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?

‌ʻIkai ko e ʻaposetolo au? ʻIkai ʻoku ou ʻataʻatā? ʻIkai kuo u mamata kia Sisu Kalaisi ko hotau ʻEiki? ʻIkai ko ʻeku ngāue ʻakimoutolu ʻi he ʻEiki?

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.

Kapau ʻoku ʻikai ko e ʻaposetolo au ki he niʻihi, ka ko e moʻoni ʻoku ou pehē kiate kimoutolu: he ko e fakaʻilonga ʻo ʻeku ngāue fakaʻaposetolo ʻakimoutolu ʻi he ʻEiki.

3 My defense to those who examine me is this.

Ko ʻeku tala ʻa eni kiate kinautolu ʻoku ʻeke kiate au:

4 Have we no right to eat and to drink?

‌ʻIkai ʻoku ʻiate kimautolu ke faʻiteliha ki he kai mo e inu?

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?

‌ʻIkai ʻoku mau faʻiteliha ki he taki fano ʻo ha tuofefine, pe ha uaifi, ʻo hangē ko e kau ʻaposetolo niʻihi, pea hangē ko e kāinga ʻoe ʻEiki, mo Kifasi?

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

Pe ko au pe mo Pānepasa, ʻikai ʻoku ma faʻiteliha ke tuku ʻae ngāue?

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?

Ko hai ʻoku ʻalu ke fai ʻae tau, kae totongi ia ʻe ia pe? Ko hai ʻoku tō ʻae ngoue vaine, kae ʻikai kai ʻe ia hono fua? Pea ko hai, ʻoku ne fafanga ʻae fanga manu, pea ʻikai kai hono huʻahuhu ʻoe fanga manu?

8 Do I say these things according to human authority? Or does not the Law also say the same thing?

‌ʻOku ou lea ʻaki ʻae ngaahi meʻa ni, ka ko e tangata pe? ʻIkai ʻoku pehē pe ʻae fono?

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,

He kuo tohi ʻi he fono ʻa Mōsese, “ʻOua naʻa ke nonoʻo ʻae ngutu ʻoe pulu ʻoku malaki ʻae uite.” ʻOku tokanga ʻae ʻOtua ki he fanga pulu [pe]?

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.

Kae ʻikai ʻoku pehē pe koeʻuhi ko kitautolu? Ko e moʻoni kuo tohi ia koeʻuhi ko kitautolu: koeʻuhi ko ia ʻoku ne keli, ʻoku totonu ʻene keli ʻi he ʻamanaki lelei; pea ko ia ʻoku ne aʻuaʻu ʻae uite, ke fai ʻi he ʻamanaki lelei, ke ne lavaʻi ʻaia ʻoku ne ʻamanaki lelei ki ai.

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

Kapau kuo mau tūtuuʻi kiate kimoutolu ʻae ngaahi meʻa fakalaumālie, pea ko ha meʻa lahi koā ʻo kapau te mau utu hoʻomou ngaahi meʻa fakamaama?

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.

Pea kapau ʻoku faʻa maʻu ʻiate kimoutolu ʻe he niʻihi ʻae meʻa totonu ni, ʻikai ʻoku totonu lahi ia kiate kimautolu? Naʻe ʻikai te mau fai ki he meʻa totonu ni; ka ʻoku mau kātaki ʻae meʻa kotoa pē, telia naʻa mau taʻofi ki he ongoongolelei ʻo Kalaisi.

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?

‌ʻIkai ʻoku mou ʻilo, ko kinautolu ʻoku ngāue ʻi he ngaahi meʻa tapu, ʻoku nau kai mei he falelotu lahi? Pea mo kinautolu ʻoku tauhi ʻi he ʻesifeilaulau, ʻoku nau ʻinasi fakataha mo e ʻesifeilaulau?

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

Pea kuo tuʻutuʻuni ʻe he ʻEiki ke pehē foki, ke ʻilonga ʻakinautolu ʻoku malangaʻaki ʻae ongoongolelei, ke nau maʻu ʻi he ongoongolelei ʻae meʻa ki he sino.

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.

Ka kuo ʻikai te u ala ki he ngaahi meʻa ni: pea ʻoku ʻikai te u tohi ʻae ngaahi meʻa ni koeʻuhi ke fai pehē kiate au: he ʻoku lelei lahi ʻeku mate, ʻi he kau ʻe ha taha ke ne fakataʻeaongaʻi ʻeku vikiviki.

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.

He neongo ʻoku ou malangaʻaki ʻae ongoongolelei, ʻoku ʻikai ko ia ʻoku ou vikiviki ai: he kuo tuku tonu ia kiate au; ʻio, ʻe malaʻia au, ʻo kapau ʻe ʻikai te u malangaʻaki ʻae ongoongolelei!

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.

He kapau te u fai ʻae meʻa ni ʻo loto lelei pe, ʻoku ai haʻaku totongi: pea kapau [te u fai ]fakahohōloto pe, [ko ia ai pe], ka kuo vahe kiate au ha lakanga ngāue.

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.

Ko eni, ko e hā ai ʻeku totongi? [ʻA eni], ʻi heʻeku malangaʻaki ʻae ongoongolelei ke u ʻatu ai ʻae ongoongolelei ʻo Kalaisi taʻehatotongi mai, koeʻuhi ke ʻoua naʻaku ngāue kovi ʻaki ʻa ʻeku meʻa totonu ʻaʻaku ʻi he ongoongolelei.

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

He neongo ʻoku ou ʻataʻatā mei he tangata kotoa pē, ka kuo u fakatamaioʻeiki au ki he kakai kotoa pē, koeʻuhi ke u lavaʻi mai ʻae tokolahi hake.

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;

Pea ne u hangē ko e Siu ki he kakai Siu, koeʻuhi ke u lavaʻi mai ʻae kakai Siu; ne u hangē kuo u moʻulaloa ki he fono kiate kinautolu naʻe moʻulaloa ki he fono, koeʻuhi ke u lavaʻi mai ʻakinautolu ʻoku moʻulaloa ki he fono;

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.

Pea kiate kinautolu ʻoku masiva fono ʻo hangē ko e masiva fono au, (kae ʻikai teu masiva fono ki he ʻOtua, kae moʻulaloa ki he fono kia Kalaisi, ) koeʻuhi ke u lavaʻi mai ʻakinautolu ʻoku masiva fono.

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.

Ne u hangē kuo u vaivai ki he vaivai, koeʻuhi ke u lavaʻi mai ʻae vaivai: kuo u hangē ko e meʻa kotoa pē ki he kakai kotoa pē, kau fakamoʻui ʻi he ngāue kotoa pē ʻae niʻihi.

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

Pea ʻoku ou fai pehē ni koeʻuhi ko e ongoongolelei, koeʻuhi ke u maʻumeʻa ai mo kimoutolu.

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.

‌ʻIkai ʻoku mou ʻilo, ko kinautolu ʻoku lele ʻi he fakapuepue ʻoku lele kotoa pē, ka ʻoku maʻu ʻe he tokotaha pe ʻae koloa? Ke pehē hoʻomou lele, koeʻuhi ke mou maʻu.

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.

Pea ko e tangata kotoa pē ʻoku fai feinga ke ne ikuna, ʻoku anga fakapotopoto ia ʻi he meʻa kotoa pē. Pea ko e moʻoni ʻoku nau fai ia ke maʻu ʻae pale popongofua; ka ko kitautolu ʻae pale taʻefaʻapopo.

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

Ko ia ʻoku pehē pe ʻeku lele, kae ʻikai ʻi he fai noa; ʻoku pehē pe ʻeku fuhu, kae ʻikai hangē ha taha ʻoku tuki ʻae matangi:

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.

Ka ʻoku ou tautea hoku sino, ʻo fakamoʻulaloaʻi ia: telia naʻa ai ha meʻa, ʻoka hili ʻeku malanga ki he kakai, teu hoko ai au ko e liʻaki.