1 Timothy 3
1 This is a true saying, If any man desire the office of a Bishop, he desireth a worthie worke.
yadi kazcid adhyakSapadam AkAgkSatE tarhi sa uttamaM karmma lipsata iti satyaM|
2 A Bishop therefore must be vnreproueable, the husband of one wife, watching, temperate, modest, harberous, apt to teache,
atO'dhyakSENAninditEnaikasyA yOSitO bhartrA parimitabhOgEna saMyatamanasA sabhyEnAtithisEvakEna zikSaNE nipuNEna
3 Not giuen to wine, no striker, not giuen to filthy lucre, but gentle, no fighter, not couetous,
na madyapEna na prahArakENa kintu mRdubhAvEna nirvvivAdEna nirlObhEna
4 One that can rule his owne house honestly, hauing children vnder obedience with all honestie.
svaparivArANAm uttamazAsakEna pUrNavinItatvAd vazyAnAM santAnAnAM niyantrA ca bhavitavyaM|
5 For if any cannot rule his owne house, how shall he care for the Church of God?
yata AtmaparivArAn zAsituM yO na zaknOti tEnEzvarasya samitEstattvAvadhAraNaM kathaM kAriSyatE?
6 He may not be a yong scholer, lest he being puffed vp fall into the condemnation of the deuill.
aparaM sa garvvitO bhUtvA yat zayatAna iva daNPayOgyO na bhavEt tadarthaM tEna navaziSyENa na bhavitavyaM|
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.
yacca nindAyAM zayatAnasya jAlE ca na patEt tadarthaM tEna bahiHsthalOkAnAmapi madhyE sukhyAtiyuktEna bhavitavyaM|
8 Likewise must Deacons be graue, not double tongued, not giuen vnto much wine, neither to filthy lucre,
tadvat paricArakairapi vinItai rdvividhavAkyarahitai rbahumadyapAnE 'nAsaktai rnirlObhaizca bhavitavyaM,
9 Hauing the mysterie of the faith in pure conscience.
nirmmalasaMvEdEna ca vizvAsasya nigUPhavAkyaM dhAtivyanjca|
10 And let them first be proued: then let them minister, if they be found blameles.
agrE tESAM parIkSA kriyatAM tataH param aninditA bhUtvA tE paricaryyAM kurvvantu|
11 Likewise their wiues must be honest, not euill speakers, but sober, and faithfull in all things.
aparaM yOSidbhirapi vinItAbhiranapavAdikAbhiH satarkAbhiH sarvvatra vizvAsyAbhizca bhavitavyaM|
12 Let the Deacons be the husbands of one wife, and such as can rule their children well, and their owne housholdes.
paricArakA EkaikayOSitO bharttArO bhavEyuH, nijasantAnAnAM parijanAnAnjca suzAsanaM kuryyuzca|
13 For they that haue ministred well, get them selues a good degree, and great libertie in the faith, which is in Christ Iesus.
yataH sA paricaryyA yai rbhadrarUpENa sAdhyatE tE zrESThapadaM prApnuvanti khrISTE yIzau vizvAsEna mahOtsukA bhavanti ca|
14 These things write I vnto thee, trusting to come very shortly vnto thee.
tvAM pratyEtatpatralEkhanasamayE zIghraM tvatsamIpagamanasya pratyAzA mama vidyatE|
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.
yadi vA vilambEya tarhIzvarasya gRhE 'rthataH satyadharmmasya stambhabhittimUlasvarUpAyAm amarEzvarasya samitau tvayA kIdRza AcAraH karttavyastat jnjAtuM zakSyatE|
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.
aparaM yasya mahattvaM sarvvasvIkRtam IzvarabhaktEstat nigUPhavAkyamidam IzvarO mAnavadEhE prakAzita AtmanA sapuNyIkRtO dUtaiH sandRSTaH sarvvajAtIyAnAM nikaTE ghOSitO jagatO vizvAsapAtrIbhUtastEjaHprAptayE svargaM nItazcEti|
