¹Kad bih sve jezike ljudske govorio i anđeoske, a ljubavi ne bih imao, bio bih mjed što ječi ili cimbal što zveči.

¹If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

²Kad bih imao dar prorokovanja i znao sva otajstva i sve spoznanje; i kad bih imao svu vjeru da bih i gore premještao, a ljubavi ne bih imao - ništa sam!

²And if I have 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.

³I kad bih razdao sav svoj imutak i kad bih predao tijelo svoje da se sažeže, a ljubavi ne bih imao - ništa mi ne bi koristilo.

³And if I shall dole out all my goods in food, and if I deliver up my body that I may be burned, but have not love, I profit nothing.

⁴Ljubav je velikodušna, dobrostiva je ljubav, ne zavidi, ljubav se ne hvasta, ne nadima se;

⁴Love has long patience, is kind; love is not emulous [of others]; love is not insolent and rash, is not puffed up,

⁵nije nepristojna, ne traži svoje, nije razdražljiva, ne pamti zlo;

⁵does not behave in an unseemly manner, does not seek what is its own, is not quickly provoked, does not impute evil,

⁶ne raduje se nepravdi, a raduje se istini;

⁶does not rejoice at iniquity but rejoices with the truth,

⁷sve pokriva, sve vjeruje, svemu se nada, sve podnosi.

⁷bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

⁸Ljubav nikad ne prestaje. Prorokovanja? Uminut će. Jezici? Umuknut će. Spoznanje? Uminut će.

⁸Love never fails; but whether prophecies, they shall be done away; or tongues, they shall cease; or knowledge, it shall be done away.

⁹Jer djelomično je naše spoznanje, i djelomično prorokovanje.

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

¹⁰A kada dođe ono savršeno, uminut će ovo djelomično.

¹⁰but when that which is perfect has come, that which is in part shall be done away.

¹¹Kad bijah nejače, govorah kao nejače, mišljah kao nejače, rasuđivah kao nejače. A kad postadoh zreo čovjek, odbacih ono nejačko.

¹¹When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I reasoned as a child; when I became a man, I had done with what belonged to the child.

¹²Doista, sada gledamo kroza zrcalo, u zagonetki, a tada - licem u lice! Sada spoznajem djelomično, a tada ću spoznati savršeno, kao što sam i spoznat!

¹²For we see now through a dim window obscurely, but then face to face; now I know partially, but then I shall know according as I also have been known.

¹³A sada: ostaju vjera, ufanje i ljubav - to troje - ali najveća je među njima ljubav.

¹³And now abide faith, hope, love; these three things; and the greater of these [is] love.