Titua 1

1 Ma sel Paul, mwet kulansap lun God ac mwet sap lun Jesus Christ. Nga suleyukla ac supweyukla in kasru lulalfongi lun mwet sulosolla lun God, ac kololos nuh ke ma pwaye su lutiyuk in alu lasr uh,

Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the choice ones of God, and an acknowledging of truth that [is] according to piety,

2 su oakwuki ke finsrak nu ke moul ma pahtpat. God, su koflana kikiap, El wulema nu sesr moul se inge meet liki na mutaweyen pacl uh, (aiōnios g166)

upon hope of life age-during, which God, who doth not lie, did promise before times of ages, (aiōnios g166)

3 ac ke pacl fal, El akkalemyela ke kas lal. Ma inge ituku nu sik, ac nga sulkakinelik fal nu ke sap lun God, Mwet Lango lasr.

(and He manifested in proper times His word, ) in preaching, which I was entrusted with, according to a charge of God our Saviour,

4 Nga sim nu sum, Titus, wen na pwaye nutik in lulalfongi su kut tukeni ipeis kac. Lungkulang ac misla nu sum sin God Papa, ac Christ Jesus, Mwet Lango lasr.

to Titus — true child according to a common faith: Grace, kindness, peace, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour!

5 Nga tuh likikomi fin acn Crete tuh kom in ku in aksafyela ma su soenna suwosla, ac tuh kom in sulela mwet elder lun church ke kais sie siti. Esam mwe luti luk nu sum inge:

For this cause left I thee in Crete, that the things lacking thou mayest arrange, and mayest set down in every city elders, as I did appoint to thee;

6 sie mwet elder enenu elan mwet wangin mwatal, elan mukul tumun mutan sefanna, tulik natul in mwet lulalfongi ac tia tulik sununta ac seakosten.

if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate —

7 Ke sripen sie mwet kol lun church el liyaung orekma lun God, enenu in wangin mwatal, elan tia orek lumah ke ma kunal, tia mongsa, tia sie mwet nim mwe sruhi, tia sie mwet lungse anwuk, ku rapkui mani.

for it behoveth the overseer to be blameless, as God's steward, not self-pleased, nor irascible, not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre;

8 Enenu elan kulang nu sin mwet nukewa, ac lungse oru ma wo. Elan leum facl sifacna, suwohs in orekma lal, mutal, ac ku in sifacna kutong lungse lal.

but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled,

9 Enenu elan sruokya ku kas su fal in lulalfongiyuk, ac luti in suwohs oana ma oakwuki tari. Fin ouinge, el ac ku in akkeye mwet ke mwe luti pwaye, ac oayapa aksuwosye tafongla lalos su lain mwe luti inge.

holding — according to the teaching — to the stedfast word, that he may be able also to exhort in the sound teaching, and the gainsayers to convict;

10 Tuh oasr mwet puspis, yokna sin mwet Jew su forla ac weang mwet Christian, su utuk nunak ac kiapu mwet uh ke kaskas lusrongten lalos.

for there are many both insubordinate, vain-talkers, and mind-deceivers — especially they of the circumcision —

11 Enenu in sikulyuki sramsram lalos uh ke sripen elos akfohsye mwet in sou nufon se ke ma su tia fal in lutiyuk, ac elos oru ma inge in eis mani lalos kac.

whose mouth it behoveth to stop, who whole households do overturn, teaching what things it behoveth not, for filthy lucre's sake.

12 Sie sin mwet palu lalos sifacna el fahk, “Mwet Crete uh elos kaskas kikiap pacl nukewa. Elos oana kosro lemnak inima uh, ac elos mwet alsrangesr ac kainmongo.”

A certain one of them, a prophet of their own, said — 'Cretans! always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies!'

13 Kas na pwaye se pa inge. Ouinge kom in arulana kaelos, tuh lulalfongi lalos in suwohs ac pwaye,

this testimony is true; for which cause convict them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

14 ac elos in tia sifil lohang nu ke sramsram lusrongten lun mwet Jew, ku nu ke ma sap ma oakiyuki sin mwet su forla liki ma pwaye.

not giving heed to Jewish fables and commands of men, turning themselves away from the truth;

15 Ma nukewa nasnas nu selos su inse nasnas; a wangin ma nasnas nu selos su fohkfok insialos ac elos selulalfongi, tuh akfohkfokyeyukla tari nunak lalos ac insialos.

all things, indeed, [are] pure to the pure, and to the defiled and unstedfast [is] nothing pure, but of them defiled [are] even the mind and the conscience;

16 Elos fahk mu elos etu God, a orekma lalos siena liki fahk lalos. Elos mwet srungayuk ac seakosten ac tia fal in oru kutena orekma wo.

God they profess to know, and in the works they deny [Him], being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work disapproved.