1 Timóteo 3

1 This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer*3:1 or, superintendent, or bishop desires a good work. 2 The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching; 3 not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous; 4 one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence; 5 (for how could someone who doesn’t know how to rule his own house take care of God’s assembly?) 6 not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil. 7 Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.

8 Servants,*3:8 or, Deacons. in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money, 9 holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. 10 Let them also first be tested; then let them serve*3:10 or, serve as deacons if they are blameless. 11 Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, and faithful in all things. 12 Let servants*3:12 or, deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well. 13 For those who have served well*3:13 or, served well as deacons gain for themselves a good standing and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

14 These things I write to you, hoping to come to you shortly, 15 but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth. 16 Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great:

God * 3:16 NU replaces "God" with "who" was revealed in the flesh,

justified in the spirit,

seen by angels,

preached among the nations,

believed on in the world,

and received up in glory.

Ngā Kaiārahi i roto i te Hāhi

1 He pono te kōrero: ki te hiahia tētahi ki te mahi pīhopa, e hiahia ana ia ki te mahi pai. 2 Nā, ko te tikanga tēnei, kia kaua te pīhopa e ekengia e te kupu, he tahu nō te wahine kotahi, kia ngāwari, kia whai whakaaro, kia mārama āna tikanga, kia atawhai ki ngā manuhiri, kia whai ngākau ki te whakaako; 3 kia kaua e kakai wāina, kia kaua e patu; engari kia ngāwari, kaua e totohe, kaua e matenui ki te moni. 4 Kia pai tāna tohutohu i tōna whare; e mea ana i āna tamariki kia ngohengohe ki a ia, kia nui te mahara. 5 Ki te kore hoki tētahi tangata e mātau ki te tohutohu i tōna whare ake, me pēhea ka tiaki ai ia i te hāhi a te Atua? 6 Kauaka i te tauhou, kei whakakake, ā, ka tau tō te rēwera hē ki a ia. 7 Ā, kia pai te kōrero mōna a te hunga o waho; kei taka ia ki te whakahāwea, ki roto hoki ki te māhanga a te rēwera.

Ngā Kaiāwhina i roto i te Hāhi

8 Waihoki ko ngā rīkona kia tū kaumātua, kaua e arero rua, kaua e matenui ki te wāina, kaua e whai ki te taonga paruparu; 9 kia mā ō rātou hinengaro e mau ai ki te mea ngaro o te whakapono. 10 Nā, kia mātua whakamātautauria ēnei; kātahi ka tuku ai kia mahi i ā te rīkona mahi, ki te kore he whakahē mō rātou.

11 Ko ngā wāhine hoki kia āhua kaumātua, kaua e ngautuarā, kia whai mahara, kia pono i ngā mea katoa.

12 Ko ngā rīkona, kia kotahi te hoa wahine; kia pai te tohutohu i ā rātou tamariki, i ō rātou whare ake anō hoki. 13 Ki te pai hoki tā rātou mahi rīkona, ka whiwhi rātou ki te tūranga pai mō rātou, ka nui hoki tō rātou māia i runga i te whakapono ki a Karaiti Īhu.

Te Kōrero Huna he Mea Hirahira

14 He tuhituhi atu tēnei nāku i ēnei mea ki a koe, e mea ana hoki tērā ahau e haere wawe atu ki a koe; 15 ki te roa ia ahau, kia mātau ai koe ki te tikanga mō tāu mahi i roto i te whare o te Atua, ko te hāhi nei ia a te Atua ora, ko te pou, ko te tūranga o te pono. 16 Nā, kāhore rawa e tautohetia te nui o te mea ngaro e karakiatia nei:

Ko ia i whakakitea mai i roto i te kikokiko,

he mea whakatika nā te Wairua,

i kitea e ngā anahera.

I kauwhautia nei i roto i ngā tauiwi,

i whakaponohia nei i te ao,

i tangohia atu ki te korōria.