1 Ukorintiyawa 9

1 Na meng in shutu ba? Na Meng gono katawari ba? Na Meng wa yene Yisa Cikilari bite ba? Na anug hère katuwa nacara nighere nan nya Ncikilari ba?

Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are you not my work in the LORD?

2 Andi na Meng gono kadurari kiti namon ba, ai kiti mine ndi, bara anughere ba dursu annit meng gono kadura, nan nya Ncikilari.

If I am not an apostle to others—yet doubtless I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the LORD.

3 Ulelere ukesu kiti nale nge na udi dumu zuni.

My defense to those who examine me in this:

4 Na arike nwanya tileoti sono ba?

do we not have authority to eat and to drink?

5 Na wanya yira awani ba anan nyinnu Kutellẹ nafo kagisin nanan kadura, nin nuwana nan nya Ncikilari ame Bitrus.

Do we not have authority to lead about a sister—a wife—as also the other apostles, and the brothers of the LORD, and Cephas?

6 Sa Barnabas nin mi arikere ba su katuwa casa?

Or do only Barnabas and I have no authority not to work?

7 Ghari di katuwa nafo kusoja, ame leo nin litime? Ghari ba bilisu imon nan nya a wanya aleo ba? Sa Ghari basu libiya ninab sa uwuru asonu madare?

Who serves as a soldier at his own expense at any time? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock and does not eat of the milk of the flock?

8 Ndi belle ule imone bara likara nnit usurne? Na uduka bellin nano ba?

Do I speak these things according to man? Or does the Law not also say these things?

9 Nafo na udi ninyerte nduka Musa, “Yenje uwa tursu fina unu kubi na adi katuwa kunen nileo.” Kidege innari cas Kutellẹ min nania?

For in the Law of Moses it has been written: “you will not muzzle an ox treading out grain”; does God care for the oxen?

10 Na ame din nliru kitene bite ba? Iwa nyertin bara arikere, bara ulle na adi nikawa na asu nin ti kibinai, unan su kinorso na asu nin ti kibinai nworu aba se kubi ngirbe.

Or by all means does He say [it] because of us? Yes, because of us it was written, because in hope ought the plower to plow, and he who is treading [ought] of his hope to partake in hope.

11 Asa ti bilisa imon Ruhu nanya mine, uba yitu gbardang kagha arike nwase imon lisosin nye kiti mine?

If we sowed to you the spiritual things—[is it] great if we reap your fleshly things?

12 Andi amon di pirizu imon na idi imine kiti mine, na arike dumun nile na ikatin ba? Na nanere ba, na tina se ileli imone ba. Tima teru ayi bara ti wa wantin uliru nlai Kristi.

If others partake of the authority over you—[do] we not more? But we did not use this authority, but we bear all things, that we may give no hindrance to the good news of the Christ.

13 Na anug yiru ba nworu allenge na idin su katuwa kutyin nlira iba se imonli mine kutyin nlire? Inung alle na idi katuwa kitene nbadagi, adi nli imonli me kikene bagade?

Have you not known that those working about the things of the temple eat of the temple, and those waiting at the altar are partakers with the altar?

14 Nanere, Kutellẹ wa ni uduka aworo ulle na adin bellu nlai, iba se imonli me kiti nbellu nliru nlai.

So also the LORD directed to those proclaiming the good news to live of the good news.

15 Vat nin nani, nan nsa se imomon nanya nile imone vatt ile imone bara inan su menku imomon ba, ukatin nku nin nworo anung yene ufo figiri nighe so uhem.

And I have used none of these things; neither did I write these things that it may be so done in my case, for [it is] good for me rather to die, than that anyone may make my glorying void;

16 Asa ndin bellu uliru nlai, na nile imon na iba fo figiri ba, bara ikifoi nsu nani, kash nin mi asa na nbelle uliru a nlai ba.

for if I may proclaim good news, it is no glorying for me, for necessity is laid on me, and woe is to me if I may not proclaim good news;

17 Bare nwa su illenge imone nani nin kibinai kirum, mba seru ulada andi na nin kibinai kirum ba ndu nin katuwa kanga na iwa nie.

for if I do this willingly, I have a reward; and if unwillingly—I have been entrusted with a stewardship!

18 Iyaghari ulada nighe? nworu uwa bellu uliru nlai meng ba ni uliru nlai sa useru nimomon, nan baseru ile imon na nyene inaghari nanya nliru kulelle.

What, then, is my reward? That proclaiming good news, without charge I will make the good news of the Christ, not to abuse my authority in the good news;

19 Bara nani meng shutu na cara na nit vat, nlawa kucin kiti nanit vat, bara nnan wunno annit vat.

for being free from all men, I made myself servant to all men, that the more I might gain;

20 Kiti na yahudawa so nafo kuyahudawa, bara nna wuno ayahudawa, kiti na ilenge na imin nduka, nso nafoo allenge na imin (vat nin nani, na meng min ushara ba) nnan wunun alle na imnin ushara.

and to the Jews I became like a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those under law as under law, that I might gain those under law;

21 Kiti nale na isali nin nshara, meng wan so nafo unan nsalin nshara. (na Meng litinighe na nta unan nsalin nshara ba kiti Kutellẹ ndi nanya nduka Kristi) nnan wunno alle na isali nan nya nshara.

to those without law, as without law—(not being without law to God, but within law to Christ)—that I might gain those without law;

22 Kiti nan nsali likara, meng so unan sali likara anan sali likara nso imon vat kiti anit vat bara ko niyagh Meng tucu among.

to the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak; to all men I have become all things, that by all means I may save some.

23 Nchin su imon vat bbara ubellen nliru Kutellẹ, bara Meng ma nan se upiru nan nya imari me.

And I do this because of the good news, that I may become a fellow-partaker of it;

24 Na anung yiru nwo nanyan cum vat anang cume din su ucume, ama waseme minere asa asere uduke? Bara nani sun ucum ilii uduke.

have you not known that those running in a race—all indeed run, but one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain;

25 Unan katwa ncum din zulu kidowo me ayita nin minu nnu nanyan vat nzulu kidowo me. Inung dinsu iseru uduk ulenge na udin nanuzu, ama arik din cum tinan seru uduk un salin nanuzu.

and everyone who is striving is temperate in all things; these, indeed, then, that they may receive a corruptible garland, but we an incorruptible;

26 Bara nani, na meng din cum sa ukpiluzu ba a na ndas libau nfunu ba.

I, therefore, thus run, not as uncertainly, thus I fight, as not beating air;

27 Ama meng kifu kidowo ning nning ta kinin kucin, bara kimalin wazi ninghe kiti namong, na meng wang iwa nazue mung ba.

but I bruise my body, and bring [it] into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others—I myself may become disapproved.