1 PBP Ndaukah a'u too nobebas? Ndaukah a'u mo rasul? Ndaukah a'u neteitomo Yeses, Sioputo? Ndaukah oo ongkor pokarajaong ngo'u lalong Siopu? BSB BSB: Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you yourselves not my workmanship in the Lord?
2 PBP Ono bai too ntaninyo a'u ndau rasul, ndau pae ndau a'u mo mo rasul bai o. Saba', o mo matrai kerasulan no'u lalong Siopu. BSB BSB: Even if I am not an apostle to others, surely I am to you. For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
3 PBP Moo mo to nepesabataa' a'u nepetoloi jimo to kana momaresa a'u. BSB BSB: This is my defense to those who scrutinize me:
4 PBP Apakah ami ndau diang hak untuk mengkani o menginung? BSB BSB: Have we no right to food and to drink?
6 PBP Apejo, apakah sura si Barnabas o a'u to ndau diang hak untuk ndau mokaraja? BSB BSB: Or are Barnabas and I the only apostles who must work for a living?
7 PBP Siseemo to diang najari selio tantara sono biayanyo mboto? Sisemo to nepetudai joong nu anggur o ndau nengkani buanyo? Apejo, sisemo to nongevu binatang o ndau nenginung susunyo? BSB BSB: Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Who tends a flock and does not drink of its milk?
8 PBP Apakah a'u momeilua' sapa-sapa mo menuru' manusia? Ndaukah Ukum Taurat moje nomeilua' sapa-sapa to selio-lio? BSB BSB: Do I say this from a human perspective? Doesn’t the Law say the same thing?
9 PBP Saba' diang netetulis ri lalong Ukum Taurat Musa, "Nyaa o moonto'i lembu to riwatunyo mengirik gandum" sapakah japing lembu to riwatu ALLAH ta ALLAH noparatikana? BSB BSB: For it is written in the Law of Moses: “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.” Is it about oxen that God is concerned?
10 PBP Apejo, sapakah Io memeilua' onyo untuk ito? Ie, sura itomo sapa uo nitulis saba' to mombajak butu mombajak rilalong pengarapan o to mongrik butu mongirik lalong pengarapan untuk mo odua' barenyo. BSB BSB: Isn’t He actually speaking on our behalf? Indeed, this was written for us, because when the plowman plows and the thresher threshes, they should also expect to share in the harvest.
11 PBP Ono ami mo nuda bane nunoto ri tanga-tanga miu, sapakah melabi-labi ono ami moje monuda sapa-sapa to o tuju ila emu? BSB BSB: If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much for us to reap a material harvest from you?
12 PBP Ono too ntaninyo niediani hak moo sono o, ndaukah ami nelabipo berhak moje? Maumpo bai'uo, ami ndau mogana' hak uo. Rapannonyo, ami mepetangguni joojo sapa-sapa tae ami ndau mombagia' soung alangan bai Injil ni Kristus. BSB BSB: If others have this right to your support, shouldn’t we have it all the more? But we did not exercise this right. Instead, we put up with anything rather than hinder the gospel of Christ.
13 PBP Sapakah ndau niotoi miu ono jimo to nogaua' sapa-sapa to napacing uo, nengkani toreinang ila Bait nu ALLAH ta ALLAH moje? O, jimo to nepelayani ri altar noodua' bare ila kurban ponyombaong uo? BSB BSB: Do you not know that those who work in the temple eat of its food, and those who serve at the altar partake of its offerings?
14 PBP Bai uo moje, Siopu nomarentaa' jimo to nombagia' Injil untuk netubu ila Injil moje. BSB BSB: In the same way, the Lord has prescribed that those who preach the gospel should receive their living from the gospel.
15 PBP Maumpo, a'u ndau diang nomake souni ila hak-hak mo. O, a'u ndau nonulisa' sapa-sapa mo tae nigaua' selio uo sosono a'u. Saba, alea' omo a'u maate sosouni to nepeigia' eseseilu u. BSB BSB: But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing this to suggest that something be done for me. Indeed, I would rather die than let anyone nullify my boast.
16 PBP Saba', ono a'u mombagia' Injil, a'u ndau niediani alasan untuk mompegaya saba' tanggungan uo diang riatangngo u. Nesilakamo a'u ono a'u ndau mombagia' Injil. BSB BSB: Yet when I preach the gospel, I have no reason to boast, because I am obligated to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!
17 PBP Ono a'u mepekareva Injil saba eseseilu u mboto, a'u no o dua' agar. Maumpo, ono mo ndau eseilu u, mo omo tugas to niparasaya sosono a'u BSB BSB: If my preaching is voluntary, I have a reward. But if it is not voluntary, I am still entrusted with a responsibility.
18 PBP Ono bai uo, sapajo ongkoro u? Ongkoro u diang bai uo a'u nopekareva Injil, a'u maala nopekareva Injil maumpo ndau ongkor o ndau patuju seiluu hakko u rilalong Injil. BSB BSB: What then is my reward? That in preaching the gospel I may offer it free of charge, and so not use up my rights in preaching it.
19 PBP Jari, Maumpo a'u nobebas riatang jojoo to, a'u nopejaria' alae u mboto botuang bai jojoo to tae a'u maala mompebetaa' melabi dea moje. BSB BSB: Though I am free of obligation to anyone, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible.
20 PBP Bai to Yahudi, a'u najari selio to Yahudi tae a'u maala mepeengkata' to Yahudi. Bai too to netubu ri aalung Ukum Taurat, a'u najari selio too to netubu ri aalung Ukum Taurat (maumpo a'u mboto ndau ri aalung Ukum Taurat) tae a'u maala modua' mopaanang jimo to diang ri aalung Ukum Taurat. BSB BSB: To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), to win those under the law.
21 PBP Bai jimo to ndau tanpa UKum Taurat, a'u najari selio ndau tanpa Ukum Taurat (ndau moje ndau Ukum ALLAH ta ALLAH ai ri aalung Ukum Kristus) tae a'u modua' maala nopaanang jimo to ndau Ukum Taurat. BSB BSB: To those without the law I became like one without the law (though I am not outside the law of God but am under the law of Christ), to win those without the law.
22 PBP Bai too to nolulu' norungku, a'u najari nolulu' tae a'u maala nopaanang jimo to nolulu' norungku. A'u najarimo jojoo sapa-sapa bai jojoo too tae sosono nompengaya cara a'u maala mepesalamaa' sosouya too. BSB BSB: To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some.
23 PBP A'u nogaua' jojoo mo sura Injil tae a'u maala mo odua' aagar rilalong ngonyo. BSB BSB: I do all this for the sake of the gospel, so that I may share in its blessings.
24 PBP Ndau ni otoimu ono jimo to noluminjo' lalong soung posibaliong ri jojoo nyo noluminjo' ai sura soung to nontarima hadiah? Jari poluminjo' omo bai mo uo tae o omodua' Io! BSB BSB: Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way as to take the prize.
25 PBP Sise se too to mosiewali notanding nolati mekuasai alae rilalong jojoo sapa-sapa. Jimo nogaua' onyo untuk nontarima mahkota to naranggit, ai ito untuk mo odua' to mombosi. BSB BSB: Everyone who competes in the games trains with strict discipline. They do it for a crown that is perishable, but we do it for a crown that is imperishable.
26 PBP Saba' uo, a'u ndau moluminjo' selio uo ndau abatua. A'u ndau monjagamu selio too to nonjaguru poiri. BSB BSB: Therefore I do not run aimlessly; I do not fight like I am beating the air.
27 PBP Maala, a'u nolati alae u sosono asi o nepekuasainyo tae notou' a'u nopokareva' Injil sono to ntaninyo, a'u mboto ndau niajuta.' BSB BSB: No, I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.
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