1 Timothy 3

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

Lilovi lenili ndi chakaka, mundu mweigana kuvya chilongosi mumsambi wa vandu vevakumsadika Kilisitu, mwenuyo inogela lihengu labwina.

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

Hinu ndi, chilongosi wa msambi wa vandu vevakumsadika Kilisitu iganikiwa kuvya mundu angalaumiwa, iganikiwa avyai na mdala mmonga ndu, avyai na luhala lwabwina, mweakujilongosa na mweitopeswa avyai mweigana vayehe na mweamanyili kuwula.

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

Akotoka kugala kangi akotoka kuvya na ngondo, avya mngolongondi mweigana uteke, akotoka kuvya mweigana mashonga.

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

Iganikiwa kuvya mundu mweilongosa nyumba yaki bwina, na kuvawula vana vaki vavyai na utopesa woha.

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

Muni ngati mundu nakuhotola kulongosa nyumba yaki bwina, ihotola wuli kuliyangalila msambi wa vandu vevakumsadika Kilisitu ndi vandu va Chapanga?

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

Yiganikiwa angakangala musadika muni akotoka kumeka na kuhamuliwa ngati chehamuliwi Setani.

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

Mewa iganikiwa kuvya mundu mwakitili gabwina pagati ya vandu vevavili kuvala ya msambi wa vandu vevakumsadika Kilisitu, muni akotoka kulungamiwa na kugwa mulikoka la Setani.

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

Vatangatila msambi wa vandu vevakumsadika Kilisitu viganikiwa mewa kuvya vandu vevikita gabwina, vavyai vandu lujovo lumonga, vakotoka kunywa divayi neju amala vevigana mashonga neju.

9 Hauing the mysterie of the faith in pure conscience.

Niganikiwa kukamulana neju na uchakaka weufiyiki wa sadika kwa mtima wewikumbuka kuhenga mambu gabwina.

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

Yiganikiwa valingiwa hoti, na ngati viloleka vihotola, ndi vakita lihengu lenilo.

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

Vadala vavi mewa viganikiwa kuvya vandu vana mwenendu wabwina, vakotoka kuvya vevijova vangi, vavyai vabwina na vevisadikika mu mambu goha.

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

Mtangatila wa msambi wa vandu vevakumsadika Kilisitu iganikiwa kuvya na mdala mmonga ndu, na mweihotola kulongosa bwina vana vaki na nyumba yaki.

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

Muni vatangatila vevihenga lihengu lavi bwina, yati vakuvajova bwina, na vihotola kujova bwina changali kuyogopa ndava ya sadika yavi mukuwungana na Kilisitu Yesu.

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

Nikuyandikila balua iyi ndava nivii papipi kubwela kwako.

15 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.

Nambu nikakavila, ndi balua iyi yati yikuvamanyisa chatiganikiwa kuvya munyumba ya Chapanga, ndi msambi wa vandu vevakumsadika Kilisitu. Vandu avo ndi lipanda na mkingisa wa chakaka na ndi vandu va Chapanga mweavimumi.

16 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.

Kawaka wogoyi wowoha ndava ya ukulu wa mfiyu wa sadika. Awonikini muliumbu la umundu, amanyiswi na Mpungu kuvya mbwina, awonikini na mtumu wa kunani kwa Chapanga, akokwisi pagati ya vandu va pamulima, asadikiwi pamulima akatoliwa kunani muukulu.