Den Elijah tell da peopo, “Go fill up four big pots wit watta, an pour um on top da sacrifice meat an on top da wood.” Afta dey do dat, he tell um “One mo time, same ting,” an dey go do um one mo time. He tell um, “One mo time,” an dey do um, three time.
Eryting dey do, dey ony do um fo look good in front da peopo. Dey go aroun an show off stuff da Bible tell on top dea heads an arms, an make um look real nice wit real fancy kine religious kine clotheses.
Az why, you guys jalike da light. Let erybody see da good kine stuff you guys stay do. Den dey goin tell dat yoa Faddah, God, dat stay in da sky, he awesome!
“Watch out! No good you make tantaran in front peopos wen you do da religious kine ceremonies, cuz you guys ony like peopo see da religious kine ceremonies dat you guys do. If you guys make lidat, yoa Faddah in da sky no goin give you guys notting.
If get somebody dat make bad kine to you, no make same kine to dem fo pay um back. Try fo figga how fo ack da way erybody know dass da bestes way fo ack.
Anybody dat live da way I jus wen tell you fo live, dey da ones dat get Christ fo dea boss, an dey goin make God stay good inside. Odda peopo goin get respeck fo dem too.
Us guys, we not like plenny odda peopo dat teach wat God tell, ony fo make money. No way! Az why wen us guys talk fo God, erybody see dat us fo real, an da stuff we tell come from God. Us do um fo God see us do um, cuz we stay tight wit Christ.
We figga hard fo do um da safe way fo how Titus an da odda braddah goin carry all dis money ova dea Jerusalem side, so no mo nobody can blame us guys fo neva take kea.
Az why oua braddah da one we stay send wit da guys dat goin carry da money, we wen check him out plenny times an plenny ways awready. We know dat he goin go all out fo you guys. An now he stay go all out even moa, cuz he know you guys goin do da right ting.
So den, tink bout all dese kine tings—wateva stay true, wateva get respeck, wateva stay pono, wateva no stay pilau, whoeva you get aloha fo, wateva you talk good bout, wateva da bestes kine stuff, weneva peopo can tell, “Dass good!”—tink erytime bout all dat kine stuff.
Make shua you guys do da right tings in front da peopo dat donno God, so dat no matta dey poin finga you guys now, dey goin ony see da good kine stuff you guys do. Den wen Christ come back, dey goin tell how awesome God stay.
Az why Ruth lay dea by Boaz feets till morning time. She get up early, befo get light, befo anybody can see who her. Cuz Boaz figga, “No good da peopo know dat dis wahine wen come hea wea dey take da junks outa da wheat!”