1 Corinthians 13
1 If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.
Nikuba kuti ndaambuula mundimi zyabantu azyabangelo. Pesi kuti kanditakwe luyando, nooli ndaba mulangu usabila naanka chisaka chichokola chokola.
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 don’t have love, I am nothing.
Nikuba kuti ndachita chabusinsimi achakumvwisisisya toonse tusimpi tusisidwe aluzibo, mpawo akuba aaloonse lusyomo lwakunyampula zilundu. Pesi kuti kanditakwe luyando, nsichili chintu.
3 If I give away 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.
Alubo nikuba kuti ndapa boonse buvubi bwangu kukusanina bafwaba, akuti ndapeda mubili wangu kukuyotetwa. Pesi kuti kanditakwe luyando, takwe nchindijana.
4 Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,
Luyando lulabulindizi amuuya. Luyando taluli munyono mpawo talulidundizyi. Talulisumpuli.
5 doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;
Na chinguni. Talulilangilili chintu. Taluliniakidwe, na kulondola twaambo twabubi.
6 doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
Talubotelwi mububi nakuti, kubotelwa mubwini.
7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.
Luyando lunyampula zyoonse zintu, lusyoma zyoonse zintu, lulangilila zyoonse zintu mpawo lulakakatila kuli zyoonse zintu.
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.
Luyando talumani. Nikwali basinsimi, zyalinooyinda. Nikwali myaambo yalikuyoomana.
9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part;
Nitwali luzibo, luyooyinda. Mbuli mbutuzi mubuche mpawo tusinsima mubuche.
10 but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.
Pesi eelyo bululami nibwaayoosika, oobo butazulilide buyooyinda.
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.
Nindakachili munini, ndakalikwambuula mbuli munini, ndalikuyeya mbuli munini, ndalikubuzyania mbuli munini.
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.
Nindakazooba mupati, ndakabikka kule zintu zyabunini. Mbuli mbutubona chakutilulama muchiboniboni, pesi kumeso akumeso. Lino ndizi mubuche, pesi eelyo ndiyooziba bumaninide mbuuli mbezibedwe bumaninide.
13 But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.
Pesi lino eezi zintu zitatu zisyeede: Lusyomo, bulangilizi mpawo aluyando. Pesi chipati loko kuli Leza nduyando.
