1 Abhakorintho 13

1 Chaike ati enaika kwa jinyaika ja bhana munu ne jabhamalaika. Mbe nawe nikabha nitana kwenda, nili lwe chuma chinu echilila amwi lwa jindege jinu ejimwaya.

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

2 Na ati nili ne chiyanwa cho bhulagi no bhumenyi bhwe chimali bhunu bhwiibhisile no bhwengeso, ati nine likilisha elyo kufulula amabhanga. Mbe nawe nikabha nitana kwenda, kwanye chitali chinu.

And 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 have not love, I am nothing.

3 Na chaike ati nolwo nikasosha omugabho gwani gwona no kubhalisha abhagasi, nolwo ati nikagusosha omubhili gwani koleleki nochibhwe omulilo. Mbe nawe nikabha nitana kwenda, nitakubhonamo chinu.

And if I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing.

4 Okwenda okwingumilisha na kuli ne chigongo. Okwenda kutakwikuya amwi kwikusha. kutana chigundu

Love suffereth long, [and] is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

5 amwi bhulagi-lagi. Kutakuyenja misango jakwo, kutakubhona bhinyiga bhwangu, nolwo kutakubhala mabhibhi.

doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil;

6 Kutakukondelwa mu bhunyamuke. Amwi nejo, okukondelelwa ne je chimali.

rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth;

7 Okwenda okwigumilisha masango gone; Okwikilisha misango jone, kuli no bhubhasi mu misango jone, no kwikomesha mu misango jone.

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

8 Okwenda kuwana bhutelo. Alabha bhukabha bhuli bhulagi, Bhwona bhulichweka. Alabha jikabha jilio jinyaika, jiliwao. Alabha bhukabha bhulio bhwengeso, bhulio.

Love never faileth: but whether [there be] prophecies, they shall be done away; whether [there be] tongues, they shall cease; whether [there be] knowledge, it shall be done away.

9 Kulwo kubha echimenya kwe ebhala na echikola kwo bhulagi kwe ebhala.

For we know in part, and we prophesy in part:

10 Mbe nawe ilibha yaja inu ikumiye, ilya inu itakumiye iliwao.

but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away.

11 Anu naliga nichali mwana kutiyo, neganilishaga lwo mwana kutiyo, naliga nindamula lwo mwana kutiyo. Nejile nakula nabha munu mukulu, ningata kula amasango ge chitoto.

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things.

12 Kulwo kubha woli echilolela mwilole, kuti chitakwilola kisi chilio echisute, mbe nawe omwana gulya chililolana obhusu kwo obhusu. Woli enimenya lubhala, mbe nawe mu mwanya gulya nilimenya muno lwa kutyo anye one enimenyekana muno.

For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I have been known.

13 Mbe nawe woli mu misango jinu esatu ejigendelela: Elikilisha, no kwenda. Mbe nawe chinu chili chikulu kukila ganu gone nu kwenda.

But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.