¹Katar o Pavlo, ek sluga le Devlesko, ai ek apostle le Jesus Kristosko. Simas thodino te ingerav o pachamos kodolen kai O Del alosardia, ai te sikavav lenge o chachimos kai si ando pachamos;

¹Paul, 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,

²saxke te zhanen ke si le o traio kai chi mai getolpe, ke O Del chi xoxavel, wo shinadia amenge kado traio mai anglal sar te avel e lumia;

²upon hope of life age-during, which God, who doth not lie, did promise before times of ages,

³Wo kerdia te zhanen e chachi vriama pala leske Vorba. O Del, kodo kai ankalavel ame andal bezexa, phendia mange te phenav kado divano.

³(and He manifested in proper times His word,) in preaching, which I was entrusted with, according to a charge of God our Saviour,

⁴Tradav tuke kado lil, Titus, murho chacho shav ando pachamos kai si ame andek than: O Del O Dat ai le Devles Jesus Kristo amaro skepitori, te del tu o lashimos ai e pacha.

⁴to Titus -- true child according to a common faith: Grace, kindness, peace, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour!

⁵Me meklem tu ande Crete, saxke e lashares so mai trobul te avel lashardo, ai te thos manushen kai den duma pa Del ande swako foro, ai de tu goji kal dieli kai sichardem tu.

⁵For 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;

⁶Ek manush kai del duma pa Del trobul te avel ek manush kai nai dosh pe leste; ai trobul te avel o rhom ieka rhomniako, ai leske shave trobul te pachanpe ando Del, ai na te mothon le manush ke bi malades traiin vai ke chi pachan o mui.

⁶if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate --

⁷Ke o manush kai inkerel e khangeri trobul te kopaiilpe andal dieli le Devleski, no anda kodia trobul te na avel dosha pe leste. Ai chi trobul te avel barimatango, ai chi te xoliavol, ai chi te machol, ai chi te marelpe, ai chi trobul te niril love le chorimasa.

⁷for 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;

⁸Numa trobul te premil mishto kodolen kai aven leste, ai te avel leske drago o mishtimos. Ai trobul te avel lasho, chacho, ai vuzho, ai te arakhelpe.

⁸but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled,

⁹Ai trobul te inkerel mishto e chachi Vorba le Devleski sar sas sichardi, ai kadia sai zhutil la kolavren le chache sicharimos, ai vi sai te sikavela lenge shipki ai so chi haliaren.

⁹holding -- 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;

¹⁰Ke si but ai mai but mashkar le Zhiduvuria kai dinepe le Devleske, won chi lenpe palai Vorba le Devleski, ai rimon le narodos penge bi malade divanonsa.

¹⁰for there are many both insubordinate, vain-talkers, and mind-deceivers -- especially they of the circumcision --

¹¹Trobul te phanaven lenge muia, ke won rimon bute familian, ai sicharen so chi trobul, te nirin love le chorimasa.

¹¹whose mouth it behoveth to stop, who whole households do overturn, teaching what things it behoveth not, for filthy lucre's sake.

¹²Iek andal Cretan, iek anda lenge profeturia phendia, "Ke le Cretan de sar godi sas, xoxamle sas, ai vi nasul, ai vi dzile, ai khandine kai ferdi te xan, den pe goji."

¹²A certain one of them, a prophet of their own, said -- `Cretans! always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies!'

¹³Ai so phendia kado profeto o cchachimos sas. Anda kodia na dara, phen lenge lenge dosha, saxke te aven le iek lasho pachamos,

¹³this testimony is true; for which cause convict them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

¹⁴ai te na mai lenpe palal paramicha le Zhidovisko, ai palal zakonuria kai kerde le manush kai durile katar o chachimos.

¹⁴not giving heed to Jewish fables and commands of men, turning themselves away from the truth;

¹⁵Swako fielo vuzho le manushenge kai si vuzhe; numa kanchi nai vuzho kodolenge kai nai vuzhe ai kai chi pachanpe, ke lenge goji ai lenge ginduria nai vuzhe.

¹⁵all 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;

¹⁶Won mothon ke zhanen le Devles; numa lengo traio sikavel ke chi zhanen les. Won nai lashe (bezexale le), ai chi pachan o mui, ai nashti keren chi iek mishtimos.

¹⁶God they profess to know, and in the works they deny [Him], being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work disapproved.