1 Coríntios 9

1 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord? 2 If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

3 My defense to those who examine me is this: 4 Have we no right to eat and to drink? 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? 6 Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work? 7 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 Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn’t the law also say the same thing? 9 For it is written in the law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain."✝9:9 Deuteronomy 25:4 Is it for the oxen that God cares, 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 hope should partake of his hope. 11 If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things? 12 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 Christ. 13 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 Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.

15 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 For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about, for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me if I don’t preach the Good News. 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. 18 What then is my reward? That when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.

19 For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more. 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,*9:20 NU adds: though I myself am not under the law that I might gain those who are under the law; 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. 22 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 Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it. 24 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 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 I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air, 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 disqualified.

Ngā Tikanga me ngā Mahi a tētahi Āpōtoro

1 He teka ianei kei ahau anō ngā tikanga mōku? He teka ianei he āpōtoro ahau? Kīhai ianei ahau i kite i a Īhu Karaiti, i tō tātou Ariki? Ehara oti koutou i tāku mahi i roto i te Ariki? 2 Ahakoa ehara ahau i te āpōtoro ki ērā atu, engari rawa ia he āpōtoro ki a koutou, ko koutou hoki te hīri o tōku āpōtorotanga i roto i te Ariki.

3 Ko tāku utu tēnei ki ōku kaiui; 4 kāhore rānei i a mātou anō te tikanga mō te kai, mō te inu? 5 Kāhore rānei i a mātou anō te tikanga ki te whakahāereere i te hoa wahine, he wahine whakapono, pērā i ērā atu āpōtoro me ngā tēina o te Ariki, rātou ko Kipa? 6 Ko māua anake rānei ko Pānapa, kāhore rānei i a māua te tikanga kia kaua e mahi?

7 Ko wai ka haere hei hōia, ā, nāna ake anō ngā utu mōna? Ko wai e whakatō ana i te māra wāina, ā, kāhore ō reira hua e kainga e ia? Ko wai hoki e whāngai ana i te kāhui, ā, kāhore e kai i te waiū o te kāhui? 8 E kōrero ana rānei ahau i ēnei mea i te tikanga tangata? He pērā anō rānei tā te ture kōrero? 9 Kua oti hoki te tuhituhi i roto i te ture a Mohi, "Kaua e whakamōkātia te māngai o te kau i te mea e patu wīti ana. Ko ngā kau koia tā te Atua i whakaaro ai?" 10 Mō tātou rānei te tino tikanga o āna kōrero? Āe, he whakaaro ki a tātou i tuhituhi ai; he tika hoki kia parau te kaiparau i runga i te tūmanako, kia patu wīti anō te kaipatu i runga i te tūmanako ki tētahi wāhi māna. 11 I te mea kua ruia e mātou ngā mea wairua mā koutou, he mea nui ianei ki te kotia e mātou ā koutou mea o te kikokiko? 12 Kua uru nei ētahi atu ki tēnei tikanga a koutou, ko mātou anō ētahi kia hira ake?

Otirā, kīhai mātou i mea ki tēnei tikanga, engari, e whakamanawanui ana ki ngā mea katoa, kei ai tā mātou hei ārai mō te rongopai o te Karaiti. 13 Kāhore oti koutou i mātau, ko te hunga e mahi ana i ngā mea tapu, e kai ana i ngā mea o te temepara? Ā, ko ngā kaitiaki o te āta, mā rātou anō tētahi wāhi o tō te āta? 14 Pērā tonu anō tā te Ariki i whakatakoto ai mō ngā kaikauwhau o te rongopai, hei runga i te rongopai he oranga mō rātou.

15 Otiia, kīhai ahau i mea ki tētahi o ēnei mea; kāhore hoki ahau i tuhituhi i ēnei mea kia pēnātia mai ai ahau. Ki ahau hoki he pai kē te mate, i te riro mā te tangata tāku whakamanamana e whakakāhore. 16 Nō te mea ki te kauwhau ahau i te rongopai, kāhore māku whakamanamana; kua takoto hoki tēnei hei mahi māku; he auē ia māku ki te kore ahau e kauwhau i te rongopai. 17 Ki te mea hoki nōku te ngākau ki tēnei mahi, he utu tōku. Ki te kore ia he ngākau, he mahi tuari tēnei kua tukua ki ahau. 18 Nā, he aha koia te utu mōku? Arā, ki te kauwhau ahau i te rongopai, ka meinga e ahau kia kore e utua te rongopai. Kia kore ai ahau e mea i te wāhi e tika ana māku i roto i te rongopai.

19 Ahakoa hoki ehara ahau i te pononga nā te tangata, heoi, kua waiho ahau e ahau anō hei pononga mā te katoa, kia tokomaha atu ai e riro mai i ahau. 20 Nā, ki ngā Hūrai whakahūrai ana ahau, kia riro ai i ahau ngā Hūrai; ki te hunga i raro i te ture me te mea i raro ahau i te ture, ahakoa rā kāhore ahau i raro i te ture, kia riro ai i ahau te hunga i raro i te ture; 21 ki te hunga turekore me he tangata turekore ahau, ehara i te mea he turekore ki te Atua, engari, i raro i te ture ki a te Karaiti, kia riro ai i ahau te hunga turekore. 22 Ki te hunga ngoikore me he ngoikore ahau, kia riro ai i ahau te i hunga ngoikore; waiho ana ahau hei mea katoa ki te katoa, kia taea ai e i ahau ngā mea katoa hei whakaora i ētahi. 23 I meinga ai tēnei e ahau he whakaaro ki te rongopai, kia whiwhi tahi ai ahau ki tōna pai.

24 Kāhore oti koutou i mātau ki te hunga e oma whakataetae ana, e oma katoa ana, kotahi anō ia mōna te utu whakahōnore? Kia pēnā tā koutou oma, kia whiwhi ai koutou.

25 Nā, ko ngā tāngata katoa e whakataetae ana i ngā tākaro e whakakoromaki ana i ngā hiahia katoa. Nā, e pērā ana rātou kia whiwhi ai ki te karauna pirau; ko tātou ia ki te mea e kore e pirau. 26 Ko ahau nei hoki, kāhore i ngaro tāku oma; e kuru ana ahau, kāhore ia e rite ki te kaipatu o te hau. 27 Engari, e pēhia ana e ahau tōku tinana, meinga ana hoki hei pononga māku; kei kauwhau pea ahau ki ētahi atu, ko ahau ia ka ākiritia atu.