1 Corinthians 9
1 A buevi, ndisi phuanza ko e? Ndisi mvuala ko e? Ndisia mona Pfumu eto Yesu Klisto ko e? Beno ndisia lubuta mu kisalu kiama mu Pfumu ko e?
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 Enati kuidi bankaka ndisi mvuala ko vayi kuidi beno ndidi mvuala bila beno luidi dimbu ki kimvuala kiama mu Pfumu.
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 Wowo mvutu pheni kuidi batu bobo bakumfundanga.
My defense to those who examine me is this.
4 A buevi, tuisi ko minsua mu dia ayi mu nua e?
Have we no right to eat and to drink?
5 Tuisi ko minsua mu kibanga va kimosi ayi nketo wuzebi Klisto, banga bu nsilanga bamvuala bankaka, bakhomba zi Pfumu ayi Piela e?
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 Buna Balinabasi ayi minu, beto kaka tubeki minsua mu sala mu diambu di tukizingisanga e?
Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?
7 Disodi mbi dinsalanga kisalu ki kisodi vayi dikukifutanga niandi veka e? Nani wulenda kuna ndima yi vinu vayi kadianga ko makundi madi muna? Nani wuntuidilanga nkangu wu zingombi vayi kanuanga ko miliki mi nkangu beni e?
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 Mu kimutu ndintubila mambu mama e? Voti Mina miyolukilanga ko mambu beni?
Do I say these things according to human authority? Or does not the Law also say the same thing?
9 Bila mu Mina mi Moyize musonama: Wulendi kanga munu wu ngombi ko yimfundumunanga makundi. A buevi, Nzambi wulenda bela zingombi mayindu e?
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 Keti mu diambu dieto katubila bobo? Bila mambu momo masonimina mu diambu dieto. Mutu wunkunanga zitsola kafueti sala mu diana dioso, ayi woso wumfundumunanga makundi kafueti ba ayi diana di tambula kuku.
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 Enati tukuna makundi ma kiphevi mu beno, buna buevi, dieka diambu dinneni ti tutambudi bima bieno bi kinsuni e?
If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?
12 Enati bankaka babeki minsua miomi mu beno, buna beto katulutidi ko e? Vayi tusia sadila ko minsua beni; tunkanga ntima mu mambu moso muingi tubika tula diambu dilenda kakidila nsamu wumboti wu Klisto.
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 Luisi zaba ko ti batu bobo bansadilanga mu nzo Nzambi bambakanga bidia biawu muna nzo Nzambi e? Ayi bobo bansadilanga va ntala bambonganga ndambu mu makaba momo bantambikanga vana ntala.
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 Bobuawu, Pfumu wuvana thumunu ti bobo bansamunanga Nsamu Wumbotibazingilanga mu nsamu wumboti.
Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.
15 Vayi minu ndisia sadila kadi diambu dimosi ko mu mambu momo ayi ndisi sonika ko bobo mu diambu luvanga buawu mu diambu diama bila bulutidimboti kuidi minu mu fua ayi mu mona mutu wu mvonda nkembo ama.
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 Bila enati ndilembo samuna Nsamu Wumboti buna vasiko diambu diodi ndikukiniemisina bila yidi thumunu nditambula mu kingolo. Ayi mabienga kuidi minu enati ndikadi samuna Nsamu Wumboti.
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 Enati mu luzolo luama veka ndinsadila mawu buna mfutu widi yama. Vayi enati luisi mu luzolo luama ko buna ndilembo sadi mu diambu di kisalu kioki nditambula.
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 Buna mfutu mbi widi yama? Mfunuꞌama widi mu longa, mu kambu futu, Nsamu wu Klisto wundilonganga mu diambu ndibika sadila minsua miama mu Nsamu Wumboti.
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 Bila minu bu ndidi mutu wu kiphuanza va meso ma batu boso, vayi ndikituka mvika wu batu boso muingi ndibaka bu natina bawombo kuidi Yesu Klisto.
For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
20 Kuidi Bayuda, ndieka banga Nyuda muingi ndibaka Bayuda. Kuidi batu bobo badi ku tsi Mina, ndieka banga mutu widi ku tsi mina; ka diambu ko ndisi ku tsi mina ko muingi ndibaka bobo badi ku tsi mina.
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 Kuidi batu bobo bakambulu zaba mina ndieka banga mutu wukambulu zaba Mina muingi ndibaka bu natina kuidi Klisto bobo bakambulu zaba Mina, ka diambu ko ndisi kambu zaba Mina mi Nzambi ko vayi ndidi ku tsi Mina mi Klisto.
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 Kuidi bawu badi batu balebakana, minu ndieka mutu wulebakana muingi ndibaka batu balebakana. Kuidi batu boso ndiyikidi banga bima bioso muingi ndibaka bu vukisila bankaka.
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 Ndimvanganga mambu moso mu diambu di Nsamu Wumboti muingi mamvamandiba kithuadi mu wawu.
Now I do all things for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.
24 Lusi zaba ko ti batu boso bobo banzawulanga thinu ku nganda bisavu, banzawulanga mu diambu banunga. Ayi wumosi kaka weti tambulangamfutu. Bika beno mamveno luzawula muingi lununga.
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 Batu bobo banzawulanga bakukivanganga minsiku miwombo-wombo. Beti vanganga bobo mu diambu babaka budu ki nkembo kioki kika kizingilanga ko. Vayi beto tueti vanganga bobo mu diambu di baka budu ki nkembo kioki kinzingilanga mu zithangu zioso.
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 Diawu bu ndinzawulanga, kadi sia ti mu phamba; ayi bu ndieti nuananga, ndizubanga zikhomi mu phamba ko banga mutu wunzuba phemo.
I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air,
27 Vayi minu ndinuanisanga nitu ama ayi ndikuyiyalanga muingi buedi ba ti minu veka ndozolo, bu mbeni longa bankaka.
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.
