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1 martyasvargIyANAM bhAShA bhAShamANo. ahaM yadi premahIno bhaveyaM tarhi vAdakatAlasvarUpo ninAdakAribherIsvarUpashcha bhavAmi|

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

2 apara ncha yadyaham IshvarIyAdeshADhyaH syAM sarvvANi guptavAkyAni sarvvavidyA ncha jAnIyAM pUrNavishvAsaH san shailAn sthAnAntarIkarttuM shaknuyA ncha kintu yadi premahIno bhaveyaM tarhyagaNanIya eva bhavAmi|

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

3 aparaM yadyaham annadAnena sarvvasvaM tyajeyaM dAhanAya svasharIraM samarpayeya ncha kintu yadi premahIno bhaveyaM tarhi tatsarvvaM madarthaM niShphalaM bhavati|

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

4 prema chirasahiShNu hitaiShi cha, prema nirdveSham ashaThaM nirgarvva ncha|

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,

5 aparaM tat kutsitaM nAcharati, AtmacheShTAM na kurute sahasA na krudhyati parAniShTaM na chintayati,

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

6 adharmme na tuShyati satya eva santuShyati|

rejoiceth not over the unrighteousness, and rejoiceth with the truth;

7 tat sarvvaM titikShate sarvvatra vishvasiti sarvvatra bhadraM pratIkShate sarvvaM sahate cha|

all things it beareth, all it believeth, all it hopeth, all it endureth.

8 premno lopaH kadApi na bhaviShyati, IshvarIyAdeshakathanaM lopsyate parabhAShAbhAShaNaM nivarttiShyate j nAnamapi lopaM yAsyati|

The love doth never fail; and whether [there be] prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless;

9 yato. asmAkaM j nAnaM khaNDamAtram IshvarIyAdeshakathanamapi khaNDamAtraM|

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

10 kintvasmAsu siddhatAM gateShu tAni khaNDamAtrANi lopaM yAsyante|

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

11 bAlyakAle. ahaM bAla ivAbhAShe bAla ivAchintaya ncha kintu yauvane jAte tatsarvvaM bAlyAcharaNaM parityaktavAn|

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

12 idAnIm abhramadhyenAspaShTaM darshanam asmAbhi rlabhyate kintu tadA sAkShAt darshanaM lapsyate| adhunA mama j nAnam alpiShThaM kintu tadAhaM yathAvagamyastathaivAvagato bhaviShyAmi|

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

13 idAnIM pratyayaH pratyAshA prema cha trINyetAni tiShThanti teShAM madhye cha prema shreShThaM|

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