1 Va Korinte 9
1 Kana ime ni lukuluhite? Kana ime ni mupolofita? Kana ni ba boni Jesu Simwine wetu? Kana katu sebezi hamwina kwa simwine?
Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are you not my work in the LORD?
2 Heba kana ni mupolofita kubamwi, nanga cho bulyo munibe kwenu. Mihe inwe mwi mpaki zangu muchi polofita cha simwine.
If I am not an apostle to others—yet doubtless I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the LORD.
3 Ubu njibona bupaki bwangu kwa bana bani tatuba.
My defense to those who examine me in this:
4 Kana katu helwe intukelo yoku lya ni ku nwa?
do we not have authority to eat and to drink?
5 Kana ka twina intukelo zaku hinda mwanakazi wine ntumelo kuyenda naye, sina bungi bwa bapositola muba ba tendeli, niba kwetu kwa Simwine, ni Kefasi?
Do we not have authority to lead about a sister—a wife—as also the other apostles, and the brothers of the LORD, and Cephas?
6 Kapa nji Barnabasi yenke njo wola kusebeza?
Or do only Barnabas and I have no authority not to work?
7 Njeni ya ba sebezi nali isole kuli neula mwine? Njeni mubyali wa muomba yasali zi chelantu zakwe? Kapa njeni yowola kulela mutapi nasanwi muzilili uzwa kwayo?
Who serves as a soldier at his own expense at any time? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock and does not eat of the milk of the flock?
8 Nji ni kwete kuwamba izi zintu che nguzu ya muntu? Kana mulao ka wu wambi bulyo?
Do I speak these things according to man? Or does the Law not also say these things?
9 Mihe muku va ñolelwe mu mulao wa Mushe, “Ka nji mu vwiki ka holo ke mpulu chi ikwete ku lyatoka imbuto. “Kana initi Ireeza uwamba za kubabalela Mapulu?”
For in the Law of Moses it has been written: “you will not muzzle an ox treading out grain”; does God care for the oxen?
10 Kana kuti u wamba kwamana neswe? Kuba ñolelwe iswe, kakuti yo dunduvula mauza a dunduvule chakusanga ni kuli kauhanyeza mukusinza.
Or by all means does He say [it] because of us? 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.
11 Heba tuchita zintu zi jolola mukati ketu, kana chintu chisa oleki kuwana zisebeliso kuzwa kwako,
If we sowed to you the spiritual things—[is it] great if we reap your fleshly things?
12 Kana bamwi baba lituti ku zwilila kwako, ka twina zimwi zingi? Nihakuba bulyo, kana baba tongoki kuzili. kono, kusepa zintu zonse kuzwila habusu mu zintu zonse Insiñi ku kangisa inzwi lwa Kiresite.
If others partake of the authority over you—[do] we not more? But we did not use this authority, but we bear all things, that we may give no hindrance to the good news of the Christ.
13 Kana ka wizi kuti aba ba sebeleza mwi tempele ba wana zilyo zabo mwi tempele? Kana ka wizi kuti abo basebeza ha katala ba likauhanyeza cha hewa ku katala?
Have you not known that those working about the things of the temple eat of the temple, and those waiting at the altar are partakers with the altar?
14 Mwi nzila iswana, Ireeza aba laeli kuti ba hasanya inzwi ba swanela ku wana buhalo kwi inzwi.
So also the LORD directed to those proclaiming the good news to live of the good news.
15 Kono kana ni ba woli ku lihindila chimwi ni chimwi ku ze intukelo. Mi kana ni ba ñoli izo zintu kuti chimwi chi tendahale kwangu. Cho bulyo ni wola ku fwa ku zamba ku chengelelwa kukuli tundula.
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 anyone may make my glorying void;
16 Mihe ha ni luta inzwi, ka ni na ibaka lya kuli tundula, kakuti ni swanela ku tenda bulyo. Bumayi bwina kwangu heba ka niluti inzwi!
for if I may proclaim good news, it is no glorying for me, for necessity is laid on me, and woe is to me if I may not proclaim good news;
17 Mihe chi na tenda bulyo cha kusaka, ka nibe ni mpo. Kono hani tenda nini sasuni, aho buhikana buni helwe.
for if I do this willingly, I have a reward; and if unwillingly—I have been entrusted with a stewardship!
18 Chizi haho impo yangu? Linu ha ni kutaza, ni wole ku ha inzwi ni ku sena niku sena chinilihisa mi kanzi u hindi kwi zula kwe tukelo yangu mwi inzwi.
What, then, is my reward? That proclaiming good news, without charge I will make the good news of the Christ, not to abuse my authority in the good news;
19 Ni hakuba bulyo ni lukuluhite ku zonse, ni babi muhikana wa bonse, kuti ni muna bangi.
for being free from all men, I made myself servant to all men, that the more I might gain;
20 Ku Majuwishi ni babi ni Majuda, kuti ni luwe Majuda. Kwabo ba bena kunsi ye milao, ni baka bi ubu nji zumwi ya bena mukunsi ka mulao kuti ni mune abo bena kunsi ya mulao.
and to the Jews I became like a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those under law as under law, that I might gain those under law;
21 Kwabo bena hanze ya mulao, ni babi zumwi wina hanze ya mulao, ni haku ba bulyo kana ni bena hanze wa mulao we Ireeza ime, kono kunsi ya mulao wa Kirisite. Ni ba tendi bulyo cho kuti ni mune abo bena hanze wa mulao.
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;
22 Kwa bana ba fokola nibabi yo fokola, mukuti ni kome bafokwele. Nibezi kuba ni zintu zonse ku bantu bonse, mukuti monse mu woleka ni be ni mutusi wabo.
to the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak; to all men I have become all things, that by all means I may save some.
23 Ni chita zintu zonse che nzwi bulyo, nji kuti ni be zumwi wa ba tambula infuyolo.
And I do this because of the good news, that I may become a fellow-partaker of it;
24 Kana ka mwizi kuti bonse ba tiya ba tiya lubilo, kono yenke yo wana impo?
have you not known that those running in a race—all indeed run, but one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain;
25 U tiye cho kuti u wane impo. Wina mu zizano zakuti abe ni nguzu zo kutiya ku njila mu zizano. Bazi tenda kuti bawane chifumu chi samani,
and everyone who is striving is temperate in all things; these, indeed, then, that they may receive a corruptible garland, but we an incorruptible;
26 Kono batiya cho kuti ba wane impo zi samani. Niha kuba bulyo kanitiyi ni ku sena ibaka kapa ku dama Luhuho.
I, therefore, thus run, not as uncertainly, thus I fight, as not beating air;
27 Kono ni tenda mubili wangu ku u tenda buhikana, njo kuta kuti heti china mana ku wamba inzwi kubamwi, ime ni mwine sanzi ni zwiswa.
but I bruise my body, and bring [it] into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others—I myself may become disapproved.
