၁ တီမထိယး 4
1 ပဝိတြ အာတ္မာ သ္ပၐ္ဋမ် ဣဒံ ဝါကျံ ဝဒတိ စရမကာလေ ကတိပယလောကာ ဝဟ္နိနာင်္ကိတတွာတ္
But the Spirit distinctly says that in later times there will be some who will fall away from the Faith, and devote their attention to misleading spirits, and to the teaching of demons,
2 ကဌောရမနသာံ ကာပဋျာဒ် အနၖတဝါဒိနာံ ဝိဝါဟနိၐေဓကာနာံ ဘက္ၐျဝိၑေၐနိၐေဓကာနာဉ္စ
who will make use of the hypocrisy of lying teachers. These men’s consciences are seared,
3 ဘူတသွရူပါဏာံ ၑိက္ၐာယာံ ဘြမကာတ္မနာံ ဝါကျေၐု စ မနာံသိ နိဝေၑျ ဓရ္မ္မာဒ် ဘြံၑိၐျန္တေ၊ တာနိ တု ဘက္ၐျာဏိ ဝိၑွာသိနာံ သွီကၖတသတျဓရ္မ္မာဏာဉ္စ ဓနျဝါဒသဟိတာယ ဘောဂါယေၑွရေဏ သသၖဇိရေ၊
and they discourage marriage and enjoin abstinence from certain kinds of food; though God created these foods to be enjoyed thankfully by those who hold the Faith and have attained a full knowledge of the Truth.
4 ယတ ဤၑွရေဏ ယဒျတ် သၖၐ္ဋံ တတ် သရွွမ် ဥတ္တမံ ယဒိ စ ဓနျဝါဒေန ဘုဇျတေ တရှိ တသျ ကိမပိ နာဂြာဟျံ ဘဝတိ,
Everything created by God is good, and there in nothing that need be rejected — provided only that it is received thankfully;
5 ယတ ဤၑွရသျ ဝါကျေန ပြာရ္ထနယာ စ တတ် ပဝိတြီဘဝတိ၊
for it is consecrated by God’s blessing and by prayer.
6 ဧတာနိ ဝါကျာနိ ယဒိ တွံ ဘြာတၖန် ဇ္ဉာပယေသ္တရှိ ယီၑုခြီၐ္ဋသျောတ္တမ္း ပရိစာရကော ဘဝိၐျသိ ယော ဝိၑွာသော ဟိတောပဒေၑၑ္စ တွယာ ဂၖဟီတသ္တဒီယဝါကျဲရာပျာယိၐျသေ စ၊
Put all this before the Brethren, and you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, sustained by the precepts of the Faith and of that Good Teaching by which you have guided your life.
7 ယာနျုပါချာနာနိ ဒုရ္ဘာဝါနိ ဝၖဒ္ဓယောၐိတာမေဝ ယောဂျာနိ စ တာနိ တွယာ ဝိသၖဇျန္တာမ် ဤၑွရဘက္တယေ ယတ္နး ကြိယတာဉ္စ၊
As for profane legends and old wives’ tales, leave them alone. Train yourself to lead a religious life;
8 ယတး ၑာရီရိကော ယတ္နး သွလ္ပဖလဒေါ ဘဝတိ ကိန္တွီၑွရဘက္တိရဲဟိကပါရတြိကဇီဝနယေား ပြတိဇ္ဉာယုက္တာ သတီ သရွွတြ ဖလဒါ ဘဝတိ၊
for while the training of the body is of service in some respects, religion is of service in all, carrying with it, as it does, a promise of Life both here and hereafter.
9 ဝါကျမေတဒ် ဝိၑွသနီယံ သရွွဲ ရ္ဂြဟဏီယဉ္စ ဝယဉ္စ တဒရ္ထမေဝ ၑြာမျာမော နိန္ဒာံ ဘုံဇ္မဟေ စ၊
How true that saying is and worthy of the fullest acceptance!
10 ယတော ဟေတေား သရွွမာနဝါနာံ ဝိၑေၐတော ဝိၑွာသိနာံ တြာတာ ယော'မရ ဤၑွရသ္တသ္မိန် ဝယံ ဝိၑွသာမး၊
With that aim we toil and struggle, for we have set our hopes on the Living God, who is the Saviour of all men, and especially of those who hold the Faith.
11 တွမ် ဧတာနိ ဝါကျာနိ ပြစာရယ သမုပဒိၑ စ၊
Dwell upon these things in your teaching.
12 အလ္ပဝယၐ္ကတွာတ် ကေနာပျဝဇ္ဉေယော န ဘဝ ကိန္တွာလာပေနာစရဏေန ပြေမ္နာ သဒါတ္မတွေန ဝိၑွာသေန ၑုစိတွေန စ ဝိၑွာသိနာမ် အာဒရ္ၑော ဘဝ၊
Do not let any one look down on you because you are young, but, by your conversation, your conduct, your love, your faith, and your purity, be an example to those who hold the Faith.
13 ယာဝန္နာဟမ် အာဂမိၐျာမိ တာဝတ် တွ ပါဌေ စေတယနေ ဥပဒေၑေ စ မနော နိဓတ္သွ၊
Till I come, apply yourself to public reading, preaching, and teaching.
14 ပြာစီနဂဏဟသ္တာရ္ပဏသဟိတေန ဘဝိၐျဒွါကျေန ယဒ္ဒါနံ တုဘျံ ဝိၑြာဏိတံ တဝါန္တးသ္ထေ တသ္မိန် ဒါနေ ၑိထိလမနာ မာ ဘဝ၊
Do not neglect the divine gift within you, which was given you, amid many a prediction, when the hands of the Officers of the Church were laid on your head.
15 ဧတေၐု မနော နိဝေၑယ, ဧတေၐု ဝရ္တ္တသွ, ဣတ္ထဉ္စ သရွွဝိၐယေ တဝ ဂုဏဝၖဒ္ဓိး ပြကာၑတာံ၊
Practice these things, devote yourself to them, so that your progress may be plain to every one.
16 သွသ္မိန် ဥပဒေၑေ စ သာဝဓာနော ဘူတွာဝတိၐ္ဌသွ တတ် ကၖတွာ တွယာတ္မပရိတြာဏံ ၑြောတၖဏာဉ္စ ပရိတြာဏံ သာဓယိၐျတေ၊
Look to yourself as well as to your teaching. Persevere in this, for your doing so will mean Salvation for yourself as well as for your hearers.
