1 Corinthians 9
1 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?
Taani yeda de7iya asi gidikkinaa? Ta hawaare gidikkinaa? Taani nu Godaa Yesuus Kiristtoosa be7abiikkina? Hintte Godan ta daabura ayfe gidekketii?
2 If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my office of apostle in the Lord.
Hintte Godaaba gidiya gisho ta haratas hawaare gidonna ixxikokka, hinttew hawaare gideyssas hintte markka.
3 My defense to those who examine me is this.
Tana hawaare gidenna geyssatas ta immiya zaaroy hayssa.
4 Have we no right to eat and to drink?
Nu hinttefe maanawunne uyanaw tuma nuus maati baawe?
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?
Hankko hawaaretada, Godaa ishatadanne Phexiroosada, ammaniyaa nu machcheta ekki hamuttanaw nuus maati baawe?
6 Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?
Woykko oothidi maanaw bessey taaranne Barnnabaasa xalaalee?
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?
Ba miishen wotaaddaretathi oothey oonee? Woykko woyne tokkidi, iya ayfe moonnay oonee? Woykko wude heemmishe, he wudiyappe maathi uyonnay oonee?
8 Do I say these things according to human authority? Or does not the Law also say the same thing?
Taani hessa asa qofatho gaynayye? Higgey qassi hessa geenne?
9 For it is written in the Law of Moses, "Do not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain." Is it for the oxen that God cares,
Muse Higgiyan, “Wudumman kathaa yedhdhiya booraa doona qachchofa” geetettidi xaafettis. Yaatin Xoossay hessa booras qoppidi gidee?
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 the hope of having a share.
Xoossay hessa giday nuus qoppidi gidennee? Ee nu gishossa. Goyeysika, kathaa geeshsheysika bana gakkeyssa ekkana gidi ufayssan oothanaw bessees geetettidi tuma nu gisho xaafettis.
11 If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?
Nuuni hintte giddon ayyaana zerethi zerida gidikko ashos koshshiyabaa nu hinttefe ekkiko, hessi gitabaye?
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.
Harati hessa hinttefe ekkanaw enttaw maati de7ikko, nuus enttayssafe aadhdhiya maati de7ees. Shin nuuni Kiristtoosa Wonggelaas dhube gidonna mela, ubbaa genccoosippe attin he maatan go7ettibookko.
13 Do you not 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?
Xoossaa keethan oothiya asati bantta kathaa Xoossa Keethafe ekkeyssa erekketii? Qassi yarshsho bessan ootheyssati yarshshuwafe ekkeyssa erekketii?
14 Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.
Hessadakka, Wonggelaa markkatteyssati duussas koshshiyabaa Wonggelaappe ekkana mela Goday kiittis.
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.
Shin taani ha maata ubban aykkoka go7ettabiikke. Taani hessa xaafiday ta maata bonchchisanaw koyada gidenna. Oonikka ta ceequwa hada oothanayssafe hayqoy taw lo77o.
16 For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about, because I am compelled to do this. Woe to me if I do not preach the Good News.
Taani Wonggelaa odey kiitettida gishossafe attin tana ceeqisiyabaa gidenna. Wonggelaa odonna ixxiko, tana ayye.
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.
Taani Wonggelaa dosada sabbakikko taw woytoy de7ees. Shin taani Wonggelaa dosonna kiitettada sabbakiyabaa gidikko hessa Xoossay taw hadara immis.
18 What then is my reward? That, when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.
Yaatin, ta woytoy aybee? Taani Wonggelaa sabbakiya wode ta maatan go7ettonna Wonggelaa coo sabbakeyssi taw woyto.
19 For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
Taani oodeskka aylle gidikke, shin darota ashshanaw ubbaas aylle gidas.
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, not being myself under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;
Taani Ayhudeta ashshanaw enttara entta gidas. Ta huu7en higgefe garssan de7ikke, shin higgefe garssan de7eyssata ashshanaw higgefe garssan de7iya asi gidas.
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.
Xoossaa higgiyafe kare keyonna, Kiristtoosa higgiyas kiitettashe, higgey baynnayssata ashshanaw higgey baynna asada gidas.
22 To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all people, that I may by all means save some.
Taani daaburanchchota ashshanaw daaburanchcho gidas. Taani guuthata ashshanaw ubbaara ubbaa hanas.
23 Now I do all things for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.
Taani Wonggelaa anjjuwaa shaakettanaw, ha ubbaa Wonggelaa gisho, hanas.
24 Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.
Wothan gaaddetiya ubbay woxxees, shin issuwa xalaali woyto ekkeyssa erekketii? Hessada hintteka woytuwa ekkanaw woxxite.
25 Now everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
Gaaddetiya asa ubbay ubbaban banttana haarees. Entti hessa daaburey dhayiya kallachcha woyto ekkanaassa. Shin nuuni daaburey merinaa kallachcha woytuwa ekkanaassa.
26 I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air,
Hessa gisho, taani qofi baynna asada woxxike. Carkko yimppiya asada coo kushe yeddike.
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 rejected.
Shin taani haratas Wonggelaa sabbakidaappe guye ta huu7en yeggettida asi gidonna mela ta asatethaa wolqqan haarada taw kiitettana mela oothays.
