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?
Sena ntame muntu wasunguluka? Sena ntame mutumwa? Sena ndiya kumubona Mwami wetu Yesu? Sena ntamwe bisepo byancito yakame ya kusebensela Mwami?
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.
Nikukabeti nabambi nkabalanjeyelengeti ndemutumwa, kuli njamwe ndemutumwa nditu, pakwinga kuba baklistu kwenu nibukamboni bwa kwambeti njame mutumwa.
3 My defense to those who examine me is this:
Ecisa ncekute kubakumbula bantu bakute kuyanda kumpita panshi kumano.
4 Have we no right to eat and to drink?
Sena nkandelela kupewa cakulya ne cakunwa?
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?
Nambi sena, nkatwelela kumanta bamakashetu pamo nenjafwe twayanga pa bulwendo mbuli batumwa nabambi kayi ne bakwabo Mwami Yesu ne Petulo ncebakute kwinsa?
6 Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?
Nambi sena, ame ne Banabasi njafwe twenka otwelela kulisebensela kwambeti tucane mbyotwabula mubuyumi bwetu?
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?
Sena, pali mushilikali ukute kulifolesha mwine? Sena, pali mulimi wela kubyala cishango ncela kubula kulyako bisepo, nomba kataliko bisepo? Sena, pali muntu utanuko mandili kung'ombe nshasuwa?
8 Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or does not the law also say the same thing?
Nkandambangowa kufumina mungofu sha buntu sobwe, sena Milawo ya Lesa njalapa Mose nkailambanga cimocimo?
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,
Tukute kubelenga mu Milawo ya Mose ilambangeti, “Kotamusunga matomo kumulomo musune lalyataulunga pamulunda wamasanse amaila.” Sena Mose mpwalambeco walikwambowa makani akusamalila ng'ombe shonka?
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.
Sena nkalikubikapo nenjafwe? Cakubinga walalembela afwe, pakwinga mulimi neweshikulupula maila, bonse bela kupembeleleti bakayabaneko pabishango.
11 If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?
Afwe otwalabyala bintu byaina bya kumushimu pakati penu, sena caipa kumwambileti mwelela kutunyamfwa bintu mubuyumi bwetu bishikufuma kulinjamwe?
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.
Na bantu nabambi belela kutambula bintu bya mushoboyo kufuma kulinjamwe, inga afwe sena nkatwelela kubapita pakutambula bintu? Nomba tuliya kusebensesha ngofu isho. Nikukabeco, twalapita mu makatasho onse kwambeti katutabika nsuntu munshila yabantu kutatambula Mulumbe Waina ulambanga makani a Klistu.
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?
Sena, nkamucinshi kwambeti balasebenselenga mu Ng'anda ya Lesa bakute kulyako byakulya bya mu Ng'anda ya Lesa? Kayi abo bakute kutwala panteme pakubengela milumbo, sena naboyo nkabakute kumantako lubasu pa milumbo?
14 Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.
Kwelana neco, Mwami walabika mulawo kwambeti abo balakambaukunga Mulumbe Waina bela kutambulako bintu bilayandikinga pabuyumi bwabo.
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.
Nomba ame ndiya kusebensesha ishi ngofu. Kayi nkandalembenga kwambeti ndishisebenseshe sobwe. Caina kwambeti mfwa kupita muntu naumbi kundamuna cintu ncondatwangilingaponga.
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.
Na ndakambaukunga Mulumbe Waina nkandela kulisumpula sobwe, pakwinga Mwami ewalampa mulawo wakukambauka. Nomba ngaba malele kulinjame nambula kukambauka Mulumbe Waina.
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.
Na ndasebensenga mwakuyandishisha ninkatambule cilambo. Nomba na ndasebensenga cakutayanda okwambeti endenshingowa ncito njalampa Lesa.
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.
Inga cilambo cakame nicani? Cilambo cakame nicakwambeti ndakambaukanga Mulumbe Waina kankambaukanga kwabulyo mwakutalipilisha, nikukabeti ndalikuba ndelelela kutambula kantu pakukambauka Mulumbe Waina.
19 For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
Pakwinga ndasunguluka, ntame musha wamuntu uliyense sobwe, nsombi ndalalibika kuba musha wabantu bonse kwambeti nsandule bantu bangi.
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;
Mpondalikuba ne Bayuda ndalikwikaleti Muyuda kwambeti ndibasandule. Nsombi nikukabeti ame ntame shikukonka Milawo Lesa njalapa Mose, ndalikwikaleti beshikukonka Milawo, kwambeti ndibasandule.
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.
Cimocimo, pakuba ne bantu bakunsa ndalikubeti muntu wakunsa utaishi Milawo Lesa njalapa Mose kwambeti ndibasandule. Uku nteko kwambeti nkankute kunyumfwila milawo ya Lesa sobwe. Nsombi ndanyumfwilinga milawo ya Klistu.
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.
Kuli bantu balushomo lwabula kuyuma, ndalikubeti muntu ukute lushomo lwabula kuyuma, kwambeti ndibasandule. Ku bantu bonse ndalikwikala mbuli ncobabele kwambeti nakacikonsheka mpulushepo nabambi munshila iliyonse.
23 Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.
Byonsebi ndabinshinga cebo ca Mulumbe Waina kwambeti nkamanteko lubasu mu colwe ca Mulumbe.
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.
Sena nkamucishi kwambeti pakute kuba bantu bangi bakute kupikishana kufwamba lubilo, nsombi umowa eukute kutambula cilambo? Nenjamwe munshila ilico, kamufwambani kwambeti mukatambule cilambo.
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.
Uliyense lafwambanga lubilo lwa kupikishana alikanishe mubintu byonse, kwambeti akafwalikwe munshini wamaluba ukute kunyana papita kacindi kang'ana. Nomba afwe cilambo ncotitukatambule nteticikapwe sobwe.
26 I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air,
Ecebo cakendi ndafwambanga cakulanga kuntangu. Ndakoshana ne muntu wishicena kuwala makofi, nkankute kuwala makofi mulukupwe.
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.
Nkute kupensha mubili wakame ne kuukoma kwambeti, ame ndalakambauka kubantu nabambi kantakacanika kubamuntu wabula kwelela kumantamo lubasu.
