Jo-Kolosai 2
1 Adwaro mondo ungʼe kaka akedonu matek, kaachiel gi joma ni Laodikia gi ji mamoko duto mapok onena gi wangʼ-gi.
For I would have you know how great a contest I am waging for you and the brethren in Laodicea, and for all who have never seen my face.
2 Gima adwaro en ni mondo gibed gi chuny motegno kendo giriwre e hera, eka ginibed gi mwandu mar ngʼeyo tiend weche mar adier. Ka gitimo kamano, to giningʼe ma lingʼ-lingʼ mar Nyasaye ma en Kristo,
May their hearts be comforted! May they be knit together in love! May they gain in all its riches the full assurance of their understanding! May they come to a perfect knowledge of the secret truth of God, which is Christ himself.
3 En ema mwandu duto mag rieko kod ngʼeyo Nyasaye opando kuome.
In Him are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge!
4 Anyisou wechegi mondo kik ngʼato owuondu gi weche manono maywayo ji.
And this I say, lest any one should mislead you with enticing words.
5 Nikech kata obedo ni aonge kodu kuom ringruok, to an kodu kuom chuny, kendo amor mar neno kaka uchanoru maber kendo kaka yieu ochungʼ motegno kuom Kristo.
For though I am absent from you in body, I am with you in spirit, happy to note your discipline and the solid front of your faith in Christ.
6 Mana kaka userwako Kristo Yesu ka Ruoth, dhiuru nyime ka udak kuome,
As then you have received Jesus Christ, your Lord, in him live your lives;
7 ka uguroru motegno kendo ugeroru kuome, kumedo bedo motegno e yie kaka nopuonju, kendo kupongʼ gigoyo erokamano.
since you are rooted in him, and in him continually built up. Be firmly established in the faith as you were taught it, and continually abound in it with thanksgiving.
8 Kik uyie mondo ngʼato angʼata omak pachu gi riekni manono mag piny gi wuond manono ma wito ji, ma gin rieko ma aa kuom puonj dhano gi timbe mag piny, to ok kuom Kristo.
Take care lest any man drag you away captive by his philosophy which is a vain deceit, following the traditions of men and the world’s crude notions, and not Christ.
9 Nyasaye mangima gi kite duto odak ei Kristo, tiende ni e ringre Kristo,
For it is in Christ that all the fullness of deity dwells bodily,
10 omiyo ka un ei Kristo to un gi gik moko duto, nikech en e jatelo moloyo jotelo duto, kendo en e teko moloyo teko gi loch duto.
and in him you have your fulness, and he is the Lord of all the principalities and powers.
11 Kristo ema nogolo kit dhano machon kuomu mana kaka tero nyangu golo kit dhano machon, ma nyangu motim gi lwet dhano, to nyangu motim gi Kristo.
In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands; even in putting off your sensual nature in Christ’s own circumcision,
12 Kane obatisu, to noyiku kode kendo nochieru kode nikech yie ma un-go kuom teko mar Nyasaye ma nochiere oa kuom joma otho.
when you were buried with him in baptism. In baptism also you were raised with him, through your faith in the energy of that God who raised him from the dead.
13 Kane uyudo utho e richou gi kit ngimau ma ok ter nyangu, Nyasaye ne omiyo udoko mangima kuom Kristo. Noweyonwa richowa duto,
And you also, at one time dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sensual nature, he has made alive together with himself. For he forgave us all our transgressions,
14 Nyasaye noketho chike kod dwarone mane okwedowa kendo ne opogowa. Ne ogole oko mi ogure e msalaba.
blotted out the handwriting of ordinances that stood against us and was hostile to us, and took it out of our way, nailing it to his cross.
15 Kendo kane oseketho teko gi loch duto, nomiyogi wichkuot e lela koloyogi gi teko mar msalaba.
Principalities and powers he disarmed, and openly displayed them as his trophies, when he triumphed over them in the cross.
16 Kuom mano, kik uwe ngʼato ongʼadnu bura kuom gik muchamo kata mumadho, kata kuom weche mag sewni mag lemo, kata sewni mitimo ka dwe manyien owuok, kata chiengʼ Sabato.
Therefore do not permit any one to sit in judgment on you in regard to what you may eat or drink, or in regard to feast-days or new moons or sabbaths.
17 Magi duto gin mana tipo mag gik mane onego obi, to adiera wuon yudore kuom Kristo.
These were a shadow of things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.
18 Kik uwe ngʼato angʼata mamor kuom dembruok mar miriambo kod malamo malaike omi ubed maonge pok. Ngʼat makamano wacho mathoth konyiso ji kuom fweny moseneno, kendo pache mar dhano miyo otingʼore malo kowuoyo kuom gik mokia tiendgi.
Let no man at his will defraud you of your prize through his false humility and worship of the angels, taking his stand on the visions he has seen, and vainly puffed up by his material mind;
19 Ngʼatno oseweyo tudruok gi wich ma en e kama ringruok duto otude kendo omoke ka omake gi fuonini kod leche kaachiel, kendo gidongo kaka Nyasaye dwaro ni gidongi.
instead of keeping connection with the Head from the whole body draws nourishment for all its needs by the joints which bind it; and is knit together, and grows with a divine growth.
20 Ka usetho gi Kristo mi ogonyou kuom timbe machon mag pinyni, to koro ere gima omiyo pod uwuotho ka jopiny? Angʼo momiyo pod umako chike mawacho niya,
If you died with Christ to the world’s rudimentary notions, why, as if you still lived in the world, do you submit yourselves to dogmatisms found on teachings and doctrines of men -
21 “Kik imak gini,” kata niya, “Kik ibil gini,” kata niya, “Kik imul gini”?
such as "Do not handle this," "You must not taste that," "Do not touch this" -
22 Giduto gin gik malal nono, nikech gin mana chike gi puonj mag dhano.
all things which are intended to perish in the using?
23 Ginyalo nenore gioko ni rieko ni eigi ka gilemo gi lamo mar paro mar dhano, kendo kuom dembruok ma oko, kod sando ringruok, to chutho gionge ohala nikech ok ginyal konyo ngʼato gengʼo gombo mag ringruok.
For these precepts, although they have a show of wisdom with their self-imposed devotions and fastings and bodily austerities, are of no real value against the indulgence of the carnal appetites.
