1 Korinte 9
1 Ngah pongwan mina tatam angkang? Ngah kamwah tatam angkang? Seng Teesu Jisu ngah ih tatam tuptang? Nyia ngah Teesu raangtaan ih motang thaang ah sen taba angkan?
Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?
2 Mih ih ngah kamwah ngeh ih lathiik rangbah uh, sen loong ah ih ngah ejat eh hali! Sen roidong ah Teesu damdi roongroop thoidi, sen teeteewah ih ngah ah kaamwah ih dongjat thuk hali.
If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my office of apostle in the Lord.
3 Mabah mina loong ah ih putbeek hang di, ngah ih emah kangaakbaat rum ang:
My defense to those who examine me is this.
4 Nga mootkaat thaang phak asat tatam jen korang?
Have we no right to eat and to drink?
5 Kaamwah wahoh loong nyia seng Teesu no nyia Pitar reela likhiik, Kristaan minuh ah siit angno ngah tatam jen tumkhoom kang?
Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
6 Adoleh sek thingtong suh sek ah Barnabas luulu tam mootkaatjih ah?
Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?
7 O sipaahi ih heh laajang thaang ah heh teeteewah ih kakoh ah? Heh phek nawa anggut lasatte mootkaatte ah o a? Neng saap nyuupuuthi ah lajokte ah o ah?
What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and does not eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and does not drink from the flock's milk?
8 Arah toobaat hang jengthaak ah ngah ih saarookwet ih toobaat hang, tiimnge liidi Hootthe ni phoosiitsiit ih baat hali.
Do I say these things according to human authority? Or does not the Law also say the same thing?
9 Moses Hootthe ni seng ih chowet hi, “Raannak thuk tokdoh maanpong ah hetui nak loop theng.” Enoobah, Rangte ih maanpong ah luulu tam samthunha?
For it is written in the Law of Moses, "Do not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain." Is it for the oxen that God cares,
10 Amiisak di erah heh ih seng suh tamli tahe? Elang e ah erah seng raangtaan ih raangha. O ih bah uh haanbeeha nyi chamkhanha rah heh ih nep roongchoh suh mokala.
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 the hope of having a share.
11 Seng ih sen loong dung ni moong achaang raanjih wen hi. Sen jiin nawa hansi raangtaan chohi asuh ehanmi kohi ngeh ih tamli han?
If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?
12 Wahoh botseh sen jiinnawa jen laalomhala, seng ih batang aleh ehan tatam jen laalomke? Enoothong jen lang ih abah uh seng ih emah tareeraang ke. Eranang ebah, Kristo Ruurang Ese lam ah photang ah nge ih jirep adi enaan ehi.
If others partake of this right over you, do not we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.
13 Amiisak di sen ih jat et han o mina Rangteenok ni mokala erah loong ah ih phak asak ah Rangteenok nawa choha adoleh o ih romthong ni khojoop siik hoon ha erah loong ah ih khojoop siik hoon phaksat adi roomla.
Do you not 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 Erah likhiikkhiik ih, Ruurang Ese tiit baatte loong asuh ething tong raangtaan ih erah mootkaat dowa chotheng ngeh ih Teesu ih baat ha.
Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.
15 Enoothong chojih ang abah uh ngah ih maang taat jamkang, adoleh amadi arah raanghang ah nga teewah raangtaan ih jensuk suh taraang kang. Erah nang ebah jaakhoh ngaba ti ang! O ih bah uh thaangmuh jengkhaap doh nga jen mokalang ah tami leksiitka!
But I have used none of these things, and I do not 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 Ruurang ese baat thoidoh ngah uh tajen khuupook kang. Ngabah tang aleh, emah mootkaat ah matkap. Eno ruurang ese tiit ah labaattang bah tiimthan echo etheng angta!
For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about, because I am compelled to do this. Woe to me if I do not preach the Good News.
17 Nga thungthung ih mok mokatang bah, hethaang echoh eh ang ngeh ih tuumaang thengtang; enoothong nga mootkaat ngeh ih mokatang, tiimnge liidi Rangte ih erah mootkaat ah ngasuh baat tahang.
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 Emah ang abah, ngah ih tiimthaang choh angleh? Ruurang Ese tiit thaangmuh ih baat hi ah, adoleh ruurang ese raang ih nga mookkaatjih ngeh ih laliiko aju saapootse.
What then is my reward? That, when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.
19 Ngah nga pongpongwan mina, o dah tah angkang; enoothong mathan jen ang ah erah than mina jensuh, ngah warep dah ih hoon lang.
For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
20 Jehudi loong ah jen suh li angno ngah neng likhiikkhiik ih roong tongtha tang, eno ngah Moses Hootthe lathong ni lah ang kangbah uh, Moses Hootthe lathong ni songtongla loong ah jen suh neng likhiik ih roong tongtha tang.
To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, not being myself under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;
21 Ranglajatte loong damdoh mokatang adoh uh, emamah ju roong tongtha tang, Jehudi Hootthe lathong ni lah angthang ih ah, erah Ranglajatte loong jen suh reetang. Erah raang ih Rangte Hootthe ngah ih lakap tah angka; amiisak di ngah Kristo hootthe lathong ni tonglang.
to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law.
22 O mina laalom di larook lata angta, neng loong ah jen suh li angno, ngah uh neng likhiik ih larook lata ih hoontang. Mamah ih adoh se ah li angno, marah marah mina ah taan puipang suh li angno ngah emamah ih reeraang tang.
To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all people, that I may by all means save some.
23 Arah loong ah ruurang ese tung thoidi reelang, romseetam ah loongtang ih chosuh ah.
Now I do all things for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.
24 Amiisak tiit ah sen loong ih jat ehan, tootmui soonte loong ah hantek toosoonla enoothong hethaang ah wasiit ih ba choh ah. Erah raangtaan ih, sen uh toosoon an hethaang ah chosuh ah.
Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.
25 Tootmuijapte loong ah ih hethaang chosuh ejap banlam ah naririh nyoot ha marah roitang raang ih lah angka raang ih ah, enoothong seng loong jaasiit mokali ah roitang raang ih ang ah.
Now everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
26 Erah raangtaan ih ngah soon tangno echoh lam adi pitlang; laktom ih thutmuite ih jaahu ni lathuka rah likhiik ah.
I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air,
27 Ngah ih ngaasak ngaasi ah nga jeng chaatchaat dah eh hoonthuk lang, tiimnge liidi ruurang ese ah wahoh suh baat lidoh hethaang lachoh naktoom ang ang suh ah.
but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
