¹使徒的权利

¹Am not I an apostle? am not I free? Jesus Christ our Lord have I not seen? my work are not ye in the Lord?

²对别人来说，我或许不是使徒，但对你们来说，我总是使徒，因为你们就是我在主里作使徒的印记。

²if to others I am not an apostle — yet doubtless to you I am; for the seal of my apostleship are ye in the Lord.

³对那些盘问我的人，这就是我的答辩。

³My defence to those who examine me in this;

⁴难道我们没有权利吃喝吗？

⁴have we not authority to eat and to drink?

⁵难道我们没有权利，像其余的使徒、主的弟兄和矶法一样，带着信主的妻子往来吗？

⁵have we not authority a sister — a wife — to lead about, as also the other apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

⁶难道只有我和巴拿巴没有权利不作工吗？

⁶or only I and Barnabas, have we not authority — not to work?

⁷有谁当兵要自备粮饷呢？有谁栽种葡萄园，不吃园里的果子呢？有谁牧养羊群，不喝羊的奶呢？

⁷who doth serve as a soldier at his own charges at any time? who doth plant a vineyard, and of its fruit doth not eat? or who doth feed a flock, and of the milk of the flock doth not eat?

⁸我说这话，不是照着人的意见，律法不也是这样说吗？

⁸According to man do I speak these things? or doth not also the law say these things?

⁹就在摩西的律法上记着说：“牛踹谷的时候，不可笼住它的嘴。”难道　神关心的只是牛吗？

⁹for in the law of Moses it hath been written, `thou shalt not muzzle an ox treading out corn;` for the oxen doth God care?

¹⁰这不全是为我们说的吗？当然是为我们说的，因为耕种的应当存着希望去耕种，收割的也应当存着希望去分享收获。

¹⁰or because of us by all means doth He say [it]? yes, because of us it was written, because in hope ought the plower to plow, and he who is treading [ought] of his hope to partake in hope.

¹¹我们既然在你们中间撒了属灵的种子，如果要从你们那里收获一些物质的供应，这算是过分吗？

¹¹If we to you the spiritual things did sow — great [is it] if we your fleshly things do reap?

¹²如果别人在你们身上享有这种权利，我们不是更可以享有吗？然而我们没有用过这种权利，反而凡事容忍，免得我们拦阻了基督的福音。

¹²if others do partake of the authority over you — not we more? but we did not use this authority, but all things we bear, that we may give no hindrance to the good news of the Christ.

¹³所作的一切都是为了福音难道你们不知道，在圣殿供职的，就吃殿中的供物；侍候祭坛的，就分领坛上的祭物吗？

¹³Have ye not known that those working about the things of the temple — of the temple do eat, and those waiting at the altar — with the altar are partakers?

¹⁴主也曾这样吩咐，叫传福音的人靠福音为生。

¹⁴so also did the Lord direct to those proclaiming the good news: of the good news to live.

¹⁵但这种权利，我一点也没有用过。我写这些话，并不是想叫人这样待我，因为我宁可死，也不让人使我所夸耀的落了空。

¹⁵And I have used none of these things; neither did I write these things that it may be so done in my case, for [it is] good for me rather to die, than that any one may make my glorying void;

¹⁶我传福音原是没有可夸的，因我不能不传。如果不传福音，我就有祸了。

¹⁶for if I may proclaim good news, it is no glorying for me, for necessity is laid upon me, and wo is to me if I may not proclaim good news;

¹⁷如果我甘心作这事，就有赏赐；即使不甘心，这职责还是托付我了。

¹⁷for if willing I do this, I have a reward; and if unwillingly — with a stewardship I have been entrusted!

¹⁸那么，我的赏赐是什么呢？就是我传福音时，叫人免费得着福音。这样，我就没有用过传福音可以享有的权利了。

¹⁸What, then, is my reward? — that proclaiming good news, without charge I shall make the good news of the Christ, not to abuse my authority in the good news;

¹⁹我虽然自由，不受任何人管辖，但我自愿成为众人的奴仆，为的是要多得一些人。

¹⁹for being free from all men, to all men I made myself servant, that the more I might gain;

²⁰对犹太人，我就作犹太人，为了要得着犹太人；对律法以下的人，虽然我自己不在律法之下，还是作了律法以下的人，为了要得着律法以下的人。

²⁰and I became to the Jews as a Jew, that Jews I might gain; to those under law as under law, that those under law I might gain;

²¹对没有律法的人，我就作了没有律法的人，其实我不是在　神的律法以外，而是在基督的律法之下，为了要得着没有律法的人。

²¹to those without law, as without law — (not being without law to God, but within law to Christ) — that I might gain those without law;

²²对软弱的人，我就成了软弱的人，为了要得着软弱的人。对怎么样的人，我就作怎么样的人；无论如何，总要救一些人。

²²I became to the infirm as infirm, that the infirm I might gain; to all men I have become all things, that by all means I may save some.

²³我所作的一切，都是为了福音的缘故，好让我与别人同享福音的好处。

²³And this I do because of the good news, that a fellow-partaker of it I may become;

²⁴难道你们不知道，在场上赛跑的人，虽然大家都跑，但得奖的只有一个人吗？你们都应当这样跑，好叫你们可以得奖。

²⁴have ye not known that those running in a race — all indeed run, but one doth receive the prize? so run ye, that ye may obtain;

²⁵凡参加运动比赛的，在一切事上都有节制；他们这样作，不过要得到能坏的冠冕，我们却是要得不朽的冠冕。

²⁵and every one who is striving, is in all things temperate; these, indeed, then, that a corruptible crown they may receive, but we an incorruptible;

²⁶所以我奔跑，不是没有目标的；我斗拳，不是打空气的。

²⁶I, therefore, thus run, not as uncertainly, thus I fight, as not beating air;

²⁷我要克制自己的身体，叫身体服我，免得我传了给别人，自己反而落选了。

²⁷but I chastise my body, and bring [it] into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others — I myself may become disapproved.