¹Na dia miteny amin'ny fitenin'ny olona sy ny anjely aza aho, kanefa tsy manana fitiavana, dia tonga varahina maneno sy kipantsona mikarantsana aho.

¹If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling;

²Ary na dia manana faminaniana aza aho ka mahalala ny zava-miafina rehetra sady manana ny fahalalana rehetra, ary na dia manana ny finoana rehetra aza aho ka mahafindra tendrombohitra, kanefa tsy manana fitiavana, dia tsinontsinona aho.

²and 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;

³Ary na dia omeko hohanin'ny malahelo aza ny fananako rehetra, ary na dia atolotro hodorana aza ny tenako, kanefa tsy manana fitiavana aho, dia tsy mahasoa ahy akory izany.

³and 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.

⁴Ny fitiavana mahari-po sady mora fanahy; ny fitiavana tsy mialona, tsy mirehareha, tsy mieboebo,

⁴The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,

⁵tsy manao izay tsy mahamendrika, tsy mitady ny azy, tsy mora sosotra, tsy manao otri-po,

⁵doth not act unseemly, doth not seek its own things, is not provoked, doth not impute evil,

⁶tsy mifaly amin'ny tsi-fahamarinana, fa miara-mifaly amin'ny fahamarinana kosa,

⁶rejoiceth not over the unrighteousness, and rejoiceth with the truth;

⁷mandefitra ny zavatra rehetra, mino ny zavatra rehetra, manantena ny zavatra rehetra, maharitra ny zavatra rehetra. [ Na: manarona]

⁷all things it beareth, all it believeth, all it hopeth, all it endureth.

⁸Ny fitiavana tsy ho levona mandrakizay; fa raha ny faminaniana, dia ho levona; na ny fiteny tsy fantatra, dia hitsahatra; na ny fahalalana, dia ho foana.

⁸The love doth never fail; and whether [there be] prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless;

⁹Fa sombintsombiny ny fahalalantsika, ary sombintsombiny ny faminaniantsika;

⁹for in part we know, and in part we prophecy;

¹⁰fa rehefa tonga ny tanteraka, dia tsy hisy sombintsombiny intsony.

¹⁰and when that which is perfect may come, then that which [is] in part shall become useless.

¹¹Fony mbola zaza aho, dia niteny toy ny zaza, nihevitra toy ny zaza, nisaina toy ny zaza; fa nony efa lehibe aho, dia nariako ny fahazazana.

¹¹When 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;

¹²Fa ankehitriny isika mizaha ao amin'ny fitaratra ka tsy mahita marina; fa rahatrizay dia mifanatrika; ankehitriny sombintsombiny no fantatro; fa rahatrizay dia ho fantatro tsara toy izay nahafantarana ahy.Ary ankehitriny dia ireto telo ireto no mitoetra: ny finoana, ny fanantenana, ny fitiavana: fa ny fitiavana no lehibe amin'ireo.

¹²for 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;

¹³Ary ankehitriny dia ireto telo ireto no mitoetra: ny finoana, ny fanantenana, ny fitiavana: fa ny fitiavana no lehibe amin'ireo.

¹³and now there doth remain faith, hope, love — these three; and the greatest of these [is] love.