1 Korinthians 9
1 Ime mena son bi na? Ime mena wu whu Rji na? Ime mena to Yesu Irji mbu na? Ana biyi bi tindu ni me ni blater Rji na?
Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are ye not my work in the Lord?
2 Idan me na wu blater Rji nibari na u me bla niyiwu, Biyi bi Zame ndi kapyeme nime nitabatar ni ndumu ni bla ter Rji.
If I am not an apostle to others, yet doubtless I am to you: for ye are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
3 Wayi yiter wa me Kle kpamu idan ndi ba tre nitu mu.
My answer to them that examine me is this,
4 Kina hei yanci wa kiri ndi sou na?
Have we no right to eat and to drink?
5 Kina hei ni yanci wa ki ba vayi mbu iwah, na wa ibru bi tundu Baci, ni mir vayi ni ndu Rji naba Kefas na?
Have we no right to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
6 Biya kome ni Barnabas megye ki na hei ni iko u kambu ni ndu?
Or I only and Barnabas, have we no right to forbear working?
7 Anha ni ti ndu soja ni tuma ki mu? Anha ni ron biri ni woma da na rhi iya ma na? wu nha ni ho lando dana so u imasesan mba na?
Who goeth to war at any time at his own expense? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of its fruit? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?
8 Biya me tre tre yi ni gbegble ter ndi mu? Bina to di doka me tre tokina?
Do I say these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?
9 U ni doka Musa a tre di na yau takunkumi ni wa ni mla biri tei na. A hi jiji lando wandi Irji ni kwa ha?
For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the grain. Doth God take care for oxen?
10 Ana si tre ni tumbu, indi na? ba han ta wu ndi indi u yoh sor, anife indi wa ase tat take hiri, wa wumw du tei ni suron riri anife.
Or saith he this altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.
11 U kita cu wu ru haniya ni yiwu ani kpe rigra ma duta girbi kpibi wu kpah ni yi?
If we have sown to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
12 Indan bari ba te yana yi ni yi, kina zan ba na? Ama ki na miye yanci kina kita de ki vu suron ni koga don ki na kpa tre Bishara Kristi ti meme na zuta tendu Bishara Yesu Almasihu.
If others are partakers of this right over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this right; but endure all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.
13 Bina to biwa ba tindu ni mi tar Rji ba fe hla ni sau mba ni kiyi na? Biwa basi tindu ni tra Rji ba hai ni rabo mba ni kpi biwa ba rhi ni myi hai kalin.
Do ye not know that they who minister about holy things live from the things of the temple? and they who wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?
14 Ana kiwi Rji tre bi tendu ni terma Bishara bari da sau ni tunko bishara.
Even so hath the Lord ordained that they who preach the gospel should live by the gospel.
15 Ama ime mina miye yanci ri me na me na nah du ba ti kep ni muna; croma du me kwuu ni du indi hana ni me ni bubu grie ni tu kpe u bi yi.
But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done to me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.
16 Indan me bla tre bishara me ha hei ni kpe wu wurwo ni suron na a hei nimu hello du me ti ndu ki. Ani meme ni idan me na bla tre Bishara
For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast of: for necessity is laid upon me; and, woe is to me, if I preach not the gospel!
17 Meta tei wayi ni suron mu riri, me kpa kpe wa Irji a zinimu u bima. Ama hle ta na ti ni suron riri na. u me rhi he ni nauwaya nitu mu.
For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed to me.
18 Wagye a rabo mu? U meta bla tre Rji me ya ni no Bishara nina kpa gbe wa a hi yancu mu ni ti bishara na.
What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I may not abuse my right in the gospel.
19 Ko da ike iwo mu na sa kpe na mi kati grah ni ndi don mi ndi gbron gbuglu wu ye ni Rji.
For though I am free from all men, yet I have made myself servant to all, that I might gain the more.
20 Ni Yahudawa, me k'mati bayabude, don ndi gbi yahuda. Ni bi wa ba hei ni zha bi blah ter, do kpa me, mi hei ni mi mba meni gbi wa ba hei ni zha bi blah tre me ti na ki ko da shike mi na hei ni bi blah tre na.
And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;
21 Bi wa bana hei ni karkashi sharia na ime me k'ma hei na bi wa ba na he ni shari'a na ko shike me na hamma ni shiriya u Rji na Du naki me hei karkashi doka Rji me ti naki me ndi kpadi bi wa ba na he mi sharia na.
To them that are without law, as without law, ( being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ, ) that I might gain them that are without law.
22 Ni biwa bana hei ni gbegble na, me hei naki niba don me gbro bi hama ne gbengblen.
To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak: I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
23 Me tei kogye don bishara me ndi yoh woh ni min biwa ba kiti ndu don me ndi kpa albarka game.
And this I do for the gospel’s sake, that I may be a partaker of it with you.
24 Bina to ndi indi gbugbu u bari ni gasa tsutsu, u bi waba tsutsu a, indi riri ni kpah sakamaka na?
Know ye not that they who run in a race all run, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
25 Indi u tsutsu ani mla kpama ti naki dafe gbegble kpama du hyi gyegyer. Ba tei naki du ba kpakpe wa ni ti meme wu bi gasa tsutsu bati nda kpa kpe wa ni kri ko'b ana wu te meme na.
And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
26 Anayi me tsutsu na me na he ni manufei na, yada me ti dambe an a kama me ndi da si tsi ni gwugwu na.
I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so I fight, not as one that beateth the air:
27 Me mean ni kpa mu ti u yah, na mi gra don idan me bla tre Rji ni bari ime tumu mika na ti meme na.
But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
