¹ Ndax awma ndogal ci li may def? Ndax duma ndawul Kirist? Ndax gisuma Yeesu sunu Boroom? Xanaa du yéena soqikoo ci liggéey, bi ma Boroom bi sant?

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

² Su ma ñenn ñi tegul ndaw, moom laa ci yéen, ndaxte yéenay firnde jiy wone ne, ndawul Boroom bi dëgg laa.

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.

³ Nii laay tontoo ñi may àtte:

³My defence to those who examine me is this:

⁴ Xanaa sañunoo lekk ak a naan?

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

⁵ Xanaa sañunoo indaale jabar ju gëm Kirist, ni yeneen ndawul Kirist ak doomi ndeyu Boroom bi ak Sefas sax?

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?

⁶ Walla boog man ak Barnabas rekk noo war a daan sunu doole?

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

⁷ Kan moo mas a solu soldaar ci pexey boppam? Kan mooy bey tool te du ci jariñu? Walla kan mooy sàmm jur te du naan ca soow ma?

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?

⁸ Lii may wax, du ci yëfi doom Aadama rekk laa ko jukkee; xanaa du yoon wi it moo ko santaane?

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

⁹ Ndaxte bind nañu ci yoonu Musaa ne: «Bul sunjuñ gémmiñu nag wu ñu takk ci bojjukaay.» Ndax mooy tekki nag ne, Yàlla dafa bàyyi xel nag yi?

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,

¹⁰ Walla boog xanaa nun noo moom wax jooju? Waaw, noo tax ñu bind loolu. Noonu kuy bey war na am yaakaar, te kuy bojj di yaakaar a jot wàllam.

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].

¹¹ Nu ji ci yéen yëfi Xelum Yàlla, ba noppi góobe ci yéen yëfi àddina, ndax loolu dafa ëpp li nu war a séentu?

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

¹² Ndegam ñeneen a am sañ-sañ boobu ci yéen, nun kon waxi-noppi. Waaye nag jariñoowunu sañ-sañ boobu. Danuy far muñ lépp, ngir bañ a indi ndog ci yoonu xebaar bu baax bu Kirist bi.

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.

¹³ Xanaa xamuleen ne, ñiy liggéeyal yëf yu sell yi, dañuy lekk ñam, wi ci kër Yàlla gi, te ñiy liggéey ci saraxalukaay bi, dañuy jot seen wàll ci sarax yi?

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?

¹⁴ Naka noonu it Boroom bi digle na ne, ñiy yégle xebaar bu baax bi, nanu ci dund.

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

¹⁵ Waaye man jariñoowuma benn ci sañ-sañ yooyu, te binduma yëf yooyu, ngir ngeen di ma defal yu ni mel. Dee sax moo ma ko gënal — kenn du jële ci man mbir moomu may kañoo!

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.

¹⁶ Su may yégle xebaar bu baax bi, mënuma cee kañu. Sas la, wu ñu ma sas. Dinaa torox, su ma yéglewul xebaar bu baax bi!

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.

¹⁷ Su doon ci sama coobare laa yégle xebaar bu baax bi, man naa ci séentu yool. Waaye defuma ko ci sama coobare, ndaxte sas la, wu ñu ma sas.

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

¹⁸ Kon nag lan mooy sama yool? Xanaa di yégle xebaar bu baax bi ci dara, te bañ a jariñoo sañ-sañ boobu ma ci yelloo.

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.

¹⁹ Gor laa te kenn moomu ma; teewul def naa sama bopp jaamu ñépp, ngir man a gindi nit ñu bare ci Kirist.

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

²⁰ Ci biir Yawut yi, sol naa melow Yawut yi, ngir gindi leen. Man ci sama bopp yoonu Musaa jiitalu ma, terewul bi ma nekkee ci biir ñiy sàmm yoonu Musaa, sàmm naa yoon wa, ngir gindi leen.

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:

²¹ Ci biir ñi nekkul ci yoonu Musaa, faalewuma woon yoon wi, ngir gindi leen; waxuma ne, ànduma ak yoonu Yàlla, waaye topp naa yoon ci sama bokk ak Kirist.

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.

²² Ci biir ñi néew ngëm, meloon naa ni ku néew ngëm, ngir gindi leen. Doon naa lépp ci ñépp, ngir def lépp lu ma man, ba ñenn mucc ci.

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.

²³ Damaa def loolu lépp ndax xebaar bu baax bi, ngir man it ma am wàll ci barkeem.

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

²⁴ Xanaa xamuleen ne, ñépp ñooy daw cib rawante, waaye kenn rekk ay jël ndam li? Dawleen nag ngir jël ko.

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.

²⁵ Ñiy joŋante ci po muy waral tàggat yaram, dañuy xañ seen bopp lu bare. Dañu koy def, ngir am kaalag ndam gu dul yàgg; waaye nun danu koy def, ngir am kaalag ndam gu sax ba fàww.

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.

²⁶ Man nag noonu laay dawe, te duma dawantu. Noonu laay bëree, waaye duma def ni nit kuy dóor ci jaww ji.

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

²⁷ Waaye damay noot sama yaram, ba moom ko, ngir ragal a yégal ñi ci des xebaar bu baax bi, ba noppi Yàlla xañ ma ndam li.

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