1 Akoritho 9
1 Nenga na huru kwaa? Nenga na mtume kwaa? Nenga namweni kwaa Yesu Ngwana witu? Nenga na matunda kwaa ga kazi yango katika Ngwana?
Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord?
2 Mana itei nenga na mtume kwaa kwa wenge, angalau na mtume kwinu mwenga. Kwa kuwa mwenga ni uthibisho wa utume wango katika Ngwana.
If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
3 Awoo nga utetezi wango kwa balo banichukizabo nenga.
My defense to those who examine me is this:
4 Je twabile kwaa ni haki ya kulyaa na nywaa?
Have we no right to eat and to drink?
5 Twabile kwaa haki ya kutola nyumbo ywaaminiya kati apangite mitume benge, ni alongo wa Ngwana, ni Kefa?
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 Au ni nenga kichango na Barnaba tupalikwa kuipanga kazi?
Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?
7 Ywa nyai ywaipanga kazi kati askari kwa gharama yake mwene? Ywa nyai ywapanda mzabibu ni aulye kwaa matunda gake? Au nyai ywachungae likundi ywanywea kwaa maziwa gake?
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 Je nalongela aga kwa mamlaka ga mundu? Saliya alongela kwaa aga?
Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn’t the law also say the same thing?
9 Kwa mana iandikilwe mu'saliya ya Musa, “kana untabe ng'ombe nkanwa paalya nafaka.” Ni kweli panga pano Nnongo abajali ng'ombe?
For it is written in the law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.” Is it for the oxen that God cares,
10 Au je alongela kwaa ago kwa ajili yitu? Iandikilwe kwa ajili yitu, kwa sababu ywembe ywalema nafaka impalika lema kwa matumaini, ni ywembe ywauna apalikwa aune kwa matarajio ya shiriki mu'mauno.
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 mana itei tutipanda ilebe ya rohoni nkati yinu. Je! ni neno kolo kwitu kuipuna ilebe ya yega boka kwinu?
If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?
12 Mana itei benge bapatike haki yee boka kwinu, Je! Twenga ni zaidi kwaa? Hata nyoo, twalowa kukudai kwaa haki yee. Badala yake, twatipumiliya makowe yote badala ya kuwa kikwazo cha injili 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 Christ.
13 Mutangite kwaa ya kuwa bote bapangao kazi mu'luhekalu upata chakulya chabe boka mu'lihekalu? Muntangite kwaa ya kuwa bote bapangao kazi mu'madhabahu?
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 Kwa jinsi yoyoyoo, Ngwana atiagiza ya kuwa bote baitangaza injili sharti bapate tama bokana na yoo injili.
Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.
15 Lakini niadai kwaa haki yoti yee. Na niandikile kwaa aga ili likowe lyolyote lipangike kwa ajili yango. Ni heri nibulagwe kuliko mundu yoyote kubatilisha huku kuisifu kwango.
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 Maana mana itei naihubiri injili, nibile kwaa sababu ya kuisifia, kwa mana ni lazima niipange nyoo. Ni ole wangu mana niihubiri kwaa injili!
For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about, for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me if I don’t preach the Good News.
17 Kwa mana mana nipanga nyoo kwa hiyari yango, nibile ni thawabu. Lakini mana itei ni kwa hiari kwaa, bado nibile na lijukumu lwanipeilwe kuwa wakili.
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 Bai thawabu yango ni namani? Ya kuwa niubiripo, naitoa injili bila gharama ni bila tumiya kwa utimilifu wa haki yango yanibile nayo katika injili.
What then is my reward? That when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.
19 Mana japo nibile huru kwa bote, nipangike mmanda wa bote, ili panga niweze kuwapata banyansima muno.
For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
20 Kwa ayahudi nabile kati myahudi, ili niapate Ayahudi. Kwa balo babile pae ya saliya, nibile kati yumo wabe babile pae ya saliya ili niapate balo babile pae ya saliya. Niipangite nyoo ingawa nenga binafsi nibile kwaa pae ya saliya.
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 Kwa balo babile panja ya saliya, nibile kati yumo wabe panja ya saliya, ingawa nenga binafsi nibile kwaa panja ya saliya ya Nnongo, ila pae ya saliya ya Kristo. Napangite nyoo ili niapate balo babile panja ya saliya.
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 Kwa balo babile anyonge nibile nnyonge, ili niapate balo babile anyonge. Nipangike hali yote kwa bandu bote, ili kwa ndela zote nipate kubalopwa baadhi.
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 Nenga napanga makowe yote kwa ajili ya injili, ili nipate shiriki katika baraka.
Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.
24 Mutangite kwaa kuwa mu'mbio bote bashindana hupiga mbio, lakini ywapokya tuzo ni yumo? Nga nyoo muipige mbio ili mupate tuzo.
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 Mwana michezo uzizuia katika yote awapo mumafunzo. Habo upanga nyoo ili bapokee taji iharibikayo, lakini twenga twatila ili tupate taji yaiharibika kwaa.
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 Kwa eyo nenga nitila kwaa bila sababu au nakombwana ngumi kati nakombwa hewa.
I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air,
27 Lakini naitesa yega yango na kuupanga kati mmanda, ili panga mana niisile kuwahubiri benge, nenga namwene kana nibe wa kukanilwa.
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.
