Scrive Paolo, nella Prima lettera ai Corinzi:
«L'amore è paziente, è benevolo; l'amore non invidia; l'amore non si vanta, non si gonfia, non si comporta in modo sconveniente, non cerca il proprio interesse, non s'inasprisce, non addebita il male, non gode dell'ingiustizia, ma gioisce con la verità; soffre ogni cosa, crede ogni cosa, spera ogni cosa, sopporta ogni cosa. L'amore non verrà mai meno.» (1cor 13:4-10)
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 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 childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor 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.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:4 Parallel Translations
NASB: Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, (NASB ©1995)
GWT: Love is patient. Love is kind. Love isn't jealous. It doesn't sing its own praises. It isn't arrogant.(GOD'S WORD®)
KJV: Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
ASV: Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
BBE: Love is never tired of waiting; love is kind; love has no envy; love has no high opinion of itself, love has no pride;
DBY: Love has long patience, is kind; love is not emulous of others; love is not insolent and rash, is not puffed up,
ERV: Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
WEY: Love is patient and kind. Love knows neither envy nor jealousy. Love is not forward and self-assertive, nor boastful and conceited.
WBS: Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
WEB: Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud,
YLT: The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up.
