1 Corinthians 9
1 Am I not free? Am I not an Apostle? Can it be denied that I have seen Jesus, our Lord? Are not you yourselves my work in the Lord?
He teka ianei kei ahau ano nga tikanga moku? he teka ianei he apotoro ahau? kihai ianei ahau i kite i a Ihu Karaiti, i to tatou Ariki? Ehara oti koutou i taku mahi i roto i te Ariki?
2 If to other men I am not an Apostle, yet at any rate I am one to you; for your very existence as a Christian Church is the seal of my Apostleship.
Ahakoa ehara ahau i te apotoro ki era atu, engari rawa ia he apotoro ki a koutou, ko koutou hoki te hiri o toku apotorotanga i roto i te Ariki.
3 That is how I vindicate myself to those who criticize me.
Ko taku utu tenei ki oku kaiui;
4 Have we not a right to claim food and drink?
Kahore ranei i a matou ano te tikanga mo te kai, mo te inu?
5 Have we not a right to take with us on our journeys a Christian sister as our wife, as the rest of the Apostles do--and the Lord's brothers and Peter?
Kahore ranei i a matou ano te tikanga ki te whakahaereere i te hoa wahine, he wahine whakapono, pera i era atu apotoro me nga teina o te Ariki, ratou ko Kipa?
6 Or again, is it only Barnabas and myself who are not at liberty to give up working with our hands?
Ko maua anake ranei ko Panapa, kahore ranei i a maua te tikanga kia kaua e mahi?
7 What soldier ever serves at his own cost? Who plants a vineyard and yet does not eat any of the grapes? Or who tends a herd of cattle and yet does not taste their milk?
Ko wai ka haere hei hoia, a nana ake ano nga utu mona? Ko wai e whakato ana i te mara waina, a kahore o reira hua e kainga e ia? ko wai hoki e whangai ana i te kahui, a kahore e kai i te waiu o te kahui?
8 Am I making use of merely worldly illustrations? Does not the Law speak in the same tone?
E korero ana ranei ahau i enei mea i te tikanga tangata? he pera ano ranei ta te ture korero?
9 For in the Law of Moses it is written, "Thou shalt not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain."
Kua oti hoki te tuhituhi i roto i te ture a Mohi, Kaua e whakamokatia te mangai o te kau i te mea e patu witi ana. Ko nga kau koia ta te Atua i whakaaro ai?
10 Is God simply thinking about the oxen? Or is it really in our interest that He speaks? Of course, it was written in our interest, because it is His will that when a plough-man ploughs, and a thresher threshes, it should be in the hope of sharing that which comes as the result.
Mo tatou ranei te tino tikanga o ana korero? Ae, he whakaaro ki a tatou i tuhituhi ai: he tika hoki kia parau te kaiparau i runga i te tumanako, kia patu witi ano te kaipatu i runga i te tumanako ki tetahi wahi mana.
11 If it is we who sowed the spiritual grain in you, is it a great thing that we should reap a temporal harvest from you?
I te mea kua ruia e matou nga mea wairua ma koutou, he mea nui ianei ki te kotia e matou a koutou mea o te kikokiko?
12 If other teachers possess that right over you, do not we possess it much more? Yet we have not availed ourselves of the right, but we patiently endure all things rather than hinder in the least degree the progress of the Good News of the Christ.
Kua uru nei etahi atu ki tenei tikanga a koutou, ko matou ano etahi kia hira ake? Otira kihai matou i mea ki tenei tikanga, engari e whakamanawanui ana ki nga mea katoa, kei ai ta matou hei arai mo te rongopai o te Karaiti.
13 Do you not know that those who perform the sacred rites have their food from the sacred place, and that those who serve at the altar all alike share with the altar?
Kahore oti koutou i matau, ko te hunga e mahi ana i nga mea tapu, e kai ana i nga mea o te temepara? a ko nga kaitiaki o te aata ma ratou ano tetahi wahi o to te aata?
14 In the same way the Lord also directed those who proclaim the Good News to maintain themselves by the Good News.
Pera tonu ano ta te Ariki i whakatakoto ai mo nga kaikauwhau o te rongopai, hei runga i te rongopai he oranga mo ratou.
15 But I, for my part, have not used, and do not use, my full rights in any of these things. Nor do I now write with that object so far as I myself am concerned, for I would rather die than have anybody make this boast of mine an empty one.
Otiia kihai ahau i mea ki tetahi o enei mea: kahore hoki ahau i tuhituhi i enei mea kia penatia mai ai ahau: ki ahau hoki he pai ke te mate, i te riro ma te tangata taku whakamanamana e whakakahore.
16 If I go on preaching the Good News, that is nothing for me to boast of; for the necessity is imposed upon me; and alas for me, if I fail to preach it!
No te mea ki te kauwhau ahau i te rongopai, kahore maku whakamanamana: kua takoto hoki tenei hei mahi maku; he aue ia maku ki te kore ahau e kauwhau i te rongopai.
17 And if I preach willingly, I receive my wages; but if against my will, a stewardship has nevertheless been entrusted to me.
Ki te mea hoki noku te ngakau ki tenei mahi, he utu toku: ki te kore ia he ngakau, he mahi tuari tenei kua tukua ki ahau.
18 What are my wages then? The very fact that the Good News which I preach will cost my hearers nothing, so that I cannot be charged with abuse of my privileges as a Christian preacher.
Na, he aha koia te utu moku? ara, ki te kauwhau ahau i te rongopai, ka meinga e ahau kia kore e utua te rongopai: kia kore ai ahau e mea i te wahi e tika ana maku i roto i te rongopai.
19 Though free from all human control, I have made myself the slave of all in the hope of winning as many converts as possible.
Ahakoa hoki ehara ahau i te pononga na te tangata, heoi kua waiho ahau e ahau ano hei pononga ma te katoa, kia tokomaha atu ai e riro mai i ahau.
20 To the Jews I have become like a Jew in order to win Jews; to men under the Law as if I were under the Law--although I am not--in order to win those who are under the Law;
Na ki nga Hurai whakahurai ana ahau, kia riro ai i ahau nga Hurai; ki te hunga i raro i te ture me te mea i raro ahau i te ture, ahakoa ra kahore ahau i raro i te ture, kia riro ai i ahau te hunga i raro i te ture;
21 to men without Law as if I were without Law--although I am not without Law in relation to God but am abiding in Christ's Law--in order to win those who are without Law.
Ki te hunga turekore me he tangata turekore ahau, ehara i te mea he turekore ki te Atua, engari i raro i te ture ki a te Karaiti, kia riro ai i ahau te hunga turekore.
22 To the weak I have become weak, so as to gain the weak. To all men I have become all things, in the hope that in every one of these ways I may save some.
Ki te hunga ngoikore me he ngoikore ahau, kia riro ai i ahau te hunga ngoikore; waiho ana ahau hei mea katoa ki te katoa, kia taea ai e ahau nga mea katoa hei whakaora i etahi.
23 And I do everything for the sake of the Good News, that I may share with my hearers in its benefits.
I meinga ai tenei e ahau he whakaaro ki te rongopai, kia whiwhi tahi ai ahau ki tona pai.
24 Do you not know that in the foot-race the runners all run, but that only one gets the prize? You must run like him, in order to win with certainty.
Kahore oti koutou i matau ki te hunga e oma whakataetae ana, e oma katoa ana, kotahi ano ia mona te utu whakahonore? Kia pena ta koutou oma, kia whiwhi ai koutou.
25 But every competitor in an athletic contest practices abstemiousness in all directions. They indeed do this for the sake of securing a perishable wreath, but we for the sake of securing one that will not perish.
Na ko nga tangata katoa e whakataetae ana i nga takaro e whakakoromaki ana i nga hiahia katoa. Na e pera ana ratou kia whiwhi ai ki te karauna pirau; ko tatou ia ki te mea e kore e pirau.
26 That is how I run, not being in any doubt as to my goal. I am a boxer who does not inflict blows on the air,
Ko ahau nei hoki, kahore i ngaro taku oma; e kuru ana ahau, kahore ia e rite ki te kaipatu o te hau:
27 but I hit hard and straight at my own body and lead it off into slavery, lest possibly, after I have been a herald to others, I should myself be rejected.
Engari e pehia ana e ahau toku tinana, meinga ana hoki hei pononga maku; kei kauwhau pea ahau ki etahi atu, ko ahau ia ka akiritia atu.
