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13 我若能說世人和天使的方言,卻沒有愛,我就成了鳴的鑼、響的鈸一樣。 我若有先知講道的恩賜,也明白各樣的奧祕,各樣的知識;並且有全備的信,叫我能夠移山,卻沒有愛,我就算不得甚麼。 我若把一切所有的分給人,又捨己身被人焚燒,卻沒有愛,對我仍然毫無益處。

愛是恆久忍耐,又有恩慈。愛是不嫉妒,不自誇,不張狂; 不作失禮的事,不求自己的益處,不輕易動怒,不計較人的過犯; 不喜歡不義,只喜歡真理。 愛是凡事包容,凡事相信,凡事盼望,凡事忍耐。

愛是永存不息的。先知的講道終必過去,方言終必停止,知識終必消失。 因為我們現在所知道的,只是一部分;所講的道也只是一部分; 10 等那完全的來到,這部分的就要過去了。 11 我作孩子的時候,說話像孩子,心思像孩子,想法像孩子,既然長大了,就把孩子的事都丟棄了。 12 我們現在是對著鏡子觀看,模糊不清,到那時就要面對面了。我現在所知道的只是一部分,到那時就完全知道了,好像主完全知道我一樣。 13 現在常存的有信、望、愛這三樣,其中最大的是愛。

13 If I speak in the tongues[a](A) of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy(B) and can fathom all mysteries(C) and all knowledge,(D) and if I have a faith(E) that can move mountains,(F) but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor(G) and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,[b](H) but do not have love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient,(I) love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.(J) It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking,(K) it is not easily angered,(L) it keeps no record of wrongs.(M) Love does not delight in evil(N) but rejoices with the truth.(O) It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.(P)

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies,(Q) they will cease; where there are tongues,(R) they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part(S) and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes,(T) what is in part disappears. 11 When 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(U) behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror;(V) then we shall see face to face.(W) Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.(X)

13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love.(Y) But the greatest of these is love.(Z)

Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 13:1 Or languages
  2. 1 Corinthians 13:3 Some manuscripts body to the flames

The Way of Love

13 If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate.

If I speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, “Jump,” and it jumps, but I don’t love, I’m nothing.

3-7 If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love.

Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.
Love doesn’t strut,
Doesn’t have a swelled head,
Doesn’t force itself on others,
Isn’t always “me first,”
Doesn’t fly off the handle,
Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn’t revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end.

8-10 Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit. We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete. But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled.

11 When I was an infant at my mother’s breast, I gurgled and cooed like any infant. When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good.

12 We don’t yet see things clearly. We’re squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won’t be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We’ll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us!

13 But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.

The Greatest Gift

13 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of (A)prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, (B)so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And (C)though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body [a]to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.

(D)Love suffers long and is (E)kind; love (F)does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not [b]puffed up; does not behave rudely, (G)does not seek its own, is not provoked, [c]thinks no evil; (H)does not rejoice in iniquity, but (I)rejoices in the truth; (J)bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. (K)For we know in part and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is [d]perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.

11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12 For (L)now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then (M)face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.

13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 13:3 NU so I may boast
  2. 1 Corinthians 13:4 arrogant
  3. 1 Corinthians 13:5 keeps no accounts of evil
  4. 1 Corinthians 13:10 complete

Kupambana kwa Chikondi

13 Ngakhale nditamayankhula mʼmalilime a anthu ndi a angelo, koma ngati ndilibe chikondi, ndili ngati chinganga chaphokoso kapena ngati chitsulo chosokosera. Ngati ndili ndi mphatso ya uneneri, nʼkumazindikira zinsinsi ndi kudziwa zonse, ndipo ngati ndili ndi chikhulupiriro chosuntha mapiri, koma wopanda chikondi, ine sindili kanthu. Ngati ndipereka zanga zonse kwa osauka ndi kupereka thupi langa kuti alitenthe, koma ngati ndilibe chikondi, ine sindipindula kanthu.

Chikondi nʼcholeza mtima, chikondi nʼchokoma mtima, chilibe nsanje, sichidzikuza, sichidzitamandira. Chikondi chilibe mwano, sichodzikonda, sichipsa mtima msanga, sichisunga mangawa. Chikondi sichikondwera ndi zoyipa koma chimakondwera ndi choonadi. Chimatchinjiriza nthawi zonse, chimakhulupirika nthawi zonse, chimakhala ndi chiyembekezo nthawi zonse, chimapirira nthawi zonse.

Chikondi ndi chosatha. Koma mphatso ya uneneri idzatha, pamene pali kuyankhula malilime adzatha, pamene pali chidziwitso chidzatha. Pakuti timadziwa zinthu pangʼono chabe ndipo timanenera pangʼono chabe. 10 Koma changwiro chikadzaoneka ndipo chopereweracho chidzatha. 11 Pamene ndinali mwana ndinkayankhula ngati mwana, ndinkaganiza ngati mwana, ndinkalingalira ngati mwana. Koma nditakula, zonse zachibwana ndinazisiya. 12 Pakuti tsopano tiona zinthu mosaoneka bwino ngati mʼgalasi loonera; kenaka tidzaziona maso ndi maso. Tsopano ndidziwa mosakwanira koma kenaka ndidzadziwa mokwanira, monga mmene Mulungu akundidziwira ine.

13 Ndipo tsopano zatsala zinthu zitatu: chikhulupiriro, chiyembekezo ndi chikondi. Koma chachikulu pa zonsezi ndi chikondi.