1If I speak in the tongues13:1 Or languages of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,13:3 Some manuscripts body to the flames but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It does not dishonour others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
1Sɛ meka nnipa ne abɔfo kasa foforo na minni ɔdɔ a, na mete sɛ ayowa a egyigye anaa akasae a ɛwosow kɛkɛ. 2Sɛ 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. 3Sɛ mede nea mewɔ nyinaa akyɛ na mpo mitu me nipadua si hɔ sɛ wɔnhyew, nanso sɛ minni ɔdɔ a, minnya hwee.
4Ɔdɔ wɔ boasetɔ na ne tirim yɛ mmerɛw; ɔdɔ nyɛ ahoɔyaw anaa ɛnkyerɛ ne ho anaa onni ahomaso su. 5Ɔdɔ mmu ɔbra bɔne; ɔnyɛ pɛsɛmenkominya; ne bo nhaw no; ɔmfa bɔne nhyɛ ne mu. 6Ɔdɔ mpɛ bɔne, na mmom, ɔpɛ nokware. 7Ɔdɔ mpa abaw; ne gyidi, nʼanidaso ne ne boasetɔ nni nhuammɔ.
8Ɔdɔ 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. 9Nea yenim ne nkɔm a yɛhyɛ no yɛ fa ne fa bi; 10nanso nea ɛyɛ pɛ no nya ba a, nea ɛyɛ fa ne fa no begu. 11Meyɛ abofra no, mekasaa sɛ abofra, medwenee sɛ abofra, misusuwii sɛ abofra, na meyɛɛ ɔpanyin yi, magu mmofrasɛm no. 12Nea 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.
13Na afei nneɛma abiɛsa yi na ɛwɔ hɔ: gyidi, anidaso, ɔdɔ; na ɔdɔ ne mu kɛse.
