1 Corinthians 13
1 If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.
Kaku wamba cha lulimi lwa muntu kapa cha mangeloi. Heba kanina chisemo, mu nibe chisupo cha mulangu ulila.
2 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 do not have love, I am nothing.
Linu heba kanina chisemo, nibabi chisupo cha mulangu upange ilata. Kuswa nela kuti nibe nimpo ya bupolofita niku zuwisisa nzintu zili patite nikuhewa inzibo, cho kuti nibe ni ntumelo ya kuzwisa malundu. Kono heba kanina chisemo, kana ni chimwi.
3 If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.
Mi nihaniha zonse zini kwete ku fepa banjebwe kapa kuha mubiliwangu kuti uhiswe. Kono heba kanina chisemo, kani wani chimwi.
4 Love is patient and is kind. Love does not envy. Love does not brag, is not proud,
Chisemo china inkulo inde ni nse. Chisemo ka china muna ni kuli tundula. Ka china mahanyi
5 does not behave itself inappropriately, does not seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;
kapa inkulo mbi. Ka chilitusi icho chine. Ka chili hweleli kuvenga,
6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
kapa ku vika chintu chi fosahele. Kachi sangi mu sa jololwe. Isini, chi sanga mubuniti.
7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.
Chisemo chi zala zintu zonse, chi zumina mu zintu zonse, mi kwina insepo kuamana ni zintu zonse, kono zileta zintu zonse.
8 Love 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.
Chisemo kachi mani. Heva kwina vapolofita, kava mane. Heva kwina malimi, ka amane. Heba kwina inzibo, kayi mane.
9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part;
Mihe katwi zibe imbali mi katu mpolofite imbali.
10 but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.
Kono zintu shiyeme chi zenza, zina zisa maninte kazi mane.
11 When 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.
Hani bali ni muhwile, ni ba ku wamba uvu muhwile, ni ba kuhupula ubu muhwile, ni bakuha mabaka ubu muhwile. Haniba ni mukulwana, ni babiki kwimbali zintu za buhwile.
12 For 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.
Linu hanu tubonena kwimbali ya chiponi, kono chifateho ka chifateho. Hanu chinizi mwi mbali, hanu linu kani zibe kakwi zula uvu ha nibe zibwa ka kwi zula.
13 But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.
Kono inzo zintu nzotatwe zikala bovulyo: intumelo, isempo ni chisemo. Kono chikando kwe nzo chisemo.
