1 Timothy 3
1 This is a true saying, If any man desire the office of a Bishop, he desireth a worthie worke.
Uulo lwakwidikika: engave umu inogwa ukuva intanjili inogwa imbombo inonu.
2 A Bishop therefore must be vnreproueable, the husband of one wife, watching, temperate, modest, harberous, apt to teache,
Pu untagili yitakiwa ave igolofu. Yitakiwa igonsi va dala yumo. Yitakiwa ave nu ludebe, uluholo, unya univehiiko, umwipe. Yitakiwa ave nu vuvwesyo uwa kumanyisya.
3 Not giuen to wine, no striker, not giuen to filthy lucre, but gentle, no fighter, not couetous,
Avisinywa, unyila mbacho, umwololo, ungalwidiko uywa asichigani indelamo.
4 One that can rule his owne house honestly, hauing children vnder obedience with all honestie.
Anogile ukuvimilila vunonu avana avamanyumba yamwene yu wlya, na vana va mwene vanogile ukupa ilisima lyoni.
5 For if any cannot rule his owne house, how shall he care for the Church of God?
Pu engave umunu sakimanyile ukuvinie avanu avamungumba ya mwene, iuresya ndakike ukwinilila umpelela giva Nguluve?
6 He may not be a yong scholer, lest he being puffed vp fall into the condemnation of the deuill.
Aleke ukuva umwidiki umpya, ayikeginia nukugusile imbuhiga wa nitavangwa ula.
7 He must also be well reported of, euen of them which are without, lest he fall into rebuke, and the snare of the deuill.
Ikange ave nu lwiho ulunonu kuvoni ava likunji, aleke ukungiwila muson na muentego gwa nitavangwa.
8 Likewise must Deacons be graue, not double tongued, not giuen vnto much wine, neither to filthy lucre,
Ava shemasi, vuvule vule vanogile ukuvadwadwa valekhe ukuva ni njovela ivili. Valekhe ukunywa nu kukitilila tena nu muvogo.
9 Hauing the mysterie of the faith in pure conscience.
Vamwesye ukulola kuntema unonu ku lwidiko lula ulunonu uluvunike.
10 And let them first be proued: then let them minister, if they be found blameles.
Hange vave vunonu vagolafu tena va vombage ulakuva vanyila nongwa.
11 Likewise their wiues must be honest, not euill speakers, but sober, and faithfull in all things.
Avadala vuvule vule vave nilisima. Valekhe udetela. Vave nulu debe na vagolofu ku mbombo nyoni.
12 Let the Deacons be the husbands of one wife, and such as can rule their children well, and their owne housholdes.
Avashemasi yitakiwa vave na gogosi va vadala yumo yumo. Punogile ukuvimwilila vunonu avana vavo va va munyumba chavo.
13 For they that haue ministred well, get them selues a good degree, and great libertie in the faith, which is in Christ Iesus.
Ulwakuva vala avavivomba vunonu vikava pakuwimila vunonu nu vukifu uvuvaha indwidiko uluvaha mwa Kilisiti U Yeesu.
14 These things write I vnto thee, trusting to come very shortly vnto thee.
Nikugasimba aga kuliave nilinuluhuvilo ukwicha kulyuve ululino.
15 But if I tary long, that thou maist yet know, how thou oughtest to behaue thy self in ye house of God, which is the Church of the liuing God, the pillar and ground of trueth.
Pu engave nicheliwa, nikukusimbila mkumanye umwakulutila mu nyumba ya Nguluve, ugwu ugvumpelela giva Nguluve uvi umwuni, imbanda nu lutangilo lwa lweli.
16 And without controuersie, great is the mysterie of godlinesse, which is, God is manifested in the flesh, iustified in the Spirit, seene of Angels, preached vnto the Gentiles, beleeued on in the world, and receiued vp in glorie.
Sayibencheka ukuta uvunyilweli wa vu Nguluve uvuvomikiwe vuvaha. “Vonike mumbile, nu Mepo, akavoneka nu sung'wa, akachovivwa kuvambuchenge, avadikiwa na vankilunga, nu kututoga kukyanya mu mbudwadwa.”
