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1 ယထာရ္ထသျောပဒေၑသျ ဝါကျာနိ တွယာ ကထျန္တာံ
But as for you [(sg)], teach [the believers] what agrees with the correct teachings.
2 ဝိၑေၐတး ပြာစီနလောကာ ယထာ ပြဗုဒ္ဓါ ဓီရာ ဝိနီတာ ဝိၑွာသေ ပြေမ္နိ သဟိၐ္ဏုတာယာဉ္စ သွသ္ထာ ဘဝေယုသ္တဒွတ္
[Specifically, tell] the older men that they should control themselves (in all situations/whatever happens), [that they should behave in such a manner] that all people will respect them, and that they should control what they say and do. And tell them that they should firmly believe in the correct teachings, that they should sincerely love others, and that they should always be steadfast.
3 ပြာစီနယောၐိတော'ပိ ယထာ ဓရ္မ္မယောဂျမ် အာစာရံ ကုရျျုး ပရနိန္ဒကာ ဗဟုမဒျပါနသျ နိဃ္နာၑ္စ န ဘဝေယုး
Similarly, [tell] the older women that they should behave (in a reverent manner that shows that they are devoted to God/in a manner that honors God); [specifically, they should] not (slander others/talk evil about others), and they should not (be drinking much/[habitually] drinking) [alcohol]. Tell them that they should teach [the younger women] what is good,
4 ကိန္တု သုၑိက္ၐာကာရိဏျး သတျ ဤၑွရသျ ဝါကျံ ယတ် န နိန္ဒျေတ တဒရ္ထံ ယုဝတီး သုၑီလတာမ် အရ္ထတး ပတိသ္နေဟမ် အပတျသ္နေဟံ
in order that they may love their husbands and their children.
5 ဝိနီတိံ ၑုစိတွံ ဂၖဟိဏီတွံ သော်ဇနျံ သွာမိနိဃ္နဉ္စာဒိၑေယုသ္တထာ တွယာ ကထျတာံ၊
Older women should teach younger women to control what they say and do and to be pure in every way, to be good workers at home and submissive to their own husbands. [The younger women should behave like this] in order that no one will speak against the message about God.
6 တဒွဒ် ယူနော'ပိ ဝိနီတယေ ပြဗောဓယ၊
As for the younger men, similarly, urge them to control themselves [in all that they say and do].
7 တွဉ္စ သရွွဝိၐယေ သွံ သတ္ကရ္မ္မဏာံ ဒၖၐ္ဋာန္တံ ဒရ္ၑယ ၑိက္ၐာယာဉ္စာဝိကၖတတွံ ဓီရတာံ ယထာရ္ထံ
You yourself must continually do what is good in order that others will see how they should behave. Teach [the believers] sincerely and seriously;
8 နိရ္ဒ္ဒေါၐဉ္စ ဝါကျံ ပြကာၑယ တေန ဝိပက္ၐော ယုၐ္မာကမ် အပဝါဒသျ ကိမပိ ဆိဒြံ န ပြာပျ တြပိၐျတေ၊
teach what is correct and what no one can [justly] criticize. [Do this] in order that [when the believers] conduct their lives [in a proper manner], anyone who opposes ([us/our message]) will be disappointed because there will be nothing bad that they can [justly] say about us.
9 ဒါသာၑ္စ ယတ် သွပြဘူနာံ နိဃ္နား သရွွဝိၐယေ တုၐ္ဋိဇနကာၑ္စ ဘဝေယုး ပြတျုတ္တရံ န ကုရျျုး
As for slaves, [specifically, urge them] to be submissive to their masters in everything. They should please [their masters; specifically, they should not] ([contradict/refuse to obey]) [their masters].
10 ကိမပိ နာပဟရေယုး ကိန္တု ပူရ္ဏာံ သုဝိၑွသ္တတာံ ပြကာၑယေယုရိတိ တာန် အာဒိၑ၊ ယတ ဧဝမ္ပြကာရေဏာသ္မကံ တြာတုရီၑွရသျ ၑိက္ၐာ သရွွဝိၐယေ တဲ ရ္ဘူၐိတဝျာ၊
They should not steal [things that belong to their masters]. Instead, they should always be completely honest/reliable and thus [show their masters that their masters can] completely trust them. They should behave like this in order that [as a result of all the slaves conducting themselves well, people] will realize that the teachings about God our Savior are very desirable.
11 ယတော ဟေတောသ္တြာဏာဇနက ဤၑွရသျာနုဂြဟး သရွွာန် မာနဝါန် ပြတျုဒိတဝါန္
[The believers should behave in a good manner], since God did for us what we did not deserve, [sending Jesus Christ to earth] in order that he might save all people [PRS].
12 သ စာသ္မာန် ဣဒံ ၑိက္ၐျတိ ယဒ် ဝယမ် အဓရ္မ္မံ သာံသာရိကာဘိလာၐာံၑ္စာနင်္ဂီကၖတျ ဝိနီတတွေန နျာယေနေၑွရဘက္တျာ စေဟလောကေ အာယု ရျာပယာမး, (aiōn g165)
God teaches/tells us [PRS] how to stop doing what he dislikes, and to stop desiring the things that (ungodly people/people who habitually do things that do not please God) desire [MTY]. He wants us to control our behavior and to do what is right and to do what pleases him while we live in this present age/time. (aiōn g165)
13 ပရမသုခသျာၑာမ် အရ္ထတော 'သ္မာကံ မဟတ ဤၑွရသျ တြာဏကရ္တ္တု ရျီၑုခြီၐ္ဋသျ ပြဘာဝသျောဒယံ ပြတီက္ၐာမဟေ၊
[Do not forget that] we are waiting expectantly for that which will make us very happy [indeed] [MTY]! We are expectantly waiting for our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, to come gloriously!
14 ယတး သ ယထာသ္မာန် သရွွသ္မာဒ် အဓရ္မ္မာတ် မောစယိတွာ နိဇာဓိကာရသွရူပံ သတ္ကရ္မ္မသူတ္သုကမ် ဧကံ ပြဇာဝရ္ဂံ ပါဝယေတ် တဒရ္ထမ် အသ္မာကံ ကၖတေ အာတ္မဒါနံ ကၖတဝါန်၊
He is the one who [willingly] gave himself ([to die/as a sacrifice]) on our behalf to set us free from all sinful behavior! He wants (us to get rid of all our evil behavior/to make our lives pure) [MET]. He wants us, who are his very own people, to be [people who] are eager to do what is good.
15 ဧတာနိ ဘာၐသွ ပူရ္ဏသာမရ္ထျေန စာဒိၑ ပြဗောဓယ စ, ကော'ပိ တွာံ နာဝမနျတာံ၊
Teach [the believers] these things! Urge [them to do them]! Correct [those who do not obey them! As you do this, you have my] full authority; so do not allow anyone to disregard you!
