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1 Corinto 9
Ang Bagong Tipan: Filipino Standard Version
1 Corinto 9
Ang Bagong Tipan: Filipino Standard Version
Mga Karapatan ng Apostol
9 Hindi ba ako malaya? Hindi ba ako apostol? Hindi ko ba nakita si Jesus na Panginoon natin? Hindi ba bunga kayo ng aking gawain sa Panginoon? 2 Kung sa iba'y hindi ako apostol, ngunit sa inyo nama'y apostol ako, sapagkat kayo ang tatak ng aking pagkaapostol sa Panginoon.
3 Ito ang aking pagtatanggol sa mga tumutuligsa sa akin. 4 Wala ba kaming karapatang kumain at uminom? 5 Wala ba kaming karapatang magsama ng asawa sa aming paglalakbay gaya ng ibang mga apostol at ng mga kapatid ng Panginoon, at ni Pedro?[a] 6 O kami lamang ba ni Bernabe ang walang karapatang tumigil sa paghahanap-buhay? 7 Mayroon bang kawal na naglilingkod sa sarili niyang gastos? Mayroon bang nagtatrabaho sa ubasan at hindi kumakain ng bunga nito? Mayroon bang nag-aalaga ng mga hayop sa kawan, at hindi umiinom ng gatas ng mga iyon? 8 Sinasabi ko ang mga bagay na ito hindi ayon sa pamantayan ng tao. Hindi ba't ito rin ang sinasabi ng Kautusan? 9 Sapagkat (A) nasusulat sa Kautusan ni Moises, “Huwag mong bubusalan ang baka kapag gumigiik.” Ang mga baka lang ba ang pinagmamalasakitan ng Diyos? 10 Hindi ba't siya ay nagsasalita para sa atin? Ito ay nasulat para sa atin, sapagkat ang nag-aararo ay dapat mag-araro nang may pag-asa, at ang gumigiik ay dapat gumiik nang may pag-asa, at sila'y kapwa tatanggap ng bahagi. 11 Kung (B) kami ay nakapaghasik sa inyo ng mga bagay na espirituwal, kalabisan bang umani kami sa inyo ng mga bagay na materyal? 12 Kung ang iba ay may ganitong karapatan sa inyo, di ba lalong mas may karapatan kami?
Ngunit hindi namin ginamit ang karapatang ito, kundi tinitiis namin ang lahat, upang hindi kami makapaglagay ng balakid sa ebanghelyo ni Cristo. 13 Hindi (C) ba ninyo nalalaman na ang mga naglilingkod sa mga gawain sa templo ay kumakain ng mga bagay mula sa templo, at ang mga naglilingkod sa dambana ay nakikibahagi sa mga handog sa dambana? 14 Sa gayunding paraan, (D) itinakda ng Panginoon na ang mga nangangaral ng ebanghelyo ay dapat kumuha ng ikabubuhay mula sa ebanghelyo. 15 Ngunit hindi ko ginamit ang alinman sa mga karapatang ito, at hindi ako sumusulat nito ngayon upang ganito ang gawin sa akin. Sapagkat mas nanaisin ko pang mamatay, kaysa maagaw ng sinuman ang batayan ng aking pagmamalaki! 16 Kung ipinangangaral ko ang ebanghelyo ay wala akong maipagmamalaki sapagkat ito ay tungkuling iniatang sa akin. Kaysaklap ng sasapitin ko kung hindi ko ipangaral ang ebanghelyo! 17 Sapagkat kung kusang-loob ko itong ginagawa, ako ay may gantimpala. Ngunit kung hindi kusang-loob, isang pangangasiwa ang ipinagkatiwala sa akin. 18 Ano naman ang gantimpala ko? Iyon ay ang maipangaral ko ang ebanghelyo nang walang bayad, upang hindi ko magamit nang lubusan ang aking karapatan sa ebanghelyo.
19 Bagaman malaya ako, at hindi alipin ng sinuman, nagpaalipin ako sa lahat, upang mas marami akong mahikayat. 20 Sa mga Judio, ako ay naging gaya ng isang Judio, upang mahikayat ko ang mga Judio. Sa mga nasa ilalim ng Kautusan, ako ay naging gaya ng isang nasa ilalim ng Kautusan, bagaman ako ay wala sa ilalim ng Kautusan, upang mahikayat ko ang mga nasa ilalim ng Kautusan. 21 Sa mga nasa labas ng Kautusan, ako ay naging tulad sa walang Kautusan, ngunit hindi ibig sabihing hindi ako saklaw ng Kautusan ng Diyos, sa halip ako nga'y napapasakop sa Kautusan ni Cristo, upang mahikayat ko ang mga nasa labas ng Kautusan. 22 Sa mahihina, ako ay naging mahina, upang mahikayat ko ang mahihina. Sa lahat ng bagay ay nakibagay ako sa lahat ng tao, upang sa lahat ng paraan ay makapagligtas ako ng ilan. 23 Ginagawa ko ang lahat ng ito alang-alang sa ebanghelyo, upang ako'y maging kabahagi sa mga biyaya nito.
24 Hindi ba ninyo nalalaman na tumatakbong lahat ang mga kasali sa isang takbuhan, ngunit iisa lamang ang tumatanggap ng gantimpala? Kaya't tumakbo kayo sa paraang kayo'y magkakamit niyon. 25 Ang mga nakikipagpaligsahan sa mga palaro ay nagpipigil sa sarili sa lahat ng bagay. Ginagawa nila iyon upang sila ay magkamit ng isang koronang nasisira, ngunit tayo'y para sa hindi nasisira. 26 Kaya't ako'y tumatakbo hindi gaya ng walang patutunguhan; hindi ako sumusuntok na parang sumusuntok sa hangin. 27 Sa halip ay sinusupil ko ang aking katawan, at inaalipin ko ito, baka pagkatapos na mangaral ako sa iba, ako mismo ay hindi makapasa sa pagsubok.
Footnotes
- 1 Corinto 9:5 Pedro: sa tekstong Griyego, Cefas, na ang kahulugan ay bato.
1 Corinthians 9
Common English Bible
1 Corinthians 9
Common English Bible
Waiving rights for the gospel
9 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord? 2 If I’m not an apostle to others, at least I am to you! You are the seal that shows I’m an apostle. 3 This is my defense against those who criticize me. 4 Don’t we have the right to eat and drink? 5 Don’t we have the right to travel with a wife who believes like the rest of the apostles, the Lord’s brothers, and Cephas? 6 Or is it only I and Barnabas who don’t have the right to not work for our living? 7 Who joins the army and pays their own way? Who plants a vineyard and doesn’t eat its fruit? Who shepherds a flock and doesn’t drink its milk? 8 I’m not saying these things just based on common sense, am I? Doesn’t the Law itself say these things? 9 In Moses’ Law it’s written: You will not muzzle the ox when it is threshing.[a] Is God worried about oxen, 10 or did he say this entirely for our sake? It was written for our sake because the one who plows and the one who threshes should each do so with the hope of sharing the produce. 11 If we sowed spiritual things in you, is it so much to ask to harvest some material things from you?
12 If others have these rights over you, don’t we deserve them all the more? However, we haven’t made use of this right, but we put up with everything so we don’t put any obstacle in the way of the gospel of Christ. 13 Don’t you know that those who serve in the temple get to eat food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar share part of what is sacrificed on the altar? 14 In the same way, the Lord commanded that those who preach the gospel should get their living from the gospel. 15 But I haven’t taken advantage of this. And I’m not writing this so that it will be done for me. It’s better for me to die than to lose my right to brag about this! 16 If I preach the gospel, I have no reason to brag, since I’m obligated to do it. I’m in trouble if I don’t preach the gospel. 17 If I do this voluntarily, I get rewarded for it. But if I’m forced to do it, then I’ve been charged with a responsibility. 18 What reward do I get? That when I preach, I offer the good news free of charge. That’s why I don’t use the rights to which I’m entitled through the gospel.
19 Although I’m free from all people, I make myself a slave to all people, to recruit more of them. 20 I act like a Jew to the Jews, so I can recruit Jews. I act like I’m under the Law to those under the Law, so I can recruit those who are under the Law (though I myself am not under the Law). 21 I act like I’m outside the Law to those who are outside the Law, so I can recruit those outside the Law (though I’m not outside the law of God but rather under the law of Christ). 22 I act weak to the weak, so I can recruit the weak. I have become all things to all people, so I could save some by all possible means. 23 All the things I do are for the sake of the gospel, so I can be a partner with it.
24 Don’t you know that all the runners in the stadium run, but only one gets the prize? So run to win. 25 Everyone who competes practices self-discipline in everything. The runners do this to get a crown of leaves that shrivel up and die, but we do it to receive a crown that never dies. 26 So now this is how I run—not without a clear goal in sight. I fight like a boxer in the ring, not like someone who is shadowboxing. 27 Rather, I’m landing punches on my own body and subduing it like a slave. I do this to be sure that I myself won’t be disqualified after preaching to others.
Footnotes
1 Corinthians 9
King James Version
1 Corinthians 9
King James Version
9 Am I am not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord?
2 If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.
3 Mine answer to them that do examine me is this,
4 Have we not power to eat and to drink?
5 Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
6 Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?
7 Who 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?
8 Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?
9 For 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?
10 Or 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.
11 If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
12 If 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.
13 Do 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?
14 Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.
15 But 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.
16 For 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!
17 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.
18 What 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.
19 For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.
20 And 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;
21 To 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.
22 To 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.
23 And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.
24 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
25 And 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.
26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
27 But 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.
1 Corinthians 9
New International Version
1 Corinthians 9
New International Version
Paul’s Rights as an Apostle
9 Am I not free?(A) Am I not an apostle?(B) Have I not seen Jesus our Lord?(C) Are you not the result of my work in the Lord?(D) 2 Even though I may not be an apostle to others, surely I am to you! For you are the seal(E) of my apostleship in the Lord.
3 This is my defense to those who sit in judgment on me. 4 Don’t we have the right to food and drink?(F) 5 Don’t we have the right to take a believing wife(G) along with us, as do the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers(H) and Cephas[a]?(I) 6 Or is it only I and Barnabas(J) who lack the right to not work for a living?
7 Who serves as a soldier(K) at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard(L) and does not eat its grapes? Who tends a flock and does not drink the milk? 8 Do I say this merely on human authority? Doesn’t the Law say the same thing? 9 For it is written in the Law of Moses: “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.”[b](M) Is it about oxen that God is concerned?(N) 10 Surely he says this for us, doesn’t he? Yes, this was written for us,(O) because whoever plows and threshes should be able to do so in the hope of sharing in the harvest.(P) 11 If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we reap a material harvest from you?(Q) 12 If others have this right of support from you, shouldn’t we have it all the more?
But we did not use this right.(R) On the contrary, we put up with anything rather than hinder(S) the gospel of Christ.
13 Don’t you know that those who serve in the temple get their food from the temple, and that those who serve at the altar share in what is offered on the altar?(T) 14 In the same way, the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should receive their living from the gospel.(U)
15 But I have not used any of these rights.(V) And I am not writing this in the hope that you will do such things for me, for I would rather die than allow anyone to deprive me of this boast.(W) 16 For when I preach the gospel, I cannot boast, since I am compelled to preach.(X) Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel! 17 If I preach voluntarily, I have a reward;(Y) if not voluntarily, I am simply discharging the trust committed to me.(Z) 18 What then is my reward? Just this: that in preaching the gospel I may offer it free of charge,(AA) and so not make full use of my rights(AB) as a preacher of the gospel.
Paul’s Use of His Freedom
19 Though I am free(AC) and belong to no one, I have made myself a slave to everyone,(AD) to win as many as possible.(AE) 20 To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews.(AF) To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law),(AG) so as to win those under the law. 21 To those not having the law I became like one not having the law(AH) (though I am not free from God’s law but am under Christ’s law),(AI) so as to win those not having the law. 22 To the weak I became weak, to win the weak.(AJ) I have become all things to all people(AK) so that by all possible means I might save some.(AL) 23 I do all this for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings.
The Need for Self-Discipline
24 Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize?(AM) Run(AN) in such a way as to get the prize. 25 Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown(AO) that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last forever.(AP) 26 Therefore I do not run like someone running aimlessly;(AQ) I do not fight like a boxer beating the air.(AR) 27 No, I strike a blow to my body(AS) and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.(AT)
Footnotes
- 1 Corinthians 9:5 That is, Peter
- 1 Corinthians 9:9 Deut. 25:4
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