Prima lettera ai Corinzi 13

NOVA VULGATA	KING JAMES BIBLE
1 Si linguis hominum loquar et angelorum, caritatem au tem non habeam,factus sum velut aes sonans aut cymbalum tinniens.	1 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.
2 Et si habuero prophetiam et noverim mysteria omnia et omnem scientiam, et sihabuero omnem fidem, ita ut montes transferam, caritatem autem non habuero,nihil sum.	2 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.
3 Et si distribuero in cibos omnes facultates meas et si tradidero corpus meum,ut glorier, caritatem autem non habuero, nihil mihi prodest.	3 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.
4 Caritas patiens est, benigna est caritas, non aemulatur, non agit superbe, noninflatur,	4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
5 non est ambitiosa, non quaerit, quae sua sunt, non irritatur, noncogitat malum,	5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
6 non gaudet super iniquitatem, congaudet autem veritati;	6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
7 omniasuffert, omnia credit, omnia sperat, omnia sustinet.	7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
8 Caritas numquam excidit. Sive prophetiae, evacuabuntur; sive linguae,cessabunt; sive scientia, destruetur.	8 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.
9 Ex parte enim cognoscimus et ex parteprophetamus;	9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
10 cum autem venerit, quod perfectum est, evacuabitur, quod exparte est.	10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
11 Cum essem parvulus, loquebar ut parvulus, sapiebam ut parvulus,cogitabam ut parvulus; quando factus sum vir, evacuavi, quae erant parvuli.	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 Videmus enim nunc per speculum in aenigmate, tunc autem facie ad faciem; nunccognosco ex parte, tunc autem cognoscam, sicut et cognitus sum.	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 Nunc autem manet fides, spes, caritas, tria haec; maior autem ex his estcaritas.	13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.