Love
1 I may be able to speak the languages of human beings and even of angels, but if I have no love, my speech is no more than a noisy gong or a clanging bell. 2 I may have the gift of inspired preaching; I may have all knowledge and understand all secrets; I may have all the faith needed to move mountains—but if I have no love, I am nothing. 3 I may give away everything I have, and even give up my body to be burned —but if I have no love, this does me no good.
4 Love is patient and kind; it is not jealous or conceited or proud; 5 love is not ill-mannered or selfish or irritable; love does not keep a record of wrongs; 6 love is not happy with evil, but is happy with the truth. 7 Love never gives up; and its faith, hope, and patience never fail.
8 Love is eternal. There are inspired messages, but they are temporary; there are gifts of speaking in strange tongues, but they will cease; there is knowledge, but it will pass. 9 For our gifts of knowledge and of inspired messages are only partial; 10 but when what is perfect comes, then what is partial will disappear.
11 When I was a child, my speech, feelings, and thinking were all those of a child; now that I am an adult, I have no more use for childish ways. 12 What we see now is like a dim image in a mirror; then we shall see face-to-face. What I know now is only partial; then it will be complete—as complete as God's knowledge of me.
13 Meanwhile these three remain: faith, hope, and love; and the greatest of these is love.
Jayiroo, kanoo la kuwo to
1 Hani niŋ n ka duniyaa kaŋolu bee fo,
aniŋ malaayikoolu la kaŋolu,
bari m maŋ kanoo soto,
wo to m mu jaawali palaati kenseŋo doroŋ ne ti,
meŋ kumakaŋo warata,
waraŋ keseŋ-kesendaŋo.
2 Niŋ ŋa soorifeŋo soto ka Alla la kiilaariyaa kumoo fo,
bari m maŋ kanoo soto,
wo to m maŋ ke feŋ ti.
Niŋ n ka kulloolu bee kalamuta,
ŋa londoo bee soto,
ŋa lannoo bee soto,
meŋ ka bere konkoolu wutundi,
bari m maŋ kanoo soto,
wo to m maŋ ke feŋ ti.
3 Niŋ ŋa n na sotofeŋolu bee dii fuwaaroolu la,
ŋa m baloo dii faŋ ka jani,
bari m maŋ kanoo soto,
wolu maŋ n nafaa feŋ na.
4 Kanoo mu muñoo le ti, aniŋ mooyaa.
Kanoo maŋ ke haasidiyaa ti,
a buka kibiri, aduŋ a maŋ ke faŋ waroo ti,
5 waraŋ kuluubaliyaa.
Kanoo buka a kuŋ kiliŋ nafaa ñini,
a buka tariyaa kamfaa la,
a buka kuu jawoo muta a kono.
6 A buka seewoo jenkoo la,
bari a ka seewoo tiliŋo le la.
7 Kanoo ka muña kuwolu bee le la,
a ka laa kuwolu bee le la,
a ka jiki kuwolu bee la le,
a ka wakiili kuwolu bee le la.
8 Kanoo nene maŋ dandulaa soto,
bari kiilaariyaa kumafoo be baŋ na le.
Ka diyaamu kaŋ koteŋolu la, a be baŋ na le,
aduŋ londoo fanaa be baŋ na le.
9 Kaatu ǹ na londoo buka timma,
aduŋ ǹ na kiilaariyaa kumafoo buka timma,
10 wo to niŋ timmandiroo siita,
timmabaloo be baŋ na le.
11 Kabiriŋ nte mu dindiŋo ti,
n ka diyaamu le ko dindiŋo,
ŋa dindiŋ hakiloo le soto,
aduŋ n ka m miira le ko dindiŋo.
Bari biriŋ n keta keebaa ti,
ŋa dindiŋyaa kuwolu landi le.
12 Saayiŋ, ǹ ka finifinindiŋo le je feleraŋo kono,
bari ñaato, m̀ be a je la le ñaa niŋ ñaa la.
Saayiŋ, n na londoo maŋ timma,
bari ñaato, m be a loŋ na timmarinke le
ko m faŋo lonta ñaameŋ.
13 Saayiŋ, ñiŋ feŋ saboo le tuta jee:
Lannoo, jikoo aniŋ kanoo.
Bari meŋ warata ñinnu bee ti,
wo le mu kanoo ti.
