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 D'ay ga salaŋ da Adam-izey da malaykey deeney, day ay sinda baakasinay, ay ciya danga guuru-say kaŋ ga hẽ, wala can-caŋ kaŋ ga kosongu.
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.
2 Baa d'ay du annabitaray nooyaŋ, hal ay ga gundu kulu nda bayray kulu bay mo, d'ay gonda cimbeeri kulu hal ay ga tondi kuukuyaŋ ganandi, nga no ay sinda baakasinay, ay ya yaamo no.
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.
3 Baa d'ay n'ay arzaka kulu fay ka zaban alfukaarey se, d'ay g'ay gaahamo no mo hal i m'a ton, nga no ay sinda baakasinay, a si hay kulu hanse ay se.
4Love has long patience, is kind; love is not emulous [of others]; love is not insolent and rash, is not puffed up,
4 Baakasinay ga bara nda suuru kuuku, baakasinay gonda rongome. Baakasinay si canse. A si fooma, a si te boŋbeeray mo.
5does not behave in an unseemly manner, does not seek what is its own, is not quickly provoked, does not impute evil,
5 Baakasinay si te haŋ kaŋ mana hagu, a si nga boŋ nafa ceeci, a baa si nda zukkuyaŋ, a si laala lasaabu.
6does not rejoice at iniquity but rejoices with the truth,
6 Baakasinay si farhã da cimi-jaŋay, amma a ga farhã cimi se.
7bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
7 Baakasinay gonda bongu-daabay hay kulu ra, a ga ihanno cimandi hay kulu ra, a ga beeje hay kulu se, a ga suuru nda hay kulu.
8Love never fails; but whether prophecies, they shall be done away; or tongues, they shall cease; or knowledge, it shall be done away.
8 Baakasinay si gaze abada. Amma annabitarayey ga ban, ciine waani-waaney ga ban, bayray mo ga ban.
9For we know in part, and we prophesy in part:
9 Zama iri ga bay kayna, iri ga annabitaray jare te.
10but when that which is perfect has come, that which is in part shall be done away.
10 Amma waati kaŋ toonanta ga kaa, gaa no jare-jara ga ban.
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.
11 Waato kaŋ ay go zanka, ay go ga salaŋ sanda zanka cine, ay go ga miila sanda zanka cine, ay go ga lasaabu sanda zanka cine. Amma sohõ kaŋ ay te albeeri, ay na zankataray harey jisi.
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.
12 Sohõ iri go ga di da kubay-kubay sanda diji ra cine, amma alwaati din iri ga di mo-da-mo. Sohõ ay ga bay kayna, amma alwaati din ay ga bay gumo mate kaŋ cine Irikoy n'ay bay gumo.
13And now abide faith, hope, love; these three things; and the greater of these [is] love.
13 Sohõ binde cimbeeri da beeje da baakasinay, ihinza din no ka bara. Amma i ra wo kaŋ bisa ikulu ga ti baakasinay.