1 Corinthians 9
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Greek New Testament: Byzantine Text (Robinson–Pierpont 2018)
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?
1ουκ ειμι αποστολοσ ουκ ειμι ελευθεροσ ουχι ιησουν χριστον τον κυριον ημων εωρακα ου το εργον μου υμεισ εστε εν κυριω
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.
2ει αλλοισ ουκ ειμι αποστολοσ αλλα γε υμιν ειμι η γαρ σφραγισ τησ εμησ αποστολησ υμεισ εστε εν κυριω
3My defense to those who examine me is this:
3η εμη απολογια τοισ εμε ανακρινουσιν αυτη εστιν
4Have we no right to eat and to drink?
4μη ουκ εχομεν εξουσιαν φαγειν και πιειν
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?
5μη ουκ εχομεν εξουσιαν αδελφην γυναικα περιαγειν ωσ και οι λοιποι αποστολοι και οι αδελφοι του κυριου και κηφασ
6Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?
6η μονοσ εγω και βαρναβασ ουκ εχομεν εξουσιαν του μη εργαζεσθαι
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?
7τισ στρατευεται ιδιοισ οψωνιοισ ποτε τισ φυτευει αμπελωνα και εκ του καρπου αυτου ουκ εσθιει η τισ ποιμαινει ποιμνην και εκ του γαλακτοσ τησ ποιμνησ ουκ εσθιει
8Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn’t the law also say the same thing?
8μη κατα ανθρωπον ταυτα λαλω η ουχι και ο νομοσ ταυτα λεγει
9For it is written in the law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.” Is it for the oxen that God cares,
9εν γαρ τω μωυσεωσ νομω γεγραπται ου φιμωσεισ βουν αλοωντα μη των βοων μελει τω θεω
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.
10η δι ημασ παντωσ λεγει δι ημασ γαρ εγραφη οτι επ ελπιδι οφειλει ο αροτριων αροτριαν και ο αλοων τησ ελπιδοσ αυτου μετεχειν επ ελπιδι
11If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?
11ει ημεισ υμιν τα πνευματικα εσπειραμεν μεγα ει ημεισ υμων τα σαρκικα θερισομεν
12If others partake of this right over you, don’t we yet more? Nevertheless we didn’t use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.
12ει αλλοι τησ εξουσιασ υμων μετεχουσιν ου μαλλον ημεισ αλλ ουκ εχρησαμεθα τη εξουσια ταυτη αλλα παντα στεγομεν ινα μη εγκοπην τινα δωμεν τω ευαγγελιω του χριστου
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?
13ουκ οιδατε οτι οι τα ιερα εργαζομενοι εκ του ιερου εσθιουσιν οι τω θυσιαστηριω προσεδρευοντεσ τω θυσιαστηριω συμμεριζονται
14Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.
14ουτωσ και ο κυριοσ διεταξεν τοισ το ευαγγελιον καταγγελλουσιν εκ του ευαγγελιου ζην
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.
15εγω δε ουδενι εχρησαμην τουτων ουκ εγραψα δε ταυτα ινα ουτωσ γενηται εν εμοι καλον γαρ μοι μαλλον αποθανειν η το καυχημα μου ινα τισ κενωση
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.
16εαν γαρ ευαγγελιζωμαι ουκ εστιν μοι καυχημα αναγκη γαρ μοι επικειται ουαι δε μοι εστιν εαν μη ευαγγελιζωμαι
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.
17ει γαρ εκων τουτο πρασσω μισθον εχω ει δε ακων οικονομιαν πεπιστευμαι
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.
18τισ ουν μοι εστιν ο μισθοσ ινα ευαγγελιζομενοσ αδαπανον θησω το ευαγγελιον του χριστου εισ το μη καταχρησασθαι τη εξουσια μου εν τω ευαγγελιω
19For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
19ελευθεροσ γαρ ων εκ παντων πασιν εμαυτον εδουλωσα ινα τουσ πλειονασ κερδησω
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;
20και εγενομην τοισ ιουδαιοισ ωσ ιουδαιοσ ινα ιουδαιουσ κερδησω τοισ υπο νομον ωσ υπο νομον ινα τουσ υπο νομον κερδησω
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.
21τοισ ανομοισ ωσ ανομοσ μη ων ανομοσ θεω αλλ εννομοσ χριστω ινα κερδησω ανομουσ
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.
22εγενομην τοισ ασθενεσιν ωσ ασθενησ ινα τουσ ασθενεισ κερδησω τοισ πασιν γεγονα τα παντα ινα παντωσ τινασ σωσω
23Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.
23τουτο δε ποιω δια το ευαγγελιον ινα συγκοινωνοσ αυτου γενωμαι
24Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, so that you may win.
24ουκ οιδατε οτι οι εν σταδιω τρεχοντεσ παντεσ μεν τρεχουσιν εισ δε λαμβανει το βραβειον ουτωσ τρεχετε ινα καταλαβητε
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.
25πασ δε ο αγωνιζομενοσ παντα εγκρατευεται εκεινοι μεν ουν ινα φθαρτον στεφανον λαβωσιν ημεισ δε αφθαρτον
26I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air,
26εγω τοινυν ουτωσ τρεχω ωσ ουκ αδηλωσ ουτωσ πυκτευω ωσ ουκ αερα δερων
27but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.
27αλλ υπωπιαζω μου το σωμα και δουλαγωγω μηπωσ αλλοισ κηρυξασ αυτοσ αδοκιμοσ γενωμαι
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