1Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord?
1Eɛni ur zmireɣ ara ad xedmeɣ akken bɣiɣ ? Mačči d amceggeɛ n Lmasiḥ i lliɣ ? Ur ẓriɣ ara Sidna Ɛisa s wallen-iw ? Mačči d nekk i kkun-id-yewwin ɣer webrid n Lmasiḥ ?
2If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
2Ɣas wiyaḍ ur iyi-ḥsiben ara d amceggeɛ n Lmasiḥ, kunwi ur tezmirem ara a yi-tnekkṛem axaṭer ț-țikli-nwen akk-d Lmasiḥ i d țbut belli d Lmasiḥ i yi-d-iceggɛen.
3My defense to those who examine me is this.
3Atan wamek țțaraɣ i wid i yi-sseḍlamen :
4Have we no right to eat and to drink?
4Eɛni ur aɣ-d-iṣaḥ ara a nečč, a nsew nukni s imceggɛen n Lmasiḥ ?
5Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
5Ur sɛiɣ ara lḥeqq ad aɣeɣ tameṭṭut yumnen aț-țețțeddu yid-i am akken xeddmen imceggɛen nniḍen n Lmasiḥ d watmaten n Ssid-nneɣ akk-d Buṭrus ?
6Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?
6Neɣ d nekk kan akk-d Barnabas i glaqen a nexdem iwakken a d-nawi aɣṛum nneɣ ?
7What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn’t eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn’t drink from the flock’s milk?
7Yella wass i deg teslam belli aɛeskṛi ilaq ad ixelleṣ m'ara d-isɛeddi lɛeskeṛ ? Anwa ara yeẓẓun tara ur itețț ara si tẓuṛin-is ? Ulac ameksa ara yeksen taqeḍɛit n lmal ur itess ara seg uyefki-ines !
8Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn’t the law also say the same thing?
8Tɣilem ayen akka i d-nniɣ d lɛaddat kan n yemdanen ? Ula d ccariɛa n Musa tenna-t-id !
9For it is written in the law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.” Deuteronomy 25:4 Is it for the oxen that God cares,
9Axaṭer yura deg-s : Ur țțarat ara takmamt i wezger isserwaten nneɛma. Eɛni ɣef yezgaren i gḥebbeṛ Sidi Ṛebbi ?
10or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.
10Mačči ɣef ddemma-nneɣ i d-yenna akka ? Ț-țideț, d nukni iwumi i d-yenna imeslayen-agi ! Ilaq win ikerrzen akk-d win yesserwaten ad ssirmen ad sɛun amur di lɣella nsen.
11If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?
11Ma yella nezreɛ gar-awen lbaṛakat n Sidi Ṛebbi, d acu yellan ma nemger-ed s ɣuṛ-wen tamɛict nneɣ ?
12If others partake of this right over you, don’t we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.
12Ma twalam d lḥeqq ad meggren wiyaḍ s ɣuṛ-wen, eɛni mačči d nukni i gezwaren ? Meɛna nukni ur d-newwi acemma s ɣuṛ-wen, neṣbeṛ i kullec iwakken ur d-yețțili ara wugur i lexbaṛ n lxiṛ n Lmasiḥ.
13Don’t you know that those who serve around sacred things eat from the things of the temple, and those who wait on the altar have their portion with the altar?
13Ur teẓrim ara belli wid ixeddmen di lǧameɛ țțawin-d lqut-nsen si lǧameɛ ? Ur teẓrim ara daɣen lmuqeddem izellun i Ṛebbi iseflawen i d-țțawin medden, yețțawi amur-is seg-sen ?
14Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.
14Akka daɣen i d-yenna Sidi Ṛebbi ɣef wid yețbecciṛen lexbaṛ n lxiṛ : di lexbaṛ n lxiṛ ara afen tamɛict-nsen.
15But I have used none of these things, and I don’t write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.
15Nekk ur d-wwiɣ acemma s ɣuṛ wen, yerna ur d-uriɣ ara tabṛaț-agi iwakken a d-ssutreɣ lḥeqq-iw. Axiṛ-iyi lmut wala a yi-tețwakkes sebba-agi s wayes zemreɣ ad zuxxeɣ !
16For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me, if I don’t preach the Good News.
16Ur țzuxxuɣ ara s yiman-iw imi țbecciṛeɣ lexbaṛ n lxiṛ, axaṭer țwaḥeṛseɣ ad beccṛeɣ. A nnger-iw ma yella ur beccṛeɣ ara lexbaṛ-agi n lxiṛ.
17For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.
17Lemmer xedmeɣ ayagi s lebɣi w sɛiɣ lḥeqq ad ssutreɣ lexlaṣ, meɛna d Ṛebbi i gḥettmen fell-i ccɣel-agi.
18What then is my reward? That, when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.
18Ihi, d acu i d lexlaṣ-iw ? D lfeṛḥ i seɛɛuɣ m'ara țbecciṛeɣ lexbaṛ n lxiṛ mbla lexlaṣ, mbla ma ssutreɣ lḥeqq-iw.
19For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
19Ɣas akken ur iyi-ițțalas yiwen kra ; rriɣ iman-iw d aqeddac n mkul yiwen iwakken a d-rebḥeɣ aṭas n yemdanen ɣer webrid n Lmasiḥ.
20To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;
20Ɣer wat Isṛail rriɣ iman-iw am nutni iwakken a ten-id-rebḥeɣ ; ɣer wid yettabaɛen ccariɛa n Musa tebɛeɣ-ț am nutni iwakken a ten id rebḥeɣ, ɣas akken nekk ur lliɣ ara seddaw leḥkum n ccariɛa.
21to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law.
21Akka daɣen, m'ara iliɣ d wid ur nesɛi ara ccariɛa, țțaraɣ iman-iw am akken ur sɛiɣ ara ccariɛa iwakken a ten-id-rebḥeɣ, ɣas akken nekk sɛiɣ ccariɛa n Ṛebbi imi d Lmasiḥ i d ccariɛa-inu.
22To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.
22Akk-d wid ur neǧhid ara deg webrid n Ṛebbi, uɣaleɣ am nutni, iwakken a ten-id-rebḥeɣ. Ddiɣ di lebɣi i mkul yiwen iwakken a d-sellkeɣ ulamma kra deg-sen.
23Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.
23Ayagi akk xedmeɣ-t ɣef ddemma n lexbaṛ n lxiṛ iwakken ad sɛuɣ yid-sen amur.
24Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.
24Di temzizla, teẓram belli deg wid akk yețțazalen deg wannar, yiwen kan ara irebḥen. Azzlet ihi iwakken aț-țrebḥem.
25Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
25Wid akk yețțazzalen, m'ara heggin iman-nsen i tazzla, țɛețțiben iman-nsen ; nutni țenɛețțaben iwakken a d-rebḥen cciɛa ur nețdum ara ; lameɛna nukni, nețɛețțib iman-nneɣ iwakken a nerbeḥ cciɛa ara idumen.
26I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air,
26Nekk ur țțazzaleɣ ara am win ur nesɛi ara lmeqsud, ur kkateɣ ara deg ubeḥri m'ara țnaɣeɣ ;
27but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
27meɛna țɛețțibeɣ lǧețța-inu, țɛassaɣ ɣef yiman-iw, axaṭer uggadeɣ nekk i gbeccṛen i wiyaḍ ad ɣliɣ, ad uɣaleɣ ɣer deffir.