For Titus
1 Mi Paul, wanfala slave blo God and aposol blo Jesus Christ, wea garem sem faith olsem olketa wea God chusim and stretfala knowledge abaotem truth wea join witim wei for faithful for worshipim God 2 and wea faondeson blo hem nao hope for laef olowe+ wea God, wea no savve laea,+ hem promisim bifor kam yet, 3 bat lo stret taem wea hem markem, hem iusim disfala preaching waka for mekem pipol savve lo toktok blo hem, and mi nao God, wea Savior blo iumi, hem komandim mi for duim disfala waka,+ 4 mi raet kam lo iu Titus, wea iu olsem pikinini blo mi and wea iumi garem sem faith:
Mi prea for bigfala kaeness* and peace from God wea hem Dadi blo iumi and Christ Jesus wea hem Savior blo iumi, for stap witim iufala.
5 Mi lusim iu lo Crete mekem iu savve stretem olketa samting wea no stret and for appointim olketa elder lo each taon olsem mi givim disfala instruction for iu duim: 6 sapos no eniwan accusim wanfala man lo eni samting, hem garem wanfala waef, olketa pikinini blo hem biliv and no eniwan accusim olketa lo enikaen nogud samting* or wei for bighed.+ 7 Bikos wanfala overseer hem wakaman blo God, so hem mas garem gud nem, hem mas no followim tingting blo hemseleva,+ no kros kwiktaem,+ no man for drunk, no raf, no greedy for kasem samting for hemseleva, 8 bat hem mas hapi for welkamim pipol,+ tinghae lo gudness, garem gudfala tingting,*+ raeteous, loyal,+ garem wei for kontrolem seleva.+ 9 Wei blo hem for teach+ mas showim hem hol strong lo datfala faithful word,* mekem hem fit for encouragem* narawan thru lo wat hem teachim wea datwan hem stret*+ and for stretem+ olketa wea tok againstim datwan.
10 Bikos staka man wea bighed, olketa wea storyim olketa iusles samting, and olketa man for laea olketa stap, especially olketa wea sei man mas circumcise.*+ 11 Iu satem mouth blo olketa bikos olketa man hia gohed for divaedem olketa famili lo wei for teachim olketa samting wea olketa shud no teachim for kasem samting for olketa seleva nomoa. 12 Wanfala man blo olketa, wea hem own profet blo olketa hem sei: “Olketa man blo Crete olketa pipol for laea, olketa olsem olketa wild animal, and olketa lesy and ova tumas for kaikai.”
13 Datfala toktok hem tru. Dastawe iu mas gohed for stretem olketa and strong for duim datwan, mekem faith blo olketa hem healthy, 14 no lisin lo olketa laea story blo olketa Jew and olketa komandment blo olketa man wea go difren from truth. 15 Evri samting hem klin lo pipol wea klin,+ bat lo olketa wea no klin and no garem faith, no eni samting hem klin, bikos mind and konsens blo olketa hem no klin.+ 16 Olketa talem lo pablik dat olketa savve lo God, bat wat olketa duim showim olketa no savve lo hem,+ bikos olketa olsem samting wea barava nogud and olketa disobey and no fit for duim eni gud waka.