1 Corinthians 9
1 Am not I an apostle? am not I free? Jesus Christ our Lord have I not seen? my work are not ye in the Lord?
不是自自由的嗎？我不是宗徒嗎？我不是見過我們的主耶穌嗎？你們不是我在主內所建的工程嗎？
2 if to others I am not an apostle — yet doubtless to you I am; for the seal of my apostleship are ye in the Lord.
縱然我為別人不是宗徒，為你們我總是，你們在主內正是我任宗徒職份的印證。
3 My defence to those who examine me in this;
這也就是我對那些質問我的人的答辨。
4 have we not authority to eat and to drink?
難道我們沒有取取得飲食的權利嗎？
5 have we not authority a sister — a wife — to lead about, as also the other apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
難道我們沒有權利攜帶一位為姐妹的人，如其他的宗徒主的弟兄並刻法一樣嗎？
6 or only I and Barnabas, have we not authority — not to work?
或者惟有我和巴爾納伯沒有不勞作的權利嗎？
7 who doth serve as a soldier at his own charges at any time? who doth plant a vineyard, and of its fruit doth not eat? or who doth feed a flock, and of the milk of the flock doth not eat?
誰當兵而自備糧餉呢？誰種葡萄園而不吃它的出產呢？或者誰不牧放羊群而不吃羊群的奶呢？
8 According to man do I speak these things? or doth not also the law say these things?
我說這話，難道是按人之常情？法律不是也這樣說嗎？
9 for in the law of Moses it hath been written, 'thou shalt not muzzle an ox treading out corn;' for the oxen doth God care?
原來梅瑟法律上記載說：『牛在打埸的時候，不可籠住它的嘴。』難道天主關心的是牛嗎？
10 or because of us by all means doth He say [it]? yes, because of us it was written, because in hope ought the plower to plow, and he who is treading [ought] of his hope to partake in hope.
豈不是完全為我們說的嗎？的確是為我們記載的，因為犁地的當懷著希望去犁，打埸的也當懷著有份的希望去打埸。
11 If we to you the spiritual things did sow — great [is it] if we your fleshly things do reap?
若是我們給你們散播神聖恩的恩惠，而收割你們那屬物質的東西，還算什麼大事？
12 if others do partake of the authority over you — not we more? but we did not use this authority, but all things we bear, that we may give no hindrance to the good news of the Christ.
如別人在你們身上尚且分享權利，我們豈不更該嗎？可是我們沒有用過這權利，反倒忍受了一切，免得基督的福音受到妨礙。
13 Have ye not known that those working about the things of the temple — of the temple do eat, and those waiting at the altar — with the altar are partakers?
你們豈不知道為聖事服務的，就靠聖殿生活；供職於祭壇的， 1分享祭壇上的物品嗎？
14 so also did the Lord direct to those proclaiming the good news: of the good news to live.
主也這樣規定了，傳福音的人，應靠福音而生活。
15 And I have used none of these things; neither did I write these things that it may be so done in my case, for [it is] good for me rather to die, than that any one may make my glorying void;
可是，這些權利我一樣也沒有用過；我寫這話，並非要人這樣對待我，因為我寧願死，也不願讓人使我這誇耀落了空。
16 for if I may proclaim good news, it is no glorying for me, for necessity is laid upon me, and woe is to me if I may not proclaim good news;
我若傳福音，原沒有什麼可誇耀的，因為這是我不得已的事；我若不傳福音，我就有禍了。
17 for if willing I do this, I have a reward; and if unwillingly — with a stewardship I have been entrusted!
假使我自願作這事，便有酬報；若不自願，可是責任已委托給我。
18 What, then, is my reward? — that proclaiming good news, without charge I shall make the good news of the Christ, not to abuse my authority in the good news;
這樣看來，我的酬是什麼呢？就是傳福音時白白地去傳，不享用我在傳福音上所有的權利。
19 for being free from all men, to all men I made myself servant, that the more I might gain;
我原是自由的，不屬於任何人；但我卻使自己成了眾人的奴僕，為贏得更多的人。
20 and I became to the Jews as a Jew, that Jews I might gain; to those under law as under law, that those under law I might gain;
對猶太人，我就成為猶太人，為贏得猶太人；對於法律下的人，我雖不在法律下，仍成為在法律下的人，為贏得那在法律下的人；
21 to those without law, as without law — (not being without law to God, but within law to Christ) — that I might gain those without law;
對那些法律以外的人，我就成為法律以外的人，為贏得那些法律以外的人；其實，我並不在天主的法律以外，而是在基督的法律之下。
22 I became to the infirm as infirm, that the infirm I might gain; to all men I have become all things, that by all means I may save some.
對軟弱的人，我就成為軟弱的，為贏得那軟弱的人；對一切人，我就成為一切，為的是總要救些人。
23 And this I do because of the good news, that a fellow-partaker of it I may become;
我所行的一切，都是為了福音，為能與人共沾福音的恩許。
24 have ye not known that those running in a race — all indeed run, but one doth receive the prize? so run ye, that ye may obtain;
你們豈不知在運動埸上賽跑的，固然都跑，但只有一個得獎賞嗎？你們也應該這樣跑，好能得到獎賞。
25 and every one who is striving, is in all things temperate; these, indeed, then, that a corruptible crown they may receive, but we an incorruptible;
凡比武競賽的，在一切事上都有節制；他們只是為得到可朽壞的花冠，而我們卻是為得到不朽壞的花冠。
26 I, therefore, thus run, not as uncertainly, thus I fight, as not beating air;
所以，我總是這樣跑，不是如同無定向的；我這樣打拳，不是如同打空氣的；
27 but I chastise my body, and bring [it] into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others — I myself may become disapproved.
我痛繫我身，使它為奴，免得我給別人報捷，自己反而落選。
