1 Corinthians 9
1 Am I not free? Am I not an emissary? Have I not seen Yeshua our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?
Tami kahlout lah kai kaawm hoeh namaw. Guncei lah kaawm hoeh na maw. Maimae Bawipa Jisuh Khrih teh ka hmawt boihoeh namaw. Nangmouh teh Bawipa dawk kai ni ka tawk e thaw lah na awm awh hoeh namaw.
2 If to others I am not an emissary, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my office of emissary in the Lord.
Alouknaw koe guncei lah kaawm hoeh nakunghai, nangmouh koe guncei lah ka o. Bangkongtetpawiteh, Bawipa dawk nangmouh teh kai guncei lah ka onae kapanuekkhaikung lah na o awh.
3 My defense to those who examine me is this.
Kai akung kakheinaw koe hettelah na dei pouh awh.
4 Have we no right to eat and to drink?
Ca thai, nei thainae kâ ka tawn awh hoeh na maw.
5 Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the emissaries, and the brothers of the Lord, and Kefa?
Piter hoi Bawipa e hmaunawnghanaw koehoi alouke gunceinaw patetlah ka yuem e yu hah hrawi thai hoeh na maw.
6 Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?
Barnabas hoi kai teh thaw tawk hanlah awmhoeh na ti awh bo ma.
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?
Apimaw mae lamvon hoi ransa thaw ka tawk. Apimaw misur takha ka sak ni teh cat laipalah kaawm. Apimaw tu ka khoum ni teh sanutui net laipalah kaawm.
8 Do I say these things according to human authority? Or does not the Law also say the same thing?
Talai hmunae lahoi ka dei e na ou. Kâlawk ni hai telah doeh a dei.
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,
Mosi e cangkhainae dawk telah a thut. Cabong katin e maito a pahni moum pouh hanh. Cathut ni a dei ngainae teh maito hane doeh na ti maw.
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.
Hoehpawiteh maimouh hanelah maw a dei. Atangcalah maimouh hane doeh a dei. Bangkongtetpawiteh law ka sak nihai, ngaihawi laihoi a sak dawkvah, katin e ni hai ngaihawi laihoi a katin van.
11 If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?
Kaimouh ni nangmouh dawk muitha cati ka patûe a dawk nangmouh koehoi talai hnopai ka coe awh e heh ka tapuet awh e na maw.
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 Messiah.
Alouknaw ni patenghai nangmouh koe e coe awh pawiteh, kaimouh te hoe kapap coe hanlah kamcu hoeh namaw. Hatei, hnotithainae ka hno awh hoeh. Khrih kamthang kahawi kangangkung lah ao hoeh nahan bangpueng dawk ka panguep awh.
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?
A thaw katawknaw ni bawkim dawk e rawca a ca awh teh, thuengnae kasaknaw ni khoungroe dawk e a canei awh tie na panuek awh hoeh maw.
14 Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.
Hot patetvanlah, kamthang kahawi kadeinaw hai kamthang kahawi pâpho e lahoi kâkawk awh han telah Bawipa e kâ poe doeh.
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.
Hatei, hete heh ka hno awh hoeh. Nangmouh ni kaimouh koe hettelah na sak awh nahanlah ka thut e nahoeh. Bangkongtetpawiteh, kâoupnae heh alouknaw ni a raphoe hlak teh kadout pawiteh bet ahawihnawn.
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.
Kai teh kamthang kahawi ka pâpho nakunghai kâoupkhai hane awmhoeh. Pâpho laipalah kaawm thai hoeh. Pâpho laipalah kaawm pawiteh yawthoenae doeh.
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.
Thahmeicalah hoi kamthang kahawi ka pâpho pawiteh aphu ao. Thahmeicalah hoi ka pâpho hoehpawiteh kai koe na poe lah kaawm e ka pâpho rumram e la doeh awm ti.
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.
Pawiteh, kaie tawkphu teh bangmaw, kamthang kahawi ka pâpho e ayawm doeh. Hatdawkvah kâtawnnae ka hno hoeh. Khrih e kamthang kahawi kathainaw ni aphu pâbaw laipalah awm pawiteh kai han aphu ao.
19 For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
Kai teh tami pueng e hmalah kahlout e lah ka o ei, tami hoe kapap ka la thai nahanelah, tami pueng e san lah ka o.
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;
Judahnaw ka la thai nahan, Judahnaw koe Judah tami patetlah ka o. Kâlawk rahim kaawm hoeh ei, kâlawk rahim kaawm naw ka la thai nahan, kâlawk rahim kaawm naw koe, kâlawk rahim kaawm e patetlah ka o.
21 to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Messiah), that I might win those who are without law.
Kai teh kâlawk hoi kahlat e nahoeh. Khrih e kâlawk rahim ka o ei, kâlawk hoi kâhlat e taminaw ka la thai nahanelah, kâlawk hoi kâhlatnaw koe kâlawk hoi kâhlat e patetlah ka o.
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.
Tha kayounnaw ka la thai nahan, a thakayounnaw koe a tha kayoun e patetlah ka o. Tami tangawn ka rungngang thai nahan, tami pueng koe aphunphun lah ka o.
23 Now I do all things for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.
Nangmouh hoi kamthang kahawi rei hmawng thai nahan, kamthang kahawi kecu hottelah ka onae doeh.
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.
Yawng kâtânae koe a yawng awh ei, buet touh ni dueng doeh suh a hmu tie na panuek awh hoeh maw. Suh rip na hmu thai awh nahanlah yawng awh.
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.
Kâtânae dawk kâen e ni teh bangpueng radueknae a kâcakuep thai. Ahnimanaw teh kamyai thai e bawilukhung hmu hane dawk tha a patung awh. Maimanaw teh, kamyai kamko thai hoeh e bawilukhung hmu hanlah tha patung awh.
26 I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air,
Hatdawkvah, noenae awm laipalah ka yawng hoeh, kahlî dawk ka thaw rumram hoeh.
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.
Ayâ ka yue teh kama ka sung e lah ka o hoeh nahanelah, kamahoima hmaloe ka kâthaw.
