¹Handizi muapositori here? Handizi wakasununguka here? Handina kuona Jesu Kristu Ishe wedu here? Imwi hamusi basa rangu muna Ishe here?

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

²Kana ndisiri muapositori kuna vamwe, asi zviri pachena ndiri iye kwamuri; nekuti mucherechedzo wevuapositori hwangu ndimwi muna Ishe.

²If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.

³Kuzvidavirira kwangu kune vanondinzvera ndeuku.

³Mine answer to them that do examine me is this,

⁴Hatina simba here rekudya nekumwa?

⁴Have we not power to eat and to drink?

⁵Hatina simba rekutenderera nehamakadzi sevamwe vaapositori nevanin'ina vaIshe naKefasi here?

⁵Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

⁶Kana ndini ndoga naBhanabhasi here tisina simba rekusabata basa?

⁶Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?

⁷Ndianiko wakambobudira hondo achizviripira mubairo? Ndiani unorima munda wemizambiringa akasadya zvibereko zvawo? Kana ndiani unofudza boka akasadya zvemukaka weboka?

⁷Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?

⁸Zvinhu izvi ndinozvitaura semunhu here? Ko murairo hautauriwo izvozvo here?

⁸Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?

⁹Nekuti zvakanyorwa mumurairo waMozisi kuti: Usasunga muromo wenzombe inopura zviyo. Ko Mwari unehanya nenzombe here?

⁹For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?

¹⁰Kana unoreva zvirokwazvo nekuda kwedu here? Nekuti zvirokwazvo, zvakanyorwa nekuda kwedu, kuti uyo unorima unofanira kurima mutariro; neunopura mutariro unofanira kugoverwa mutariro yake.

¹⁰Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.

¹¹Kana isu takadzvara kwamuri zvinhu zvemweya, chinhu chikuru here kana tichicheka zvinhu zvenyu zvenyama?

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

¹²Kana vamwe vachigovana simba pamusoro penyu, zvikuru isu? Asi hatina kushandisa simba iri; asi tinoregera zvinhu zvose, kuti tirege kupa chipinganidzo kuevhangeri yaKristu.

¹²If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.

¹³Hamuzivi here kuti avo vanoshumira pazvinhu zvitsvene vanorarama nezvetembere? Uye avo vanorindira paaritari vanogovana nearitari here?

¹³Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?

¹⁴Saizvozvovo Ishe wakaraira kuti avo vanoparidza evhangeri, vararame neevhangeri.

¹⁴Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.

¹⁵Asi ini handina kushandisa chimwe chezvinhu izvi, kana kunyora zvinhu izvi kuti zviitwe saizvozvo kwandiri, nekuti zviri nani kwandiri kuti ndife, pakuti mumwe ashayise kuzvikudza kwangu maturo.

¹⁵But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.

¹⁶Nekuti kunyange ndichiparidza evhangeri, handina chandingazvikudza nacho, nekuti faniro yakatakudzwa pamusoro pangu; ndine nhamo kana ndisingaparidzi evhangeri.

¹⁶For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!

¹⁷Nekuti kana ndichiita chinhu ichi ndichida, ndine mubairo; asi kana ndisingadi, ndakapiwa utariri.

¹⁷For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.

¹⁸Zvino mubairo wangu chii? Kuti kana ndichiparidza evhangeri, ndiite kuti evhangeri yaKristu isabhadharwa, kuti ndirege kushandisa simba rangu zvakapfuurikidza muevhangeri.

¹⁸What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.

¹⁹Nekuti kunyange ndakasununguka kune vose, asi ndakazviita muranda kune vose, kuti ndiwane vazhinji kwazvo.

¹⁹For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.

²⁰Uye kuvaJudha ndakava semuJudha, kuti ndiwane vaJudha; kune vari pasi pemurairo seuri pasi pemurairo, kuti ndiwane vari pasi pemurairo;

²⁰And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;

²¹kune vasina murairo seusina murairo (ndisati ndiri usina murairo kuna Mwari, asi pasi pemurairo kuna Kristu), kuti ndiwane vasina murairo.

²¹To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.

²²Kuna vasina simba ndakava seusina simba, kuti ndiwane vasina simba; ndakava zvinhu zvose kune vose, kuti ndiponese vamwe nemitoo yose.

²²To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.

²³Uye izvi ndinoita nekuda kweevhangeri, kuti ndive mugovani pariri.

²³And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.

²⁴Hamuzivi here kuti vanomhanya munhangemutange vanomhanya vose, asi umwe unowana mubairo? Mhanyai saizvozvo, kuti muuwane.

²⁴Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.

²⁵Uye umwe neumwe unokwikwidza unozvidzora pazvinhu zvose. Zvino ivo vanozviita kuti vawane korona inoora, asi isu isingaori.

²⁵And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.

²⁶Naizvozvo ini ndinomhanya saizvozvo kwete seusina chokwadi, saizvozvo ndinorwa kwete seunorova mhepo;

²⁶I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:

²⁷asi ndinotsikirira muviri wangu, ndichiuita muranda; kuti zvimwe chero nenzira ipi kana ndaparidzira vamwe, ini ndirege kuva wakarashwa.

²⁷But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.