1 Timote 3

1 Ya maama ne tiegi li ya tie ke nilo bua tua gobdika; o lugdi ya tuonli n mɔni boncianla.

This is a true saying, If any man desire the office of a Bishop, he desireth a worthie worke.

2 Li buali ke gobdika kan ya pia jalgi bákuli, ki ya pia oyendo baba, ke o yama dua, yua n pia li miinli, yua cegni o yema, ki banili cangaali, ki ba fidi ki tundi niba

A Bishop therefore must be vnreproueable, the husband of one wife, watching, temperate, modest, harberous, apt to teache,

3 O kan kuani o yuli li daañuli nni, yua ki pia jadi, ama yua gaani sugli, ki pia li juunli, kaa kpaani o yuli po baali.

Not giuen to wine, no striker, not giuen to filthy lucre, but gentle, no fighter, not couetous,

4 O baa bani o diegu kubma, ke o bila cengi o maama, ki cɔlni.

One that can rule his owne house honestly, hauing children vnder obedience with all honestie.

5 Kelima nilo ya ki bani o diegu kubma, o ba tieni ledi i ku kubi U Tienu nitaanli?

For if any cannot rule his owne house, how shall he care for the Church of God?

6 Li ki buali ke wan ya tie kɔnpanga, o japaaciandi ń da ti cedi sutaani ń buu ki cuo o.

He may not be a yong scholer, lest he being puffed vp fall into the condemnation of the deuill.

7 Li go buali ke wan la kasiedi kaantianu, lan todi o wan da baa mi tudma bii sutaani diagu nni.

He must also be well reported of, euen of them which are without, lest he fall into rebuke, and the snare of the deuill.

8 Bi todkaaba mo baa tie mɔmɔnsaala i, ki fagi yeni palalie danba, li daañucianli yeni mi ŋalmanbuama.

Likewise must Deacons be graue, not double tongued, not giuen vnto much wine, neither to filthy lucre,

9 Bi baa kubi bi dudugdi ń dɔgdi bi po ya mɔmɔni yeni li yantiaŋanli.

Hauing the mysterie of the faith in pure conscience.

10 Bi dá ba cindi ki biigi ba, ki diidi yo, bi ya ki pia tagli bákuli, ban fidi ki cili bi tuonli.

And let them first be proued: then let them minister, if they be found blameles.

11 Bi puoba mo baa tie yaaba n maadi i mɔni, kaa jondi nilo po, ki pia li yumiinli, ki tie payenli buama danba lan tieni maama kuli.

Likewise their wiues must be honest, not euill speakers, but sober, and faithfull in all things.

12 Bi todkaaba baa tie poyendanba, yaaba n ŋanbi ki tundi bi bila, ki kubi bi dansanu bonŋanla.

Let the Deacons be the husbands of one wife, and such as can rule their children well, and their owne housholdes.

13 Kelima, yaaba n tuuni bi tuona bonŋanla ba baa li seli yeni li dandanli kelima bi dudugdi Jesu Kiristi nni.

For they that haue ministred well, get them selues a good degree, and great libertie in the faith, which is in Christ Iesus.

14 N diani ki maadi a ya bona ne, ki daani ke min cua a kani yognubá.

These things write I vnto thee, trusting to come very shortly vnto thee.

15 Ama, ki fidi lan todi a, li ya tie ke mii cua tonma, ŋan bandi a yema U Tienu diegu nni, yaagu n tie U Tienu yua tundi ki pia miali nitaanli, i mɔmɔni jumu yeni yi daasiedu.

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.

16 Lipo n cedi ke tikuli taani ki tuo ke: “Mi yenŋɔdma mɔmɔni tie yaalidgu bonli i” O dɔgdi yeni ti gbannandi, ke foŋanma saa i mɔni o po, ke malekinba la o, ke o wangi o laabaaliŋamo bi niba siiga, ke bi dugi o po ŋanduna nni, ke bi duoni o ti yudandi nni”.

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.