¹Hitz segura duc haur, Baldin nehorc, Ipizpicu içatera desiratzen badu, obra excellentbat desiratzen dic:

¹Stedfast [is] the word: If any one the oversight doth long for, a right work he desireth;

²Baina behar dic Ipizpicuac içan irreprehensible, emazte bakoitz baten senhar, vigilant, sobre, modest, estrangerén ostatuz gogotic recebiçale, iracasteco carazco:

²it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

³Ez mahatsarnoari emana, ez vkaldicari, ez irabaizte deshonestaren guthicioso, baina benigno, ez reuoltari, ez auaritioso:

³not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money,

⁴Bere familia honestqui gobernatzen duelaric, bere haourrac suiectionetan eduquiten dituelaric honestate gucirequin:

⁴his own house leading well, having children in subjection with all gravity,

⁵(Ecen baldin edoceinec bere etchearen gobernatzen ezpadaqui, nolatan Iaincoaren Eliçari gogoa emanen drauca?)

⁵(and if any one his own house [how] to lead hath not known, how an assembly of God shall he take care of?)

⁶Ez apprendiz berri, vrguluz hanturic deabruaren condemnationera eror eztadinçát.

⁶not a new convert, lest having been puffed up he may fall to a judgment of the devil;

⁷Behar dic are harc duen testimoniage ona campocoetaric-ere: reprotchutara eta deabruen laçora eror eztadinçát.

⁷and it behoveth him also to have a good testimony from those without, that he may not fall into reproach and a snare of the devil.

⁸Diacréc halaber behar die içan honest, ez bi hitzetaco, ez mahatsarno anhitzari emanac, ez irabaizte deshonestaren guthicioso:

⁸Ministrants — in like manner grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not given to filthy lucre,

⁹Eduquiten dutelaric fedearen mysterioa conscientia chahurequin.

⁹having the secret of the faith in a pure conscience,

¹⁰Eta hec-ere phoroga ditecen lehen, guero cerbitza deçaten, baldin reprotchu gabetaco badirade.

¹⁰and let these also first be proved, then let them minister, being unblameable.

¹¹Halaber hayén emazteac diraden honest, ez gaitzerraile, baina sobre, leyal gauça gucietan.

¹¹Women — in like manner grave, not false accusers, vigilant, faithful in all things.

¹²Diacreac diraden emazte bederaren senhar, gobernatzen dituztelaric honestqui bere haourrac eta bere etcheac.

¹²Ministrants — let them be of one wife husbands; the children leading well, and their own houses,

¹³Ecen vngui cerbitzatu duqueitenéc grado ona acquisitzen dié beretzat, eta libertate handia Iesus Christ baithango fedean.

¹³for those who did minister well a good step to themselves do acquire, and much boldness in faith that [is] in Christ Jesus.

¹⁴Gauça hauc scribatzen drauzquiat, sperança dudalaric ecen sarri hiregana ethorriren naicela:

¹⁴These things I write to thee, hoping to come unto thee soon,

¹⁵Eta baldin berancen badut, daquiançát nola behar den Iaincoaren etchean conuersatu, cein baita Iainco viciaren Eliçá, eguiaren habea eta sustenguä.

¹⁵and if I delay, that thou mayest know how it behoveth [thee] to conduct thyself in the house of God, which is an assembly of the living God — a pillar and foundation of the truth,

¹⁶Eta duda gabe, handi duc pietatearen mysterioa: ecen Iaincoa manifestatu içan dela haraguian, iustificatu dela Spirituan, ikussi içan dela Aingueruèz, predicatu içan çayela Gentiley, sinhetsi içan dela munduan, goiti recebitu içan dela gloriara.

¹⁶and, confessedly, great is the secret of piety — God was manifested in flesh, declared righteous in spirit, seen by messengers, preached among nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory!