¹ Su fekkee ne damay wax làkki nit ñi ak yu malaaka yi sax, te boolewuma ci mbëggeel, duma dara lu dul ndënd muy riir, walla jóolóoli buy kandaŋ-kandaŋi.

¹If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling;

² Su ma yéglee wax ju tukkee ci Yàlla, ma xam lépp luy kumpa, ma yor xam-xam bépp, te gëm Yàlla ba man a randal ay tund, fekk boolewuma ci mbëggeel, duma dara.

²and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing;

³ Te it su ma doon saraxe li ma am lépp, di bàyyi ñu lakk sama yaram, ba rey ma, su ma ci boolewul mbëggeel, du ma jariñ dara.

³and if I give away to feed others all my goods, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.

⁴ Ku bëgg dafay muñ te laabiir. Ku bëgg du kiñaan, du kañu, du tiitaru,

⁴The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,

⁵ du def lu jekkadi, du wut njariñu boppam, du naqari deret, du ñaaw njort.

⁵doth not act unseemly, doth not seek its own things, is not provoked, doth not impute evil,

⁶ Du bég ci lu awul yoon, waaye dina bég ci lépp luy jollil dëgg.

⁶rejoiceth not over the unrighteousness, and rejoiceth with the truth;

⁷ Mbëggeel day baale lépp, am gëm ci lépp, yaakaar lépp, muñ lépp.

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

⁸ Mbëggeel amul àpp. Ñiy wax ci kàddug Yàlla dinañu noppi, ñiy wax ay làkk dinañu ko bàyyi, ñiy xamle xam-xamu Yàlla wàcc.

⁸The love doth never fail; and whether [there be] prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless;

⁹ Xam-xam bi nu am des na, te ni nu jottalee xebaar bi nu Yàlla dénk des na.

⁹for in part we know, and in part we prophecy;

¹⁰ Waaye li mat, bu dikkee, li matul jóge fi.

¹⁰and when that which is perfect may come, then that which [is] in part shall become useless.

¹¹ Bi ma dee xale, dama doon wax ni xale, di dégge ni xale, di xalaate ni xale. Waaye bi ma doonee mag, bàyyi naa lu bokkoon cig ndaw.

¹¹When I was a babe, as a babe I was speaking, as a babe I was thinking, as a babe I was reasoning, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the babe;

¹² Tey jii gis bu lëndëm lanuy gis, ni takkandeer ci seetu bu lëndëm, bu ëllëgee dinanu gis jaxran. Tey jii sama xam-xam des na, bu ëllëgee dinaa xam ba mat sëkk, ni ma Yàlla xame.

¹²for we see now through a mirror obscurely, and then face to face; now I know in part, and then I shall fully know, as also I was known;

¹³ Léegi nag ñett yii ñooy sax: ngëm, yaakaar, mbëggeel; te mbëggeel moo ci raw.

¹³and now there doth remain faith, hope, love — these three; and the greatest of these [is] love.