Corinthios I 9
1 Non sum liber? Non sum Apostolus? Nonne Christum Iesum Dominum nostrum vidi? Nonne opus meum vos estis in Domino?
Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?
2 Et si aliis non sum Apostolus, sed tamen vobis sum: nam signaculum Apostolatus mei vos estis in Domino.
If I am not an apostle to others, yet certainly I am to you; for the seal of my apostleship are you in the Lord.
3 Mea defensio apud eos, qui me interrogant, hæc est:
My answer to those who examine me is this:
4 Numquid non habemus potestatem manducandi, et bibendi?
Have we not the right to eat and drink?
5 Numquid non habemus potestatem mulierem sororem circumducendi sicut et ceteri Apostoli, et fratres Domini, et Cephas?
Have we not the right to lead about a sister wife, as the other apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
6 Aut ego solus, et Barnabas, non habemus potestatem hoc operandi?
Or, have I only, and Barnabas, no right to leave off working?
7 Quis militat suis stipendiis umquam? Quis plantat vineam, et de fructu eius non edit? Quis pascit gregem, et de lacte gregis non manducat?
What man ever serves as a soldier, at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and eats not of its fruit? Or who tends a flock, and eats not of the milk of the flock?
8 Numquid secundum hominem hæc dico? An et lex hæc non dicit?
Do I speak these things as a man? Or does not the law, also, say the same?
9 Scriptum est enim in lege Moysi: Non alligabis os bovi trituranti. Numquid de bobus cura est Deo?
For it is written in the law of Moses: You shall not muzzle the ox that treads out the grain? Has God a care for oxen?
10 An propter nos utique hoc dicit? Nam propter nos scripta sunt, quoniam debet in spe qui arat, arare: et qui triturat, in spe fructus percipiendi.
or does he say it wholly for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, it was written: that he that plows should plow in hope, and that he that thrashes should thrash in hope of partaking.
11 Si nos vobis spiritualia seminavimus, magnum est si nos carnalia vestra metamus?
If we have sown, for your benefit, things that are spiritual, is it a great thing that we reap your carnal things?
12 Si alii potestatis vestræ participes sunt, quare non potius nos? Sed non usi sumus hac potestate: sed omnia sustinemus, ne quod offendiculum demus Evangelio Christi.
If others partake of this right over you, should not we rather? But we have not used this right: but we endure all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of the Christ.
13 Nescitis quoniam qui in sacrario operantur, quæ de sacrario sunt, edunt: et qui altari deserviunt, cum altari participant?
Do you not know that those who are engaged about sacred rites have their living from the temple? and that those who attend upon the altar are partakers with the altar?
14 Ita et Dominus ordinavit iis, qui Evangelium annunciant, de Evangelio vivere.
So, also, the Lord has ordained that those who preach the gospel should live by the gospel.
15 Ego autem nullo horum usus sum. Non autem scripsi hæc ut ita fiant in me: bonum est enim mihi magis mori, quam ut gloriam meam quis evacuet.
But I have availed myself of none of these things; nor do I write these things that it should be so done to me. For it would be better for me to die, than that any one should make my boasting vain.
16 Nam si evangelizavero, non est mihi gloria: necessitas enim mihi incumbit: væ enim mihi est, si non evangelizavero.
For though I preach the gospel, I have no cause for boasting; for a necessity is laid upon me; yes, alas for me, if I preach not the gospel.
17 Si enim volens hoc ago, mercedem habeo: si autem invitus, dispensatio mihi credita est.
For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if unwillingly, an apostolic stewardship has been intrusted to me.
18 Quæ est ergo merces mea? Ut Evangelium prædicans, sine sumptu ponam Evangelium, ut non abutar potestate mea in Evangelio.
What, then, is my reward? That, while I preach, I may make the gospel of Christ to be without charge, in order that I may not abuse my authority in the gospel.
19 Nam cum liber essem ex omnibus, omnium me servum feci, ut plures lucrifacerem.
For, though I am free from all men, yet have I made myself a servant to all, that I may gain the more.
20 Et factus sum Iudæis tamquam Iudæus, ut Iudæos lucrarer.
And to the Jews, I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews: to those who are under law, as under law, (not being myself under law, ) that I might gain those who are under law;
21 Iis qui sub lege sunt, quasi sub lege essem (cum ipse non essem sub lege) ut eos, qui sub lege erant, lucrifacerem. Iis, qui sine lege erant, tamquam sine lege essem (cum sine lege Dei non essem: sed in lege essem Christi) ut lucrifacerem eos, qui sine lege erant.
to those who are without law, as without law, (not being myself without law to God, but under law to Christ, ) that I might gain those who are without law:
22 Factus sum infirmis infirmus, ut infirmos lucrifacerem. Omnibus omnia factus sum, ut omnes facerem salvos.
to the weak I became like one who was weak, that I might gain the weak: I have become all things to all men, that I may, by all means, save some.
23 Omnia autem facio propter Evangelium: ut particeps eius efficiar.
And this I do for the gospel’s sake, that I may share its benefits with you.
24 Nescitis quod ii, qui in stadio currunt, omnes quidem currunt, sed unus accipit bravium? Sic currite ut comprehendatis.
Know you not that all the runners in the race-course run the race, but that one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain the prize.
25 Omnis autem, qui in agone contendit, ab omnibus se abstinet: et illi quidem ut corruptibilem coronam accipiant: nos autem incorruptam.
Every combatant in the public games is temperate in all things: they, indeed, that they may obtain a corruptible, but we, that we may obtain an incorruptible crown.
26 Ego igitur sic curro, non quasi in incertum: sic pugno, non quasi aerem verberans:
I, therefore, so run, not as with uncertainty; I so aim my blows, not as one that beats the air;
27 sed castigo corpus meum, et in servitutem redigo: ne forte cum aliis prædicaverim, ipse reprobus efficiar.
but I put my body under severe discipline, and bring it into subjection, lest, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
