1 Wakorintho 13
Biblia Takatifu (Swahili): New Testament portions
Berean Standard Bible
1Hata kama nikinena lugha za watu na hata za malaika, lakini kama sina upendo mimi nimekuwa tu kama sauti ya debe tupu au kengele.
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.
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.
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.
3Nikitoa mali yangu yote na kuwapa maskini, na tena nikiutoa mwili wangu uchomwe, kama sina upendo hiyo hainifai chochote.
3If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing.
4Mwenye upendo huvumilia, hufadhili; mwenye upendo hana wivu, hajidai, wala hajivuni.
4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
5Mwenye upendo hakosi adabu, hatafuti faida yake binafsi, wala hana wepesi wa hasira; haweki kumbukumbu ya mabaya,
5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.
6hafurahii uovu, bali hufurahia ukweli.
6Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.
7Mwenye upendo huvumilia yote, huamini yote, na hustahimili yote.
7It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
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.
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.
9Maana ujuzi wetu si kamili, na kipaji chetu cha kutangaza neno la Mungu si kamili.
9For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
10Lakini kile kilicho kikamilifu kitakapofika, vyote visivyo vikamilifu vitatoweka.
10but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.
11Nilipokuwa mtoto mchanga nilisema kitoto, nilifahamu kitoto, nilifikiri kitoto. Lakini sasa, maadam mimi ni mtu mzima, mambo ya kitoto nimeyaacha.
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.
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.
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.
13Sasa yanadumu haya matatu: imani, tumaini na upendo; lakini lililo kuu kupita yote ni upendo.
13And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.
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