1 Ndimi Paulo ntumwa wa Kirisiti Jesu nge ndayo ye Ndzimu Ntjidzi wedu na Kirisiti Jesu, iye kugalabgwe kwedu.
2 Kuna Timoti nkololo wangu tjose mu bugalimoyo:
Ngoni ne mahwilo zogwadza ne kunyalala kunodwa ku Ndzimu Tate na Kirisiti Jesu She wedu ngakube nawe.
Kutjenjedziwa mu zwidiyo zwe manyepkhwa
3 Sekwa ndakakukulumbidza ndiyenda ku Makedoniya, gala ku Efeso, kuti ndizo udwe bamwe bathu kuti basidiye zwidiyo zwipoga, 4 kene kuzwipa mu ngano ne mazina e lutshinga gwa bobatategulu asingapele. Oku kozhisa kunyanyayidzana mu bumo gwe nshingo we Ndzimu, iwo unozha nge kugalamoyo. 5 Mazwimisilo e ndayo iyeyi ludo, igo gunodwa mu moyo mbuyanana ne njalakang'wa mbuyanana ne kugalamoyo kwe malebeswa. 6 Bamwe bakabhuda muna izwezwi, ngono bakalashika nge kushandukila ku ndebo dzisina nshingo. 7 Banoyemula kube badiyi be nlayo koga abatoziba tjabanoleba nanga naizo zwabanoti i lebeswa dumbu.
8 Toziba kuti nlayo wakanaka, ha nthu eushingisa zubuyanana, 9 eziba kakale kuti nlayo auzothamigwa bathu bakalulwama, koga wakathamigwa basingaulondolodze ne basingahwe, basingazibe Ndzimu ne batjinyi, basakayengemala ne basinganamate Ndzimu, ibo banobulaya botate kene bomme yabo, babulayi, 10 phombgwe ne betjilume banowalilana thobo ne banotenga betengesa balanda ne banyepi ne banopa butendeki gwe manyepkhwa ne tjimwe ne tjimwe tjinonyanyayidzana ne zwidiyo zwakatambunuka, 11 zwinodumana ne ndebo mbuya yandakapiwa, ye Ndzimu una gudzo kakale una makombolelo.
Kubokela ngoni dze Ndzimu
12 Ndoboka Kirisiti Jesu She wedu, iye wakandipa matatabuko, ngobe wakandibona ndili unogalikabgwe, ngekundishalulila nshingo uwe. 13 Nenguba ndakatongo ntuka, ndikandziyidza ndikansapula, koga ndakahwigwa ngoni ngobe ndakashinga sa ikoko nge kusaziba nenge kusagalamoyo. 14 Ngono She wakadila ngoni dzidze dzikazhala tupu mundili nge kugalamoyo ne ludo zwimuna Kirisiti Jesu. 15 Ndebo ye lebeswa dumbu yakwako, yakafanila amutjigwa nge buzhalo ndi eyi, Kirisiti Jesu wakazha mu shango kutjidza batjinyi, ibo bandinopinda bose mu butjinyi. 16 Koga ndakahwigwa ngoni, kuti ndizo mundili, imi ntjinyi unopinda bose, Jesu Kirisiti alakidze bumoyonlefu gugwe, tjili tjilakidzilo tja ibabo banowogalamoyo munli, ngono bakawana butjilo gusingapele. 17 Ngwenu ngakube ne kuteta gudzo nge kusingapele kose kuna Mambo tjose, usingafe kakale usingaboneke. Ngakujalo.
18 Timoti nkololo wangu, ndokupa ndayo iyeyi kuyendidzana nge kulebesambeli, kwakalebgwa nge kuko kuti ndizo mukusima kuko mukutobela bulebesambeli igogu, ungagwa ngwa yakanaka, 19 wakabhatilila mu kugalamoyo ne hana mbuyanana. Bamwe bakalamba kuhwilila hana dzabo, ndizo bakatjinya kugalamoyo kwabo, 20 mubali ili Himeneo na Alekizanda, ibo bandakapa Satani kuti bazwidiye kusatuka Ndzimu.
1 From Paul.
God our Savior and Christ Jesus commanded me to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, who gives us hope.
2 Timothy, because of our faith, you are like a son to me. I pray that God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ will be kind and merciful to you. May they bless you with peace!
Warning against False Teaching
3 When I was leaving for Macedonia, I asked you to stay on in Ephesus and warn certain people there to stop spreading their false teachings. 4 You needed to warn them to stop wasting their time on senseless stories and endless lists of ancestors. Such things only cause arguments. They don't help anyone to do God's work that can only be done by faith.
5 You must teach people to have genuine love, as well as a good conscience and true faith. 6 There are some who have given up these for nothing but empty talk. 7 They want to be teachers of the Law of Moses. But they don't know what they are talking about, even though they think they do.
8 We know the Law is good, if it is used in the right way. 9 We also understand it wasn't given to control people who please God, but to control lawbreakers, criminals, godless people, and sinners. It is for wicked and evil people, and for murderers, who would even kill their own parents. 10 The Law was written for people who are sexual perverts or who live as homosexuals or are kidnappers or liars or won't tell the truth in court. It is for anything else that opposes the correct teaching 11 of the good news the glorious and wonderful God has given me.
Being Thankful for God's Kindness
12 I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me the strength for my work because he knew he could trust me. 13 I used to say terrible and insulting things about him, and I was cruel. But Christ had mercy on me because I didn't know what I was doing, and I had not yet put my faith in him. 14 Christ Jesus our Lord treated me with undeserved grace and has greatly blessed my life with faith and love just like his own.
15 “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.” This saying is true, and it can be trusted. I was the worst sinner of all! 16 But since I was worse than anyone else, God had mercy on me and let me be an example of the endless patience of Christ Jesus. He did this so that others would put their faith in Christ and have eternal life. 17 I pray that honor and glory will always be given to the only God, who lives forever and is the invisible and eternal King! Amen.
18 Timothy, my son, the instructions I am giving you are based on what some prophets once said about you. If you follow these instructions, you will fight like a good soldier. 19 You will be faithful and have a clear conscience. Some people have made a mess of their faith because they didn't listen to their consciences. 20 Two of them are Hymenaeus and Alexander. I have given these men over to the power of Satan, so they will learn not to oppose God.