1 Corinthians 9
1 Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not ye my work in the Lord?
Handisi muapositori here? Handisi wakasununguka here? Handina kuona Jesu Kristu Ishe wedu here? Imwi hamusi basa rangu muna Ishe here?
2 If I am not an apostle to others, yet surely I am to you; for the seal of my apostleship are ye in the Lord.
Kana ndisiri muapositori kuna vamwe, asi zvirokwazvo ndiri iye kwamuri; nokuti mucherechedzo wevuapositori hwangu ndimwi muna Ishe.
3 This is my answer to those who question my authority.
Kuzvidavirira kwangu kune vanondinzvera ndeuku.
4 Have we not a right to eat and drink?
Hatina simba here rekudya nekumwa?
5 Have we not a right to carry about with us a sister as a wife, as well as the other apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
Hatina simba rekutenderera nehanzvadzi mudzimai sevamwewo vaapositori, nevanin'ina vaIshe naKefasi here?
6 Or am I alone and Barnabas bound to labor with our own hands?
Kana ndini ndega naBhanabhasi tisina kodzero yekusashanda here?
7 Who ever serveth as a soldier at his own charges? Who planteth a vineyard without eating its fruit? Or who tendeth a flock and doth not eat of the milk of the flock?
Ndiani anomboshanda muchiuto achizviripira mubairo? Ndiani anorima munda wemizambiringa, ndokusadya zvechibereko chawo? Kana ndiani anofudza boka akasadya zvemukaka weboka?
8 Is it on man's authority that I am saying these things, or doth not the Law too say the same?
Kuti zvinhu izvi ndinozvitaura semunhu? Kana murairo hautauriwo izvozvo here?
9 For it is written in the law of Moses: “Thou shalt not muzzle an ox while treading out grain.” Is it for oxen that God careth?
Nokuti kwakanyorwa mumurairo waMozisi kuti: Usasunga muromo wenzombe inopura zviyo. Kuti Mwari ane hanya nenzombe?
10 Or doth he say it altogether on our account? On our account, no doubt, it was written, that he who plougheth ought to plough in hope, and that he who thrasheth should do it in the hope of partaking.
Kana anoreva zvirokwazvo nekuda kwedu? Nokuti kwakanyorwa nekuda kwedu, kuti anorima anofanira kurima mutariro, neanopura mutariro yake, kugoverwa mutariro.
11 If we have sown to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap from you things for the body?
Kana isu takadzvara kwamuri zvinhu zvemweya, chinhu chikuru here kana isu tichicheka zvinhu zvenyu zvenyama?
12 If others possess this right in relation to you, do not we still more? But we have not used this right; but we submit to all things, that we may occasion no hindrance to the gospel of Christ.
Kana vamwe vachigovana kodzero pamusoro penyu, isu hativadariki here? Asi hatina kushandisa kodzero iyi, asi tinoitira moyo murefu zvese, kuti tirege kupa chipinganidzo kuevhangeri yaKristu.
13 Do ye not know, that they who minister in the offerings of the temple live from the temple? that they who serve at the altar share with the altar?
Hamuzivi here kuti avo vanoshumira pazvinhu zvitsvene vanodya zvetembere, vanorindira paaritari vanogovana nearitari here?
14 In like manner also did the Lord ordain that they who preach the gospel should live from the gospel.
Saizvozvo naIshe wakaraira kuti avo vanoparidza evhangeri, vararame neevhangeri.
15 But I have used no right of this kind; nor have I written thus that anything of this kind should be done for me; for it were better for me to die, than that any one should take from me what I glory in.
Asi ini handina kushandisa chimwe chezvinhu izvi; uye handina kunyora zvinhu izvi kuti zviitwe saizvozvo kwandiri, nokuti zviri nani kwandiri kuti ndife, pakuti umwe ashaise kuzvikudza kwangu maturo.
16 For in preaching the gospel, I have nothing to glory in; for I am under a necessity to do so; yea, woe is to me, if I preach not the gospel!
Nokuti kunyange ndichiparidza evhangeri, handina chekuzvikudza nacho, nokuti faniro yakatakudzwa pamusoro pangu; asi ndine nhamo, kana ndisingaparidzi evhangeri.
17 For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if unwillingly, still I have been intrusted with a stewardship.
Nokuti kana ndichiita chinhu ichi ndichizvidira, ndine mubairo; asi kana ndisingadi, ndakabatiswa utariri.
18 What then is my reward? It is that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel free of charge, that I use not to the full my right as a preacher of the gospel.
Ko mubairo wangu chii? Kuti kana ndichiparidza evhangeri ndiite kuti evhangeri yaKristu isabhadharwa, kuti ndirege kushandisa kodzero yangu zvakapfuurikidza muevhangeri.
19 For being free from all men, yet I made myself a servant to all, that I might gain the more;
Nokuti ndakasununguka kune vese, ndizviite muranda kune vese, kuti ndiwane vazhinji kwazvo.
20 and to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those under the Law, as under the Law, not being myself under the Law, that I might gain those under the Law;
Uye kuVaJudha ndakava semuJudha, kuti ndiwane VaJudha; kune vari pasi pemurairo seari pasi pemurairo, kuti ndiwane vari pasi pemurairo;
21 to those without the Law, as without the Law, being not without a law before God, but under the law of Christ, that I might gain those without the Law;
kune vasina murairo seasina murairo (ndisati ndiri asina murairo kuna Mwari, asi mumurairo kuna Kristu), kuti ndiwane vasina murairo;
22 to the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak; I have become all things to all, that I might by all means save some.
kune vasina simba ndakava seasina simba, kuti ndiwane vasina simba; ndakava zvinhu zvese kune vese, kuti ndiponese vamwe nemitoo yese.
23 And I do all for the sake of the gospel, that I may with others partake of it.
Uye izvi ndinoita nekuda kweevhangeri, kuti ndive mugovani pairi.
24 Know ye not, that of those who run in the race-course all run, but one receiveth the prize? Thus run, that ye may obtain.
Hamuzivi here kuti vanomhanya munhangemutange vanomhanya vese, asi umwe anogamuchira mubairo? Mhanyai saizvozvo, kuti muuwane.
25 And every one who contendeth in the games is temperate in all things; they, however, to obtain a perishable crown, but we, an imperishable.
Uye umwe neumwe anokwikwidza anozvidzora pazvinhu zvese; zvino ivo vanozviita kuti vagamuchire korona inoparara, asi isu isingaparari.
26 I therefore so run, not as one uncertain; I so fight, not as one striking the air;
Naizvozvo ini ndinomhanya saizvozvo kwete seasina chokwadi; saizvozvo ndinorwa kwete seanorova mhepo;
27 but I beat down my body, and bring it into subjection, lest perhaps, when I have been a herald to others, I should myself be rejected as unworthy.
asi ndinotsikirira muviri wangu nekuuita muranda, kuti kana ndaparidzira vamwe, ini ndomene ndisaraswa.
