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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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