1 Va Korinte 13
1 Kaku wamba cha lulimi lwa muntu kapa cha mangeloi. Heba kanina chisemo, mu nibe chisupo cha mulangu ulila.
Though I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have no love, I am become a clanging brass, or a clashing cymbal.
2 Linu heba kanina chisemo, nibabi chisupo cha mulangu upange ilata. Kuswa nela kuti nibe nimpo ya bupolofita niku zuwisisa nzintu zili patite nikuhewa inzibo, cho kuti nibe ni ntumelo ya kuzwisa malundu. Kono heba kanina chisemo, kana ni chimwi.
Though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
3 Mi nihaniha zonse zini kwete ku fepa banjebwe kapa kuha mubiliwangu kuti uhiswe. Kono heba kanina chisemo, kani wani chimwi.
And though I sell all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it avails me nothing.
4 Chisemo china inkulo inde ni nse. Chisemo ka china muna ni kuli tundula. Ka china mahanyi
Love suffers long and is kind; love envies not; love makes no parade, is not puffed up,
5 kapa inkulo mbi. Ka chilitusi icho chine. Ka chili hweleli kuvenga,
is not rude, nor selfish, nor easily provoked. Love bears no malice, never rejoices over wrong-doing,
6 kapa ku vika chintu chi fosahele. Kachi sangi mu sa jololwe. Isini, chi sanga mubuniti.
but rejoices when the truth rejoices.
7 Chisemo chi zala zintu zonse, chi zumina mu zintu zonse, mi kwina insepo kuamana ni zintu zonse, kono zileta zintu zonse.
It knows how to be silent, it is trustful, hopeful, patient, enduring.
8 Chisemo kachi mani. Heva kwina vapolofita, kava mane. Heva kwina malimi, ka amane. Heba kwina inzibo, kayi mane.
Love never fails; but though there are prophecies, they will fail; though there are tongues, they will cease; though there is knowledge, it will be superseded.
9 Mihe katwi zibe imbali mi katu mpolofite imbali.
For our knowing is imperfect, and our prophesying is imperfect;
10 Kono zintu shiyeme chi zenza, zina zisa maninte kazi mane.
but when the perfect is come, then the perfect will be done away.
11 Hani bali ni muhwile, ni ba ku wamba uvu muhwile, ni ba kuhupula ubu muhwile, ni bakuha mabaka ubu muhwile. Haniba ni mukulwana, ni babiki kwimbali zintu za buhwile.
When I was a child I spoke like a child, felt like a child, thought like a child; now that I am become a man, I have done with childish things.
12 Linu hanu tubonena kwimbali ya chiponi, kono chifateho ka chifateho. Hanu chinizi mwi mbali, hanu linu kani zibe kakwi zula uvu ha nibe zibwa ka kwi zula.
For now we see as in a mirror, and are baffled, but then face to face; now I know in fragments, but then shall I understand even as I also have been understood.
13 Kono inzo zintu nzotatwe zikala bovulyo: intumelo, isempo ni chisemo. Kono chikando kwe nzo chisemo.
Faith, Hope, Love endure - these three; but the greatest of these is Love.
