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.

¹Kad bih sve jezike ljudske govorio i anđeoske, a ljubavi ne bih imao, bio bih mjed što ječi ili cimbal što zveči.

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.

²Kad bih imao dar prorokovanja i znao sva otajstva i sve spoznanje; i kad bih imao svu vjeru da bih i gore premještao, a ljubavi ne bih imao - ništa sam!

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.

³I kad bih razdao sav svoj imutak i kad bih predao tijelo svoje da se sažeže, a ljubavi ne bih imao - ništa mi ne bi koristilo.

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

⁴Ljubav je velikodušna, dobrostiva je ljubav, ne zavidi, ljubav se ne hvasta, ne nadima se;

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

⁵nije nepristojna, ne traži svoje, nije razdražljiva, ne pamti zlo;

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

⁶ne raduje se nepravdi, a raduje se istini;

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

⁷sve pokriva, sve vjeruje, svemu se nada, sve podnosi.

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.

⁸Ljubav nikad ne prestaje. Prorokovanja? Uminut će. Jezici? Umuknut će. Spoznanje? Uminut će.

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

⁹Jer djelomično je naše spoznanje, i djelomično prorokovanje.

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

¹⁰A kada dođe ono savršeno, uminut će ovo djelomično.

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.

¹¹Kad bijah nejače, govorah kao nejače, mišljah kao nejače, rasuđivah kao nejače. A kad postadoh zreo čovjek, odbacih ono nejačko.

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.

¹²Doista, sada gledamo kroza zrcalo, u zagonetki, a tada - licem u lice! Sada spoznajem djelomično, a tada ću spoznati savršeno, kao što sam i spoznat!

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

¹³A sada: ostaju vjera, ufanje i ljubav - to troje - ali najveća je među njima ljubav.