1 Corinthians 9
1 Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? and are not ye my work in the Lord?
ahaṁ kim ekaḥ prerito nāsmi? kimahaṁ svatantro nāsmi? asmākaṁ prabhu ryīśuḥ khrīṣṭaḥ kiṁ mayā nādarśi? yūyamapi kiṁ prabhunā madīyaśramaphalasvarūpā na bhavatha?
2 If I am not an apostle to others, yet doubtless I am to you: for ye are in the Lord the seal of my apostleship.
anyalokānāṁ kṛte yadyapyahaṁ prerito na bhaveyaṁ tathāca yuṣmatkṛte prerito'smi yataḥ prabhunā mama preritatvapadasya mudrāsvarūpā yūyamevādhve|
3 And this is my answer to them that call me to account: have we not power to eat and to drink?
ye lokā mayi doṣamāropayanti tān prati mama pratyuttarametat|
4 have
bhojanapānayoḥ kimasmākaṁ kṣamatā nāsti?
5 we not power to lead about with us a sister a wife as well as other apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
anye preritāḥ prabho rbhrātarau kaiphāśca yat kurvvanti tadvat kāñcit dharmmabhaginīṁ vyūhya tayā sārddhaṁ paryyaṭituṁ vayaṁ kiṁ na śaknumaḥ?
6 Or is it I only and Barnabas, that have not power to forbear working?
sāṁsārikaśramasya parityāgāt kiṁ kevalamahaṁ barṇabbāśca nivāritau?
7 Who ever goes a warfare at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and doth not eat of the fruit of it? or who feedeth a flock, and doth not eat of the milk of the flock?
nijadhanavyayena kaḥ saṁgrāmaṁ karoti? ko vā drākṣākṣetraṁ kṛtvā tatphalāni na bhuṅkte? ko vā paśuvrajaṁ pālayan tatpayo na pivati?
8 Do I speak these things as a man only?
kimahaṁ kevalāṁ mānuṣikāṁ vācaṁ vadāmi? vyavasthāyāṁ kimetādṛśaṁ vacanaṁ na vidyate?
9 or saith not the law the same also? for it is written in the law of Moses, "Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn." Now doth God take care for oxen,
mūsāvyavasthāgranthe likhitamāste, tvaṁ śasyamarddakavṛṣasyāsyaṁ na bhaṁtsyasīti| īśvareṇa balīvarddānāmeva cintā kiṁ kriyate?
10 or doth He say this indeed for our sakes? For it is certainly written for our sakes, that he, who ploweth, might plow in hope; and that he, who thresheth in hope, should partake of his hope.
kiṁ vā sarvvathāsmākaṁ kṛte tadvacanaṁ tenoktaṁ? asmākameva kṛte tallikhitaṁ| yaḥ kṣetraṁ karṣati tena pratyāśāyuktena karṣṭavyaṁ, yaśca śasyāni marddayati tena lābhapratyāśāyuktena mardditavyaṁ|
11 If we then have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we reap your carnal things?
yuṣmatkṛte'smābhiḥ pāratrikāṇi bījāni ropitāni, ato yuṣmākamaihikaphalānāṁ vayam aṁśino bhaviṣyāmaḥ kimetat mahat karmma?
12 If others partake of this power over you, may not we rather? though we have not used this power; but we bear all things, least we should cause any hindrance to the gospel of Christ.
yuṣmāsu yo'dhikārastasya bhāgino yadyanye bhaveyustarhyasmābhistato'dhikaṁ kiṁ tasya bhāgibhi rna bhavitavyaṁ? adhikantu vayaṁ tenādhikāreṇa na vyavahṛtavantaḥ kintu khrīṣṭīyasusaṁvādasya ko'pi vyāghāto'smābhiryanna jāyeta tadarthaṁ sarvvaṁ sahāmahe|
13 Do ye not know, that they who are employed about the sacrifices have their food from the temple? and they, who attend at the altar, are partakers with the altar?
aparaṁ ye pavitravastūnāṁ paricaryyāṁ kurvvanti te pavitravastuto bhakṣyāṇi labhante, ye ca vedyāḥ paricaryyāṁ kurvvanti te vedisthavastūnām aṁśino bhavantyetad yūyaṁ kiṁ na vida?
14 So also the Lord hath ordained, that those who preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel.
tadvad ye susaṁvādaṁ ghoṣayanti taiḥ susaṁvādena jīvitavyamiti prabhunādiṣṭaṁ|
15 But I have availed myself of none of these things. Nor have I written these things, that it might be so done as to me: for it were better for me to die, than that any one should make this my glorying void.
ahameteṣāṁ sarvveṣāṁ kimapi nāśritavān māṁ prati tadanusārāt ācaritavyamityāśayenāpi patramidaṁ mayā na likhyate yataḥ kenāpi janena mama yaśaso mudhākaraṇāt mama maraṇaṁ varaṁ|
16 For if I preach the gospel, yet I have no ground for boasting; because I am under necessity to do it: and wo is me if I do not preach the Gospel.
susaṁvādagheṣaṇāt mama yaśo na jāyate yatastadghoṣaṇaṁ mamāvaśyakaṁ yadyahaṁ susaṁvādaṁ na ghoṣayeyaṁ tarhi māṁ dhik|
17 Now if I do this willingly, I have a reward; and if unwillingly, yet I am intrusted with the commission, and I must execute it.
icchukena tat kurvvatā mayā phalaṁ lapsyate kintvanicchuke'pi mayi tatkarmmaṇo bhāro'rpito'sti|
18 What is my reward then but this? that when I preach I may make the gospel of Christ not expensive, that so I may not abuse my power in the gospel.
etena mayā labhyaṁ phalaṁ kiṁ? susaṁvādena mama yo'dhikāra āste taṁ yadabhadrabhāvena nācareyaṁ tadarthaṁ susaṁvādaghoṣaṇasamaye tasya khrīṣṭīyasusaṁvādasya nirvyayīkaraṇameva mama phalaṁ|
19 For though I am free from all, yet I have made myself a servant to all, that I might gain the more.
sarvveṣām anāyatto'haṁ yad bhūriśo lokān pratipadye tadarthaṁ sarvveṣāṁ dāsatvamaṅgīkṛtavān|
20 And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; that is, to those, who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law:
yihūdīyān yat pratipadye tadarthaṁ yihūdīyānāṁ kṛte yihūdīya̮ivābhavaṁ| ye ca vyavasthāyattāstān yat pratipadye tadarthaṁ vyavasthānāyatto yo'haṁ so'haṁ vyavasthāyattānāṁ kṛte vyavasthāyatta̮ivābhavaṁ|
21 and to those without the law as without the law, (not being without law to God, but under the law to Christ) that I might gain those who are without the law.
ye cālabdhavyavasthāstān yat pratipadye tadartham īśvarasya sākṣād alabdhavyavastho na bhūtvā khrīṣṭena labdhavyavastho yo'haṁ so'ham alabdhavyavasthānāṁ kṛte'labdhavyavastha ivābhavaṁ|
22 To the weak I became as the weak, that I might gain the weak: I became all things to all men, that I might by every means save some.
durbbalān yat pratipadye tadarthamahaṁ durbbalānāṁ kṛte durbbala̮ivābhavaṁ| itthaṁ kenāpi prakāreṇa katipayā lokā yanmayā paritrāṇaṁ prāpnuyustadarthaṁ yo yādṛśa āsīt tasya kṛte 'haṁ tādṛśa̮ivābhavaṁ|
23 And this I do for the sake of the gospel, that I may be a fellow partaker of it.
idṛśa ācāraḥ susaṁvādārthaṁ mayā kriyate yato'haṁ tasya phalānāṁ sahabhāgī bhavitumicchāmi|
24 Know ye not, that those, who run in a race, do all indeed run, but one only receiveth the prize? So run that ye may obtain.
paṇyalābhārthaṁ ye dhāvanti dhāvatāṁ teṣāṁ sarvveṣāṁ kevala ekaḥ paṇyaṁ labhate yuṣmābhiḥ kimetanna jñāyate? ato yūyaṁ yathā paṇyaṁ lapsyadhve tathaiva dhāvata|
25 And every one that enters the lists is temperate in all things: they indeed do it that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible one.
mallā api sarvvabhoge parimitabhogino bhavanti te tu mlānāṁ srajaṁ lipsante kintu vayam amlānāṁ lipsāmahe|
26 I therefore so run, not as unobserved: I so fight, not as one that beateth the air:
tasmād ahamapi dhāvāmi kintu lakṣyamanuddiśya dhāvāmi tannahi| ahaṁ malla̮iva yudhyāmi ca kintu chāyāmāghātayanniva yudhyāmi tannahi|
27 but I mortify my body and bring it into subjection, least after having preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
itarān prati susaṁvādaṁ ghoṣayitvāhaṁ yat svayamagrāhyo na bhavāmi tadarthaṁ deham āhanmi vaśīkurvve ca|
