¹Kunyange ndikataura nendimi dzevanhu nedzevatumwa, asi ndisina rudo, ndava sendarira inorira, kana chigwagwagwa chinongwerengwedza.

¹If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

²Kunyange ndine chiporofita, ndichinzwisisa zvakavanzika zvose, neruzivo rwose; uye kunyange ndine rutendo rwose, zvekuti ndibvise makomo, ndisina rudo, handisi chinhu.

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.

³Kunyange ndagovera varombo zvose zvandinazvo, kunyange ndikapa muviri wangu kuti ndipiswe ndisina rudo, hazvindibatsiri chinhu.

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.

⁴Rudo rwune moyo murefu, rwune unyoro; rudo harwuna godo; rudo harwuzvikudzi, harwututumadzwi,

⁴Love has long patience, is kind; love is not emulous [of others]; love is not insolent and rash, is not puffed up,

⁵harwuzvibati zvisakafanira, harwuzvitsvakiri zvarwo; harwugumbuswi nhando, harwunanzereri zvakaipa;

⁵does not behave in an unseemly manner, does not seek what is its own, is not quickly provoked, does not impute evil,

⁶harwufari mukusarurama, asi rwunofara muchokwadi;

⁶does not rejoice at iniquity but rejoices with the truth,

⁷rwunotakura zvinhu zvose, rwunotenda zvinhu zvose, rwunotarisira zvinhu zvose, rwunotsungirira zvinhu zvose.

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

⁸Rudo harwutongokundikani. Zvino kana zviri zviporofita, zvichakundikana; kana dziri ndimi, dzichaguma; kana guri ruzivo, rwuchanyangariswa.

⁸Love never fails; but whether prophecies, they shall be done away; or tongues, they shall cease; or knowledge, it shall be done away.

⁹Nekuti tinoziva muchidimbu, uye tinoporofita muchidimbu;

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

¹⁰asi kana zvakazara zvasvika, izvo zviri muchidimbu zvichashayiswa maturo.

¹⁰but when that which is perfect has come, that which is in part shall be done away.

¹¹Pandakanga ndiri mucheche, ndaitaura semucheche, ndainzwisisa semucheche, ndaifunga semucheche; zvino pandakava murume, ndakabvisa zveucheche.

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.

¹²Nekuti ikozvino tinoona nepachioni-oni madzedzerera; asi nenguva iyo tichaona zviso zvakatarisana; ikozvino ndinoziva muchidimbu, asi ipapo ndichaziva sezvandakazikamwa neniwo.

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.

¹³Ikozvino rutendo, tariro, rudo, zvitatu izvi ndizvo zvinogara; asi chikuru chezvizvi rudo.

¹³And now abide faith, hope, love; these three things; and the greater of these [is] love.