1 Paulus, omuyapostoli waKristus Jesus opamhangela yaKalunga, Omuxupifi wetu, noyaKristus Jesus, Oye eteelelo letu, 2 okuTimoteus, omona wange shili meitavelo. Efilonghenda nonghenda nombili yaKalunga, Tate yetu nokuKristus Jesus, Omwene wetu!
Elondwelo kelongo loipupulu
3 Hano ngaashi nde ku lombwela, eshi nda ya kuMakedonia, u kale natango muEfeso, opo u kumaide ovanhu vamwe, vo vaha longe omalongo amwe e lili, 4 vo vaha diinine eengano nomapatavalulo ehe nexulilo, aa taa eta ashike eemhata, itadi pameke eleloumbo laKalunga olo lomeitavelo. 5 Ndelenee efikilo lekumaido olo ohole tai di momutima wa yela nomeliudo liwa nomeitavelo lihe noihelele, 6 omo ovanhu vamwe va puka mo nove liameka komapopyaano ongaho, 7 eshi va hala va kale ovalongimhango, nande kave udite ko eendjovo odo noinima oyo tave i tongo ndele tava ti, oi li mondjila.
8 Ndelenee otu shi shii, kutya omhango oyo iwa, ile umwe te i longifa pamhango, 9 nokushiiva yo nokutya, omhango inai yandjelwa omuyuki, ndelenee ava vehe nomhango ndele ihava dulika, vehe na Kalunga, novalunde, vehe fi ovayapuki, novalinyateki, ovadipai vooxe novadipai vooina novadipai vovanhu, 10 novahaeli nomashenge, ovavaki vovanhu, ovanaipupulu novaani voipupulu nakeshe eshi shi nondubo nomalongo a yuka, 11 opavaengeli lefimano lelao laKalunga, eli nde li pewa mokulineekelwa.
Omuyapostoli a filwa onghenda
12 Ndele ohandi pandula ou a pa nge eenghono, oKristus Jesus, Omwene wetu, eshi a tala nge ame omudiinini nokwa tula nge meyakulolonga, 13 ame ou nda li nale omusheki nomutaataai nomuhepeki. Ndele onda filwa onghenda, osheshi ame nde shi ningile mokuhashiiva sha nomokuhaitavela. 14 Nefilonghenda lOmwene wetu ola li linene shili pamwe neitavelo nohole i li muKristus Jesus. 15 Ondjovo ei oya pama shili noya wana okutambulwa nokutya: Kristus Jesus okwe uya mounyuni okuxupifa ovalunde, mwaava aame omunene ndi va dule aveshe. 16 Ndelenee ame onda filwa onghenda, Jesus Kristus opo a holole mwaame tete outalanheni waye aushe ndi ninge oshihopaelelwa shaava tave ke mu itavela va mone omwenyo waalushe. 17 Ndele Ohamba yomafimbo ounyuni, ei ihe nexulilo noihe wetike, oyo Kalunga omunandunge aeke, na hambelelwe, Ye na fimanekwe alushe fiyo alushe! Amen.
18 Omona wange Timoteus, omhango ei ohandi i ku pe noku ku lineekela, pamaxunganeko aa e ku xunganekelwa nale, opo u shiive okukondja olwoodi liwa mokulikwatelela muo, 19 nokudiinina eitavelo neliudo liwa, olo la ekelwashi kuvamwe, noskepa yeitavelo lavo oya teka po. 20 Ongaashi Himeneus naAleksander, ava nda yandja kuSatana, opo va handukilwe, vaha sheke vali.
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.
