1 Corinthians 13 – NIV & NEN

New International Version

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

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 dishonor 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.

Kiswahili Contemporary Version (Neno: Bibilia Takatifu)

1 Wakorintho 13:1-13

Karama Ya Upendo

113:1 Mk 16:17; 1Kor 13:8Hata kama nitasema kwa lugha za wanadamu na za malaika, kama sina upendo, nimekuwa kengele inayolialia au toazi livumalo. 213:2 Efe 4:11; Mdo 11:27; 1Kor 14:2; 2Kor 8:7; 1Kor 12:9; Mt 17:20; 21:21Ningekuwa na karama ya unabii na kujua siri zote na maarifa yote, hata kama nina imani kiasi cha kuweza kuhamisha milima, kama sina upendo, mimi si kitu. 313:3 Lk 19:8; Mdo 2:45; Dan 3:28Kama nikitoa mali yote niliyo nayo na kama nikijitolea mwili wangu uchomwe moto, kama sina upendo, hainifaidi kitu.

413:4 1The 5:14; 1Kor 5:2Upendo huvumilia, upendo hufadhili, upendo hauoni wivu, hauna majivuno, hauna kiburi. 513:5 1Kor 10:24; Mt 5:22; Ay 14:16-17; Mit 10:12; 7:19; 1Pet 4:8Haukosi kuwa na adabu, hautafuti mambo yake, haukasiriki upesi, hauweki kumbukumbu ya mabaya. 613:6 2The 2:12; 2Yn 4; 1:3-4Upendo haufurahii mabaya bali hufurahi pamoja na kweli. 713:7 1Kor 13:8, 13; Mit 10:12; 1Kor 9:12; Rum 15:1Upendo huvumilia yote, huamini yote, hutumaini yote, hustahimili yote.

813:8 1Kor 13:2; 1Pet 4:8Upendo haushindwi kamwe. Lakini ukiwepo unabii, utakoma; zikiwepo lugha, zitakoma; yakiwepo maarifa, yatapita. 913:9 1Kor 8:2Kwa maana tunafahamu kwa sehemu na tunatoa unabii kwa sehemu. 1013:10 Flp 3:12Lakini ukamilifu ukija, yale yasiyo kamili hutoweka. 1113:11 Za 131:2Nilipokuwa mtoto, nilisema kama mtoto, niliwaza kama mtoto, nilifikiri kama mtoto. Nilipokuwa mtu mzima niliacha mambo ya kitoto. 1213:12 Ay 26:14; 36:26; Mwa 32:30; Ay 19:26; 1Yn 3:2; 1Kor 8:2; 8:3; Gal 4:9Kwa maana sasa tunaona taswira kama kwa kioo, lakini wakati huo tutaona wazi. Sasa nafahamu kwa sehemu, wakati huo nitafahamu kikamilifu, kama vile mimi ninavyofahamika kikamilifu.

1313:13 Rum 5:2-5; Gal 5:5-6; Efe 4:25; Kol 1:4-5; 1The 1:3; Ebr 6:10-12; Mt 22:37-40; 1Kor 16:14; Gal 5:6; 1Yn 4:7-12, 16Basi sasa, yanadumu mambo haya matatu: Imani, tumaini na upendo. Lakini lililo kuu miongoni mwa haya matatu ni upendo.