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?

Mar nisem apostol? Ali nisem svoboden? Mar nisem videl Jezusa Kristusa, našega Gospoda? Mar niste vi moje delo v Gospodu?

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.

Če nisem apostol drugim, sem pa nedvomno vam; kajti vi ste pečat mojega apostolstva v Gospodu.

3 My defense to those who examine me is this:

Moj odgovor tem, ki me zaslišujejo, je ta:

4 Have we no right to eat and to drink?

›Ali nimamo pravice jesti in piti?

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?

Ali nimamo pravice okrog voditi sestro, ženo, prav tako kakor drugi apostoli in kakor Gospodovi bratje ter Kefa?

6 Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?

Ali se samo jaz in Barnaba nimava pravice zadržati pred delom?

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?

Kdo se kadarkoli gre vojskovanje na svoje lastne stroške? Kdo zasaja vinograd, pa ne jé od sadov le-tega? Ali kdo pase trop, pa ne jé mleka od tropa?

8 Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or does not the law also say the same thing?

Ali govorim te besede kakor človek? Ali ne govori istega tudi postava?

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,

Kajti v Mojzesovi postavi je pisano: ›Ne boš zavezal gobca volu, ki mane žito.‹ Ali Bog skrbi za vole?

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.

Ali govori to predvsem zaradi nas? Zaradi nas, brez dvoma, tako je pisano; da naj bi tisti, ki orje, oral v upanju; in da bi bil tisti, ki mlati v upanju soudeleženec njegovega upanja.

11 If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?

Če smo vam sejali duhovne stvari, ali je velika stvar, če bomo želi vaše mesene stvari?

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.

Če so drugi udeleženci te pravice nad vami, ali nismo tem bolj mi? Pa vendar te pravice nismo uporabili, temveč vse stvari prenašamo, da ne bi ovirali Kristusovega evangelija.

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?

Ali ne veste, da tisti, ki služijo pri svetih stvareh, živijo od tempeljskih stvari? In da so tisti, ki prisostvujejo pri oltarju, udeleženci z oltarjem?

14 Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.

Točno tako je Gospod odredil, da naj tisti, ki oznanjajo evangelij, živijo od evangelija.

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.

Toda sam nisem uporabil nobene od teh stvari niti nisem napisal teh stvari, da naj bi se mi tako zgodilo. Kajti zame bi bilo bolje, da umrem, kakor da bi katerikoli človek onemogočil moje ponašanje.

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.

Kajti čeprav oznanjam evangelij, se nimam s čim ponašati, ker je name položena nuja; da, gorje meni, če ne oznanjam evangelija!

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.

Kajti če to stvar počnem voljno, imam nagrado. Toda če proti svoji volji, mi je bilo zaupano razdeljevanje evangelija.

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.

Kaj je potem moja nagrada? Resnično, da kadar oznanjam evangelij, smem narediti Kristusov evangelij brezplačen, da ne bi izkoriščal svoje pravice v evangeliju.

19 For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

Kajti čeprav sem osvobojen vseh ljudi, sem vendar sebe naredil služabnika vsem, da bi jih lahko več pridobil.

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;

In Judom sem postal kakor Jud, da bi lahko pridobil Jude; tem, ki so pod postavo, kakor pod postavo, da bi lahko pridobil te, ki so pod postavo;

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.

tem, ki so brez postave, kakor brez postave (ne brez postave Bogu, temveč pod Kristusovo postavo), da bi lahko pridobil te, ki so brez postave.

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.

Slabotnim sem postal kakor slaboten, da lahko pridobim slabotne. Storil sem vse stvari vsem ljudem, da bi jih vsekakor nekaj rešil.

23 Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.

In to počnem zaradi evangelija, da bom lahko z vami udeleženec le-tega.

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.

Mar ne veste, da tisti, ki tečejo na tekmi, vsi tečejo, toda eden prejme nagrado? Tako tecite, da jo lahko dosežete.

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.

Vsak pa, ki si prizadeva za nagrado, je zmeren v vseh stvareh. Torej oni to počno, da dosežejo ovenljiv venec; toda mi neovenljivega.

26 I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air,

Zatorej tako tečem, ne kakor negotovo; tako se borim, ne kakor nekdo, ki tolče zrak;

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.

temveč potlačim svoje telo in ga privedem v podložnost, da ne bi bil na kakršenkoli način, ko sem oznanjal drugim, sam bil zavržen.‹