¹Kana sai dava duma sa le shiba le manushenge ai le angelonge, ai te nai ma e dragimos, murhe vorbe si sar iek shumo kai mares ande duba.

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

²Ai vi te avela ma e podarka te zhanas so si te avel katar O Del, ai vi te avela ma sa e goji, ai te haliarav sa le shodeni, ai vi sa o pachamos kai sai te mishtiv le plaia, numa te nai ma e dragostia, chi sim kanchi.

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;

³Ai kana dava ma murhe mishtimos po xabe le chorenge, kana dava vi murho stato te phabol, ai te nai ma e dragostia, kodo chi zhutil ma kanchi.

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.

⁴E dragostia si la rhavda, ai pher lashimos; e dragostia nai zhaluzo. E dragostia chi bariarelpe, chi luvudilpe ai chi kerel barimata.

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

⁵E dragostia chi kerel kanchi kai nai barimasko, chi rodel peske mishtimos, chi xoliavol, chi del pe goji ka bi lashimos.

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

⁶E dragostia chi raduilpe ka bezex, numa raduilpe ka chachimos.

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

⁷E dragostia iertil sa, pachal sa, azhukerel sa, ai rhevdil sa.

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

⁸E dragostia shoxar chi xasavol: profesi getolape; le shiba ai o zhanglimos xasavona.

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;

⁹Ke ame zhanas xantsi, ai xantsi phenas so si te avel.

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

¹⁰Numa kana so si vorta avela, so si dopash xasavola.

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

¹¹Kana simas glata, davas duma sar iek glata, haliaravas sar iek glata, gindivas sar iek glata; kana barilem kerdilem baro manush, kerdem te xasavol so sas la glatako.

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;

¹²Akana dikhas ande glinda, sar tuniariko, numa dikhasa mui moste. Akana chi zhanav sa, antunchi zhanava sa sar O Del zhanel ma.

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;

¹³Ai akana kadala trin dieli beshen, o pachamos, o azhukerimos, e dragostia, numa e mai bari anda kadala dieli si e dragostia.

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