¹Mihing paute leh angel paute-in thugen mahleng, itna ka neih keileh, dak ging lel hiam, dakkhutbet ging lel hiam ka hi ding hi.

¹If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

²Huan, thugen theihna neiin, thuguk tengteng leh theihna tengteng thei vekin, mual suan theihna khop hial ginna kim nei mahleng, itna ka neih keileh, bangmah ka hi kei hi.

²If 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 don’t have love, I am nothing.

³Huan, mi gentheite vakna dingin ka sum tengteng pe vek mahleng, ka pumpi leng kang dingin kipe mahleng, itna ka neih keileh, kei dingin bangmah a phatuam kei.

³If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.

⁴Itna-in a dohzou a, a migi a: itna-in a haza kei a, a kisathei sam kei;

⁴Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

⁵Itna a ki-uangsak kei a, a huham sam kei. Itna-in amah thulou thu a sa lou kei a, amah angsung a khual sam kei; a hehbaih kei a, hehsain a omden sam kei;

⁵doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

⁶Itna-in gilou a kipahpih kei a, a dik a kipahpih jaw.

⁶doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

⁷Itna-in bangkim a thuak teitei a, bangkim a gingta a, bangkim a lamen a, bangkim a thuak khe jel hi.

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

⁸Itna jaw chikchiang mahin a bei kei ding: a hihhangin, thugennate om mahleh, hihtawp a hong hi ding a, pautheihlouhte om mahleh a hongtawp ding a, theihna bang om mahleh hihtawp a honghi ding.

⁸Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.

⁹A kimlou in i thei a, a kimlou in thu i gen uhi:

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

¹⁰A kim a hongtun chiangin a kimlou hihtawp a hita ding.

¹⁰but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.

¹¹Ka naupan laiin naupang pauin ka pai a, naupang theihin ka theia, naupang ngaihtuahin ka ngaihtuah nak: tua ka hongpichin nungin naupang hihdan ka tawpta.

¹¹When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.

¹²Tuin jaw limlangah i mu milmial ahi, huai hun chiangin jaw kimaituahin a hita ding. Tuin jaw a kim-louin ka theia, himahleh huai hun chianginjaw theihkhita ka om bangin ka thei kim ta ding ahi.Huchiin, hiai thumte, ginna, lametna, itna, a om gige ding; huan, huaitea a thupipen tuh itna ahi.

¹²For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.

¹³Huchiin, hiai thumte, ginna, lametna, itna, a om gige ding; huan, huaitea a thupipen tuh itna ahi.

¹³But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.