1 Va Korinte 9

1 Kana ime ni lukuluhite? Kana ime ni mupolofita? Kana ni ba boni Jesu Simwine wetu? Kana katu sebezi hamwina kwa simwine?

Am I not free? Am I not an emissary? Haven’t I seen Yeshua the Messiah, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord?

2 Heba kana ni mupolofita kubamwi, nanga cho bulyo munibe kwenu. Mihe inwe mwi mpaki zangu muchi polofita cha simwine.

If to others I am not an emissary, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my office of emissary in the Lord.

3 Ubu njibona bupaki bwangu kwa bana bani tatuba.

My defence to those who examine me is this:

4 Kana katu helwe intukelo yoku lya ni ku nwa?

Have we no right to eat and to drink?

5 Kana ka twina intukelo zaku hinda mwanakazi wine ntumelo kuyenda naye, sina bungi bwa bapositola muba ba tendeli, niba kwetu kwa Simwine, ni Kefasi?

Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the emissaries, and the brothers of the Lord, and Kefa?

6 Kapa nji Barnabasi yenke njo wola kusebeza?

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

7 Njeni ya ba sebezi nali isole kuli neula mwine? Njeni mubyali wa muomba yasali zi chelantu zakwe? Kapa njeni yowola kulela mutapi nasanwi muzilili uzwa kwayo?

What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn’t eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn’t drink from the flock’s milk?

8 Nji ni kwete kuwamba izi zintu che nguzu ya muntu? Kana mulao ka wu wambi bulyo?

Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn’t the Torah also say the same thing?

9 Mihe muku va ñolelwe mu mulao wa Mushe, “Ka nji mu vwiki ka holo ke mpulu chi ikwete ku lyatoka imbuto. “Kana initi Ireeza uwamba za kubabalela Mapulu?”

For it is written in the Torah of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.” Is it for the oxen that God cares,

10 Kana kuti u wamba kwamana neswe? Kuba ñolelwe iswe, kakuti yo dunduvula mauza a dunduvule chakusanga ni kuli kauhanyeza mukusinza.

or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who ploughs ought to plough in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.

11 Heba tuchita zintu zi jolola mukati ketu, kana chintu chisa oleki kuwana zisebeliso kuzwa kwako,

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

12 Kana bamwi baba lituti ku zwilila kwako, ka twina zimwi zingi? Nihakuba bulyo, kana baba tongoki kuzili. kono, kusepa zintu zonse kuzwila habusu mu zintu zonse Insiñi ku kangisa inzwi lwa Kiresite.

If others partake of this right over you, don’t we yet more? Nevertheless we didn’t use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Messiah.

13 Kana ka wizi kuti aba ba sebeleza mwi tempele ba wana zilyo zabo mwi tempele? Kana ka wizi kuti abo basebeza ha katala ba likauhanyeza cha hewa ku katala?

Don’t you 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?

14 Mwi nzila iswana, Ireeza aba laeli kuti ba hasanya inzwi ba swanela ku wana buhalo kwi inzwi.

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

15 Kono kana ni ba woli ku lihindila chimwi ni chimwi ku ze intukelo. Mi kana ni ba ñoli izo zintu kuti chimwi chi tendahale kwangu. Cho bulyo ni wola ku fwa ku zamba ku chengelelwa kukuli tundula.

But I have used none of these things, and I don’t 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.

16 Mihe ha ni luta inzwi, ka ni na ibaka lya kuli tundula, kakuti ni swanela ku tenda bulyo. Bumayi bwina kwangu heba ka niluti inzwi!

For if I proclaim the Good News, I have nothing to boast about, for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me if I don’t proclaim the Good News.

17 Mihe chi na tenda bulyo cha kusaka, ka nibe ni mpo. Kono hani tenda nini sasuni, aho buhikana buni helwe.

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.

18 Chizi haho impo yangu? Linu ha ni kutaza, ni wole ku ha inzwi ni ku sena niku sena chinilihisa mi kanzi u hindi kwi zula kwe tukelo yangu mwi inzwi.

What then is my reward? That when I proclaim the Good News, I may present the Good News of Messiah without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.

19 Ni hakuba bulyo ni lukuluhite ku zonse, ni babi muhikana wa bonse, kuti ni muna bangi.

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

20 Ku Majuwishi ni babi ni Majuda, kuti ni luwe Majuda. Kwabo ba bena kunsi ye milao, ni baka bi ubu nji zumwi ya bena mukunsi ka mulao kuti ni mune abo bena kunsi ya mulao.

To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;

21 Kwabo bena hanze ya mulao, ni babi zumwi wina hanze ya mulao, ni haku ba bulyo kana ni bena hanze wa mulao we Ireeza ime, kono kunsi ya mulao wa Kirisite. Ni ba tendi bulyo cho kuti ni mune abo bena hanze wa mulao.

to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law towards God, but under law towards Messiah), that I might win those who are without law.

22 Kwa bana ba fokola nibabi yo fokola, mukuti ni kome bafokwele. Nibezi kuba ni zintu zonse ku bantu bonse, mukuti monse mu woleka ni be ni mutusi wabo.

To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.

23 Ni chita zintu zonse che nzwi bulyo, nji kuti ni be zumwi wa ba tambula infuyolo.

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

24 Kana ka mwizi kuti bonse ba tiya ba tiya lubilo, kono yenke yo wana impo?

Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, so that you may win.

25 U tiye cho kuti u wane impo. Wina mu zizano zakuti abe ni nguzu zo kutiya ku njila mu zizano. Bazi tenda kuti bawane chifumu chi samani,

Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

26 Kono batiya cho kuti ba wane impo zi samani. Niha kuba bulyo kanitiyi ni ku sena ibaka kapa ku dama Luhuho.

I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air,

27 Kono ni tenda mubili wangu ku u tenda buhikana, njo kuta kuti heti china mana ku wamba inzwi kubamwi, ime ni mwine sanzi ni zwiswa.

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.