၁ တီမထိယး 3
1 ယဒိ ကၑ္စိဒ် အဓျက္ၐပဒမ် အာကာင်္က္ၐတေ တရှိ သ ဥတ္တမံ ကရ္မ္မ လိပ္သတ ဣတိ သတျံ၊
Anyone who aspires to be an elder [in the congregation] (OR, a bishop) desires a noble/honorable task.
2 အတော'ဓျက္ၐေဏာနိန္ဒိတေနဲကသျာ ယောၐိတော ဘရ္တြာ ပရိမိတဘောဂေန သံယတမနသာ သဘျေနာတိထိသေဝကေန ၑိက္ၐဏေ နိပုဏေန
[Since that is a task that others should respect], an overseer must [live] in such a way that [no one] can truly (say that he has done [anything that is] wrong/find fault with him). Specifically, [he must be] faithful to his wife. He must think clearly [about what he does]. He must be able to control his behavior. He must be sensible. He must be dignified/respectable. He must welcome and care for guests. He must be able to teach [God’s truth] well.
3 န မဒျပေန န ပြဟာရကေဏ ကိန္တု မၖဒုဘာဝေန နိရွွိဝါဒေန နိရ္လောဘေန
He must not be a drunkard. He must not be ready/quick to fight [those who make him angry]. On the contrary, he must be gentle and he must not be quarrelsome. He must not be greedy for a lot of money.
4 သွပရိဝါရာဏာမ် ဥတ္တမၑာသကေန ပူရ္ဏဝိနီတတွာဒ် ဝၑျာနာံ သန္တာနာနာံ နိယန္တြာ စ ဘဝိတဝျံ၊
He must lead and care for his own household/family well. For example, he must be a man whom his children obey and completely respect,
5 ယတ အာတ္မပရိဝါရာန် ၑာသိတုံ ယော န ၑက္နောတိ တေနေၑွရသျ သမိတေသ္တတ္တွာဝဓာရဏံ ကထံ ကာရိၐျတေ?
because if anyone does not know how he should lead well and care for well the people who live in his own house, (he certainly cannot care for God’s congregation!/how can he care for God’s congregation?) [RHQ]
6 အပရံ သ ဂရွွိတော ဘူတွာ ယတ် ၑယတာန ဣဝ ဒဏ္ဍယောဂျော န ဘဝေတ် တဒရ္ထံ တေန နဝၑိၐျေဏ န ဘဝိတဝျံ၊
He must not be one who has just recently [trusted in Jesus], because [if you choose a man] like that, he might become conceited/proud [because you chose him so soon]. As a result of his being conceited/proud, God will condemn him like he condemned the devil [because he was conceited/proud].
7 ယစ္စ နိန္ဒာယာံ ၑယတာနသျ ဇာလေ စ န ပတေတ် တဒရ္ထံ တေန ဗဟိးသ္ထလောကာနာမပိ မဓျေ သုချာတိယုက္တေန ဘဝိတဝျံ၊
Moreover, [an elder must live] in such a way that non-Christians speak well of him, because [if he conducts himself like] that, people will not say evil things about him, and the devil will not capture/trap him [MET] [like people capture animals] in a trap.
8 တဒွတ် ပရိစာရကဲရပိ ဝိနီတဲ ရ္ဒွိဝိဓဝါကျရဟိတဲ ရ္ဗဟုမဒျပါနေ 'နာသက္တဲ ရ္နိရ္လောဘဲၑ္စ ဘဝိတဝျံ,
[Those whom you choose to serve as] deacons likewise [must be ones who conduct themselves suitably/appropriately. Specifically], they must be (serious/worthy that people respect them). They must (be sincere/mean what they say). They must not like to drink a lot of alcohol. They must not (be greedy/have a strong desire to get money).
9 နိရ္မ္မလသံဝေဒေန စ ဝိၑွာသသျ နိဂူဎဝါကျံ ဓာတိဝျဉ္စ၊
They must sincerely believe the message that [God] has now revealed [to us].
10 အဂြေ တေၐာံ ပရီက္ၐာ ကြိယတာံ တတး ပရမ် အနိန္ဒိတာ ဘူတွာ တေ ပရိစရျျာံ ကုရွွန္တု၊
[Like you do for the elders], you must examine ([their character/how they conduct their lives]) [before you appoint them to serve]. Then if they are without fault, let them serve as deacons.
11 အပရံ ယောၐိဒ္ဘိရပိ ဝိနီတာဘိရနပဝါဒိကာဘိး သတရ္ကာဘိး သရွွတြ ဝိၑွာသျာဘိၑ္စ ဘဝိတဝျံ၊
Their wives (OR, The women who are deacons) likewise [must conduct themselves suitably/appropriately. Specifically, they must be] (serious/worthy that people respect them). They must not speak evil about people. They must not drink a lot of alcohol. They must be faithful in everything that they do.
12 ပရိစာရကာ ဧကဲကယောၐိတော ဘရ္တ္တာရော ဘဝေယုး, နိဇသန္တာနာနာံ ပရိဇနာနာဉ္စ သုၑာသနံ ကုရျျုၑ္စ၊
Deacons must be faithful to their wives, and they must lead well and care well for their children and [other] people in their houses.
13 ယတး သာ ပရိစရျျာ ယဲ ရ္ဘဒြရူပေဏ သာဓျတေ တေ ၑြေၐ္ဌပဒံ ပြာပ္နုဝန္တိ ခြီၐ္ဋေ ယီၑော် ဝိၑွာသေန မဟောတ္သုကာ ဘဝန္တိ စ၊
Because if deacons serve well, people will respect them, and they will be able [to speak] very boldly/confidently about what they believe concerning Christ Jesus.
14 တွာံ ပြတျေတတ္ပတြလေခနသမယေ ၑီဃြံ တွတ္သမီပဂမနသျ ပြတျာၑာ မမ ဝိဒျတေ၊
Although I hope that I will come and visit you soon, I am writing these things to you [now]
15 ယဒိ ဝါ ဝိလမ္ဗေယ တရှီၑွရသျ ဂၖဟေ 'ရ္ထတး သတျဓရ္မ္မသျ သ္တမ္ဘဘိတ္တိမူလသွရူပါယာမ် အမရေၑွရသျ သမိတော် တွယာ ကီဒၖၑ အာစာရး ကရ္တ္တဝျသ္တတ် ဇ္ဉာတုံ ၑက္ၐျတေ၊
in order that if I (am delayed/things prevent me from visiting to you soon), you will know how believers should conduct their lives [and you will be able to teach that to them]. [I am talking about] all those who are members of God’s family, all the congregations that belong to the all-powerful God, all those who uphold/support [MET] the true [message].
16 အပရံ ယသျ မဟတ္တွံ သရွွသွီကၖတမ် ဤၑွရဘက္တေသ္တတ် နိဂူဎဝါကျမိဒမ် ဤၑွရော မာနဝဒေဟေ ပြကာၑိတ အာတ္မနာ သပုဏျီကၖတော ဒူတဲး သန္ဒၖၐ္ဋး သရွွဇာတီယာနာံ နိကဋေ ဃောၐိတော ဇဂတော ဝိၑွာသပါတြီဘူတသ္တေဇးပြာပ္တယေ သွရ္ဂံ နီတၑ္စေတိ၊
It is certainly true that [the message that God] has now revealed is very wonderful! From it, we learn this spiritual truth that we say/sing about [Christ] (OR, We affirm this teaching to be true and very important.) It is what shows us how to live (in a godly manner/in a manner that pleases God). It is what God has now revealed, even though it was not known before. [We] ([affirm/say that it is true]) concerning Jesus Christ that, He is the one who appeared on the earth in a human body. God’s Spirit showed/demonstrated that he is/was truly the Messiah (OR, that he always acted righteously); Angels saw him; people preached about him in many nations; People in many parts of the world believed the message about him. God took him up into heaven.
