1 Khawrin 13
1 Hlang kah neh puencawn kah olcal, ka cal dae lungnah ka khueh pawt atah rhohum a cai neh tlaklak a kii bangla ka om.
If I speak the languages of men, even of angels, but have not love, I have become a sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.
2 Tonghma ol khaw ka dang tih olhuep boeih neh mingnah boeih ka ming, tlang ke puen thai ham tangnah cungkuem ka khueh dae, lungnah ka khueh pawt atah a honghi lam ni ka om.
And if I have 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.
3 Ka khuehtawn te boeih ka cah tih hmai ah hoeh ham ka pum te ka paek dae, lungnah ka khueh pawt atah ka hoeikhang moenih.
Even if I give away all my possessions and hand over my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.
4 Lungnah tah a thinsen, lungnah loh a rhen, lungnah tah thatlai pawh, hoemdam pawh, hoemdawk pawh.
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy; love does not brag, is not proud,
5 savek pawh, amah ham toem pawh, umyaa pawh, a thae te kuem pawh.
is not indecent, is not self-seeking, is not ‘short-fused’, is not malicious;
6 Boethae te omngaih thil pawh. Oltak dongah ni a omngaih.
it does not take pleasure in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
7 A cungkuem te a hlipdah tih, a cungkuem te a tangnah. a cungkuem te a ngaiuep, a cungkuem te a ueh.
it bears all, believes all, hopes all, endures all;
8 Lungnah tah cungku pawh. Tedae tonghma ol khaw hmata ni. Ol khaw paa ni, mingnah khaw bawt ni.
love never fails. Now as for prophecies, they will be set aside; as for languages, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will be superseded;
9 Cungvang la m'ming uh dongah cungvang la m'phong uh.
since we know in part and prophesy in part.
10 Tedae a soep la a pawk vaengah a cungvang tah a hmil ni.
But whenever the complete should come, then the ‘in part’ will be done away with.
11 Cahmang la ka om vaengah cahmang bangla ka cal, cahmang bangla ka poek, cahmang bangla ka ngai, hlang la ka coeng vaengah cahmang kah ka omih te ka voeih.
(When I was a small child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; but when I became a man, I put away the things of the child.)
12 Hmaidan dongah lumrhanah la m'hmuh uh pueng dae te vaengah maelhmai neh maelhmai tong uh ni. Tahae ah a cungvang la ka ming dae te vaengah ming tangtae bangla ka ming van ni.
Because now we see blurred images as in a metal mirror, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I also am fully known.
13 Tangnah, ngaiuepnah, lungnah, he rhoek pathum he kuei tangloeng coeng. He rhoek khuiah a tanglue tah lungnah ni.
For now these three obtain: faith, hope, love; and the greatest of these is love.
