1 Timothy 4
1 Te dongah hmailong tue ah hlangvang loh tangnah te a nong tak ni tila Mueihla loh phaeng a thui coeng. Te vaengah laithaelaidang mueihla neh rhaithae kah thuituennah te a ngaithuen uh ni.
But the Spirit speaks expressly, that in latter times some shall apostatise from the faith, giving their mind to deceiving spirits and teachings of demons
2 A mingcimnah te laithae kah thailatnah neh a kolh uh coeng.
speaking lies in hypocrisy, cauterised as to their own conscience,
3 Yuloh vasak ham a paa sak tih uepom rhoek neh oltkak aka ming rhoek loh uemonah neh a doe ham Pathen loh a suen cakok te a rhael sak.
forbidding to marry, [bidding] to abstain from meats, which God has created for receiving with thanksgiving for them who are faithful and know the truth.
4 Pathen kah kutngo tah boeih then tih hnawt ham moenih uemonah neh doe ham ni.
For every creature of God [is] good, and nothing [is] to be rejected, being received with thanksgiving;
5 Pathen kah olka neh rhikhangnah loh a ciim coeng.
for it is sanctified by God's word and freely addressing [him].
6 He he manuca rhoek taengah a then la na tloeng pah atah Khrih Jesuh kah tueihyoeih la na om ni. Tangnah olka neh n'hlinsai tih thuituennah then te na thuep coeng.
Laying these things before the brethren, thou wilt be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished with the words of the faith and of the good teaching which thou hast fully followed up.
7 Tedae a rhonging neh yancil a rhuem hnawt lamtah hingcimnah ham namah hlinsai uh.
But profane and old wives' fables avoid, but exercise thyself unto piety;
8 Pumrho hlinsainah tah hoeikhang la bet akhaw om. Tedae hingcimnah tah tahae kah hingnah neh hmailong kah olkhueh aka om boeih ham hoeikhang la om.
for bodily exercise is profitable for a little, but piety is profitable for everything, having promise of life, of the present one, and of that to come.
9 Olka tah uepom neh hlang boeih kah a doe ham tueng.
The word [is] faithful and worthy of all acceptation;
10 He ham kongah n'thakthae uh tih n'thingthuel uh cakhaw aka hing Pathen ni n'ngaiuep uh. Amah tah hlang boeih neh olpuei la uepom rhoek kah khangkung la om.
for, for this we labour and suffer reproach, because we hope in a living God, who is preserver of all men, specially of those that believe.
11 He rhoek he uen lamtah thuituen.
Enjoin and teach these things.
12 Na camoe te han hnaep boel saeh, tedae olka dongah, omih dongah, lungnah dongah, tangnah dongah, cilpoenah dongah, uepom rhoek ham mueimae la om lah.
Let no one despise thy youth, but be a model of the believers, in word, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
13 Ka pawk hil olcim taenah, thaphohnah, thuituennah te ngaithuen uh.
Till I come, give thyself to reading, to exhortation, to teaching.
14 Nang dongah kutdoe te sawtrhoel boeh. Te tah tonghma ol lamloh kangham rhoek kah kut tloengnah nen ni nang m'paek.
Be not negligent of the gift [that is] in thee, which has been given to thee through prophecy, with imposition of the hands of the elderhood.
15 He he na mangtuk tih a khuiah na om daengah ni na rhoengcawtnah loh hlang boeih taengah mingpha la a om eh.
Occupy thyself with these things; be wholly in them, that thy progress may be manifest to all.
16 Namah te laehdawn uh lamtah thuituennah te oei lah. He tla saii daengah ni namah khaw, nang aka hnatung rhoek khaw na khang eh.
Give heed to thyself and to the teaching; continue in them; for, doing this, thou shalt save both thyself and those that hear thee.
