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.

¹ D'ay ga salaŋ da Adam-izey da malaykey deeney, day ay sinda baakasinay, ay ciya danga guuru-say kaŋ ga hẽ, wala can-caŋ kaŋ ga kosongu.

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

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.

² Baa d'ay du annabitaray nooyaŋ, hal ay ga gundu kulu nda bayray kulu bay mo, d'ay gonda cimbeeri kulu hal ay ga tondi kuukuyaŋ ganandi, nga no ay sinda baakasinay, ay ya yaamo no.

²And if 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 have not love, I am nothing.

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.

³ Baa d'ay n'ay arzaka kulu fay ka zaban alfukaarey se, d'ay g'ay gaahamo no mo hal i m'a ton, nga no ay sinda baakasinay, a si hay kulu hanse ay se.

³And if I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing.

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

⁴ Baakasinay ga bara nda suuru kuuku, baakasinay gonda rongome. Baakasinay si canse. A si fooma, a si te boŋbeeray mo.

⁴Love suffereth long, [and] is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

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

⁵ Baakasinay si te haŋ kaŋ mana hagu, a si nga boŋ nafa ceeci, a baa si nda zukkuyaŋ, a si laala lasaabu.

⁵doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil;

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

⁶ Baakasinay si farhã da cimi-jaŋay, amma a ga farhã cimi se.

⁶rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth;

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

⁷ Baakasinay gonda bongu-daabay hay kulu ra, a ga ihanno cimandi hay kulu ra, a ga beeje hay kulu se, a ga suuru nda hay kulu.

⁷beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

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.

⁸ Baakasinay si gaze abada. Amma annabitarayey ga ban, ciine waani-waaney ga ban, bayray mo ga ban.

⁸Love never faileth: but whether [there be] prophecies, they shall be done away; whether [there be] tongues, they shall cease; whether [there be] knowledge, it shall be done away.

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

⁹ Zama iri ga bay kayna, iri ga annabitaray jare te.

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

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

¹⁰ Amma waati kaŋ toonanta ga kaa, gaa no jare-jara ga ban.

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

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.

¹¹ Waato kaŋ ay go zanka, ay go ga salaŋ sanda zanka cine, ay go ga miila sanda zanka cine, ay go ga lasaabu sanda zanka cine. Amma sohõ kaŋ ay te albeeri, ay na zankataray harey jisi.

¹¹When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things.

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.

¹² Sohõ iri go ga di da kubay-kubay sanda diji ra cine, amma alwaati din iri ga di mo-da-mo. Sohõ ay ga bay kayna, amma alwaati din ay ga bay gumo mate kaŋ cine Irikoy n'ay bay gumo.

¹²For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know fully even as also I was fully known.

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

¹³ Sohõ binde cimbeeri da beeje da baakasinay, ihinza din no ka bara. Amma i ra wo kaŋ bisa ikulu ga ti baakasinay.

¹³But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.