1 Timoti 3
1 Ga wata tabbatacciyar magana. In wani ya sa zuciyarsa a kan zama mai kula da ikkilisiya, yana marmarin yin aiki mai daraja ne.
This is a true saying, If any man desire the office of a Bishop, he desireth a worthie worke.
2 To, dole mai kula da Ikkilisiya yă kasance marar abin zargi, mijin mace guda, mai sauƙinkai, mai kamunkai, wanda ake girmama, mai karɓan baƙi, mai iya koyarwa,
A Bishop therefore must be vnreproueable, the husband of one wife, watching, temperate, modest, harberous, apt to teache,
3 ba mai buguwa ba, ba mai rikici ba sai dai mai hankali, ba mai yawan faɗa ba, ba kuma mai yawan son kuɗi ba.
Not giuen to wine, no striker, not giuen to filthy lucre, but gentle, no fighter, not couetous,
4 Dole yă iya tafiyar da iyalinsa da kyau, yă kuma tabbata cewa’ya’yansa suna yin masa biyayya da ladabin da ya dace.
One that can rule his owne house honestly, hauing children vnder obedience with all honestie.
5 (In mutum bai san yadda zai tafiyar da iyalinsa ba, yaya zai iya kula da ikkilisiyar Allah?)
For if any cannot rule his owne house, how shall he care for the Church of God?
6 Kada yă zama sabon tuba, in ba haka zai zama mai girman kai yă kuma fāɗa cikin irin hukuncin da ya fāɗo wa Iblis.
He may not be a yong scholer, lest he being puffed vp fall into the condemnation of the deuill.
7 Dole kuma yă kasance da shaida mai kyau ga waɗanda suke na waje, don kada yă zama abin kunya yă kuma fāɗa cikin tarkon Iblis.
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 Haka masu hidima a cikin ikkilisiya; su ma, su zama maza da sun cancanci girmamawa, masu gaskiya, ba masu yawan shan ruwan inabi ba, ba masu kwaɗayin ƙazamar riba ba.
Likewise must Deacons be graue, not double tongued, not giuen vnto much wine, neither to filthy lucre,
9 Dole su riƙe asirin bangaskiya su kuma kasance da lamiri mai tsabta.
Hauing the mysterie of the faith in pure conscience.
10 Dole a fara gwada su tukuna; sa’an nan in ba a sami wani abin zargi game da su ba, sai su shiga aikin masu hidima.
And let them first be proued: then let them minister, if they be found blameles.
11 A haka kuma, dole matansu su zama matan da suka cancanci girmamawa, ba masu gulma ba, sai dai masu sauƙinkai da kuma masu aminci a cikin kome.
Likewise their wiues must be honest, not euill speakers, but sober, and faithfull in all things.
12 Dole mai hidimar ikkilisiya yă zama mijin mace guda dole kuma yă iya tafiyar da’ya’yansa da kuma iyalinsa da kyau.
Let the Deacons be the husbands of one wife, and such as can rule their children well, and their owne housholdes.
13 Waɗanda suke hidima da kyau suna samar wa kansu kyakkyawan suna da kuma cikakken tabbatarwa a cikin bangaskiyarsu cikin Kiristi Yesu.
For they that haue ministred well, get them selues a good degree, and great libertie in the faith, which is in Christ Iesus.
14 Ko da yake ina sa zuciya zo wurinka nan ba da daɗewa ba, ina rubuta muka waɗannan umarnai domin,
These things write I vnto thee, trusting to come very shortly vnto thee.
15 in na yi jinkiri, za ka san yadda ya kamata mutane su tafiyar da halayensu a cikin jama’ar Allah, wadda take ikkilisiyar Allah rayayye, ginshiƙi da kuma tushen gaskiya.
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 Ba shakka, asirin addini da girma yake. Ya bayyana cikin jiki, Ruhu ya nuna shi adali ne, mala’iku suka gan shi, aka yi wa’azinsa cikin al’ummai, aka gaskata shi a duniya, aka ɗauke shi sama cikin ɗaukaka.
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.
