First Leta for Timothy
1 From Paul, aposol blo Christ Jesus wea kasem appointment from komand blo God wea hem Savior blo iumi and Christ Jesus, wea hem hope blo iumi,+ 2 for Timothy,*+ wea iu barava olsem pikinini blo mi+ wea iumi tufala garem sem biliv:
Mi prea for bigfala kaeness* and mercy and peace from God, wea hem Dadi blo iumi, and Lord blo iumi Christ Jesus, hem stap witim iu.
3 Olsem mi encouragem iu for stap lo Ephesus taem mi redi for go lo Macedonia, distaem tu mi encouragem iu for gohed stap lo there, mekem iu savve komandim samfala for no teachim olketa difren teaching, 4 and tu for no lisin lo olketa laea story+ and story abaotem olketa famili tree. Kaen samting olsem hem no savve helpem eniwan+ bat hem mekem pipol for storyim samting wea no garem eni pruv and no storyim olketa samting wea kam from God wea join witim faith. 5 For tok stret, goal blo disfala instruction* wea mi givim hem for garem love+ wea kam from klin heart and from gudfala konsens and from faith+ wea no hypocrite. 6 Samfala olketa go difren from olketa samting hia and olketa join insaed olketa iusles story nomoa.+ 7 Olketa laek for kamap olketa teacher+ blo law, bat olketa no minim wanem olketa story abaotem, or topic wea olketa tingse olketa savve tumas abaotem.
8 Iumi savve dat Law hem gud, sapos man applyim lo stretfala wei,* 9 hem mas luksavve law hem stap no for man wea raeteous, bat hem for olketa wea no followim law,+ olketa wea bighed, no obeyim God, duim sin, no loyal,* nating tinghae lo samting wea holy, wea murderim dadi and murderim mami, killim dae narawan, 10 pipol wea durong,* olketa man wea wei blo olketa for homosexual,* olketa wea kidnapim narawan, olketa konman, olketa wea no keepim promis blo olketa, and evri nara samting wea againstim stret* teaching.+ 11 Disfala teaching hem kam from datfala nambawan gud nius blo datfala hapi God, wea hem givim lo mi for talemaot.+
12 Mi thankiu lo Lord blo iumi Christ Jesus wea givim paoa lo mi, bikos hem ting lo mi dat mi faithful dastawe hem givim mi wanfala ministry,+ 13 nomata lo bifor mi tok spoelem God, and mi persecutim pipol blo hem, and mi nating respectim narawan.+ Bat hem showim mercy lo mi bikos mi no savve wat mi duim hem rong and from mi no garem faith. 14 Bat Lord blo iumi hem showim barava bigfala kaeness* lo mi and mi kasem faith and love from Christ Jesus. 15 Disfala toktok hem fit for man trustim and for man barava bilivim: Christ Jesus hem kam lo world for sevem olketa wea sin.+ And mi nao wanfala worst wan.+ 16 Bat Christ Jesus showim mercy lo mi nomata mi nao worst wan, and hem duim olsem mekem mi savve kamap example for showim wei wea hem patient lo olketa wea showim faith lo hem wea bae kasem laef olowe.+
17 King blo olowe,+ wea stap for olowe,+ wea no eniwan savve lukim,+ datfala only God,+ mas kasem honor and glory for olowe. Amen.
18 Pikinini blo mi Timothy, mi givim disfala instruction lo iu for fitim olketa profesi wea olketa talem abaotem iu, wea diswan bae mekem iu gohed strong lo nambawan faet blo iumi,+ 19 gohed garem faith and gudfala konsens,+ wea samfala les for followim and diswan spoelem faith blo olketa olsem wanfala ship wea rek. 20 Hymenaeus+ and Alexander nao insaed lo grup hia, and mi givim tufala go lo Satan+ mekem datfala discipline teachim tufala for no tok spoelem God.