၁ တီမထိယး 5
1 တွံ ပြာစီနံ န ဘရ္တ္သယ ကိန္တု တံ ပိတရမိဝ ယူနၑ္စ ဘြာတၖနိဝ
Do not rebuke/scold older men. Instead, exhort/advise them [respectfully] as you would [exhort/advise] your father. Exhort/advise younger men [gently] as you would exhort/advise your brothers.
2 ဝၖဒ္ဓါး သ္တြိယၑ္စ မာတၖနိဝ ယုဝတီၑ္စ ပူရ္ဏၑုစိတွေန ဘဂိနီရိဝ ဝိနယသွ၊
[Exhort/advise] older women [respectfully] as [you would exhort/advise] your mother. [Exhort/advise] younger women [gently] as [you would exhort/advise] your sisters; but you must act in a completely proper way as you do that.
3 အပရံ သတျဝိဓဝါး သမ္မနျသွ၊
[Make sure that the congregation] takes care of widows who have no one to care for them.
4 ကသျာၑ္စိဒ် ဝိဓဝါယာ ယဒိ ပုတြား ပေါ်တြာ ဝါ ဝိဒျန္တေ တရှိ တေ ပြထမတး သွီယပရိဇနာန် သေဝိတုံ ပိတြေား ပြတျုပကရ္တ္တုဉ္စ ၑိက္ၐန္တာံ ယတသ္တဒေဝေၑွရသျ သာက္ၐာဒ် ဥတ္တမံ ဂြာဟျဉ္စ ကရ္မ္မ၊
If a widow has children or grandchildren, these [children or grandchildren] should learn that they are to take care of their own family first. By doing that they can repay their parents and grandparents for all that they did for them when they were young, because doing that pleases God.
5 အပရံ ယာ နာရီ သတျဝိဓဝါ နာထဟီနာ စာသ္တိ သာ ဤၑွရသျာၑြယေ တိၐ္ဌန္တီ ဒိဝါနိၑံ နိဝေဒနပြာရ္ထနာဘျာံ ကာလံ ယာပယတိ၊
The widows who are really alone and have no one [to help them] confidently expect that God [will help them]. So night and day they pray, earnestly asking [DOU] [God that he will help them and others].
6 ကိန္တု ယာ ဝိဓဝါ သုခဘောဂါသက္တာ သာ ဇီဝတျပိ မၖတာ ဘဝတိ၊
But widows who just want to have a lot of pleasure are [spiritually] [MET] dead, although they are [physically] alive.
7 အတဧဝ တာ ယဒ် အနိန္ဒိတာ ဘဝေယူသ္တဒရ္ထမ် ဧတာနိ တွယာ နိဒိၑျန္တာံ၊
And tell [the congregation] that [the children or grandchildren should do] these things in order that [no one] can (criticize the believers/say that the believers are doing anything that is wrong).
8 ယဒိ ကၑ္စိတ် သွဇာတီယာန် လောကာန် ဝိၑေၐတး သွီယပရိဇနာန် န ပါလယတိ တရှိ သ ဝိၑွာသာဒ် ဘြၐ္ဋော 'ပျဓမၑ္စ ဘဝတိ၊
If anyone does not take care of those who live in his own house, and especially if he does not take care of his own family, he has (denied/quit believing) what we believe and [we should consider that] he is worse than a person who does not believe [in Christ].
9 ဝိဓဝါဝရ္ဂေ ယသျာ ဂဏနာ ဘဝတိ တယာ ၐၐ္ဋိဝတ္သရေဘျော နျူနဝယသ္ကယာ န ဘဝိတဝျံ; အပရံ ပူရွွမ် ဧကသွာမိကာ ဘူတွာ
[You have a list of] widows [who will do work for the congregation and receive money]. Put women’s names on the list [only if] they are more than 60 years old, and if they were faithful to their husbands.
10 သာ ယတ် ၑိၑုပေါၐဏေနာတိထိသေဝနေန ပဝိတြလောကာနာံ စရဏပြက္ၐာလနေန က္လိၐ္ဋာနာမ် ဥပကာရေဏ သရွွဝိဓသတ္ကရ္မ္မာစရဏေန စ သတ္ကရ္မ္မကရဏာတ် သုချာတိပြာပ္တာ ဘဝေတ် တဒပျာဝၑျကံ၊
[Put women’s names on that list only] if it is known that they have wholeheartedly done every kind of good deed, if they have helped [children] who were afflicted/suffering, if they have (brought up/cared for) their children [properly/well], if they have welcomed and cared for guests, and if they have humbly served [MTY] other believers.
11 ကိန္တု ယုဝတီ ရွိဓဝါ န ဂၖဟာဏ ယတး ခြီၐ္ဋသျ ဝဲပရီတျေန တာသာံ ဒရ္ပေ ဇာတေ တာ ဝိဝါဟမ် ဣစ္ဆန္တိ၊
As for younger widows, do not put their names on that list, because they [promise to do work for the congregation, but instead of doing that, they usually] want to marry [again] (OR, marry an unbeliever) when they have a strong desire to get married.
12 တသ္မာစ္စ ပူရွွဓရ္မ္မံ ပရိတျဇျ ဒဏ္ဍနီယာ ဘဝန္တိ၊
If that happens, they may become guilty of not having done what they had promised [to do for the congregation] (OR, promised [Christ that they would do].)
13 အနန္တရံ တာ ဂၖဟာဒ် ဂၖဟံ ပရျျဋန္တျ အာလသျံ ၑိက္ၐန္တေ ကေဝလမာလသျံ နဟိ ကိန္တွနရ္ထကာလာပံ ပရာဓိကာရစရ္စ္စာဉ္စာပိ ၑိက္ၐမာဏာ အနုစိတာနိ ဝါကျာနိ ဘာၐန္တေ၊
In addition, they [generally] become lazy. Specifically, as they [just] go about from house to house, they also begin (to gossip/to talk about people) and to meddle in other people’s affairs, saying what they should not say.
14 အတော မမေစ္ဆေယံ ယုဝတျော ဝိဓဝါ ဝိဝါဟံ ကုရွွတာမ် အပတျဝတျော ဘဝန္တု ဂၖဟကရ္မ္မ ကုရွွတာဉ္စေတ္ထံ ဝိပက္ၐာယ ကိမပိ နိန္ဒာဒွါရံ န ဒဒတု၊
So I advise that [instead of putting the names of younger widows on the list, they] marry again, that they bear/have children, that they manage their homes [well], and that they do nothing for which an enemy can say bad things about [them].
15 ယတ ဣတး ပူရွွမ် အပိ ကာၑ္စိတ် ၑယတာနသျ ပၑ္စာဒ္ဂါမိနျော ဇာတား၊
[I say this] because some [younger widows] have stopped [obeying Christ] in order to obey Satan.
16 အပရံ ဝိၑွာသိနျာ ဝိၑွာသိနော ဝါ ကသျာပိ ပရိဝါရာဏာံ မဓျေ ယဒိ ဝိဓဝါ ဝိဒျန္တေ တရှိ သ တား ပြတိပါလယတု တသ္မာတ် သမိတော် ဘာရေ 'နာရောပိတေ သတျဝိဓဝါနာံ ပြတိပါလနံ ကရ္တ္တုံ တယာ ၑကျတေ၊
If any woman who believes [in Christ] has widows [in her household/family], she should take care of them. The congregation should not be burdened by having {She should not depend on the congregation} to take care of their [needs]. The congregation should take care of the widows who truly [have no one to care for them].
17 ယေ ပြာဉ္စး သမိတိံ သမျဂ် အဓိတိၐ္ဌန္တိ ဝိၑေၐတ ဤၑွရဝါကျေနောပဒေၑေန စ ယေ ယတ္နံ ဝိဒဓတေ တေ ဒွိဂုဏသျာဒရသျ ယောဂျာ မာနျန္တာံ၊
[Each congregation] should pay well the elders who lead [well. They should] greatly honor them, especially those who preach and those who teach.
18 ယသ္မာတ် ၑာသ္တြေ လိခိတမိဒမာသ္တေ, တွံ ၑသျမရ္ဒ္ဒကဝၖၐသျာသျံ မာ ဗဓာနေတိ, အပရမပိ ကာရျျကၖဒ် ဝေတနသျ ယောဂျော ဘဝတီတိ၊
[Long ago Moses] wrote in the Scriptures, “While an ox is threshing [grain], you must not tie its mouth [so that it cannot eat the grain],” and [Jesus said], “[People] should pay those who work [for their benefit].” [So we know that congregations should support their leaders].
19 ဒွေါ် တြီန် ဝါ သာက္ၐိဏော ဝိနာ ကသျာစိတ် ပြာစီနသျ ဝိရုဒ္ဓမ် အဘိယောဂသ္တွယာ န ဂၖဟျတာံ၊
When some person accuses an elder [about doing wrong], accept what he says only if there are [at least] two or three persons who (testify/say [that]) [they saw him do that wrong].
20 အပရံ ယေ ပါပမာစရန္တိ တာန် သရွွေၐာံ သမက္ၐံ ဘရ္တ္သယသွ တေနာပရေၐာမပိ ဘီတိ ရ္ဇနိၐျတေ၊
But as for any [elder] who repeatedly sins, rebuke him before the whole congregation, in order that the rest [of the elders] will be afraid [to sin].
21 အဟမ် ဤၑွရသျ ပြဘော ရျီၑုခြီၐ္ဋသျ မနောနီတဒိဝျဒူတာနာဉ္စ ဂေါစရေ တွာမ် ဣဒမ် အာဇ္ဉာပယာမိ တွံ ကသျာပျနုရောဓေန ကိမပိ န ကုရွွန ဝိနာပက္ၐပါတမ် ဧတာန ဝိဓီန် ပါလယ၊
I solemnly tell you that [as you keep in mind that] God and Christ Jesus and the holy angels know everything that you do, obey these commands [about elders]! [As you consider what others say about an elder doing wrong], do not easily/quickly decide that what they say is true. And treat them all equally.
22 ကသျာပိ မူရ္ဒ္ဓိ ဟသ္တာပရ္ဏံ တွရယာ မာကာရ္ၐီး၊ ပရပါပါနာဉ္စာံၑီ မာ ဘဝ၊ သွံ ၑုစိံ ရက္ၐ၊
Do not be in a hurry to put your hands on a man ([to set him apart/to appoint him]) [as an elder. Wait until you have examined him to see how he conducts his life], because [God will consider] that you are responsible if [you approve] a person who sins, saying that he should [become an elder]. Keep your life pure in every way.
23 အပရံ တဝေါဒရပီဍာယား ပုနး ပုန ဒုရ္ဗ္ဗလတာယာၑ္စ နိမိတ္တံ ကေဝလံ တောယံ န ပိဝန် ကိဉ္စိန် မဒျံ ပိဝ၊
[And Timothy], no longer drink [only] water, but instead, drink a little wine [also], because [that may help to cure] your stomach’s frequent illnesses.
24 ကေၐာဉ္စိတ် မာနဝါနာံ ပါပါနိ ဝိစာရာတ် ပူရွွံ ကေၐာဉ္စိတ် ပၑ္စာတ် ပြကာၑန္တေ၊
[I tell you not] ([to set apart/appoint]) [elders hastily, without seeing how they conduct their lives, because] some people [sin secretly], so that it is not known what they have done until after someone examines them (OR, before God judges them). But some people sin openly, so that people know what they have done before anyone examines them.
25 တထဲဝ သတ္ကရ္မ္မာဏျပိ ပြကာၑန္တေ တဒနျထာ သတိ ပြစ္ဆန္နာနိ သ္ထာတုံ န ၑက္နုဝန္တိ၊
Similarly, although [some people] do good things openly, with the result that people know what they have done, some people [do good things secretly], yet the good things that they have done cannot remain secret either.
