1 Corinthians 9
1 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have not I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Are not you my work in the Lord?
Hashi, neni namuntu ndiri mlekeru? Hashi, neni nantumintumi ndiri? Hashi, neni numwona ndiri Mtuwa gwetu Yesu? Hashi, mwenga mwamalawiranu ga lihengu lyaneni Mumtuwa?
2 If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
Ata wamonga pawalema kunjimira kuwera neni nantumintumi, kumbiti mwawamakapitawu waneni kuwera neni nantumintumi. Toziya ya makaliru genu ga kulikolerana pamuhera na Mtuwa su galanguziya kuwera neni nantumintumi.
3 My defense to those who examine me is this:
Mawankula ganeni ndo aga kwa wantu walii yawankosiya.
4 Have we no right to eat and to drink?
Hashi twahera uwezu wa kuliya na kulanda, kulawirana na lihengu lyangu lyantenda?
5 Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
Hashi, twahera uwezu kumtola mdala yakamwamini Kristu mumwanja mwatwenga, ntambu yawatenditi wantumintumi wamonga na walongu wa Mtuwa na vilaa Kefa?
6 Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?
Ama, twaweni gweka neni na Barinaba yatufiruwa kutenda lihengu su tupati mafiliru getu?
7 What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and does not eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and does not drink from the flock’s milk?
Hashi, mshonta gaa yakalipira ushonta wakuwi? Hashi, yakalima gaa yakaliya ndiri mabwajubwaju ga mtera gwakuwi? Hashi, mlolera wa wakondolu gaa yakalanda ndiri maweri ga wakondolu wakuwi mweni?
8 Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or does not the law also say the same thing?
Hashi, ntakula vitwatira avi umuntu hera? Hashi, Lilagaliru lyeni lya Musa litakula ndiri hangu?
9 For it is written in the law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.” Is it for the oxen that God cares,
Ilembitwi Mumalagaliru ga Musa, “Nagumtawa mlomu gwa ng'ombi pakakomanga usaka.” Hashi, Mlungu kankuvitakulira visoweru vya ng'ombi?
10 or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.
Hashi, kaweriti ndiri kakutuholera twenga pakatakuliti hangu? Yina, aga galembitwi kwa toziya ya twenga, ulii yakalima na ulii yakabenanga, woseri walitumbira kupata mabenu.
11 If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?
Payiwera twenga tuyala mbeyu ya shirohu pakati penu, hashi shitwatira shikulu patwapa vintu vya mafiliru getu?
12 If others partake of this right over you, do not we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.
Payiwera wamonga wafiruwa kulolera aga kulawa kwa mwenga? Hashi, twenga tufiruwa ndiri kuliku womberi? Kumbiti twenga tuvitendera ndiri virii vyavimfiriziya Mlungu avi. Pa pakuwi tustahili kila shintu su nashitulila shileweleru shintu shoseri Shisoweru Shiwagira sha Kristu.
13 Do not you know that those who serve around sacred things eat from the things of the temple, and those who wait on the altar have their portion with the altar?
Hashi, muvimana ndiri kuwera yawatenda lihengu Mnumba nkulu ya Mlungu wapataga shiboga shawu mlaa na yawalaviya tambiku pashitalawanda sha kutambikira wapataga vintu vya tambiku ayi?
14 Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.
Ntambu iraayi, Mtuwa kawalagaliriti yawawabwelera wantu Shisoweru Shiwagira wapati vyawafira Mushisoweru Shiwagira.
15 But I have used none of these things, and I do not write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.
Kumbiti neni ntumiyiti ndiri goseri aga ama nankulemba ndiri su mwenga muntenderi neni ntambu ayi. Mbaka neni nwowi kuliku kumtenda muntu yoseri kawoni kuwera neni nankulitumbira hera.
16 For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about, for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me if I do not preach the Good News.
Payiwera nankushibwera Shisoweru Shiwagira, shitwatira ashi shiwera ndiri sha kulitumba, ali ndo lihengu lyampananitwi nulitendi. Shodi neni handa pambwera ndiri Shisoweru Shiwagira!
17 For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.
Mensyaguli lihengu ali kwa neni namweni, mendoleri lifupu, kumbiti pantenda lihengu ali pota na kufira namweni Mlungu kanamini kwa lihengu ali.
18 What then is my reward? That when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.
Vinu lifupu lyangu ndo shintu gaa? Lifupu lyangu ndo ali, panuwabwelera wantu Shisoweru Shiwagira nfira ndiri kupananwa shintu ama nduwa ndiri shibenamgongu sha lihengu lya kushibwera Shisoweru Shiwagira.
19 For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
Tembera neni nammanda ndiri gwa muntu yoseri, kumbiti nulitendi namweni kuwera mmanda gwa kila muntu su numjegeri Kristu wantu wavuwa ngoo.
20 To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;
Pantenditi lihengu na Wayawudi, nulikali gambira Namyawudi su nuwapati Wayawudi, tembera namweni neni nonguziwa ndiri na Malagaliru ga Musa, ntenditi lihengu pamuhera na walii yawalongoziwa na Malagaliru ga Musa, su nuwapati womberi.
21 to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law.
Ntambu iraa ayi, neni pantenditi lihengu pamuhera na wantu yawawera ndiri wayawudi, nulikaliti gambira wantu yawawera ndiri Wayawudi, yawawera kunja Mumalagaliru ga Musa, su nuwapati womberi. Ayi ilanguziya ndiri kuwera njimira ndiri Malagaliru ga Mlungu, nakaka neni nonguziwa na Malagaliru ga Kristu.
22 To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.
Kwa yawawera na moyu legilegi, nulikaliti gambira womberi ntambu yawalikaliti su nuwapati yawawera na moyu legilegi. Ntenditi kila shintu kwa wantu woseri su kwa njira yoseri ilii wapati kulopoziwa.
23 Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.
Nugatenda goseri aga toziya ya Shisoweru Shiwagira, su mpati kuwanka matekeleru gakuwi.
24 Do not you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, so that you may win.
Hashi, muvimana ndiri kuwera wantu pawatuga, woseri wankutuga, kumbiti ulii yakawalongolera wayaguwi ndo yakawanka lifupu? Mtugi hangu su mfupwi.
25 Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
Muntu yoseri yakafira kuwakanga wayaguwi kwa kutuga, kwanja kagalekaga goseri, katendaga hangu su kapati lijenjeri lyalihalibika! Kumbiti twenga tutenda hangu tupati lijenjeri lyaliharibika ndiri.
26 I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air,
Su ntuga gambira muntu yakafira kukanga, nkoma ndiri gambira muntu yakakoma lipuga.
27 but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.
Kumbiti nuyigangamiziya nshimba yaneni su nuyikolimlima, ntira kuwera neni namweni naniza kulemwa kuwanka lifupu panuwabwera kala wamonga Shisoweru Shiwagira.
