1 Corinthians 9
1 Am I not free? am I not an apostle? have I not seen Jesus our Lord? are not ye my work in [the] Lord?
Ane sendi mwaushe? Ane sendi tumwe? Ane sehalolile uYesu Ugosi witu? Amwese mfumozye mbombo yane hwa Yesu?
2 If I am not an apostle to others, yet at any rate I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in [the] Lord.
Nkasiga enditume hwabhinje lelo hulimwe enditumwe amwe uhakika wetumwe wane hwa Yesu.
3 My defence to those who examine me is this:
Ane ehwiyumila hwa bhala bha bhawiini(bhabhanenya) ane.
4 Have we not a right to eat and to drink?
Eshi ate setili ne haki alye na mwelee?
5 have we not a right to take round a sister [as] wife, as also the other apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
Setili ne haki ahumweje ushe pandwemo nate yali mweteshee neshishabhabhomba atumwe abhanje na holo bha Yesu nu Kefa?
6 Or I alone and Barnabas, have we not a right not to work?
Awe nene ne mwene nu Barnaba tasetihwanziwa abhombe embombo?
7 Who ever carries on war at his own charges? who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? or who herds a flock and does not eat of the milk of the flock?
Awe sikali wele yabhomba embombo hugalama zyakwe yuyo? Wenu yalima eviyabho yasiga alya evyamgunda gwakwe? Wenu yasuga eng'ombe yasaamwela amazibha ge ng'ombe zyakwe?
8 Do I speak these things as a man, or does not the law also say these things?
Eyanga ezi enongwa zya bhantu? Sheria nayo haisemi haya?
9 For in the law of Moses it is written, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that is treading out corn. Is God occupied about the oxen,
Mu sheria zya Musa, zigile usaizije ilomu eng'ombe nepula eviyabho eshi epo izuliyanga mambo ge ng'ombe?
10 or does he say [it] altogether for our sakes? For for our sakes it has been written, that the plougher should plough in hope, and he that treads out corn, in hope of partaking of [it].
Eshi jibha sayanga zya hulite enongwa ewzyo zitiyanga tete, umuntu yalima, alima asuhila huje ehailya wope yavuna avuna ohu asobhela huje embalye vyevuna.
11 If we have sown to you spiritual things, [is it a] great [thing] if we shall reap your carnal things?
Eshi ate nkashele tabhatutiye evya mmwoyo yabha nongwa ate nkatinune evintu vyenyu evyamubele?
12 If others partake of this right over you, should not rather we? But we have not used this right, but we bear all things, that we may put no hindrance in the way of the glad tidings of the Christ.
Eshi abhanje nkashele mubhapela evintu, eshi ate handasetipeliwa ashile ebho, lelo ate tapumile tavumiliye zyonti aje tisananganye izu lya Ngulubhi.
13 Do ye not know that they who labour [at] sacred things eat of the [offerings offered in the] temple; they that attend at the altar partake with the altar?
Eshi semumenye aje bhabhabhomba embombo mwikanisa bhalya evya mwikanisa? Shila muntu alyapa mbombo yakwe madhabahuni hupata sehemu ya kile kilichotolewa madhabahuni?
14 So also the Lord has ordained to those that announce the glad tidings to live of the glad tidings.
Ugusi uYesu ayanjile aje umuntu yalumbilila izu lya Ngulubhi bhalyanje humbombo iyo.
15 But I have used none of these things. Now I have not written these things that it should be thus in my case; for [it were] good for me rather to die than that any one should make vain my boast.
Lelo ane sembamelile evi vyonti. Sigaesimba ega ehwanza aje amambo ega gabhombeshe shinza hunongwa yane ahelu ane enfwe, ashile umuntu aje agaluzanye ahwisumbe hwane.
16 For if I announce the glad tidings, I have nothing to boast of; for a necessity is laid upon me; for it is woe to me if I should not announce the glad tidings.
Nkashele elumbilila izu sewzilola ezyahwilumbe, lazima embombo eshi. Palwane ane nkasiga elumbilila izu!
17 For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward; but if not of my own will, I am entrusted with an administration.
Nkembombe eshi hwigane lyane endi thawabu. Atasagahwigane lyane bado endinezyabhombe aje embe mwemeleli.
18 What is the reward then that I have? That in announcing the glad tidings I make the glad tidings costless [to others], so as not to have made use, as belonging to me, of my right in [announcing] the glad tidings.
Eshi ethawabu yane yenu huje endumbilile izu hugalama zyane nene niliyonayo katika injili.
19 For being free from all, I have made myself bondman to all, that I might gain the most [possible].
Hata endimwaushe hwa bhonti, nahali boyi hwa bhonti, ili emba abhantu abhinjitee.
20 And I became to the Jews as a Jew, in order that I might gain the Jews: to those under law, as under law, not being myself under law, in order that I might gain those under law:
Hwa Bhayahudi nali neshi Ayahudi, ili embaje Ayahudi. Hwa bhaala bhabhalinesheria nali nesheria, bhabhali nesheria ili embaja bhabhalinesheria. Nilifanya hivyo ingawa mimi binafsi sikuwa chini ya sheria.
21 to those without law, as without law, (not as without law to God, but as legitimately subject to Christ, ) in order that I might gain [those] without law.
Hwa bhaala basigabhane ne sheria, bhope nalinginebho iliembaje bhasebhane sheria ya Ngulubhi, enga ane senalihwonze ne sheria ya Musa, nahali ne sheria ya Kristi ili embaje bhonti.
22 I became to the weak, [as] weak, in order that I might gain the weak. To all I have become all things, in order that at all events I might save some.
Hwa bhololo nali mwololo ili embaje abhololo. Nahali isho hwa bhantu bhonti ili embokole abhantu.
23 And I do all things for the sake of the glad tidings, that I may be fellow-partaker with them.
Nane ebhomba amambo gonti hunongwa yizyu, ili nane enshiriki ulusayo.
24 Know ye not that they who run in [the] race-course run all, but one receives the prize? Thus run in order that ye may obtain.
Eshi semumenye aje bhabhashindana ashembele bhabha bhabhinji lelo yapata isombo abha muntu umo? Namwe shembelaji ili mupate isombo elye womi.
25 But every one that contends [for a prize] is temperate in all things: they then indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
Bhabhomba enyango sebhabhomba embombo eyenje na bali amanyile. Ebho bhabha esho ili bhapate isombo lyali nanjiha, lelo ate tishembela ili tupate isombo lyasigalinanjiha.
26 I therefore thus run, as not uncertainly; so I combat, as not beating the air.
Nanee siga eshembela wene au akhome engumi, neshi ya khoma umwoyi.
27 But I buffet my body, and lead it captive, lest [after] having preached to others I should be myself rejected.
Eshi nane ehwilavya ubili gwane nagubhombe neshi uboyi, ebhomba esho huje nanabhalumbilila abhanje nane ensabhe muntu wakhanwe.
