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.
Sɛ meka nnipa ne abɔfo kasa foforo na minni ɔdɔ a, na mete sɛ ayowa a egyigye anaa akasae a ɛwosow kɛkɛ.
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.
Sɛ mewɔ akyɛde a mitumi ka asɛmpa no ma ɛka nnipa koma; na mewɔ osuahu ne ntease ma mete ahintasɛm nyinaa ase; na mewɔ gyidi a ɛma mitumi tutu mmepɔw, nanso minni ɔdɔ a, menka hwee.
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.
Sɛ mede nea mewɔ nyinaa akyɛ na mpo mitu me nipadua si hɔ sɛ wɔnhyew, nanso sɛ minni ɔdɔ a, minnya hwee.
4 Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,
Ɔdɔ wɔ boasetɔ na ne tirim yɛ mmerɛw; ɔdɔ nyɛ ahoɔyaw anaa ɛnkyerɛ ne ho anaa onni ahomaso su.
5 doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;
Ɔdɔ mmu ɔbra bɔne; ɔnyɛ pɛsɛmenkominya; ne bo nhaw no; ɔmfa bɔne nhyɛ ne mu.
6 doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
Ɔdɔ mpɛ bɔne, na mmom, ɔpɛ nokware.
7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.
Ɔdɔ mpa abaw; ne gyidi, nʼanidaso ne ne boasetɔ nni nhuammɔ.
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.
Ɔdɔ wɔ hɔ daa. Nkɔmhyɛ wɔ hɔ, nanso ɛnte hɔ daa; akyɛde a ɛma wɔka kasa foforo wɔ hɔ, nanso ɛwɔ nʼawiei; osuahu wɔ hɔ, nanso ebetwa mu.
9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part;
Nea yenim ne nkɔm a yɛhyɛ no yɛ fa ne fa bi;
10 but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.
nanso nea ɛyɛ pɛ no nya ba a, nea ɛyɛ fa ne fa no begu.
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.
Meyɛ abofra no, mekasaa sɛ abofra, medwenee sɛ abofra, misusuwii sɛ abofra, na meyɛɛ ɔpanyin yi, magu mmofrasɛm no.
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.
Nea yehu no mprempren no te sɛ su bi a ɛyɛ kusuu wɔ ahwehwɛ mu. Ɛno akyi na, yebehu no kann. Nea minim mprempren no yɛ ɛho fa bi; akyiri no, ebedi mu te sɛ Onyankopɔn nimdeɛ a ɔwɔ wɔ me ho no.
13 But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.
Na afei nneɛma abiɛsa yi na ɛwɔ hɔ: gyidi, anidaso, ɔdɔ; na ɔdɔ ne mu kɛse.
