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

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?

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

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.

³Kotse si murho divano kodolenge kai phenen;

³My defence to those who examine me in this;

⁴ke nai amenge slobodo te xas ai te piias.

⁴have we not authority to eat and to drink?

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

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

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

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

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.

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?

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

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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.

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;

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!

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;

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.

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

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

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;

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

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

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;

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;

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.

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;

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

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.

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

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

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

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;

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.

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;

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

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

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

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