१ कोरिन्थी 9
1 के म स्वतन्त्र छैनँ? के म प्रेरित होइनँ? के मैले येशू हाम्रा प्रभुलाई देखेको छैनँ? के तिमीहरू परमप्रभुमा मेरा हातका सिप होइनौ र?
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 म अरूको लागि प्रेरित नभए तापनि तिमीहरूको लागि त हुँ । तिमीहरू नै परमप्रभुमा मेरो प्रेरितको कामको प्रमाण हौ ।
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 यो मलाई जाँच्न खोज्नेहरूलाई जवाफ होः
My answer to those who examine me is this:
4 के हामीलाई खाने र पिउने अधिकार छैन?
Have we not the right to eat and drink?
5 के अरू प्रेरितहरू, प्रभुका भाइहरू र केफासले गरेजस्तै हामीले पनि आफूसँग विश्वासी पत्नी लिएर हिँड्ने अधिकार छैन?
Have we not the right to lead about a sister wife, as the other apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
6 अथवा के बारनाबास र मैले मात्र काम गर्नु पर्छ?
Or, have I only, and Barnabas, no right to leave off working?
7 कसले आफ्नै खर्चमा सिपाहीको रूपमा सेवा गर्छ? कसले दाखबारी लगाएर त्यसको फल खाँदैन र? कसले गाईवस्तु पालेर तिनीहरूबाट दूध पिउँदैन र?
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 के मैले यी कुराहरू मानवीय अधिकारको आधारमा भनिरहेको छु? के व्यवस्थाले पनि यसै गर भन्दैन र?
Do I speak these things as a man? Or does not the law, also, say the same?
9 मोशाको व्यवस्थामा यस्तो लेखिएको छ, “दाइँ गर्दा गोरुलाई मोहोला नलगाओ ।” के परमेश्वरले साँच्चै गोरुहरूको मात्र वास्ता गर्नुहुन्छ?
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 के उहाँले हामीहरूका निम्ति नै यो बोलिरहनुभएको छैन र? यो हाम्रो निम्ति लेखिएको हो । किनभने खेत जोत्नेले बालीको आशा राखेर नै जोत्नुपर्छ र बाली चुट्नेले पनि बाली भित्र्याउने आशले नै चुट्नुपर्छ ।
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 यदि हामीले तिमीहरूका बीचमा आत्मिक कुराहरू छर्यौँ भने तिमीहरूबाट भौतिक कुराहरूको कटनी गर्ने काम अति भयो र?
If we have sown, for your benefit, things that are spiritual, is it a great thing that we reap your carnal things?
12 यदि तिमीहरूबाट अरूहरूले हकको दाबी गर्छन् भने के हामीलाई त्योभन्दा बढता हक छैन र? तापनि हामीले यो हकको दाबी गरेनौँ । बरु, ख्रीष्टको सुसमाचारमा बाधा नबनौँ भनेर हामीले सबै सह्यौँ ।
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 के मन्दिरमा सेवा गर्नेले मन्दिरबाट नै खानेकुरा पाउँछन् भन्ने तिमीहरूलाई थाहा छैन? वेदीमा सेवा गर्नेले वेदीमा चढाइएको कुराको हिस्सा पाउँछ भन्ने तिमीहरूलाई थाहा छैन र?
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 त्यसरी नै सुसमाचार प्रचार गर्नेले त्यसैबाट जीविका चलाओस् भनेर परमप्रभुले आज्ञा गर्नुभयो ।
So, also, the Lord has ordained that those who preach the gospel should live by the gospel.
15 तर मैले यी कुनै पनि हकहरूको दाबी गरिनँ । र मेरो लागि केही गरियोस् भनेर म यो लेख्दिनँ । यो गर्व गर्ने कुरादेखि कसैले मलाई वञ्चित गर्छ भने म बरु मर्न तयार छु ।
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 मैले सुसमाचार प्रचार गरेँ भनेर मैले घमण्ड गर्ने कारण नै छैन, किनभने मैले यो गर्नुपर्छ । यदि मैले सुसमाचार प्रचार गरिनँ भने मलाई धिक्कार छ ।
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 किनकि यदि मैले आफूखुसी यसो गरेको छु भने मैले इनाम पाउँछु । तर यो आफूखुसी होइन भने मलाई सुम्पिएको जिम्मेवारी अझ पनि मसँग बाँकी नै छ ।
For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if unwillingly, an apostolic stewardship has been intrusted to me.
18 त्यसो भए मेरो इनाम के हो? यही हो कि जब म प्रचार गर्छु, सित्तैँमा सुसमाचार प्रचार गरूँ र सुसमाचरमा मेरो हकको पूर्ण प्रयोग नगरूँ ।
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 किनकि म सबै कुरामा स्वतन्त्र भए तापनि धेरैलाई जित्न सकौँ भनेर म सबैको दास भएँ ।
For, though I am free from all men, yet have I made myself a servant to all, that I may gain the more.
20 यहूदीहरूलाई जित्नको लागि म यहूदीजस्तै बनेँ । व्यवस्थाको अधीनमा भएकाहरूलाई जित्नको निम्ति म व्यवस्थाको अधीनमा भएको जस्तै बनेँ । म आफैँ व्यवस्थाको अधीनमा नभए तापनि मैले यसो गरेँ ।
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 म आफैँ परमेश्वरको व्यवस्थाबाट बाहिर नभएर ख्रीष्टको व्यवस्थामा भए तापनि व्यवस्थाबाट बाहिर भएकाहरूलाई जित्नको निम्ति म व्यवस्थाबाट बाहिर भएजस्तै बनेँ । व्यवस्थाबाट बाहिर भएकाहरूलाई जित्न सकूँ भनेर मैले यसो गरेँ ।
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 कमजोरहरूलाई जित्न सकूँ भनेर कमजोरहरूको लागि म कमजोर बनेँ । सबै उपायहरूद्वारा केहीलाई बचाउन सकूँ भनेर म सबै मानिसहरूका लागि सबै कुरा बनेको छु ।
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 सुसमाचारको खातिर म सबै कुराहरू गर्छु ताकि यसका आशिष्हरूमा म सहभागी हुन सकूँ ।
And this I do for the gospel’s sake, that I may share its benefits with you.
24 दौडमा सबै मानिसहरू दौडिन्छन्, तर एक जनाले मात्र पुरस्कार पाउँछ भन्ने कुरा के तिमीहरूलाई थाहा छैन? त्यसैले, पुरस्कार पाउने गरी दौड ।
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 एउटा खेलाडी सबै तालिमहरूमा आत्मसंयमी हुन्छ । तिनीहरूले नाश हुने माला पाउनको लागि यसो गर्छन्, तर हामी नाश नहुने माला पाऔँ भनेर दौडन्छौँ ।
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 त्यसैले, म बिनाउदेश्य वा हावामा दौडन्नँ ।
I, therefore, so run, not as with uncertainty; I so aim my blows, not as one that beats the air;
27 तर म आफ्नो शरीरलाई वशमा राख्छु र यसलाई दासजस्तै बनाउँछु, ताकि प्रचार गरेपछि म आफैँचाहिँ अयोग्य नबनूँ ।
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.
