1 Abakkolinso 9
1 Ssiri wa ddembe? Ssiri mutume? Ssaalaba Yesu Mukama waffe? Si mmwe bibala by’omulimu gwange mu Mukama waffe?
Am I not free? Am I not an emissary? Haven’t I seen Yeshua the Messiah, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord?
2 Obanga ssiri mutume eri abalala, naye ndi mutume eri mmwe, kubanga mmwe kabonero k’obutume bwange mu Mukama waffe.
If to others I am not an emissary, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my office of emissary in the Lord.
3 Ekyo ky’eky’okuwoza kyange eri abo abambulirizaako.
My defense to those who examine me is this:
4 Sirina buyinza kulya na kunywa?
Have we no right to eat and to drink?
5 Singa nnewasiza omukazi, siyinza kutambula naye mu ŋŋendo zange ng’abatume abalala ne Keefa, ne baganda ba Mukama waffe bwe bakola?
Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the emissaries, and the brothers of the Lord, and Kefa?
6 Oba Balunabba nange, ffe ffekka ffe tusaana okwekolera?
Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?
7 Muserikale ki ali mu magye nga yeesasula empeera? Muntu ki eyalima ennimiro y’emizabbibu naye n’aziyizibwa okulya ku bibala byayo? Oba ani alunda ekisibo n’atanywa ku mata gaamu?
What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn’t eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn’t drink from the flock’s milk?
8 Ebyo mbyogera ku bwange ng’omuntu, etteeka nalyo si bwe ligamba?
Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn’t the Torah also say the same thing?
9 Kubanga kyawandiikibwa mu mateeka ga Musa nti, “Tosibanga mumwa gwa nte ewuula eŋŋaano,” Mulowooza Katonda afa ku bya nte zokka,
For it is written in the Torah of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.” Is it for the oxen that God cares,
10 oba kino akyogera ku lwaffe? Kubanga kino kyawandiikibwa ku lwaffe, oyo alima mu kusuubira alime, n’oyo awuula asuubire okufuna ku bibala.
or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.
11 Obanga ffe twabasigamu eby’omwoyo, tekiriba kya kitalo bwe tulikungula ebyammwe eby’omubiri?
If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?
12 Kale obanga abalala balina obuyinza ku mmwe, ffe tetusaanidde nnyo n’okusingawo? Kyokka ffe tetwabakaka kubituwa. Naye tugumiikiriza byonna, tuleme okuziyiza Enjiri ya Kristo.
If others partake of this right over you, don’t we yet more? Nevertheless we didn’t use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Messiah.
13 Temumanyi ng’abo abakola mu Yeekaalu baliisibwa bya Yeekaalu, era nga n’abo abaweereza ku kyoto bagabana bya ku kyoto?
Don’t you know that those who serve around sacred things eat from the things of the temple, and those who wait on the altar have their portion with the altar?
14 Mu ngeri y’emu Mukama waffe yalonda abo ababuulira Enjiri baliisibwenga olw’Enjiri.
Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.
15 Kyokka nze siriiko na kimu ku ebyo kye nkozesezzaako. Era ssawandiika bino ndyoke binkolerwe kubanga waakiri nze okufa okusinga okwenyumiriza kwange bwe kutaabeemu nsa.
But I have used none of these things, and I don’t write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.
16 Kubanga bwe mbuulira Enjiri sisobola kwenyumiriza, kubanga mpalirizibwa okugibuulira. Era ziba zinsanze bwe sigibuulira.
For if I proclaim the Good News, I have nothing to boast about, for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me if I don’t proclaim the Good News.
17 Kubanga bwe mbuulira Enjiri olw’okweyagalira, mbeera n’empeera, naye ne bwe mba nga ssaagala, nkikola lwa kubanga nakwasibwa omulimu ogwo.
For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.
18 Kale empeera yange y’eruwa? Empeera yange kwe kubuulira Enjiri nga sisasulwa era nga sibasaba nsasulwe olw’omulimu ogwo nga bwe nsaanidde.
What then is my reward? That when I proclaim the Good News, I may present the Good News of Messiah without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.
19 Kubanga newaakubadde nga ndi wa ddembe eri abantu bonna, nfuuka omuddu wa bonna olw’okweyagalira, ndyoke ndeete bangi eri Kristo.
For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
20 Eri Abayudaaya nafuuka ng’Omuyudaaya ndyoke nsobole okubaleeta eri Kristo. N’eri abo abafugibwa amateeka nafuuka ng’afugibwa amateeka, newaakubadde nze nga ssifugibwa mateeka, ndyoke mbaleete eri Kristo.
To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;
21 Eri abo abatalina mateeka ga Katonda, nafuuka ng’atafugibwa mateeka, newaakubadde nga ssaaleka mateeka ga Katanda, naye nga ndi mu mateeka ga Kristo, n’abo abatalina mateeka ndyoke mbaleete eri Kristo.
to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Messiah), that I might win those who are without law.
22 Mu banafu nafuuka ng’omunafu ndyoke mbaleete eri Kristo. Eri abantu bonna nfuuse byonna, mu ngeri yonna ndyoke mbeeko beentusa ku kulokolebwa.
To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.
23 Byonna mbikola olw’enjiri, era nange ndyoke nfunire wamu nabo ebiva mu Njiri eyo.
Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.
24 Temumanyi nga mu mpaka ez’okudduka abo bonna abazeetabamu badduka, naye awangula ekirabo abeera omu? Kale nammwe muddukenga bwe mutyo nga mufubirira okuwangula ekirabo.
Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, so that you may win.
25 Buli muzanyi eyeetaba mu mpaka ateekwa okufuna okutendekebwa okw’amaanyi nga yeefuga mu bintu byonna. Ekyo bakikola balyoke bawangule engule eyonooneka. Naye ffe tulifuna engule eteyonooneka.
Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
26 Noolwekyo nziruka nga nnina kye ŋŋenderera. Sirwana ng’omukubi w’ebikonde amala gawujja n’akuba ebbanga.
I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air,
27 Naye mbonereza omubiri gwange ne ngufuula omuddu wange, si kulwa nga mbuulira abalala Enjiri, ate nze nzennyini ne sisiimibwa.
but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.
