1 Corinthians 9
1 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?
ουκ ειμι αποστολοσ ουκ ειμι ελευθεροσ ουχι ιησουν χριστον τον κυριον ημων εωρακα ου το εργον μου υμεισ εστε εν κυριω
2 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.
ει αλλοισ ουκ ειμι αποστολοσ αλλα γε υμιν ειμι η γαρ σφραγισ τησ εμησ αποστολησ υμεισ εστε εν κυριω
3 My defense to those who examine me is this:
η εμη απολογια τοισ εμε ανακρινουσιν αυτη εστιν
4 Have we no right to eat and to drink?
μη ουκ εχομεν εξουσιαν φαγειν και πιειν
5 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?
μη ουκ εχομεν εξουσιαν αδελφην γυναικα περιαγειν ωσ και οι λοιποι αποστολοι και οι αδελφοι του κυριου και κηφασ
6 Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?
η μονοσ εγω και βαρναβασ ουκ εχομεν εξουσιαν του μη εργαζεσθαι
7 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?
τισ στρατευεται ιδιοισ οψωνιοισ ποτε τισ φυτευει αμπελωνα και εκ του καρπου αυτου ουκ εσθιει η τισ ποιμαινει ποιμνην και εκ του γαλακτοσ τησ ποιμνησ ουκ εσθιει
8 Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn’t the law also say the same thing?
μη κατα ανθρωπον ταυτα λαλω η ουχι και ο νομοσ ταυτα λεγει
9 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,
εν γαρ τω μωυσεωσ νομω γεγραπται ου φιμωσεισ βουν αλοωντα μη των βοων μελει τω θεω
10 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.
η δι ημασ παντωσ λεγει δι ημασ γαρ εγραφη οτι επ ελπιδι οφειλει ο αροτριων αροτριαν και ο αλοων τησ ελπιδοσ αυτου μετεχειν επ ελπιδι
11 If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?
ει ημεισ υμιν τα πνευματικα εσπειραμεν μεγα ει ημεισ υμων τα σαρκικα θερισομεν
12 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.
ει αλλοι τησ εξουσιασ υμων μετεχουσιν ου μαλλον ημεισ αλλ ουκ εχρησαμεθα τη εξουσια ταυτη αλλα παντα στεγομεν ινα μη εγκοπην τινα δωμεν τω ευαγγελιω του χριστου
13 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?
ουκ οιδατε οτι οι τα ιερα εργαζομενοι εκ του ιερου εσθιουσιν οι τω θυσιαστηριω προσεδρευοντεσ τω θυσιαστηριω συμμεριζονται
14 Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.
ουτωσ και ο κυριοσ διεταξεν τοισ το ευαγγελιον καταγγελλουσιν εκ του ευαγγελιου ζην
15 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.
εγω δε ουδενι εχρησαμην τουτων ουκ εγραψα δε ταυτα ινα ουτωσ γενηται εν εμοι καλον γαρ μοι μαλλον αποθανειν η το καυχημα μου ινα τισ κενωση
16 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.
εαν γαρ ευαγγελιζωμαι ουκ εστιν μοι καυχημα αναγκη γαρ μοι επικειται ουαι δε μοι εστιν εαν μη ευαγγελιζωμαι
17 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.
ει γαρ εκων τουτο πρασσω μισθον εχω ει δε ακων οικονομιαν πεπιστευμαι
18 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.
τισ ουν μοι εστιν ο μισθοσ ινα ευαγγελιζομενοσ αδαπανον θησω το ευαγγελιον του χριστου εισ το μη καταχρησασθαι τη εξουσια μου εν τω ευαγγελιω
19 For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
ελευθεροσ γαρ ων εκ παντων πασιν εμαυτον εδουλωσα ινα τουσ πλειονασ κερδησω
20 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;
και εγενομην τοισ ιουδαιοισ ωσ ιουδαιοσ ινα ιουδαιουσ κερδησω τοισ υπο νομον ωσ υπο νομον ινα τουσ υπο νομον κερδησω
21 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.
τοισ ανομοισ ωσ ανομοσ μη ων ανομοσ θεω αλλ εννομοσ χριστω ινα κερδησω ανομουσ
22 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.
εγενομην τοισ ασθενεσιν ωσ ασθενησ ινα τουσ ασθενεισ κερδησω τοισ πασιν γεγονα τα παντα ινα παντωσ τινασ σωσω
23 Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.
τουτο δε ποιω δια το ευαγγελιον ινα συγκοινωνοσ αυτου γενωμαι
24 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.
ουκ οιδατε οτι οι εν σταδιω τρεχοντεσ παντεσ μεν τρεχουσιν εισ δε λαμβανει το βραβειον ουτωσ τρεχετε ινα καταλαβητε
25 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.
πασ δε ο αγωνιζομενοσ παντα εγκρατευεται εκεινοι μεν ουν ινα φθαρτον στεφανον λαβωσιν ημεισ δε αφθαρτον
26 I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air,
εγω τοινυν ουτωσ τρεχω ωσ ουκ αδηλωσ ουτωσ πυκτευω ωσ ουκ αερα δερων
27 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.
αλλ υπωπιαζω μου το σωμα και δουλαγωγω μηπωσ αλλοισ κηρυξασ αυτοσ αδοκιμοσ γενωμαι
