1 Corinthians 9
1 Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are you not my work in the LORD?
ahaṁ kim ekaḥ prerito nāsmi? kimahaṁ svatantro nāsmi? asmākaṁ prabhu ryīśuḥ khrīṣṭaḥ kiṁ mayā nādarśi? yūyamapi kiṁ prabhunā madīyaśramaphalasvarūpā na bhavatha?
2 If I am not an apostle to others—yet doubtless I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the LORD.
anyalokānāṁ kṛte yadyapyahaṁ prerito na bhaveyaṁ tathāca yuṣmatkṛte prerito'smi yataḥ prabhunā mama preritatvapadasya mudrāsvarūpā yūyamevādhve|
3 My defense to those who examine me in this:
ye lokā mayi doṣamāropayanti tān prati mama pratyuttarametat|
4 do we not have authority to eat and to drink?
bhojanapānayoḥ kimasmākaṁ kṣamatā nāsti?
5 Do we not have authority to lead about a sister—a wife—as also the other apostles, and the brothers of the LORD, and Cephas?
anye preritāḥ prabho rbhrātarau kaiphāśca yat kurvvanti tadvat kāñcit dharmmabhaginīṁ vyūhya tayā sārddhaṁ paryyaṭituṁ vayaṁ kiṁ na śaknumaḥ?
6 Or do only Barnabas and I have no authority not to work?
sāṁsārikaśramasya parityāgāt kiṁ kevalamahaṁ barṇabbāśca nivāritau?
7 Who serves as a soldier at his own expense at any time? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock and does not eat of the milk of the flock?
nijadhanavyayena kaḥ saṁgrāmaṁ karoti? ko vā drākṣākṣetraṁ kṛtvā tatphalāni na bhuṅkte? ko vā paśuvrajaṁ pālayan tatpayo na pivati?
8 Do I speak these things according to man? Or does the Law not also say these things?
kimahaṁ kevalāṁ mānuṣikāṁ vācaṁ vadāmi? vyavasthāyāṁ kimetādṛśaṁ vacanaṁ na vidyate?
9 For in the Law of Moses it has been written: “you will not muzzle an ox treading out grain”; does God care for the oxen?
mūsāvyavasthāgranthe likhitamāste, tvaṁ śasyamarddakavṛṣasyāsyaṁ na bhaṁtsyasīti| īśvareṇa balīvarddānāmeva cintā kiṁ kriyate?
10 Or by all means does He say [it] because of us? Yes, because of us it was written, because in hope ought the plower to plow, and he who is treading [ought] of his hope to partake in hope.
kiṁ vā sarvvathāsmākaṁ kṛte tadvacanaṁ tenoktaṁ? asmākameva kṛte tallikhitaṁ| yaḥ kṣetraṁ karṣati tena pratyāśāyuktena karṣṭavyaṁ, yaśca śasyāni marddayati tena lābhapratyāśāyuktena mardditavyaṁ|
11 If we sowed to you the spiritual things—[is it] great if we reap your fleshly things?
yuṣmatkṛte'smābhiḥ pāratrikāṇi bījāni ropitāni, ato yuṣmākamaihikaphalānāṁ vayam aṁśino bhaviṣyāmaḥ kimetat mahat karmma?
12 If others partake of the authority over you—[do] we not more? But we did not use this authority, but we bear all things, that we may give no hindrance to the good news of the Christ.
yuṣmāsu yo'dhikārastasya bhāgino yadyanye bhaveyustarhyasmābhistato'dhikaṁ kiṁ tasya bhāgibhi rna bhavitavyaṁ? adhikantu vayaṁ tenādhikāreṇa na vyavahṛtavantaḥ kintu khrīṣṭīyasusaṁvādasya ko'pi vyāghāto'smābhiryanna jāyeta tadarthaṁ sarvvaṁ sahāmahe|
13 Have you not known that those working about the things of the temple eat of the temple, and those waiting at the altar are partakers with the altar?
aparaṁ ye pavitravastūnāṁ paricaryyāṁ kurvvanti te pavitravastuto bhakṣyāṇi labhante, ye ca vedyāḥ paricaryyāṁ kurvvanti te vedisthavastūnām aṁśino bhavantyetad yūyaṁ kiṁ na vida?
14 So also the LORD directed to those proclaiming the good news to live of the good news.
tadvad ye susaṁvādaṁ ghoṣayanti taiḥ susaṁvādena jīvitavyamiti prabhunādiṣṭaṁ|
15 And I have used none of these things; neither did I write these things that it may be so done in my case, for [it is] good for me rather to die, than that anyone may make my glorying void;
ahameteṣāṁ sarvveṣāṁ kimapi nāśritavān māṁ prati tadanusārāt ācaritavyamityāśayenāpi patramidaṁ mayā na likhyate yataḥ kenāpi janena mama yaśaso mudhākaraṇāt mama maraṇaṁ varaṁ|
16 for if I may proclaim good news, it is no glorying for me, for necessity is laid on me, and woe is to me if I may not proclaim good news;
susaṁvādagheṣaṇāt mama yaśo na jāyate yatastadghoṣaṇaṁ mamāvaśyakaṁ yadyahaṁ susaṁvādaṁ na ghoṣayeyaṁ tarhi māṁ dhik|
17 for if I do this willingly, I have a reward; and if unwillingly—I have been entrusted with a stewardship!
icchukena tat kurvvatā mayā phalaṁ lapsyate kintvanicchuke'pi mayi tatkarmmaṇo bhāro'rpito'sti|
18 What, then, is my reward? That proclaiming good news, without charge I will make the good news of the Christ, not to abuse my authority in the good news;
etena mayā labhyaṁ phalaṁ kiṁ? susaṁvādena mama yo'dhikāra āste taṁ yadabhadrabhāvena nācareyaṁ tadarthaṁ susaṁvādaghoṣaṇasamaye tasya khrīṣṭīyasusaṁvādasya nirvyayīkaraṇameva mama phalaṁ|
19 for being free from all men, I made myself servant to all men, that the more I might gain;
sarvveṣām anāyatto'haṁ yad bhūriśo lokān pratipadye tadarthaṁ sarvveṣāṁ dāsatvamaṅgīkṛtavān|
20 and to the Jews I became like a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those under law as under law, that I might gain those under law;
yihūdīyān yat pratipadye tadarthaṁ yihūdīyānāṁ kṛte yihūdīya̮ivābhavaṁ| ye ca vyavasthāyattāstān yat pratipadye tadarthaṁ vyavasthānāyatto yo'haṁ so'haṁ vyavasthāyattānāṁ kṛte vyavasthāyatta̮ivābhavaṁ|
21 to those without law, as without law—(not being without law to God, but within law to Christ)—that I might gain those without law;
ye cālabdhavyavasthāstān yat pratipadye tadartham īśvarasya sākṣād alabdhavyavastho na bhūtvā khrīṣṭena labdhavyavastho yo'haṁ so'ham alabdhavyavasthānāṁ kṛte'labdhavyavastha ivābhavaṁ|
22 to the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak; to all men I have become all things, that by all means I may save some.
durbbalān yat pratipadye tadarthamahaṁ durbbalānāṁ kṛte durbbala̮ivābhavaṁ| itthaṁ kenāpi prakāreṇa katipayā lokā yanmayā paritrāṇaṁ prāpnuyustadarthaṁ yo yādṛśa āsīt tasya kṛte 'haṁ tādṛśa̮ivābhavaṁ|
23 And I do this because of the good news, that I may become a fellow-partaker of it;
idṛśa ācāraḥ susaṁvādārthaṁ mayā kriyate yato'haṁ tasya phalānāṁ sahabhāgī bhavitumicchāmi|
24 have you not known that those running in a race—all indeed run, but one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain;
paṇyalābhārthaṁ ye dhāvanti dhāvatāṁ teṣāṁ sarvveṣāṁ kevala ekaḥ paṇyaṁ labhate yuṣmābhiḥ kimetanna jñāyate? ato yūyaṁ yathā paṇyaṁ lapsyadhve tathaiva dhāvata|
25 and everyone who is striving is temperate in all things; these, indeed, then, that they may receive a corruptible garland, but we an incorruptible;
mallā api sarvvabhoge parimitabhogino bhavanti te tu mlānāṁ srajaṁ lipsante kintu vayam amlānāṁ lipsāmahe|
26 I, therefore, thus run, not as uncertainly, thus I fight, as not beating air;
tasmād ahamapi dhāvāmi kintu lakṣyamanuddiśya dhāvāmi tannahi| ahaṁ malla̮iva yudhyāmi ca kintu chāyāmāghātayanniva yudhyāmi tannahi|
27 but I bruise my body, and bring [it] into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others—I myself may become disapproved.
itarān prati susaṁvādaṁ ghoṣayitvāhaṁ yat svayamagrāhyo na bhavāmi tadarthaṁ deham āhanmi vaśīkurvve ca|
