1 Corinthians 9
1 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?
Kei lätlangki khyanga am ka kyaki aw? Angsäa am ka kyaki aw? Mi Bawipa Jesuh ka hmuh pängki am ni aw? Nangmi cun Bawipa khutbinaka ktheiha am nami kyakie aw?
2 If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my office of apostle in the Lord.
Akcee naw ngsäa am na ngai u se pi, nangmi naw nami na dokhamki; nami xünak Bawipa am pumata kyakia kyase nangmi cun ngsäa ka kyaknak msingnaka nami kyaki.
3 My defense to those who examine me is this.
Khyange naw ami na cijangei üng, kamät naw kamät ka ngxungeinak cun:
4 Have we no right to eat and to drink?
Ka khutbia phäha ka eiaw khaia am kyaki aw?
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?
Bawipaa benae, ngsä kcee ja Pita naw a khyu aceh hüpüia kba ka hlawnga ka cehpüi hnga theikia am kyaki aw?
6 Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?
Acunüng, kei ja Banabah däk khüi lü kami ei khaia aw?
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?
Yekape u naw pi ami mäta tungmang vai peei u lü ngtuk khaie aw? Lobikie naw ami mäta lo üngka capyit am ei khai aw? Tome sämki naw tomea cihtui am aw khai aw?
8 Do I say these things according to human authority? Or does not the Law also say the same thing?
A msuimcäpnake üng ka pät am khunkhih ngü, isetiakyaküng thum cun naw a ti kung ni a ti.
9 For it is written in the Law of Moses, "Do not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain." Is it for the oxen that God cares,
Mosia thum üng, “Cang lehki sea mpyawng käh na mkhüp vai” tia ng’yuki. Pamhnam naw se sawxat a pyen aw?
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 the hope of having a share.
Mimi phäha a pyena am kyaki aw? Mimia phäha a yuka kyaki. Lai kthawnki ja cang atki naw ami hama angtheipai äpki lü bi yahki xawi.
11 If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?
Keimi naw ngmüimkhya mci nami veia kami saw pängki. Nangmi üngka khawhthem khawha kami laki aw?
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.
Khyang kcee naw pi acuna mäih nangmi üng ami ngaihk’uh üng keimi naw ta acuna kthaka am kami ngaihk’uhei khai aw? Lüpi acukba bi vai cun am bi veng u. Khritawa Thangkdaw am kami kyawhnak vaia, kami khameikie ni.
13 Do you not 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?
Temple k'uma khüikie naw ami ei vai acuna k'umaka yah u lü, kpyawngkunga khüikie naw pi ngkengnaka yahkie tia am ksingkie aw?
14 Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.
Acuna mäiha ni, Thangkdaw sangkie cun, Thangkdaw üngkhyüh xüng khaie ti lü Bawipa naw ngthu jah peki.
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.
Acunsepi, kei ta acun kba am ve veng; ka khana acuna mäih nami pawhnak vaia hina ngthu ka yukia am kya; ka awhcahnak ia am ngtäh khaia khyang naw a pawha kdama ta, ka thih hngawh kyäp khai ni.
16 For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about, because I am compelled to do this. Woe to me if I do not preach the Good News.
Thangkdaw ka sanga phäh ka awhcahnak vai i am ve. Ka sang vaia kya kungki. Thangkdaw am ka sang üngta ka khana josetnaka kya khai.
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.
Kamät naw xü lü khut ka pawh üngka ngkhengnak ka yah khai; acunsepi Pamhnam naw a na apa bilawh vai kung ka biloki.
18 What then is my reward? That, when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.
I ni Ka hlawh ei? Ami na pet vai käh äpei lü thangkdaw ka pyen hin daw ve. Thangkdawa phäh ka yahei vai am pyen veng.
19 For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
Ua mpyaa pi am kya veng; cunsepi khyang khawhah ka yah vaia phäha kamät naw kamät khyangea mpyaa thawn veng.
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, not being myself under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;
Judahea veia ka khüi üng Judahe ka jah yahnak vaia Judahea kba ka veki. Judahea veia ka khüih üng ka jah yahnak thei vaia ta Mosia thum am ka läk üng pi ka läkia kba ka veki.
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.
Khyangmjükceea veia ka khüi üng Judahea thum am ksingkia kba ka jah yahnak vaia khyangmjükceea kba ka veki. Ahikba ka ve hin Pamhnama thum am ka läkia am kya; kei cun Khritawa thuma keha ka veki ni.
22 To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all people, that I may by all means save some.
Ktha ngcekie ka jah yahnak vaia phäha ktha ngcekia mäiha ka veki. Acunakyase khyange ka jah yahnak thei vaia anaküta ka thawnki.
23 Now I do all things for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.
Jodawnak ka yah hin jah yetnak be thei vaia, Thangkdawa phäha avan ka pawhki.
24 Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.
Dawn ngcameinak üng khawhah dawngkie cunsepi mat däk naw ni ngkhengnak a yah kawm tia am nami ksingki aw? Ngkhengnak nami yah vaia dawng u.
25 Now everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
Dawngcameinak üng dawngki naküt naw ivei am khäng khaia lukhum ami yahnak vaia yet nakie, cunsepi mimi cun angläta khäng khaia lukhuma phäh mi kthanaki.
26 I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air,
Acunakyase dawng sawxatkia mäiha am ka dawngki; khawkhi thäk sawxatkia mäiha am ka ngthäki.
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 rejected.
Acunakyase, Thangkdaw khyangea veia ka sang hü üng am ami na hnepeinak vaia, ka pumsa ka nängeinak thei vaia ka kthanaki.
