1 Ukorontiyawa 13
1 Sa ya cukuno inzin intize ina lem anabu, nan alem ibe ya Asere, in ani me inzom unu su, ma cukuno ni gareren na so akan nani biruma ba su akan.
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 Ko sa ya cukuno inzin in bibe biriri bi busa utize makuri ma tinka kadure ka anyimo sa ka gunne, inu rusa um nani inzin unu nya iriba, in daki mi azo iri iumum ini ba.
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 Ko sa a cukuno ma nya timumu tum vat barki anyizi anu diri, ikuri in witi nipum num barki a punsi. Inka inzom unu su, daki ma kem iri imum ba. (Ma nya unu nipum num barki inbezi ubari uni).
If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burnt, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.
4 Usu um nanu tiriba nan iriba ishew im usu uda wuza ni ero nan ubezi ubari ba, usu uda wuza u yeze unice ba.
Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,
5 Udira umu eh. Uda nonzo nice nume ba. Uzo unu debe uhirza iriba ba, uda basa me timum tizenzen.
doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;
6 Uda wuza apuru arum un boo tize ba, in anime uwuza apuru arum in kadure.
doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
7 Usu utiri zaza, iriba anyimo timum vat, uyeze, in ti timum vat u kabisa timum vat, u nyiza iriba in timum vat, ukuri ukabisa timumvat.
bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.
8 Usu uda marsaba, inka u iso imum in cukuno anime irani, idi aki. Inka tilem tirani, curno me inka urusa urani, udi aki.
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 Barki tizinu urusa cin-cin, ti kuri tizinu boosa cin-cin.
For we know in part and we prophesy in part;
10 Uganiya sa unu rusa udang ma aye, se unu cin ma aki.
but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.
11 Uganiya sa ma zi vana, ma busi tize ti hana, ma basa tize ti hana, idi nyizi tize ti hana. Sa ma una ma bari unu ma ceki timum ti hana.
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 Ana me ti hira cin-cin kasi u hira umangani, roni um henu nan mu henu, aneme in rusa cin-cin, uganiya idi kem urasu dan, kasi sa awuzum urusa udang.
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 Ana me timumti taru tigino me ta cukuno anime; U iko iriba eze, nan usu se imum idang anyimo aweme ine ini usu.
But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.
