1 Timothy 3

1 True is the saying: If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.

ཡདི ཀཤྩིད྄ ཨདྷྱཀྵཔདམ྄ ཨཱཀཱངྐྵཏེ ཏརྷི ས ཨུཏྟམཾ ཀརྨྨ ལིཔྶཏ ཨིཏི སཏྱཾ།

2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, sober, discreet, orderly, hospitable, apt in teaching;

ཨཏོ྅དྷྱཀྵེཎཱནིནྡིཏེནཻཀསྱཱ ཡོཥིཏོ བྷརྟྲཱ པརིམིཏབྷོགེན སཾཡཏམནསཱ སབྷྱེནཱཏིཐིསེཝཀེན ཤིཀྵཎེ ནིཔུཎེན

3 not given to wine, not a striker, but forbearing, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money;

ན མདྱཔེན ན པྲཧཱརཀེཎ ཀིནྟུ མྲྀདུབྷཱཝེན ནིཪྻྭིཝཱདེན ནིརློབྷེན

4 presiding well over his own house, having his children in subjection with all propriety; —

སྭཔརིཝཱརཱཎཱམ྄ ཨུཏྟམཤཱསཀེན པཱུརྞཝིནཱིཏཏྭཱད྄ ཝཤྱཱནཱཾ སནྟཱནཱནཱཾ ནིཡནྟྲཱ ཙ བྷཝིཏཝྱཾ།

5 for if a man knoweth not how to preside over his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God—

ཡཏ ཨཱཏྨཔརིཝཱརཱན྄ ཤཱསིཏུཾ ཡོ ན ཤཀྣོཏི ཏེནེཤྭརསྱ སམིཏེསྟཏྟྭཱཝདྷཱརཎཾ ཀཐཾ ཀཱརིཥྱཏེ?

6 not a new convert, lest being puffed up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the Devil;

ཨཔརཾ ས གཪྻྭིཏོ བྷཱུཏྭཱ ཡཏ྄ ཤཡཏཱན ཨིཝ དཎྜཡོགྱོ ན བྷཝེཏ྄ ཏདརྠཾ ཏེན ནཝཤིཥྱེཎ ན བྷཝིཏཝྱཾ།

7 moreover he must also have a good report from them that are without, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the Devil.

ཡཙྩ ནིནྡཱཡཱཾ ཤཡཏཱནསྱ ཛཱལེ ཙ ན པཏེཏ྄ ཏདརྠཾ ཏེན བཧིཿསྠལོཀཱནཱམཔི མདྷྱེ སུཁྱཱཏིཡུཀྟེན བྷཝིཏཝྱཾ།

8 Deacons in like manner must be grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of base gain,

ཏདྭཏ྄ པརིཙཱརཀཻརཔི ཝིནཱིཏཻ རྡྭིཝིདྷཝཱཀྱརཧིཏཻ རྦཧུམདྱཔཱནེ ྅ནཱསཀྟཻ རྣིརློབྷཻཤྩ བྷཝིཏཝྱཾ,

9 holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

ནིརྨྨལསཾཝེདེན ཙ ཝིཤྭཱསསྱ ནིགཱུཌྷཝཱཀྱཾ དྷཱཏིཝྱཉྩ།

10 And let these also first be proved; then let them serve as deacons, if they are without reproach.

ཨགྲེ ཏེཥཱཾ པརཱིཀྵཱ ཀྲིཡཏཱཾ ཏཏཿ པརམ྄ ཨནིནྡིཏཱ བྷཱུཏྭཱ ཏེ པརིཙཪྻྱཱཾ ཀུཪྻྭནྟུ།

11 The women in like manner must be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

ཨཔརཾ ཡོཥིདྦྷིརཔི ཝིནཱིཏཱབྷིརནཔཝཱདིཀཱབྷིཿ སཏརྐཱབྷིཿ སཪྻྭཏྲ ཝིཤྭཱསྱཱབྷིཤྩ བྷཝིཏཝྱཾ།

12 Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

པརིཙཱརཀཱ ཨེཀཻཀཡོཥིཏོ བྷརྟྟཱརོ བྷཝེཡུཿ, ནིཛསནྟཱནཱནཱཾ པརིཛནཱནཱཉྩ སུཤཱསནཾ ཀུཪྻྱུཤྩ།

13 For they that have served well as deacons, gain for themselves a good standing, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

ཡཏཿ སཱ པརིཙཪྻྱཱ ཡཻ རྦྷདྲརཱུཔེཎ སཱདྷྱཏེ ཏེ ཤྲེཥྛཔདཾ པྲཱཔྣུཝནྟི ཁྲཱིཥྚེ ཡཱིཤཽ ཝིཤྭཱསེན མཧོཏྶུཀཱ བྷཝནྟི ཙ།

14 These things write I to thee, hoping to come to thee shortly;

ཏྭཱཾ པྲཏྱེཏཏྤཏྲལེཁནསམཡེ ཤཱིགྷྲཾ ཏྭཏྶམཱིཔགམནསྱ པྲཏྱཱཤཱ མམ ཝིདྱཏེ།

15 but if I should tarry long, that thou mayst know how thou oughtest to conduct thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

ཡདི ཝཱ ཝིལམྦེཡ ཏརྷཱིཤྭརསྱ གྲྀཧེ ྅རྠཏཿ སཏྱདྷརྨྨསྱ སྟམྦྷབྷིཏྟིམཱུལསྭརཱུཔཱཡཱམ྄ ཨམརེཤྭརསྱ སམིཏཽ ཏྭཡཱ ཀཱིདྲྀཤ ཨཱཙཱརཿ ཀརྟྟཝྱསྟཏ྄ ཛྙཱཏུཾ ཤཀྵྱཏེ།

16 And confessedly great is the mystery of godliness, in him who was manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen by angels, preached among the gentiles, believed on in the world, received up in glory.

ཨཔརཾ ཡསྱ མཧཏྟྭཾ སཪྻྭསྭཱིཀྲྀཏམ྄ ཨཱིཤྭརབྷཀྟེསྟཏ྄ ནིགཱུཌྷཝཱཀྱམིདམ྄ ཨཱིཤྭརོ མཱནཝདེཧེ པྲཀཱཤིཏ ཨཱཏྨནཱ སཔུཎྱཱིཀྲྀཏོ དཱུཏཻཿ སནྡྲྀཥྚཿ སཪྻྭཛཱཏཱིཡཱནཱཾ ནིཀཊེ གྷོཥིཏོ ཛགཏོ ཝིཤྭཱསཔཱཏྲཱིབྷཱུཏསྟེཛཿཔྲཱཔྟཡེ སྭརྒཾ ནཱིཏཤྩེཏི།