1 H addaan ku hadlo afafka dadka iyo malaa'igaha, laakiinse aanan jacayl lahayn, waxaan noqday naxaas dhawaaqaysa ama saxan bir ah oo sanqadhaya oo kale.

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 O o haddaan leeyahay hadiyadda wax sii sheegidda, oo aan garanayo waxyaalaha qarsoon oo dhan iyo aqoonta oo dhan, iyo haddaan leeyahay rumaysadka oo dhan oo aan buuraha ku dhaqaajiyo, laakiinse aanan jacayl lahayn, waxba ma ihi.

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 O o wax kastaan leeyahay haddaan bixiyo oo masaakiinta ku quudiyo, iyo haddaan jidhkayga bixiyo in la gubo, laakiinse aanan jacayl lahayn, waxba ii tari maayo.

And if I shall dole out all my goods in food, and if I deliver up my body that I may be burned, but have not love, I profit nothing.

4 J acaylku waa samir badan yahay, waana raxiim, jacaylku ninna ma xasdo, jacaylku ma faano, mana kibro,

Love has long patience, is kind; love is not emulous; love is not insolent and rash, is not puffed up,

5 w ax aan u ekayn ma falo, nafsaddiisana wax uma doondoono, mana xanaaqo, sharna kuma fikiro,

does not behave in an unseemly manner, does not seek what is its own, is not quickly provoked, does not impute evil,

6 x aqdarrada kuma farxo, laakiin wuxuu ku farxaa runta.

does not rejoice at iniquity but rejoices with the truth,

7 W ax walba wuu u dulqaataa, wax walba wuu rumaystaa, wax walba wuu rajeeyaa, wax walba wuu u adkaystaa.

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8 J acaylku weligii ma idlaado. Hadday wax sii sheegiddii jirto, way baabbi'i doontaa, hadday afaf jiraan way dhammaan doonaan, hadday aqooni jirto way baabbi'i doontaa.

Love never fails; but whether prophecies, they shall be done away; or tongues, they shall cease; or knowledge, it shall be done away.

9 W aayo, waxaynu naqaan waa qabyo, oo si qabyo ahaan ah ayaynu wax u sii sheegnaa.

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

10 L aakiin markii waxa dhammi ay yimaadaan, waxa qabyada ahi way idlaan doonaan.

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

11 M arkaan ilmo yar ahaan jiray, sidii ilmo oo kale ayaan u hadli jiray, sidii ilmo oo kale ayaan wax u garan jiray, sidii ilmo oo kale ayaan u fikiri jiray, laakiinse haatan waxaan noqday nin weyn, oo waxyaalihii carruurnimada waan iska fogeeyey.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I reasoned as a child; when I became a man, I had done with what belonged to the child.

12 H aatan si aan caddaan ahayn ayaynu muraayad wax ugu aragnaa, laakiin markaas ka fool ka fool ayaynu wax u arki doonnaa. Hadda si qabyo ahaan ah ayaan wax u garanayaa, laakiin markaas waxaan u garan doonaa sidii la ii gartay.

For we see now through a dim window obscurely, but then face to face; now I know partially, but then I shall know according as I also have been known.

13 H addabase waxa waaraa waa saddexdan, rumaysad iyo rajo iyo jacayl; laakiin kuwan waxaa ugu wada weyn jacayl.

And now abide faith, hope, love; these three things; and the greater of these love.