Colossians 1
1 I, Paul, [am writing this letter to you], and our fellow believer Timothy [is with me]. I am an apostle who represents Christ Jesus, because that is what God wanted.
这封信函来自奉上帝旨意成为基督耶稣使徒的保罗以及提摩太兄弟，
2 [I am sending this letter] to you who are in Colossae [city], and who are God’s people, and our faithful fellow believers who have a close relationship with Christ. We pray that God our Father will be acting kindly towards you, and that he will cause you to have [inner] peace.
写给歌罗西的信徒以及相信基督的所有人。愿你们获得来自上帝我父的恩典与平安。
3 Very often [HYP] we thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, while we are praying for you,
我们始终为你们感谢上帝，我主耶稣基督之父，为你祈祷。
4 because we have heard that you believe in Christ Jesus, and that you love all God’s people.
我们已听说你们对基督耶稣的信仰，以及你们对所有信徒的爱，
5 You do that because you confidently expect to receive that which God is (reserving/keeping safe) for you in heaven, which you heard about previously when you heard the true message, that is, the message [about Christ].
因为在天堂有希望在等着你们。你们已经在福音中听到这个信息，
6 [People] proclaimed it [PRS] to you, just like [people] have proclaimed it in many different countries [HYP, IDM]. The true message is changing more and more people’s lives, just like it changed your lives because you heard it and you truly experienced that God acts kindly towards us in ways we do not deserve.
这真理的信息传遍全世界，在广泛的传播中产生了效果。现在，它也传向了你们。自从你们听到它并意识到上帝恩典的本质后，它也对你们产生了同样的效果。
7 That is just what Epaphras taught you [would happen]. We love Epaphras. He serves Christ together with us and works for Christ faithfully for your benefit.
我们亲爱的朋友和工友的以巴弗，他代表你们成为基督值得信赖的仆人，教授你们这一切。
8 He told us that you love [all God’s people], just like God’s Spirit [has enabled you to] (OR, spiritually).
他也将你们对灵的爱，明确告诉了我们。
9 Because of what we heard about you, we have also been praying [LIT] very often to God for you [HYP], ever since we heard this report about you. We pray that you will truly know all that God wants you to do; that is, that you will become very wise, and that you will understand spiritual matters well.
因此，我们从听到这些消息的那天起，就不停为你们祷告，祈求上帝让你们理解他对你们的要求，赋予你们一切属灵的智慧和悟性。
10 We have been praying like that in order that you will conduct yourselves as the Lord’s people should conduct themselves, in order that you will please the Lord in every way. Specifically, we have been praying like that in order that you will be doing every sort of good deed [IDM] and in order that you will be getting to know God truly, more and more.
通过这种方式，你们可以正直良善的方式代表主，让主喜悦；结下所有善果，更深刻地了解上帝；
11 And we pray that [God] will greatly strengthen you [spiritually] with the mighty power that he has shown [to people], in order that you will always be steadfast and patient [when you experience difficulties], while [at the same time] you will be rejoicing.
希望你们借由他的非凡力量，可以更加强大，凡事宽容忍耐；
12 And we pray that you will be thanking God our Father, because he has enabled you/us to receive the things that he will give to his people in heaven [SYN].
希望你们幸福地向父祈祷，他让我们可以获得生活于光明之中上帝子民的传承。
13 God our Father rescued us [spiritually] so that the evil one no longer rules us [MET, MTY], and he caused us now to be ruled by his Son, whom he loves.
他拯救我们脱离黑暗的统治，让我们迁入其爱子的王国。
14 That is, because of our relationship with his Son (OR, because of what the one who is also God did), God has redeemed/bought us; in particular, he has forgiven our sins.
通过他的爱子，我们获得自由，罪得赦免。
15 God’s Son reveals perfectly what God, his Father, is like, whom no one can see. God’s Son existed before and ranks above everything that God has created.
这位爱子是那不可见上帝的可见之形。他早在万物之前即已存在，
16 When God created everything that is on the earth, he did it by having his Son do it. He created everything that [people] can see, and also everything which is in heaven that [people] cannot see. In particular, his Son created all ranks of important spirit beings. [And his Son ranks above everything], because God by the work of had his Son, and because by his Son all things were created {because [God] had his Son create everything} in order that everything might praise his Son,
那天上地上的一切——可见和不可见、国王、统治者和掌权者，无不通过他而创造，为他而创造。
17 and because it is his Son who existed before anything else existed, and because God sustains everything by what his Son [does].
他存在于万物之先，将万物凝聚在一起。
18 And [God’s Son ranks above everything], because it is his Son who [rules over his people] [MET] [as a person’s] head [controls his physical] body, because his Son causes his people to live [spiritually]. [God’s Son] is the first one who became alive again, in order that he should become more important than anything and everyone.
他是身体的头，这身体就是教会。他是源起，在死而复生之人中位居首位，因此超越一切。
19 [God’s Son reveals perfectly what God his Father is like], because his Father chose to live completely in him.
上帝很高兴其爱子拥有他的所有特征，
20 [God our Father caused his Son to rule us], because he decided to reconcile with himself everything that is on earth and that is in heaven by what his Son did, in order that everything might honor his Son; that is, God our Father decided to reconcile everything to himself as a result of his [Son’s] blood [flowing when he died] on the cross. [The chiastic material is rearranged below so that the directly related propositional clusters are joined together.] 13 God our Father rescued us [spiritually] so that we are no longer ruled by the evil one, and God our Father caused us now to be ruled by his Son (OR, the man who is also God) whom he loves. 14a That is, by means of what his Son did, we have been redeemed by God, our Father. 14b In particular, our sins have been forgiven by God, our Father. 20 God, our Father, has done this because he decided to reconcile to himself, by means of his Son, everything that is on earth and that is in heaven, in order that his Son might be honored; that is, God, our Father decided to reconcile everything to himself by means of God’s Son’s blood [flowing out when he died] on the cross. 15b God cannot be seen by anyone, 15a but his Son reveals perfectly what God—his Father—is like, 19a because it is in his Son that the Father chose 19b that he himself would dwell completely. 15c God’s Son ranks above everything 15d that has been created, 16 because it was by means of God’s Son that God created everything that is on the earth and that can be seen by people, and also everything that is in heaven and that cannot be seen by people. In particular, all types of important spirit beings were created by means of him, since everything has been created by God by means of God’s Son. And his Son ranks above everything, because everything has been created by God, in order that God’s Son might be honored by everything, 17 and because it is he who existed before anything else existed, and since everything is sustained by God by means of God’s Son. 18 And God’s Son ranks above everything because it is he who [rules over all believers, just like a person’s] head [controls his physical body, because he causes all believers to live spiritually]. His Son is the first one who rose from among those who have died, in order that he should become more important than everything and everyone.
借由其子，将宇宙万物归于他身上，因为他通过在其十字架上所流的血成就了和平；他使地上和天上的每一个人都和好。。
21 As for you, [although] formerly God [considered you his] enemies (OR, [God considered you] as alienated [from him]) and [although] you were formerly hostile [to God] because you thought evil thoughts and because you did evil deeds,
你们从前也与上帝是陌路人，你们的行为就是与他为敌。
22 nevertheless, God our Father has now reconciled you [with himself. He did that] as a result of his Son dying physically. He did it in order that you should be completely holy when he brings you into his presence.
但现在，上帝通过他死亡的人类身体与你们和解，把你们带到他身边，在哪里能够拥有圣洁、纯粹和无暇。
23 He wants you to continue [DOU] to believe the message about Christ; specifically, he wants you to continue to be stable/steadfast and to continue to confidently expect to receive that which you heard about when you heard that message. That message has been proclaimed {They have proclaimed that message} to people in very many places [HYP]; and I, Paul, also become someone who tells it to people.
但你们对他的信念，必须如磐石般持久，不动摇。不受动摇对福音希望。这福音你们已经听过，已传遍世界，这也是我保罗所做的工作。
24 At the present time I am rejoicing that I am suffering for your benefit; that is, I am completing what Christ [decided] that I should suffer physically for the benefit of all believers, [who are as dear to him as] his own body.
现在能为你们受苦，我感觉欢喜。因为通过我身体所发生的一切，成为基督受难的一部分。基督是为其身体——也就是教会而持续受难。
25 I myself became someone who serves God’s people, because I was appointed {[God] appointed me} to be responsible to [help] you [who are non-Jews]. I became one who serves God’s people in order that I should make known to you non-Jews the whole message from/about God.
上帝给了我关于你们的指示，我按照这个指示服务于教会，将上帝之语完整呈现给你们。
26 [We did not know this message previously; that is, God] concealed it from [the people who lived in all] the previous ages, but he has now revealed it to his people. (aiōn g165)
这是很多岁月、很多世代隐藏的奥秘，但现在已经向上帝子民显化。 (aiōn g165)
27 That is, God decided to reveal to them this message, which declares that he will greatly bless the non-Jews. Specifically, this message declares that Christ, [by his Spirit], will live in you who are non-Jews, with the result that you confidently expect that you will experience how glorious [God is].
上帝希望他们知道这个光荣奥秘财富对万国的意义：生于你们身体中的基督就是这荣耀希望！
28 We tell about Christ [to every class of persons]; we warn them, and specifically, we teach everyone very wisely. We do this in order that every person who (has a close relationship with/is united to) Christ may be (all that God wants them to be/perfect) when we present them to Christ.
我们向所有人讲述他，用我们知道的最佳方法指导和教导他们，让上帝面前的每个人都因基督而彻底圆满。
29 In order that I might [achieve/accomplish this], I am also working very hard, depending on Christ to empowering me very greatly.
这也是我竭尽全力工作的目的。通过上帝的力量，这力量也对我产生了强大的影响，我依赖这力量。
