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

¹Chi sim me ivia? Chi sim apostle? Chi dikhlem O Jesus Kristo amaro Del? Chi san tume kerde anda murhi buchi ando Del?

²If I am not an apostle to others, yet at any rate I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are *ye* in [the] Lord.

²Te chi sim apostle ka kaver, sim tumenge; ke tume dikhlian murhi buchi ando Del.

³My defence to those who examine me is this:

³Kotse si murho divano kodolenge kai phenen;

⁴Have we not a right to eat and to drink?

⁴ke nai amenge slobodo te xas ai te piias.

⁵have we not a right to take round a sister [as] wife, as also the other apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

⁵Nai ame te ningeras amensa ek phei, ek rhomni, sar si le kavre apostluria, ai le phral le Devleske, ai o Cephas?

⁶Or *I* alone and Barnabas, have we not a right not to work?

⁶Vai ferdi mange ai o Barnabas, nai ame voia te keras buchi? Kon kerel e buchi ande ketania pe pesko choxxokuria?

⁷Who ever carries on war at his own charges? who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? or who herds a flock and does not eat of the milk of the flock?

⁷Kodo kai thol te bariol e rez, ai chi xal anda late? Kodo kai pravarel le bakriorhan, ai chi del o thud katar le zhigeni.

⁸Do I speak these things as a man, or does not the law also say these things?

⁸Kadala dieluria phenav sar ek manush? Vai chi phenel o zakono sakadia?

⁹For in the law of Moses it is written, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that is treading out corn. Is God occupied about the oxen,

⁹Ke ramome si ando zakono le Mosesoske, te na phandavel o mui le gurumli kana phirel pa jiv. O Del lel sama andal gurumli?

¹⁰or does he say [it] altogether for our sakes? For for our sakes it has been written, that the plougher should plough in hope, and he that treads out corn, in hope of partaking of [it].

¹⁰Vai del duma ferdi pa amende? E, anda amende del duma, ke ramome si: Kodo kai pharhavel e phuv, pharhavel te azhukerel vari so; ai kodo kai licharel o jiv, kerel les te azhukerel vari so anda kodia partia.

¹¹If we have sown to you spiritual things, [is it a] great [thing] if *we* shall reap your carnal things?

¹¹Te chidisardian le mishtimata mashkar tumende, bari dieli si te chidasa tumendar so si le statoske.

¹²If others partake of this right over you, should not rather *we*? But we have not used this right, but we bear all things, that we may put no hindrance in the way of the glad tidings of the Christ.

¹²Te aver si le kodo mishtimos pe tumende, kodia phrala? Na mai binen amen te avav kodia phral, chi mangliam tumendar so trobulas, numa chinuisardiam te na keras te proril tume vari kon katar E Vorba le Devleski.

¹³Do ye not know that they who labour [at] sacred things eat of the [offerings offered in the] temple; they that attend at the altar partake with the altar?

¹³Chi zhanen ke kodola kai keren buchi le Devleski la tamploske trobul te aven pravarde katar e tamplo? Kodola kai keren buchi le Devleske te avel le e partia katar e altari.

¹⁴So also the Lord has ordained to those that announce the glad tidings to live of the glad tidings.

¹⁴Sar iek fielo O Del phendia kodola kai den duma pai Vorba le Devleski te traiin ande Vorba le Devleski.

¹⁵But *I* have used none of these things. Now I have not written these things that it should be thus in my case; for [it were] good for me rather to die than that any one should make vain my boast.

¹⁵Me chi manglem chi iek anda kodola dieli, ai chi ramov akana te mangav mange; kaste mai drago mange te merav, de sar te mekav te len pa mande e putiera Devleski.

¹⁶For if I announce the glad tidings, I have nothing to boast of; for a necessity is laid upon me; for it is woe to me if I should not announce the glad tidings.

¹⁶Te dava duma pai E Vorba le Devleski, nai mange diela, te rhugiv ma ke trobul te kerav, o nasulimos te avel pe mande te na mai dava duma pai Vorba Devleski!

¹⁷For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward; but if not of my own will, I am entrusted with an administration.

¹⁷Te kerava les dragostimasa, ai avela ma mishtimos: numa te kerava leske musai mange, antunchi sar kana te aven thona ma pe zor te kerav kodia.

¹⁸What is the reward then that I have? That in announcing the glad tidings I make the glad tidings costless [to others], so as not to have made use, as belonging to me, of my right in [announcing] the glad tidings.

¹⁸Savi si antunchi murho mishtimos? Si te phenav ivia pai Vorba le Devleski, bi te mangav so trobul te den.

¹⁹For being free from all, I have made myself bondman to all, that I might gain the most [possible].

¹⁹Ke marka ke ivia sim karing vari kaste, kerdilem me sluga savorhenge, kaste te aven mai but narodo.

²⁰And I became to the Jews as a Jew, in order that I might gain the Jews: to those under law, as under law, not being myself under law, in order that I might gain those under law:

²⁰Le Zhidovonsa kerdem sar le Zhiduvuria, kaste te niriv le Zhidovon; kodola kai sas telai zakono, kerdem sar telai zakono, marka ke me chi sim telai zakono kaste te niriv kodolen kai si telai zakono;

²¹to those without law, as without law, (not as without law to God, but as legitimately subject to Christ,) in order that I might gain [those] without law.

²¹Ai kodola kai si bi zakono, marka ke me chi sim bi zakonosko le Devlesko, ke sim telai zakono le Devlesko, kaste te niriv kodolen kai si bi zakonosko.

²²I became to the weak, [as] weak, in order that I might gain the weak. To all I have become all things, in order that at all events I might save some.

²²Slabo simas le slabosonsa, kashte te niriv le slabon: kerdilem savorhenge sar lende, kashte vari sar te niriv unen.

²³And I do all things for the sake of the glad tidings, that I may be fellow-partaker with them.

²³Sar kerdem kadala andai Vorba Devleski, kaste te del ma kodia partia.

²⁴Know ye not that they who run in [the] race-course run all, but one receives the prize? Thus run in order that ye may obtain.

²⁴Chi zhanen ke kodola kai nashen ando stato nashen te niril o pretso? Nashen, kadia kai niril les.

²⁵But every one that contends [for a prize] is temperate in all things: *they* then indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown, but *we* an incorruptible.

²⁵Sa kodola kai zumaven keren but dieluria, chinuin, keren sakadia kashte te nirin le konona kai rimolpe; numa ame keras kodia le konona kai chi rimolpe.

²⁶*I* therefore thus run, as not uncertainly; so I combat, as not beating the air.

²⁶No me nashav, na chi zhanav kai chi marav le vastensa, sar kana te marav ando duxo.

²⁷But I buffet my body, and lead it captive, lest [after] having preached to others I should be myself rejected.

²⁷Numa chinuiv murho stato, ai ninkerav les zurales: daratar te na avav shudinome pala e lashi viasta kai phendem savorhenge.