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?
Handisi muapositori here? Handisi wakasununguka here? Handina kuona Jesu Kristu Ishe wedu here? Imwi hamusi basa rangu muna Ishe here?
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.
Kana ndisiri muapositori kuna vamwe, asi zvirokwazvo ndiri iye kwamuri; nokuti mucherechedzo wevuapositori hwangu ndimwi muna Ishe.
3 That is how I vindicate myself to those who criticize me.
Kuzvidavirira kwangu kune vanondinzvera ndeuku.
4 Have we not a right to claim food and drink?
Hatina simba here rekudya nekumwa?
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?
Hatina simba rekutenderera nehanzvadzi mudzimai sevamwewo vaapositori, nevanin'ina vaIshe naKefasi here?
6 Or again, is it only Barnabas and myself who are not at liberty to give up working with our hands?
Kana ndini ndega naBhanabhasi tisina kodzero yekusashanda here?
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?
Ndiani anomboshanda muchiuto achizviripira mubairo? Ndiani anorima munda wemizambiringa, ndokusadya zvechibereko chawo? Kana ndiani anofudza boka akasadya zvemukaka weboka?
8 Am I making use of merely worldly illustrations? Does not the Law speak in the same tone?
Kuti zvinhu izvi ndinozvitaura semunhu? Kana murairo hautauriwo izvozvo here?
9 For in the Law of Moses it is written, "Thou shalt not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain."
Nokuti kwakanyorwa mumurairo waMozisi kuti: Usasunga muromo wenzombe inopura zviyo. Kuti Mwari ane hanya nenzombe?
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.
Kana anoreva zvirokwazvo nekuda kwedu? Nokuti kwakanyorwa nekuda kwedu, kuti anorima anofanira kurima mutariro, neanopura mutariro yake, kugoverwa mutariro.
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?
Kana isu takadzvara kwamuri zvinhu zvemweya, chinhu chikuru here kana isu tichicheka zvinhu zvenyu zvenyama?
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.
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 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?
Hamuzivi here kuti avo vanoshumira pazvinhu zvitsvene vanodya zvetembere, vanorindira paaritari vanogovana nearitari here?
14 In the same way the Lord also directed those who proclaim the Good News to maintain themselves by the Good News.
Saizvozvo naIshe wakaraira kuti avo vanoparidza evhangeri, vararame neevhangeri.
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.
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 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!
Nokuti kunyange ndichiparidza evhangeri, handina chekuzvikudza nacho, nokuti faniro yakatakudzwa pamusoro pangu; asi ndine nhamo, kana ndisingaparidzi evhangeri.
17 And if I preach willingly, I receive my wages; but if against my will, a stewardship has nevertheless been entrusted to me.
Nokuti kana ndichiita chinhu ichi ndichizvidira, ndine mubairo; asi kana ndisingadi, ndakabatiswa utariri.
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.
Ko mubairo wangu chii? Kuti kana ndichiparidza evhangeri ndiite kuti evhangeri yaKristu isabhadharwa, kuti ndirege kushandisa kodzero yangu zvakapfuurikidza muevhangeri.
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.
Nokuti ndakasununguka kune vese, ndizviite muranda kune vese, kuti ndiwane vazhinji kwazvo.
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;
Uye kuVaJudha ndakava semuJudha, kuti ndiwane VaJudha; kune vari pasi pemurairo seari pasi pemurairo, kuti ndiwane vari pasi pemurairo;
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.
kune vasina murairo seasina murairo (ndisati ndiri asina murairo kuna Mwari, asi mumurairo kuna Kristu), kuti ndiwane vasina murairo;
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.
kune vasina simba ndakava seasina simba, kuti ndiwane vasina simba; ndakava zvinhu zvese kune vese, kuti ndiponese vamwe nemitoo yese.
23 And I do everything for the sake of the Good News, that I may share with my hearers in its benefits.
Uye izvi ndinoita nekuda kweevhangeri, kuti ndive mugovani pairi.
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.
Hamuzivi here kuti vanomhanya munhangemutange vanomhanya vese, asi umwe anogamuchira mubairo? Mhanyai saizvozvo, kuti muuwane.
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.
Uye umwe neumwe anokwikwidza anozvidzora pazvinhu zvese; zvino ivo vanozviita kuti vagamuchire korona inoparara, asi isu isingaparari.
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,
Naizvozvo ini ndinomhanya saizvozvo kwete seasina chokwadi; saizvozvo ndinorwa kwete seanorova mhepo;
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.
asi ndinotsikirira muviri wangu nekuuita muranda, kuti kana ndaparidzira vamwe, ini ndomene ndisaraswa.
