1If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
1 Su fekkee ne damay wax làkki nit ñi ak yu malaaka yi sax, te boolewuma ci mbëggeel, duma dara lu dul ndënd muy riir, walla jóolóoli buy kandaŋ-kandaŋi.
2And if I have [the gift of] prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
2 Su ma yéglee wax ju tukkee ci Yàlla, ma xam lépp luy kumpa, ma yor xam-xam bépp, te gëm Yàlla ba man a randal ay tund, fekk boolewuma ci mbëggeel, duma dara.
3And if I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing.
3 Te it su ma doon saraxe li ma am lépp, di bàyyi ñu lakk sama yaram, ba rey ma, su ma ci boolewul mbëggeel, du ma jariñ dara.
4Love suffereth long, [and] is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
4 Ku bëgg dafay muñ te laabiir. Ku bëgg du kiñaan, du kañu, du tiitaru,
5doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil;
5 du def lu jekkadi, du wut njariñu boppam, du naqari deret, du ñaaw njort.
6rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth;
6 Du bég ci lu awul yoon, waaye dina bég ci lépp luy jollil dëgg.
7beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
7 Mbëggeel day baale lépp, am gëm ci lépp, yaakaar lépp, muñ lépp.
8Love never faileth: but whether [there be] prophecies, they shall be done away; whether [there be] tongues, they shall cease; whether [there be] knowledge, it shall be done away.
8 Mbëggeel amul àpp. Ñiy wax ci kàddug Yàlla dinañu noppi, ñiy wax ay làkk dinañu ko bàyyi, ñiy xamle xam-xamu Yàlla wàcc.
9For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;
9 Xam-xam bi nu am des na, te ni nu jottalee xebaar bi nu Yàlla dénk des na.
10but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away.
10 Waaye li mat, bu dikkee, li matul jóge fi.
11When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things.
11 Bi ma dee xale, dama doon wax ni xale, di dégge ni xale, di xalaate ni xale. Waaye bi ma doonee mag, bàyyi naa lu bokkoon cig ndaw.
12For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know fully even as also I was fully known.
12 Tey jii gis bu lëndëm lanuy gis, ni takkandeer ci seetu bu lëndëm, bu ëllëgee dinanu gis jaxran. Tey jii sama xam-xam des na, bu ëllëgee dinaa xam ba mat sëkk, ni ma Yàlla xame.
13But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
13 Léegi nag ñett yii ñooy sax: ngëm, yaakaar, mbëggeel; te mbëggeel moo ci raw.