhuela, uhueli nuupembilye, nuulowa. Kuile lekole nikulu kukila aya inge ulowa.

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.