Aramaic NT Parallel English Translations

 9:1 Am I not a son of freedom? am I not an apostle? or have I not seen Jeshu Meshiha our Lord? or are not you my work in my Lord?

 9:1 Am I not a free man? Or, am I not a legate? Or, have I not seen Jesus Messiah our Lord? Or, have ye not been my work in my Lord?

 9:2 And if to others I be not an apostle, yet am I (such) to you; and the seal of my apostleship are you.

 9:2 And if I have not been a legate to others, yet I have been so to you; and ye are the seal of my legateship.

 9:3 My apology to them who judge me [for not receiving maintenance] is this:

 9:3 And [my] apology to my judgers, is this:

 9:4 Have we not authority to eat and to drink?

 9:4 Have we not authority, to eat and to drink?

 9:5 or have we not authority a sister, a wife, to lead about with us, as the rest of the apostles, and as the brethren of our Lord, and as Kipha?

 9:5 Or have we not authority to carry about with us a sister as a wife; just as the other legates, and the brothers of our Lord, and as Cephas?

 9:6 Or have I only, and Bar Naba, not authority to forbear from labour?

 9:6 Or I only, and Barnabas, have we no right to forbear labor?

 9:7 Who serveth at service at the expenses of himself? or who planteth the vinery, and from the fruits thereof eateth not? or who pastureth sheep, and from the milk of the flock eateth not?

 9:7 Who, that serveth in war, [doth so] at his own expense? Or who, that planteth a vineyard, eateth not of its fruits? Or who, that tendeth sheep, eateth not of the milk of his flocks?

 9:8 Do I as a man speak these things? Behold, the law also saith these things.

 9:8 Is it as a man, I say these things? Behold, the law also saith them.

 9:9 For it is written in the law of Musha, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out (the corn). But of oxen is Aloha careful?

 9:9 For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that thresheth. Hath God regard for oxen?

 9:10 But it is evident that on our account this is said; for on our account it is written, because that in hope it behoveth the ploughman to plough, and him who thresheth, in hope of provision (to thresh).

 9:10 But manifest it is, for whose sake he said it. And indeed, for our sakes it was written: because the plougher ought to plough in hope, and the thresher in hope of fruit.

 9:11 If we of the spirit have sown among you, is it a great thing if we from you of the body shall reap?

 9:11 If we have sowed among you the things of the Spirit, is it a great matter, if we reap from you the things of the body?

 9:12 And if others have this power over you, much more have we. But we are not used in this power; but we bear all, lest in any thing we should hinder the gospel of the Meshiha.

 9:12 And if others have this prerogative over you, doth it not belong still more to us? Yet we have not used this prerogative; but we have endured every thing, that we might in nothing impede the announcement of the Messiah.

 9:13 ¶ KNOW you not that they who serve in the sanctuary from the sanctuary are sustained? And they who at the altar serve share with the altar?

 9:13 Know ye not, that they who serve in a temple, are fed from the temple? And they who serve at the altar, participate with the altar?

 9:14 So also our Lord hath commanded, that they who his gospel preach, by his gospel shall live.

 9:14 Thus also hath our Lord commanded, that they who proclaim his gospel, should live by his gospel.

 9:15 But I am not used in one of these; nor on this account have I thus written, that so it should be done unto me: for it were better for me that dying I should die, than that any man my glorying should make void.

 9:15 But I have used none of these things: and I write not, that it may be so done to me; for it would be better for me to actually die, than that any one should make void my glorying.

 9:16 Yet also in preaching I have no cause to glory: for necessity lieth upon me; for woe to me unless I preach!

 9:16 For while I preach, I have no [ground of] glorying; because necessity is laid upon me, and woe to me, if I preach not.

 9:17 For if with my will I do this, I have a reward. But if without my will, (yet) a stewardship is confided to me.

 9:17 For if I do this voluntarily, there is a reward for me: but if involuntarily, a stewardship is intrusted to me.

 9:18 What, then, is my reward? That while preaching without expenses I may perform the annunciation of the Meshiha, and not abuse the power that is given to me in the gospel.

 9:18 What then is my reward? [It is,] that when I preach, I make the announcement of the Messiah without cost, and use not the prerogative given me in the gospel.

 9:19 For while free of all men, to all men I subject myself, that the many I may gain.

 9:19 Being free from them all, I have made myself servant to every man; that I might gain many:

 9:20 And I become with the Jihudoyee as a Jihudoya, that the Jihudoyee I may gain; and with them who are under the law, I become as one under the law, that them who are under the law I may gain;

 9:20 and with the Jews, I was as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; and with those under the law, I was as under the law, that I might gain them who are under the law;

 9:21 and to those who have not the law I become as one without law, while I am not unto Aloha without law, but in the law of the Meshiha, that them also who have not law I may gain.

 9:21 and to those who have not the law, I was as without the law, (although I am not without law to God, but under the law of the Messiah,) that I might gain them that are without the law.

 9:22 I become with the weak as weak, that the weak I may gain. To all men all become I, that every man I may save.

 9:22 I was with the weak, as weak, that I might gain the weak: I was all things to all men, that I might vivify every one.

 9:23 But this I do that I may be a participator in the gospel.

 9:23 And this I do, that I may participate in the announcement.

 9:24 Know you not, that they who run in the course, run all, but one taketh to him the victory? So run, that you may take hold.

 9:24 Know ye not that they who run in the stadium, run all of them; yet it is one who gaineth the victory. Run ye, so as to attain.

 9:25 For every man who contendeth from every thing (besides with) holdeth his mind; and they who run (do it) that they may receive a crown that is corruptible, but we one that is incorruptible.

 9:25 For every one who engageth in the contest, restraineth his desires in every thing. And they run, to obtain a crown that perisheth; but we, one that perisheth not.

 9:26 I therefore so run, not as about a thing unknown; and so smite I, as not smiting the air;

 9:26 I therefore so run, not as for something unknown; and I so struggle, not as struggling against air;

 9:27 but my body I subdue and make subservient, lest when to others I shall have preached, I my very self shall be rejected.

 9:27 but I subdue my body, and reduce it to servitude; lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a reprobate.