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.

¹Ko bi govoril človeške jezike in angelske, a ljubezni ne bi imel, bi bil brneča med in zvenčeče cimbale.

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.

²In ko bi imel proroštvo in bi vedel vse skrivnosti in imel vse spoznanje, in ko bi imel vso vero, tako da bi gore prestavljal, a ljubezni ne bi imel, nič nisem.

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.

³In ko bi porazdal v živež ubogim vse, kar imam, in ko bi dal svoje telo, da zgorim, a ljubezni ne bi imel, nič mi ne koristi.

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

⁴Ljubezen je potrpežljiva, dobrotljiva; ljubezen ni nevoščljiva, ljubezen se ne hvali, se ne napihuje,

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

⁵ne vede se nespodobno, ne išče svojega, se ne da razdražiti, ne misli hudega,

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

⁶ne veseli se krivice, a veseli se resnice;

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

⁷vse pokriva, vse veruje, vse upa, vse prenaša.

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.

⁸Ljubezen nikoli ne mine; če pa so darovi proroštva, ponehajo, ali jeziki, umolknejo, ali spoznanje, preide.

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

⁹Le po nekoliko namreč spoznavamo in le po nekoliko prorokujemo;

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

¹⁰kadar pa pride, kar je popolno, tedaj premine ta nepopolnost.

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.

¹¹Ko sem bil otrok, sem govoril kakor otrok, mislil kakor otrok, razsojal kakor otrok; odkar sem pa mož, sem opustil, kar je otročjega.

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.

¹²Kajti sedaj vidimo še skozi zrcalo, kakor v uganki, takrat pa bomo z licem v lice; sedaj spoznavam le nekoliko, takrat pa spoznam popolnoma, kakor sem bil tudi jaz spoznan.Sedaj pa ostane vera, upanje, ljubezen, to troje; največja od njih pa je ljubezen.

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

¹³Sedaj pa ostane vera, upanje, ljubezen, to troje; največja od njih pa je ljubezen.