¹Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

¹Kunyange ndikataura nendimi dzevanhu nedzevatumwa, asi ndisina rudo, ndava sendarira inorira, kana chigwagwagwa chinongwerengwedza.

²And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

²Kunyange ndine chiporofita, ndichinzwisisa zvakavanzika zvose, neruzivo rwose; uye kunyange ndine rutendo rwose, zvekuti ndibvise makomo, ndisina rudo, handisi chinhu.

³And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

³Kunyange ndagovera varombo zvose zvandinazvo, kunyange ndikapa muviri wangu kuti ndipiswe ndisina rudo, hazvindibatsiri chinhu.

⁴Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

⁴Rudo rwune moyo murefu, rwune unyoro; rudo harwuna godo; rudo harwuzvikudzi, harwututumadzwi,

⁵Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

⁵harwuzvibati zvisakafanira, harwuzvitsvakiri zvarwo; harwugumbuswi nhando, harwunanzereri zvakaipa;

⁶Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

⁶harwufari mukusarurama, asi rwunofara muchokwadi;

⁷Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

⁷rwunotakura zvinhu zvose, rwunotenda zvinhu zvose, rwunotarisira zvinhu zvose, rwunotsungirira zvinhu zvose.

⁸Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

⁸Rudo harwutongokundikani. Zvino kana zviri zviporofita, zvichakundikana; kana dziri ndimi, dzichaguma; kana guri ruzivo, rwuchanyangariswa.

⁹For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

⁹Nekuti tinoziva muchidimbu, uye tinoporofita muchidimbu;

¹⁰But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

¹⁰asi kana zvakazara zvasvika, izvo zviri muchidimbu zvichashayiswa maturo.

¹¹When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

¹¹Pandakanga ndiri mucheche, ndaitaura semucheche, ndainzwisisa semucheche, ndaifunga semucheche; zvino pandakava murume, ndakabvisa zveucheche.

¹²For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

¹²Nekuti ikozvino tinoona nepachioni-oni madzedzerera; asi nenguva iyo tichaona zviso zvakatarisana; ikozvino ndinoziva muchidimbu, asi ipapo ndichaziva sezvandakazikamwa neniwo.

¹³And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

¹³Ikozvino rutendo, tariro, rudo, zvitatu izvi ndizvo zvinogara; asi chikuru chezvizvi rudo.