1 Timothy 3
1 This is a true saying, If any man desire the office of a Bishop, he desireth a worthie worke.
likeweli lyenda aminika: mane abile mundu ywa tamani usimamizi alama nwalyengo linanoga.
2 A Bishop therefore must be vnreproueable, the husband of one wife, watching, temperate, modest, harberous, apt to teache,
Kwa-nyo simamizi lasima keneabe mundu ywolaumilwa. Lasima abe nalume ywa nwawa yumo. Abe na kiasi. busara, utaratibu, mkarimu. Lasima Abe na uweso wapundisa.
3 Not giuen to wine, no striker, not giuen to filthy lucre, but gentle, no fighter, not couetous,
Kene atumii wimbi kene apende bulwe, ila mpole meene amani. Na lasima kene Abe mwene penda mbanje.
4 One that can rule his owne house honestly, hauing children vnder obedience with all honestie.
Itakiwa abe mundu ywa yemilika chengo wake mwene, na bana bake ipalikwa ba muheshimu kwa eshima yoti.
5 For if any cannot rule his owne house, how shall he care for the Church of God?
Mana Mana itei awezalii kwiongoza nyumba yake mwene, alowakulilela buli kanisa lya Nnongo?
6 He may not be a yong scholer, lest he being puffed vp fall into the condemnation of the deuill.
Kene Abe ywaamini ywayambi, akana kwipuna na tumbu kwimuhukumu kati yule mpotofu.
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.
Lazima kai Abe na tabia inanoga kwa boti bababile panja, lenga hakana tumbukya mu'oni na mutengo wa upotofu.
8 Likewise must Deacons be graue, not double tongued, not giuen vnto much wine, neither to filthy lucre,
Na muudumu was kanisa nganyonyo bapalikwa babe na heshima, na kene babe na makowe gabele, kene banywe wembe au bana tamaa.
9 Hauing the mysterie of the faith in pure conscience.
Bawese kwilendela kwa zamiri safiyelo kweli imani ya iumukiwile.
10 And let them first be proued: then let them minister, if they be found blameles.
Babe babawiti baba akikisilwe wite, Mana baweza dumu sababu ntupu chabalaumiwa.
11 Likewise their wiues must be honest, not euill speakers, but sober, and faithfull in all things.
Na alwawa na bembe babe na heshima, kene babe abuso, Bene kiasi na babaaminika kwa kilebe.
12 Let the Deacons be the husbands of one wife, and such as can rule their children well, and their owne housholdes.
Batumishi babe alalome banwawa jumojumo. Lazima bawese kwiyenywa kinanoga bana babe na banyumba babe.
13 For they that haue ministred well, get them selues a good degree, and great libertie in the faith, which is in Christ Iesus.
Kwasababu balo babatumika kinanoga, bapatajima kinanoga na ujasiri kulo ngati ya imani katika Yesu Kirisitu.
14 These things write I vnto thee, trusting to come very shortly vnto thee.
Nenda andika makowe ga kasako, na nitegemea icha kasako masoba ga karibu.
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.
Ila mene na chelewa, nindaandika lenga upate tanga namna yoyenda kati ya nyumba Nnongo, nalyembe kanisa lya Nnongo lya libile likoti, mwimili na msaada wa kweli.
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.
Uwesalii pinga ukweli wa Nnongo wa uumukwile ni ukulu: “Abone na yenga na pata uwakika kwa mwoyo nakumonana malaika, natangaza nkati ya bandu makotwike aminiya ngati ya mataifa, aliaminilwa na Dunia na aputwilye kunani kwa ngupu ya Nnongo.
