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?
Tsy midada hao raho? Tsy Firàheñe v’irahoo? Tsy fa nitreako hao t’Iesoà Talèntika? Tsy satako amy Talè v’inahareo?
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.
Aa ndra t’ie tsy Firàheñe ami’ty ila’e, toe izay ama’ areo, ie tombo-kalama’ ty maha-Firàhe’ i Talè ahy.
3 My defense to those who examine me is this.
Inao ty fatoiko amo mandohy ahio:
4 Have we no right to eat and to drink?
Tsy aman-jo hihinañe naho hinoñe v’izahay?
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?
Tsy zo’ay hao ty minday valy mpiato hindre lia ama’ay manahake o Firàheñe ila’eo, naho i rahalahi’ i Talè rey vaho i Kefasy?
6 Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?
Ke zaho naho i Barnabasy avao ty tsy aman-jo hitroatse amy fitoloña’aiy.
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?
Ia ty lahin-defoñe miato amy vara’ey hihotakotake? Ia ty mambole valoboke tsy mikama amo voa’eo? Ia ty mpiarake tsy mandriotse amy lia-raikey?
8 Do I say these things according to human authority? Or does not the Law also say the same thing?
Mivolañe ami’ty haondatiko raho, fa toe tsarae’ i Hake,
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,
ie pinatetse amy Hà’ i Mosèy ao ty hoe: Ko mameo ty añombe mandisam-bare. O añombeo hao o ambenan’ Añahareo?
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.
Ke itika i nitsarae’ey? Eka! pinate’e ho an-tikañe, soa te hiava am-pitamàñe ty mpiava, naho hitamà ty anjara’e i mpitatakey.
11 If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?
Aa naho añ’ arofo ty nitongisa’ay ama’ areo, ho raha jabajaba hao ty hanifoa’ay ty ho paia’ ty sandriñe?
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.
Aa naho aman-dily hitake ama’ areo ty ila’e, tsy sandrake zahay? Fe tsy rinambe’ay i lily zay, fa mifeake amy ze he’e, tsy mone ho sebañe’ay ty talili-soa’ i Norizañey.
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?
Tsy fohi’ areo hao te mikama amo mahakama’ i anjombaio o mpitoroñe amy Masiñeio, naho mitraok-anjara amy kitreliy o mpiatrake i kitreliio?
14 Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.
Natoro’ i Talè ka te ho veloñe amy talili-soay ty mitaroñe i talili-soay.
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.
Fe tsy nirambesako; toe tsy t’ie handrambe izay ty nanokirako, eka hàmake t’ie hikenkañe ta te ho koaheñe o fisengeakoo.
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.
Ie taroñeko i talili-soay, tsy eo ty isengeako, amy te nafantoke; eka, hankàñe amako naho tsy taroñeko i talili-soay.
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.
Naho satriko i fitoloñañey le ho tambezeñe; fe ndra tsy satriko, tsy mete tsy anoeko avao fa nafantoke amako i fitoroñañey.
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.
Inoñe arè ty tambeko? Te, ie taroñeko i talili-soay, ro atoloko tsi-am-bili’e, soa tsy handrambesako zo amy talili-soay.
19 For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
Aa ndra t’ie votsotse am’ iabikey, niondevo am’ ie iabiy, hahareketse ty maro;
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;
Tamo Jiosio raho, nanao hoe Jiosy, hahareketse Jiosy; ie ami’ty ambane’ Hàke le anoeko hoe ambane’ Hake, ndra te tsy ambane’ Hake, hahareketse ze ambane’ Hake;
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.
ami’ty tsy aman-Kàke ro anoako hoe tsy aman-Kake, (toe tsy afake amy Han’ Añaharey raho kanao ambane’ o Hà’ i Norizañeio) soa te ho azoko ze tsy aman-Kake;
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.
amo maifoifoo raho manao maifoifo, handreketse o maifoifoo. Fonga tsikombèko amy ze lafi’e iaby, hahareketse ty ila’e amo sata’e iabio.
23 Now I do all things for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.
Anoeko ty amy talili-soay, ho mpitraok’ amy voka’ey.
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.
Tsy fohi’ areo hao te songa milay o mpanao tsikaviaviao, fe raike avao ty mandrambe tambe? Milaìsa arè hahagioke.
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.
Toe milie-batañe amy ze he’e ty te hahimbañe amo fifandreketañeo. Anoe’ iereo ty handrambesañe sabakan-drenge ho lo, fa itikañe ka, i tsy ho momokey.
26 I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air,
Aa le milay raho, tsy t’ie hañeañe tsy aman-talifireñe; mikomondro, fe tsy t’ie mpamofò-tioke.
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.
Ampivohoreko ty sandriko vaho ondevozeko, soa t’ie mitaroñe ami’ty ila’e ro tsy haito.
