१ कोरिन्थी 13
1 मानौँ, म मानिसहरू र स्वर्गदूतहरूको भाषामा बोल्छु, तर मसँग प्रेम छैन भने म हल्ला मच्चाउने घण्टा र झ्याइँ-झ्याइँ गर्ने झ्याली मात्र हुन्छु ।
If in the tongues of men I shall speak and of angels, love however not may have, I have become a brass sounding or a cymbal clanging.
2 मानौँ, मसँग अगमवाणी गर्ने वरदान छ र म लुकेका रहस्यहरू बुझ्न सक्छु र मसँग पहाडहरू हटाउन सक्ने सम्मको विश्वास छ, तर मसँग प्रेम छैन भने म केही पनि होइनँ ।
And if I shall have prophecy and understand the mysteries all and all the knowledge, And if I shall have all the faith so as mountains to remove, love however not may have, no [thing] I am.
3 र मानौँ, मसँग भएका सबै थोकहरू गरिबहरूलाई खुवाउनको लागि दिन्छु अनि मेरो शरीरलाई जलाउन दिन्छु, तर मसँग प्रेम छैन भने मलाई केही पनि फाइदा हुँदैन ।
Even if Even if I shall give away all the possessions of mine, And if I shall deliver up the body of mine that (I may boast, *N(K)(o)*) love however not may have, no [thing] I am profited.
4 प्रेम सहनशील र दयालु हुन्छ । प्रेमले डाह वा घमण्ड गर्दैन । यो अहङ्कारी हुँदैन ।
Love is patient, is kind, love not is envious, love not is boastful, not is puffed up,
5 वा प्रेम रुखो हुँदैन । यसले आफ्नै स्वार्थ खोज्दैन । यो सजिलै रिसाउँदैन न त यसले खराबीको हिसाब राख्छ ।
not acts unbecomingly, not seeks the [things] of its own, not is easily provoked, not it keeps account of wrongs,
6 प्रेम अधार्मिकतामा खुसी हुँदैन । बरु, यो सत्यतामा रमाउँछ ।
not delights at unrighteousness, rejoices however in the truth,
7 प्रेमले सबै कुरा सहन्छ; सबै कुरामा विश्वास गर्छ; सबै कुरामा आत्मविश्वासी हुन्छ अनि सबै कुरामा स्थिर रहन्छ ।
All things it bears, all things believes, all things hopes, all things endures.
8 प्रेमको कहिलै अन्त्य हुँदैन । अगमवाणीहरू बितेर जानेछन् । भाषाहरू बन्द हुनेछन् । अनि ज्ञान बितेर जानेछ ।
Love never (falls. *N(k)O*) if however [there are] prophesies, they will be abated; if tongues, they will cease; if knowledge it will be abated.
9 किनकि हामी थोरै जान्दछौँ र थोरै अगमवाणी बोल्छौँ ।
In part (for *NK(o)*) we know and in part we prophesy;
10 तर जब सिद्ध आउँछ अनि अपूर्ण कुरा बितेर जानेछ ।
when however may come the perfect, (then *K*) the in part will be done away.
11 जब म बालक थिएँ बालकले जस्तै बोलेँ र बालकले जस्तै सोचेँ अनि बालकले जस्तै तर्कहरू गरेँ । जब वयस्क भएँ बालकका चालहरू छोडी दिएँ ।
When I was a child, I was speaking like a child, I was thinking like a child, I was reasoning like a child; when (now *k*) I became a man, I have done away with the [things] of the child.
12 किनकि अहिले हामी ऐनामा अप्रत्यक्ष देख्छौँ, तर त्यस बेला आमने-सामने देख्नेछौँ । अहिले म थोरै जान्दछु, तर त्यस बेला म पूर्ण रूपमा जान्नेछु, जसरी म पूर्ण रूपमा जानिएको छु ।
We see for presently through a glass in obscurity, then however face to face; presently I know in part, then however I will know fully even as also I have been fully known.
13 तर अब यी तिनवटा कुरा रहन्छन्: विश्वास, भविष्यको निश्चयता र प्रेम । तर यी सबैमा सर्वोत्तमचाहिँ प्रेम नै हो ।
Now however abide faith, hope, love, three these; [the] greatest however of these [is] love.
