1 Corinthians 13
Berean Standard BibleTranslation
Berean Standard Bible
Biblia Takatifu (Swahili): New Testament portions
1If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal.
1Hata kama nikinena lugha za watu na hata za malaika, lakini kama sina upendo mimi nimekuwa tu kama sauti ya debe tupu au kengele.
2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
2Tena, naweza kuwa na kipaji cha kutangaza ujumbe wa Mungu, nikafahamu siri zote na kujua kila kitu; naweza kuwa na imani yote hata nikaweza kuihamisha milima, lakini kama sina upendo mimi si kitu.
3If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing.
3Nikitoa mali yangu yote na kuwapa maskini, na tena nikiutoa mwili wangu uchomwe, kama sina upendo hiyo hainifai chochote.
4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
4Mwenye upendo huvumilia, hufadhili; mwenye upendo hana wivu, hajidai, wala hajivuni.
5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.
5Mwenye upendo hakosi adabu, hatafuti faida yake binafsi, wala hana wepesi wa hasira; haweki kumbukumbu ya mabaya,
6Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.
6hafurahii uovu, bali hufurahia ukweli.
7It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
7Mwenye upendo huvumilia yote, huamini yote, na hustahimili yote.
8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be restrained; where there is knowledge, it will be dismissed.
8Upendo hauna kikomo kamwe. Kama kuna vipaji vya kutangaza ujumbe wa Mungu, hivyo vitatoweka siku moja; kama ni vipaji vya kusema lugha ngeni, vitakoma; kama kuna elimu, nayo itapita.
9For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
9Maana ujuzi wetu si kamili, na kipaji chetu cha kutangaza neno la Mungu si kamili.
10but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.
10Lakini kile kilicho kikamilifu kitakapofika, vyote visivyo vikamilifu vitatoweka.
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 set aside childish ways.
11Nilipokuwa mtoto mchanga nilisema kitoto, nilifahamu kitoto, nilifikiri kitoto. Lakini sasa, maadam mimi ni mtu mzima, mambo ya kitoto nimeyaacha.
12Now we see but a dim 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.
12Tunachoona sasa ni kama tu sura hafifu katika kioo, lakini hapo baadaye tutaona uso kwa uso. Sasa ninajua kiasi fulani tu, lakini hapo baadaye nitajua yote kikamilifu, kama vile Mungu anavyonijua mimi.
13And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.
13Sasa yanadumu haya matatu: imani, tumaini na upendo; lakini lililo kuu kupita yote ni upendo.
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