1 Qorontos 13
1 Ani yoon afaan namootaatii fi afaan ergamoota Waaqaa dubbadhe, garuu jaalala qabaachuu baannaan akkuma sibiila iyyuu yookaan akka kilillee qillisu tokkoo ti.
If I may speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not divine love, I have become a sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
2 Ani yoon kennaa raajii dubbachuu qabaadhe, icciitii hundaa fi beekumsa hunda hubachuu yoon dandaʼe, amantii gaara buqqisuu dandaʼus yoon qabaadhe, garuu jaalala qabaachuu baannaan ani homaa miti.
And if I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not divine love, I am nothing.
3 Ani yoon waanan qabu hunda hiyyeeyyiif kenne, dhagna koos akka gubamuuf yoon kenne, garuu jaalala qabaachuu baannaan homaa na hin fayyadu.
And if I give all my goods to feed the poor, and if I may give my body that I shall be burnt, and have not divine love, I am profited as to nothing.
4 Jaalalli obsa qaba; jaalalli arjaa dha. Inni hin hinaafu; hin kooru; ofis hin tuulu.
Divine love suffers long; divine love is kind; divine love envies not; does not make a display of itself, is not puffed up,
5 Jaalalli waan hin malle hin hojjetu; ofittoo miti; dafee hin aaru; hammina namatti hin lakkaaʼu.
does not behave itself uncomely, seeks not its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil;
6 Jaalalli dhugaatti gammada malee waan hamaatti hin gammadu.
it does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but it rejoices in the truth;
7 Jaalalli waan hunda ni obsa; waan hunda ni amana; waan hunda abdata; waan hunda keessattis jabaatee dhaabata.
it bears all things, it believes all things, it hopes all things, it endures all things.
8 Jaalalli gonkumaa hin badu. Raajii taanaan ni darba; afaan haaraa taanaan ni hafa; beekumsas taanaan ni bada.
Divine love never falls: but whether there are prophecies, they shall be done away; whether there are tongues, they shall cease; whether there is knowledge, it shall vanish away.
9 Nu beekumsa irraa gara tokko beeknaatii; raajiis gara tokko dubbanna;
For we know in part, and prophesy in part:
10 yommuu inni guutuun dhufutti garuu inni gartokkeen ni bada.
but when the perfect may come, that which is in part shall be done away.
11 Ani yeroon ijoollee turetti, akka ijoolleettin dubbadha ture; akka ijoolleettin yaada ture; akka ijoolleetti nan herrega ture; ani ergan nama guddaa taʼee garuu ijoollummaa dhiiseera.
When I was an infant, I talked like an infant, I thought like an infant, I reasoned like an infant: when I became a man, I put away the things of the infant.
12 Amma of-ilaalee keessaan bifa dimimmisaaʼaa arginaatii; yeroo sana garuu ifaan ifatti ni argina. Ani amma gartokkon beeka; yeroo sana garuu ani akkuma guutummaatti beekame sana guutummaatti beekuufin jira.
For we now see through a mirror in an enigma; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know perfectly even as I am perfectly known.
13 Egaa amantiin, abdii fi jaalalli sadan isaanii iyyuu ni jiraatu. Isaan keessaa garuu jaalalatu caala.
But now abide faith, hope, divine love, these three; but the greatest of these is divine love.
