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?

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

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.

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

³My defense to those who examine me is this.

³Kotse si murho divano kodolenge kai phenen;

⁴Have we no right to eat and to drink?

⁴ke nai amenge slobodo te xas ai te piias.

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?

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

⁶Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?

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

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?

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 according to the ways of men? Or doesn’t the law also say the same thing?

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

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,

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 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.

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 sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly 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, 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.

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.

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?

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.

¹⁴Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.

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, 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.

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 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.

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 of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.

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 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.

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

¹⁹For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

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

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;

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 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.

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.

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.

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

²³Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

²⁶I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air,

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

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.

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