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Ang Gugma

13 Bisan makasulti ako sa nagkalain-laing mga pinulongan sa mga tawo ug sa mga anghel, apan kon wala akoy gugma sa akong isigka-tawo, sama lang ako sa agong nga saba o piyangpiyang nga nagtagingting. Ug bisan makasugilon ako sa pulong sa Dios ug makasabot sa tanang tinagong mga kamatuoran ug sa tanang kahibalo, ug bisan mapabalhin ko ang bukid tungod sa akong dakong pagtuo, kon wala akoy gugma wala gayod akoy kapuslanan. Bisan iapod-apod ko pa sa mga kabos ang tanan kong mga kabtangan, ug bisan ihalad ko ang akong lawas aron sunogon,[a] kon wala akoy gugma, wala gihapon akoy kapuslanan.

Ang tawo nga nagahigugma, mapailubon, maayo sa iyang isigka-tawo, dili masinahon, dili hambogiro o garboso, dili bastos, dili hakog, dili ulitan, dili madinumtanon, dili malipay sa daotan kondili sa matarong, sa kanunay mainantuson, sa kanunay may pagsalig ug paglaom, ug sa kanunay molahutay.

May kataposan ang mga pagsugilon sa pulong sa Dios, ug ang mga pagsulti sa mga pinulongan nga wala matun-i, ug ang kahibalo, apan ang gugma wala gayoy kataposan. Kay ang mga butang nga atong nasayran ug ang atong pagpasabot sa pulong sa Dios dili pa gayod kompleto. 10 Apan kon moabot na ang adlaw nga mahingpit na ang tanan mawala na ang pagkadili-hingpit.[b]

11 Sa bata pa ako, ang akong pagsulti, ang akong pagsabot, ug ang akong hunahuna binata. Apan sa dihang may buot na ako, gibiyaan ko ang binata nga paggawi. 12 Karon mora kitag nagtan-aw sa salamin nga hanap; apan moabot ang adlaw nga maklaro gayod ang tanan. Karon tipik lamang ang atong nasayran; apan moabot ang adlaw nga masayran nato ang tanan, sama sa pagkasayod sa Dios kanato.

13 Tulo ka butang ang magpadayon ug kining tulo mao ang pagsalig, paglaom, ug ang gugma. Apan ang gugma mao gayod ang labing mahinungdanon.

Footnotes

  1. 13:3 lawas aron sunogon: Sa uban nga Griego nga teksto, lawas aron makapasigarbo.
  2. 13:10 mawala na ang pagkadili-hingpit: Siguro ang buot ipasabot, ang mga hiyas nga karon kinahanglanon sa iglesia mawala kon atua na kitang tanan sa langit.

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

13 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.

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.

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.

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

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.

For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

11 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.

12 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.

13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.