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 can speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but am destitute of Love, I have but become a loud-sounding trumpet 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.
If I possess the gift of prophecy and am versed in all mysteries and all knowledge, and have such absolute faith that I can remove mountains, but am destitute of 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 distribute all my possessions to the poor, and give up my body to be burned, but am destitute of Love, it profits me nothing.
4 Mahaliñe ty koko naho matarike, tsy mamarahy ty koko, tsy miebotsebotse ty koko vaho tsy mirengevoke;
Love is patient and kind. Love knows neither envy nor jealousy. Love is not forward and self-assertive, nor boastful and conceited.
5 tsy mijaranjaràñe, tsy mipay ty aze, tsy mora boseke, tsy mitorifike;
She does not behave unbecomingly, nor seek to aggrandize herself, nor blaze out in passionate anger, nor brood over wrongs.
6 tsy ifalea’e ty hatsivokarañe, fe irebeha’e ty hatò;
She finds no pleasure in injustice done to others, but joyfully sides with the truth.
7 Hene vavè’e, fonga iantofa’e, songa tamàe’e, sindre ifeaha’e.
She knows how to be silent. She is full of trust, full of hope, full of patient endurance.
8 Tsy milesa ty koko; fe hihelañe ty fitokiañe, le hijihetse ty filikolikoañe, vaho hasaok’ añe ty hilala.
Love never fails. But if there are prophecies, they will be done away with; if there are languages, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be brought to an end.
9 Mahafohiñe ty ila’e tika vaho mitoky ty pila’e.
For our knowledge is imperfect, and so is our prophesying;
10 Fe naho miboak’ eo ty fonitse, le himosaoñe añe o am-paha’eo.
but when the perfect state of things is come, all that is imperfect will be brought to an end.
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 talked like a child, felt like a child, reasoned like a child: when I became a man, I put from me childish ways.
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 the present we see things as if in a mirror, and are puzzled; but then we shall see them face to face. For the present the knowledge I gain is imperfect; but then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13 Sehanga’e henaneo, ty fatokisañe, ty fitamàñe, ty fikokoañe, i telo rezay; fe lohà’e ty fikokoañe.
And so there remain Faith, Hope, Love--these three; and of these the greatest is Love.
