1 Corinthians 9
1 Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not you my work in the Lord?
Nenga na huru kwaa? Nenga na mtume kwaa? Nenga namweni kwaa Yesu Ngwana witu? Nenga na matunda kwaa ga kazi yango katika Ngwana?
2 If I be not an apostle to others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of my apostleship are you in the Lord.
Mana itei nenga na mtume kwaa kwa wenge, angalau na mtume kwinu mwenga. Kwa kuwa mwenga ni uthibisho wa utume wango katika Ngwana.
3 My answer to them that do examine me is this,
Awoo nga utetezi wango kwa balo banichukizabo nenga.
4 Have we not power to eat and to drink?
Je twabile kwaa ni haki ya kulyaa na nywaa?
5 Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
Twabile kwaa haki ya kutola nyumbo ywaaminiya kati apangite mitume benge, ni alongo wa Ngwana, ni Kefa?
6 Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?
Au ni nenga kichango na Barnaba tupalikwa kuipanga kazi?
7 Who goes a warfare any time at his own charges? who plants a vineyard, and eats not of the fruit thereof? or who feeds a flock, and eats not of the milk of the flock?
Ywa nyai ywaipanga kazi kati askari kwa gharama yake mwene? Ywa nyai ywapanda mzabibu ni aulye kwaa matunda gake? Au nyai ywachungae likundi ywanywea kwaa maziwa gake?
8 Say I these things as a man? or says not the law the same also?
Je nalongela aga kwa mamlaka ga mundu? Saliya alongela kwaa aga?
9 For it is written in the law of Moses, You shall not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treads out the corn. Does God take care for oxen?
Kwa mana iandikilwe mu'saliya ya Musa, “kana untabe ng'ombe nkanwa paalya nafaka.” Ni kweli panga pano Nnongo abajali ng'ombe?
10 Or says he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that plows should plow in hope; and that he that threshes in hope should be partaker of his hope.
Au je alongela kwaa ago kwa ajili yitu? Iandikilwe kwa ajili yitu, kwa sababu ywembe ywalema nafaka impalika lema kwa matumaini, ni ywembe ywauna apalikwa aune kwa matarajio ya shiriki mu'mauno.
11 If we have sown to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
mana itei tutipanda ilebe ya rohoni nkati yinu. Je! ni neno kolo kwitu kuipuna ilebe ya yega boka kwinu?
12 If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.
Mana itei benge bapatike haki yee boka kwinu, Je! Twenga ni zaidi kwaa? Hata nyoo, twalowa kukudai kwaa haki yee. Badala yake, twatipumiliya makowe yote badala ya kuwa kikwazo cha injili ya Kristo.
13 Do you not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?
Mutangite kwaa ya kuwa bote bapangao kazi mu'luhekalu upata chakulya chabe boka mu'lihekalu? Muntangite kwaa ya kuwa bote bapangao kazi mu'madhabahu?
14 Even so has the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.
Kwa jinsi yoyoyoo, Ngwana atiagiza ya kuwa bote baitangaza injili sharti bapate tama bokana na yoo injili.
15 But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done to me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.
Lakini niadai kwaa haki yoti yee. Na niandikile kwaa aga ili likowe lyolyote lipangike kwa ajili yango. Ni heri nibulagwe kuliko mundu yoyote kubatilisha huku kuisifu kwango.
16 For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid on me; yes, woe is to me, if I preach not the gospel!
Maana mana itei naihubiri injili, nibile kwaa sababu ya kuisifia, kwa mana ni lazima niipange nyoo. Ni ole wangu mana niihubiri kwaa injili!
17 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed to me.
Kwa mana mana nipanga nyoo kwa hiyari yango, nibile ni thawabu. Lakini mana itei ni kwa hiari kwaa, bado nibile na lijukumu lwanipeilwe kuwa wakili.
18 What is my reward then? Truly that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.
Bai thawabu yango ni namani? Ya kuwa niubiripo, naitoa injili bila gharama ni bila tumiya kwa utimilifu wa haki yango yanibile nayo katika injili.
19 For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant to all, that I might gain the more.
Mana japo nibile huru kwa bote, nipangike mmanda wa bote, ili panga niweze kuwapata banyansima muno.
20 And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;
Kwa ayahudi nabile kati myahudi, ili niapate Ayahudi. Kwa balo babile pae ya saliya, nibile kati yumo wabe babile pae ya saliya ili niapate balo babile pae ya saliya. Niipangite nyoo ingawa nenga binafsi nibile kwaa pae ya saliya.
21 To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ, ) that I might gain them that are without law.
Kwa balo babile panja ya saliya, nibile kati yumo wabe panja ya saliya, ingawa nenga binafsi nibile kwaa panja ya saliya ya Nnongo, ila pae ya saliya ya Kristo. Napangite nyoo ili niapate balo babile panja ya saliya.
22 To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
Kwa balo babile anyonge nibile nnyonge, ili niapate balo babile anyonge. Nipangike hali yote kwa bandu bote, ili kwa ndela zote nipate kubalopwa baadhi.
23 And this I do for the gospel’s sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.
Nenga napanga makowe yote kwa ajili ya injili, ili nipate shiriki katika baraka.
24 Know you not that they which run in a race run all, but one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain.
Mutangite kwaa kuwa mu'mbio bote bashindana hupiga mbio, lakini ywapokya tuzo ni yumo? Nga nyoo muipige mbio ili mupate tuzo.
25 And every man that strives for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
Mwana michezo uzizuia katika yote awapo mumafunzo. Habo upanga nyoo ili bapokee taji iharibikayo, lakini twenga twatila ili tupate taji yaiharibika kwaa.
26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beats the air:
Kwa eyo nenga nitila kwaa bila sababu au nakombwana ngumi kati nakombwa hewa.
27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
Lakini naitesa yega yango na kuupanga kati mmanda, ili panga mana niisile kuwahubiri benge, nenga namwene kana nibe wa kukanilwa.
