1 Corinthians 9
1 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have not I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Are not you my work in the Lord?
ahaM kim ekaH prerito nAsmi? kimahaM svatantro nAsmi? asmAkaM prabhu ryIzuH khrISTaH kiM mayA nAdarzi? yUyamapi kiM prabhunA madIyazramaphalasvarUpA na bhavatha?
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.
anyalokAnAM kRte yadyapyahaM prerito na bhaveyaM tathAca yuSmatkRte prerito'smi yataH prabhunA mama preritatvapadasya mudrAsvarUpA yUyamevAdhve|
3 My defense to those who examine me is this:
ye lokA mayi doSamAropayanti tAn prati mama pratyuttarametat|
4 Have we no right to eat and to drink?
bhojanapAnayoH kimasmAkaM kSamatA nAsti?
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?
anye preritAH prabho rbhrAtarau kaiphAzca yat kurvvanti tadvat kAJcit dharmmabhaginIM vyUhya tayA sArddhaM paryyaTituM vayaM kiM na zaknumaH?
6 Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?
sAMsArikazramasya parityAgAt kiM kevalamahaM barNabbAzca nivAritau?
7 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?
nijadhanavyayena kaH saMgrAmaM karoti? ko vA drAkSAkSetraM kRtvA tatphalAni na bhuGkte? ko vA pazuvrajaM pAlayan tatpayo na pivati?
8 Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or does not the law also say the same thing?
kimahaM kevalAM mAnuSikAM vAcaM vadAmi? vyavasthAyAM kimetAdRzaM vacanaM na vidyate?
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,
mUsAvyavasthAgranthe likhitamAste, tvaM zasyamarddakavRSasyAsyaM na bhaMtsyasIti| IzvareNa balIvarddAnAmeva cintA kiM kriyate?
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.
kiM vA sarvvathAsmAkaM kRte tadvacanaM tenoktaM? asmAkameva kRte tallikhitaM| yaH kSetraM karSati tena pratyAzAyuktena karSTavyaM, yazca zasyAni marddayati tena lAbhapratyAzAyuktena mardditavyaM|
11 If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?
yuSmatkRte'smAbhiH pAratrikANi bIjAni ropitAni, ato yuSmAkamaihikaphalAnAM vayam aMzino bhaviSyAmaH kimetat mahat karmma?
12 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.
yuSmAsu yo'dhikArastasya bhAgino yadyanye bhaveyustarhyasmAbhistato'dhikaM kiM tasya bhAgibhi rna bhavitavyaM? adhikantu vayaM tenAdhikAreNa na vyavahRtavantaH kintu khrISTIyasusaMvAdasya ko'pi vyAghAto'smAbhiryanna jAyeta tadarthaM sarvvaM sahAmahe|
13 Do not 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?
aparaM ye pavitravastUnAM paricaryyAM kurvvanti te pavitravastuto bhakSyANi labhante, ye ca vedyAH paricaryyAM kurvvanti te vedisthavastUnAm aMzino bhavantyetad yUyaM kiM na vida?
14 Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.
tadvad ye susaMvAdaM ghoSayanti taiH susaMvAdena jIvitavyamiti prabhunAdiSTaM|
15 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.
ahameteSAM sarvveSAM kimapi nAzritavAn mAM prati tadanusArAt AcaritavyamityAzayenApi patramidaM mayA na likhyate yataH kenApi janena mama yazaso mudhAkaraNAt mama maraNaM varaM|
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 do not preach the Good News.
susaMvAdagheSaNAt mama yazo na jAyate yatastadghoSaNaM mamAvazyakaM yadyahaM susaMvAdaM na ghoSayeyaM tarhi mAM dhik|
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.
icchukena tat kurvvatA mayA phalaM lapsyate kintvanicchuke'pi mayi tatkarmmaNo bhAro'rpito'sti|
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.
etena mayA labhyaM phalaM kiM? susaMvAdena mama yo'dhikAra Aste taM yadabhadrabhAvena nAcareyaM tadarthaM susaMvAdaghoSaNasamaye tasya khrISTIyasusaMvAdasya nirvyayIkaraNameva mama phalaM|
19 For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
sarvveSAm anAyatto'haM yad bhUrizo lokAn pratipadye tadarthaM sarvveSAM dAsatvamaGgIkRtavAn|
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;
yihUdIyAn yat pratipadye tadarthaM yihUdIyAnAM kRte yihUdIyaivAbhavaM| ye ca vyavasthAyattAstAn yat pratipadye tadarthaM vyavasthAnAyatto yo'haM so'haM vyavasthAyattAnAM kRte vyavasthAyattaivAbhavaM|
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.
ye cAlabdhavyavasthAstAn yat pratipadye tadartham Izvarasya sAkSAd alabdhavyavastho na bhUtvA khrISTena labdhavyavastho yo'haM so'ham alabdhavyavasthAnAM kRte'labdhavyavastha ivAbhavaM|
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.
durbbalAn yat pratipadye tadarthamahaM durbbalAnAM kRte durbbalaivAbhavaM| itthaM kenApi prakAreNa katipayA lokA yanmayA paritrANaM prApnuyustadarthaM yo yAdRza AsIt tasya kRte 'haM tAdRzaivAbhavaM|
23 Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.
idRza AcAraH susaMvAdArthaM mayA kriyate yato'haM tasya phalAnAM sahabhAgI bhavitumicchAmi|
24 Do not you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, so that you may win.
paNyalAbhArthaM ye dhAvanti dhAvatAM teSAM sarvveSAM kevala ekaH paNyaM labhate yuSmAbhiH kimetanna jJAyate? ato yUyaM yathA paNyaM lapsyadhve tathaiva dhAvata|
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.
mallA api sarvvabhoge parimitabhogino bhavanti te tu mlAnAM srajaM lipsante kintu vayam amlAnAM lipsAmahe|
26 I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air,
tasmAd ahamapi dhAvAmi kintu lakSyamanuddizya dhAvAmi tannahi| ahaM mallaiva yudhyAmi ca kintu chAyAmAghAtayanniva yudhyAmi tannahi|
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.
itarAn prati susaMvAdaM ghoSayitvAhaM yat svayamagrAhyo na bhavAmi tadarthaM deham Ahanmi vazIkurvve ca|
