1 Korintiana 13

1 Ie mirehake am-pamele’ ondaty naho anjely iraho fe tsy amam-pikokoañe le feon-torisìke mikontsiañe naho fika­tsakatsañan-kantsàñe avao.

If I speak with the tongues of men and of messengers, and do not have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal;

2 Ie mahafitoky naho maharen­dreke ze hene mietake naho ze atao hilala vaho lifo-patokisañe mahaveve vohitse f’ie tsy aman-koko, le kafo­ake.

and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, and do not have love, I am nothing;

3 Naho koàheko o varakoo hamahànako o rarakeo mbore afoeko ho foreheteñe ty sandriko, f’ie tsy aman-koko, le tsy mahasoa ahy.

and if I give away all my goods to feed others, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and do not have love, I am profited nothing.

4 Mahaliñe ty koko naho matarike, tsy mamarahy ty koko, tsy miebotsebotse ty koko vaho tsy mirengevoke;

Love is long-suffering, it is kind, love does not envy, love does not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,

5 tsy mijaranjaràñe, tsy mipay ty aze, tsy mora boseke, tsy mitorifike;

does not act unseemly, does not seek its own things, is not provoked, does not impute evil,

6 tsy ifalea’e ty hatsivokarañe, fe irebeha’e ty hatò;

[does] not rejoice over unrighteousness, and rejoices with the truth;

7 Hene vavè’e, fonga iantofa’e, songa tamàe’e, sindre ifeaha’e.

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

8 Tsy milesa ty koko; fe hihelañe ty fitokiañe, le hijihetse ty filikolikoañe, vaho hasaok’ añe ty hilala.

Love never fails; and whether [there be] prophecies, they will become useless; whether tongues, they will cease; whether knowledge, it will become useless;

9 Mahafohiñe ty ila’e tika vaho mitoky ty pila’e.

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

10 Fe naho miboak’ eo ty fonitse, le himosaoñe añe o am-paha’eo.

and when that which is perfect may come, then that which [is] in part will become useless.

11 Ie niajaja iraho, nirehake hoe ajaja, nandrèndreke hoe ajaja, nitsa­kore hoe ajaja; izaho bey le nadòko o hajajàñeo.

When I was a child, I was speaking as a child, I was thinking as a child, I was reasoning as a child, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the child;

12 Henaneo mahaisake hoe an-ketsoro malompolompo; ie añe, hifampiatre-daharañe. Maharendreke ty ila’e iraho henaneo, f’ie añe ro hahafohiñe hambañe amy te arofoanañe.

for we now see obscurely through a mirror, and then face to face; now I know in part, and then I will fully know, as I was also known;

13 Sehanga’e henaneo, ty ­fatokisañe, ty fitamàñe, ty fikokoañe, i telo rezay; fe lohà’e ty fikokoañe.

and now there remains faith, hope, love—these three; and the greatest of these [is] love.