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.

¹Ɣas zemreɣ ad mmeslayeɣ timeslayin n ddunit meṛṛa, ad rnuɣ tid n lmalayekkat, m'ur sɛiɣ ara leḥmala n tideț, ad iliɣ am ṭṭbel yeddendunen neɣ nnaqus yeṭṭenṭunen.

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.

²Ɣas ma yețțunefk-iyi-d ad țxebbiṛeɣ s ɣuṛ Ṛebbi, ad fehmeɣ kra yellan d lbaḍna, ad sɛuɣ tamusni di mkul lḥaǧa, ɣas ad sɛuɣ liman s wayes i zemreɣ ad iniɣ i wedrar qleɛ iman-ik syagi tṛuḥeḍ ɣer wemkan ihina, m'ur sɛiɣ ara leḥmala ɣer wiyaḍ, nekk d ulac.

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.

³Ɣas daɣen ad feṛqeɣ ayen akk sɛiɣ i wid yelluẓen, ad rnuɣ ad sebbleɣ tudert-iw alamma d lmut ɣef ddemma n wiyaḍ, m'ur sɛiɣ ara leḥmala deg ul-iw, ayagi ur iyi-infiɛ ara.

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

⁴Leḥmala n tideț tețțawi-d ṣṣbeṛ, leḥmala tețɛawan, leḥmala ur tesɛi ara tismin, ur tesɛi ara zzux, win yesɛan leḥmala deg ul-is ur yețcekkiṛ ara iman-is,

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

⁵Win yesɛan leḥmala n tideț ur ițnadi ara ad ixdem cceṛ, ur yețnadi ara ɣef nnfeɛ-ines, ur izeɛɛef ur yețțaṭṭaf cceḥnat ;

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

⁶Win yesɛan leḥmala ur ifeṛṛeḥ ara s lbaṭel meɛna ifeṛṛeḥ s lḥeqq;

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

⁷leḥmala tețsamaḥ kullec, tețțamen, tessaram tsebbeṛ i kullec.

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.

⁸Axebbeṛ n wayen i d-yețțasen s ɣuṛ Ṛebbi ad ifak, timeslayin ur nețwassen ara ad ḥebsent, tamusni aț-țefnu, ma d leḥmala n tideț werǧin aț-țfak ;

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

⁹axaṭer tamusni-nneɣ txuṣṣ, ayen nețbecciṛ s ɣuṛ Sidi Ṛebbi ur innekmal ara,

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

¹⁰meɛna m'ara d-yaweḍ wayen innekmalen, ayen ixuṣṣen meṛṛa ad imḥu.

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.

¹¹Asmi lliɣ d aqcic, țmeslayeɣ am weqcic, țxemmimeɣ, țmeyyizeɣ slɛeqliya n weqcic ; asmi uɣaleɣ d argaz, ǧǧiɣ lɛeqliya n weqcic.

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.

¹²Ass-agi, nețwali am akken di lemri yumsen, meɛna imiren a nuɣal a nwali akken ilaq ; ass-agi tamusni inu mazal txuṣṣ lameɛna ad uɣaleɣ ad issineɣ akken i yi-issen Sidi Ṛebbi.

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

¹³Tura ihi tlata n leḥwayeǧ-agi i gesɛan lqima : liman, asirem d leḥmala ; lameɛna di tlata-agi, d lehmala i ț-țameqqrant.