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?
我不自由吗？我不是使徒吗？我没有见过主耶稣吗？你们不是与主同在的结果吗？
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.
对别人来说我或许不是使徒，但对你们来说，我至少是使徒的一份子，你们就是我作为主使徒的证据。
3 My defense to those who examine me is this.
如果有人质疑我这一点，我会这样回答。
4 Have we no right to eat and to drink?
难道我们没有权力吃喝吗？
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?
难道我们没有权利像其他使徒、主的兄弟和彼得一样，与基督徒的妻子相伴吗？
6 Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?
难道只有我和巴拿巴必须靠工作养活自己吗？
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?
哪个士兵必须支付其薪水？哪个葡萄园主不允许吃自己园子里的葡萄？哪个牧羊人不允许喝自己羊群的羊奶呢？
8 Do I say these things according to human authority? Or does not the Law also say the same thing?
我这样说难道是人类的观点吗？律法不也是这样说？
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,
摩西的律法这样写道：“牛在踩踏去谷壳的时候，不可套住它的嘴。”难道上帝说的只是牛吗？
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.
他难道不是在指引我们吗？当然这就是说给我们听的，因为耕种之人应心存希望去耕种，收割之人应心存希望去分享收获。
11 If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?
我们在你们中间播撒灵性的种子，如果我们想要从中收获一些物质好处，这算过分吗？
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.
如果别人对你们享有这种权利，我们不是更有权享有吗？尽管如此，我们从未使用过这种权利。相反，我们凡事忍耐，避免妨碍基督福音的传播。
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?
难道你们不知道吗？在圣殿供职之人会吃殿中的供物。侍候祭坛之人会领取他们应得的那份祭物。
14 Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.
主也曾这样祝福传递福音之人，应该靠福音的支持者为生。
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.
但我从未使用过这种权利。我这样说并非希望别人应该如此待我，因为不去寻求这样的好处是我的荣耀，我宁愿舍弃性命也不愿丢了这荣耀。
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.
传播福音并没有任何可以夸耀支出，因为我无法不去这么做。如果不传播福音，对我将是一场灾难。
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.
如果我自己选择这样做，就会获得赏赐。即使不是我本意选择，这职责就是对我的托付。
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.
那么，我的赏赐是什么？那就是当我传播福音时，让大家免费获得福音，而不是要求享有传递福音应有的权力。
19 For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
我虽然自由，不服务于任何人，但我自愿成为众人的奴仆，只为让更多人听到福音。
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;
面对犹太人，我就像犹太人一样行事，以便可以说服犹太人。面对律法制约之人，虽然律法并不会管辖我，但我还是像受律法制约的人一样行事，以便说服他们。
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.
如果一个人没有根据律法行事，我就像不受律法制约之人一样（这样做并非不遵守上帝律法，而是遵守基督的律法），从而说服未受律法制约之人。
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.
对软弱的人，我就像他们一样软弱，以便说服软弱之人。最终我面对的人如何，我就成为怎样的人，想方设法说服一些人！
23 Now I do all things for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.
我所作的一切都是为了福音，为了与他人同享福音的福报。
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.
难道你们不知道吗？赛跑比赛中有很多选手，虽然大家都跑，但却只有一人能获奖吗？你们应当尽全力奔跑，以便可以获奖。
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.
参加比赛的选手，需要严格遵循训练方法。他们这样做，不过是为了赢得最终会坏掉的冠冕，我们要的却是不朽的冠冕。
26 I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air,
所以我要向正确的方向奔跑，我要准确地击打，而不是击打空气。
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.
我严格对待自己的身体，让它听我的控制，因为我不想在与所有人分享福音后，自己却没有了传递福音的资格。
