Ohole
1 Nando ndi popye omalaka gaantu nogaayengeli, ihe kandi na ohole, nena okupopya kwandje okwa fa owala ekudhilo lyokangendjo taka tono nenge lyongendjo tayi ngelengendja. 2 Nando ondi kale ndi na omagano gokupopya elaka lyaKalunga nondi na owino wokutseya iiholekwa ayihe; nando ondi kale ndi na eitaalo tali vulu okudhikula po oondundu, ihe kandi na ohole, ongame oshinima showala. 3 Nando ondi gandje po iinima ayihe, nenge ndi gandje olutu lwandje, lu fikwe po, ihe kandi na ohole, itashi kwatha ndje sha.
4 Ohole ohayi idhidhimikile ayihe noyi na olukeno. Ohole ihayi si efupa, ihayi tuwalala. 5 Ohole ihayi holoka nayi, ihayi kongo shayo yene, ihayi ningi omwenyo omwiinayi, ohole ihayi dhimbulukwa uuwinayi ye u ningilwa. 6 Ohole ihayi nyanyukilwa uugoyoki, ihe ohayi nyanyukilwa oshili. 7 Ohole ihayi tonyala, ihe otayi itaale, tayi tegamene e tayi idhidhimike sigo okehulilo.
8 Ohole itayi hulu po. Okupopya elaka lyaKalunga itaku kala sigo aluhe, omagano gokupopya omalaka gaa shiwike itaga kala sigo aluhe, nosho wo okutseya otaku hulu po. 9 Oshoka okutseya nokupopya kwetu elaka lyaKalunga inaku gwana. 10 Ihe shono sha gwana sha pwa ngele tashi ya, nena shono inaashi gwana, otashi hulu po.
11 Ngame sho nda li okanona, onda popi, nda dhiladhila nonda yeleke pakanona; ihe sho nda ningi omulumentu, onde etha ayihe yopakanona. 12 Shoka tu wete ngashingeyi osha fa owala efano inaali yela nawa lyomuntu ngoka ti italele moshiitalelo, ihe esiku ndiyaka otatu ka mona koshipala noshipala. Ngashingeyi okutseya kwandje inaku gwana, ihe esiku ndiyaka otandi ka tseya nda gwana, ngaashi naanaa Kalunga a tseya ndje nawa.
13 Ihe ngashingeyi otaku kala mbika itatu: eitaalo, etegameno nohole, ihe oshinima oshinene kwaayihe mbika osho ohole.
Love
1 I may be able to speak the languages of human beings and even of angels, but if I have no love, my speech is no more than a noisy gong or a clanging bell. 2 I may have the gift of inspired preaching; I may have all knowledge and understand all secrets; I may have all the faith needed to move mountains—but if I have no love, I am nothing. 3 I may give away everything I have, and even give up my body to be burned —but if I have no love, this does me no good.
4 Love is patient and kind; it is not jealous or conceited or proud; 5 love is not ill-mannered or selfish or irritable; love does not keep a record of wrongs; 6 love is not happy with evil, but is happy with the truth. 7 Love never gives up; and its faith, hope, and patience never fail.
8 Love is eternal. There are inspired messages, but they are temporary; there are gifts of speaking in strange tongues, but they will cease; there is knowledge, but it will pass. 9 For our gifts of knowledge and of inspired messages are only partial; 10 but when what is perfect comes, then what is partial will disappear.
11 When I was a child, my speech, feelings, and thinking were all those of a child; now that I am an adult, I have no more use for childish ways. 12 What we see now is like a dim image in a mirror; then we shall see face-to-face. What I know now is only partial; then it will be complete—as complete as God's knowledge of me.
13 Meanwhile these three remain: faith, hope, and love; and the greatest of these is love.
