1 VaKorinde 13

¹Kunyange ndikataura nendimi dzavanhu nedzavatumwa, ndisinorudo, ndava sendarira dzinorira, nedare rinongoti: Ngwere-ngwere!Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

²Kunyange ndinechipo chokuporofita, ndichinzwisisa zvakavanzika zvose, nokuziva kwose; kunyange ndinokutenda kwose, kuti ndibvise makomo, ndisinorudo, handizi chinhu.And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

³Kunyange ndagovera varombo zvose zvandinazvo, kunyange ndikaisa muviri wangu kuti ndipiswe, ndisinorudo, handibatsirwi chinhu.And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

⁴Rudo runomoyo murefu, runomoyo munyoro; rudo harunegodo; rudo harunamanyawi, haruzvikudzi;Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

⁵haruiti zvisingafaniri, haruzvitsvakiri zvarwo; harutsamwi, harunezvishura;Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

⁶harufariri zvisakarurama, asi runofarira zvokwadi;Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

⁷runofukidza zvose, runotenda zvose, runetariro pazvose, runotsungirira pazvose.Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

⁸Rudo harutongoperi; zvino kana kuri kuporofita, kuchapera; kana dziri ndimi, dzichaguma; kana kuri kuziva, kuchabviswa.Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

⁹Nokuti tinoziva zvisakakwana, tinoporofita zvisakakwana;For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

¹⁰asi kana zvakakwana zvasvika, izvo zvisakakwana zvichabiswa.But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

¹¹Ini ndichiri mwana, ndaitaura somwana, ndaifunga somwana, ndairangarira somwana; zvino zvandava murume, ndabvisa zvinhu zvomwana.When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

¹²Nokuti zvino tinovona pachivoni-voni, tisingavoni kwazvo; asi nenguva iyo tichavona nezviso zvakatarisana; zvino ndinoziva zvisakakwana, asi nenguva iyo ndichaziva sezvandakazikanwa neni vo.For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

¹³Zvino kutenda, netariro, norudo, zvitatu izvi, ndizvo zvinogara; asi chikuru pakati pazvo ndirwo rudo.And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.