1 Corinthians 9
1 Am I not free? am I not an apostle? have I not seen Jesus our Lord? are not ye my work in [the] Lord?
He teka ianei kei ahau ano nga tikanga moku? he teka ianei he apotoro ahau? kihai ianei ahau i kite i a Ihu Karaiti, i to tatou Ariki? Ehara oti koutou i taku mahi i roto i te Ariki?
2 If I am not an apostle to others, yet at any rate I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in [the] Lord.
Ahakoa ehara ahau i te apotoro ki era atu, engari rawa ia he apotoro ki a koutou, ko koutou hoki te hiri o toku apotorotanga i roto i te Ariki.
3 My defence to those who examine me is this:
Ko taku utu tenei ki oku kaiui;
4 Have we not a right to eat and to drink?
Kahore ranei i a matou ano te tikanga mo te kai, mo te inu?
5 have we not a right to take round a sister [as] wife, as also the other apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
Kahore ranei i a matou ano te tikanga ki te whakahaereere i te hoa wahine, he wahine whakapono, pera i era atu apotoro me nga teina o te Ariki, ratou ko Kipa?
6 Or I alone and Barnabas, have we not a right not to work?
Ko maua anake ranei ko Panapa, kahore ranei i a maua te tikanga kia kaua e mahi?
7 Who ever carries on war at his own charges? who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? or who herds a flock and does not eat of the milk of the flock?
Ko wai ka haere hei hoia, a nana ake ano nga utu mona? Ko wai e whakato ana i te mara waina, a kahore o reira hua e kainga e ia? ko wai hoki e whangai ana i te kahui, a kahore e kai i te waiu o te kahui?
8 Do I speak these things as a man, or does not the law also say these things?
E korero ana ranei ahau i enei mea i te tikanga tangata? he pera ano ranei ta te ture korero?
9 For in the law of Moses it is written, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that is treading out corn. Is God occupied about the oxen,
Kua oti hoki te tuhituhi i roto i te ture a Mohi, Kaua e whakamokatia te mangai o te kau i te mea e patu witi ana. Ko nga kau koia ta te Atua i whakaaro ai?
10 or does he say [it] altogether for our sakes? For for our sakes it has been written, that the plougher should plough in hope, and he that treads out corn, in hope of partaking of [it].
Mo tatou ranei te tino tikanga o ana korero? Ae, he whakaaro ki a tatou i tuhituhi ai: he tika hoki kia parau te kaiparau i runga i te tumanako, kia patu witi ano te kaipatu i runga i te tumanako ki tetahi wahi mana.
11 If we have sown to you spiritual things, [is it a] great [thing] if we shall reap your carnal things?
I te mea kua ruia e matou nga mea wairua ma koutou, he mea nui ianei ki te kotia e matou a koutou mea o te kikokiko?
12 If others partake of this right over you, should not rather we? But we have not used this right, but we bear all things, that we may put no hindrance in the way of the glad tidings of the Christ.
Kua uru nei etahi atu ki tenei tikanga a koutou, ko matou ano etahi kia hira ake? Otira kihai matou i mea ki tenei tikanga, engari e whakamanawanui ana ki nga mea katoa, kei ai ta matou hei arai mo te rongopai o te Karaiti.
13 Do ye not know that they who labour [at] sacred things eat of the [offerings offered in the] temple; they that attend at the altar partake with the altar?
Kahore oti koutou i matau, ko te hunga e mahi ana i nga mea tapu, e kai ana i nga mea o te temepara? a ko nga kaitiaki o te aata ma ratou ano tetahi wahi o to te aata?
14 So also the Lord has ordained to those that announce the glad tidings to live of the glad tidings.
Pera tonu ano ta te Ariki i whakatakoto ai mo nga kaikauwhau o te rongopai, hei runga i te rongopai he oranga mo ratou.
15 But I have used none of these things. Now I have not written these things that it should be thus in my case; for [it were] good for me rather to die than that any one should make vain my boast.
Otiia kihai ahau i mea ki tetahi o enei mea: kahore hoki ahau i tuhituhi i enei mea kia penatia mai ai ahau: ki ahau hoki he pai ke te mate, i te riro ma te tangata taku whakamanamana e whakakahore.
16 For if I announce the glad tidings, I have nothing to boast of; for a necessity is laid upon me; for it is woe to me if I should not announce the glad tidings.
No te mea ki te kauwhau ahau i te rongopai, kahore maku whakamanamana: kua takoto hoki tenei hei mahi maku; he aue ia maku ki te kore ahau e kauwhau i te rongopai.
17 For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward; but if not of my own will, I am entrusted with an administration.
Ki te mea hoki noku te ngakau ki tenei mahi, he utu toku: ki te kore ia he ngakau, he mahi tuari tenei kua tukua ki ahau.
18 What is the reward then that I have? That in announcing the glad tidings I make the glad tidings costless [to others], so as not to have made use, as belonging to me, of my right in [announcing] the glad tidings.
Na, he aha koia te utu moku? ara, ki te kauwhau ahau i te rongopai, ka meinga e ahau kia kore e utua te rongopai: kia kore ai ahau e mea i te wahi e tika ana maku i roto i te rongopai.
19 For being free from all, I have made myself bondman to all, that I might gain the most [possible].
Ahakoa hoki ehara ahau i te pononga na te tangata, heoi kua waiho ahau e ahau ano hei pononga ma te katoa, kia tokomaha atu ai e riro mai i ahau.
20 And I became to the Jews as a Jew, in order that I might gain the Jews: to those under law, as under law, not being myself under law, in order that I might gain those under law:
Na ki nga Hurai whakahurai ana ahau, kia riro ai i ahau nga Hurai; ki te hunga i raro i te ture me te mea i raro ahau i te ture, ahakoa ra kahore ahau i raro i te ture, kia riro ai i ahau te hunga i raro i te ture;
21 to those without law, as without law, (not as without law to God, but as legitimately subject to Christ, ) in order that I might gain [those] without law.
Ki te hunga turekore me he tangata turekore ahau, ehara i te mea he turekore ki te Atua, engari i raro i te ture ki a te Karaiti, kia riro ai i ahau te hunga turekore.
22 I became to the weak, [as] weak, in order that I might gain the weak. To all I have become all things, in order that at all events I might save some.
Ki te hunga ngoikore me he ngoikore ahau, kia riro ai i ahau te hunga ngoikore; waiho ana ahau hei mea katoa ki te katoa, kia taea ai e ahau nga mea katoa hei whakaora i etahi.
23 And I do all things for the sake of the glad tidings, that I may be fellow-partaker with them.
I meinga ai tenei e ahau he whakaaro ki te rongopai, kia whiwhi tahi ai ahau ki tona pai.
24 Know ye not that they who run in [the] race-course run all, but one receives the prize? Thus run in order that ye may obtain.
Kahore oti koutou i matau ki te hunga e oma whakataetae ana, e oma katoa ana, kotahi ano ia mona te utu whakahonore? Kia pena ta koutou oma, kia whiwhi ai koutou.
25 But every one that contends [for a prize] is temperate in all things: they then indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
Na ko nga tangata katoa e whakataetae ana i nga takaro e whakakoromaki ana i nga hiahia katoa. Na e pera ana ratou kia whiwhi ai ki te karauna pirau; ko tatou ia ki te mea e kore e pirau.
26 I therefore thus run, as not uncertainly; so I combat, as not beating the air.
Ko ahau nei hoki, kahore i ngaro taku oma; e kuru ana ahau, kahore ia e rite ki te kaipatu o te hau:
27 But I buffet my body, and lead it captive, lest [after] having preached to others I should be myself rejected.
Engari e pehia ana e ahau toku tinana, meinga ana hoki hei pononga maku; kei kauwhau pea ahau ki etahi atu, ko ahau ia ka akiritia atu.
