2 Timothy 4
1 Pathen neh Khrih Jesuh hmaiah kang uen. A phoenah, a ram neh aka duek aka hing laitloek ham cai.
This is what I instruct you to do before God and Christ Jesus who will judge the living and the dead when he comes to establish his kingdom.
2 Ol te hoe pah. Na bihoep tamto akhaw pai thil laeh. Thinsennah thuituennah cungkuem neh toeltham lamtah, sim lamtah, hloep laeh.
Speak God's word whether it is convenient or not, tell people where they're going wrong, warn them, encourage them. Do this with a great deal of patient teaching.
3 Aka cuem thuituennah neh a yaknaem uh pawt vaengah ni a. tue a pai eh. Tedae a hoehhamnah bangla amamih kah hnavue aka thak saya rhoek te a kuk uh ni.
For the time is coming when people won't bother to listen to true teaching. Instead they will be curious to listen to something different, and will surround themselves with teachers who'll tell them what they want to hear.
4 Te phoeiah oltak lamkah a hna te a khong uh vetih cil taengla mael uh ni.
They will stop listening to the truth and wander off following myths.
5 Tedae nang tah a cungkuem ah cue uh lamtah olthangthen bibi te patang doeah saii. Na bibi te khaw ming lah.
You need to keep your wits about you at all times. Put up with troubles, do the work of sharing the good news, fulfill your ministry.
6 Ka phum uh coeng tih ka voeinah tue khaw ha pai coeng.
For I'm about to be sacrificed—the time of my death is approaching.
7 Aka then thingthuelnah te ka thingthuel coeng. Hma te ka khah coeng. Tangnah te ka kuem coeng.
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept my trust in God.
8 Tahae lamkah kai ham duengnah rhuisam te a khueh coeng. Te te aka dueng laitloekkung boeipa loh tekah khohnin ah kai n'thuung ni. Te phoeiah kai bueng pawt tih a phoenah aka lungnah rhoek boeih te khaw a paek ni.
Now there's a prize reserved for me—the crown for a life lived according to what is good and right. The Lord, (who is the judge that always does what's right), will give that to me on that Day. And not just to me, but to everyone who longs for his coming.
9 Kai taengah koe aka pawk la na haam mako.
Please try to come to me as soon as you can.
10 Demas loh kai n'phap tih ta kumhal kah he a lungnah. Te dongah Thessalonika la, Kresens te Galati la, Titu te Dalmatia la vik cet. (aiōn g165)
Demas has abandoned me because he loves the things of this world more, and has gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia. (aiōn g165)
11 Ka taengah Luka bueng ni aka om. Marku te lo lamtah namah neh ha puei uh. Kai ham tah bibi dongah congpang koila om.
Only Luke is here with me. Bring Mark with you, because he can help me with my work.
12 Tedae Tukhiko te Ephisa la ka tueih coeng.
I sent Tychicus to Ephesus.
13 Na lo vaengah Troas kah Karpuh taengah himbai neh cayol olpuei la maehpho ka khueh te hang khuen.
When you come please bring the cloak I left behind with Carpus in Troas—and the books, especially the parchments.
14 Rhohum aka bi Alexander loh kai soah thae muep a tueng sak. Boeipa loh anih te amah khoboe bangla a thuung bitni.
Alexander the coppersmith caused me a lot of trouble—may God judge him for what he did.
15 Mamih kah olka te bahoeng a kamkaih dongah nang khaw anih te ngaithuen.
You watch out for him too, because he was very much against what we were saying.
16 Kai kah olthungnah lamhma vaengah kai taengla ha pawk uh pawh. Hlang boeih loh kai n'phap cakhaw amih te ngaiyaknah boel sih.
When it came to my first defense, no-one stood up for me—everyone abandoned me. May they not be blamed for this.
17 Tedae Boeipa loh kai m'pai puei tih kai n'thaphoh. Te daengah ni kai lamkah olhoe te a soep sak vetih namtom loh boeih a yaak eh. Te tlam ni sathueng ka lamloh n'hlawt.
But the Lord stood by me and gave me strength so that I could declare the whole of the message so that all the foreigners could hear it. I was rescued out of the lion's mouth!
18 Boeipa loh khoboe thae boeih lamkah kai n'hlawt vetih vaan kah amah ram khuila n'daem sak ni. Amah te kumhal ah kumhal duela thangpomnah om saeh. Amen. (aiōn g165)
The Lord will rescue me from all the evil things done against me, and will bring me safely to his heavenly kingdom. His is the glory forever and ever. Amen. (aiōn g165)
19 Priska neh Aquila, Onesiphor imkhuikho te toidal ne.
My greetings to Prisca and Aquila, and to Onesiphorus's family.
20 Erastu te Kawrin ah om tih Trophimu te a tloh dongah Miletu ah ka khueh.
Erastus stayed on in Corinth. I left Trophimus behind in Miletus because he was sick.
21 Sikca hlanah pawk hamla na haam mako. Ubuluh, Puden, Linu, Kalaudia neh manuca rhoek boeih loh nang kutn'tuuk uh.
Please try to come before winter. Eubulus sends his best wishes—and Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brothers and sisters too.
22 Boeipa loh na mueihla te om puei saeh. Lungvatnah tah nangmih taengah om saeh.
The Lord be with you. May his grace be with you all.
