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.
Bulus udura uyeso vana Ugomo Asere usuro ubasa Asere nan uhenu uru Timoti.
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.
Uhana ahira an de be sa wa hem nan anu henu ahuma anyimo avana Asere sa wa rani Ukolosi. Ca ubura nan ticukum timan usuro ahira Asere acoo aru ucukum nan shi.
3 Very often [HYP] we thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, while we are praying for you,
Ti zin in napuru arum in na Asere acoo a Yeso vanaa Asere nan konde uya uwui ti zin biringira barki shi.
4 because we have heard that you believe in Christ Jesus, and that you love all God’s people.
Ta kunna uhem ushi me anyimo avana Asere Yeso nan nu hem andesa azauka barki Asere.
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].
Izin nu hem ugeme barki u'inko iriba inka dundure imum me sa a inko shini asesere yamu kunna u'inko iriba ika dundure nan tize tikadura nan tize ta Asere.
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.
Tige sa ta aye shi. Tize ta Asere sa nyinza ahana, ti kuri ti yozo nan ti uza anyimo unee uzini wuza ani me datti rono me sa ya kunna uni nan imanza ubura Asere akadundure.
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.
Agino me ani tize ta Asere kasi umanza sa ya wuzi ahira Abafaras, uroni ukatuma karu kahuma de sa mazin katuma kahuma ka vana Asere anyo aru.
8 He told us that you love [all God’s people], just like God’s Spirit [has enabled you to] (OR, spiritually).
Abafara maa bukin duru uhem uweme anyimo abibe.
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.
Barki uguna uhem me, datti uwui me sa taa kunna ani me, daki taa ceki uwuza ushi biringira ba. Ti zin unu tira utari bati amyinca unu rusa ume me anyimo urusa nan unu tinka a bibe.
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.
Ti zin biringira bati i wuzi tanu me sa ta wuna Asere rep a konde uya una sa iriba ime me idi rummi. Tizin biringira inya ahana anyimo akonde ka ya katuma kuri vi'u una rusa Asere.
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.
Ti zin biringira unu gunna isoki nice anyimo konde uya urusa barki ubara uhana utira iriba ikang nan unata iriba.
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].
Tizin biringira idi acoo iriba irum nan apuru arum, de sa ma wuna shi ya kem ukalum anyimo uharu wanu re imum ya Asere yanu hem anyimo ama saa.
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.
Ma buran duru anyimo atigomo timareu ma kurzon duru ti iri tigomo ti huma ti vana ume me.
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.
Ahira usam me ta kem uburan, uvete ucara abanga.
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.
Usam me mani muhenu ma Asere sa adake iri ba. Me mani utuba anyimo abi barabara ba Asere.
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,
Barki ahira ame me ani abari vat timum me mani ma bari tini barki me.
17 and because it is his Son who existed before anything else existed, and because God sustains everything by what his Son [does].
Maa rani aje uvat uti mum, anyimo ame me ani vat ti mum ta kuri ta gurna.
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.
Me mani nice nini pum, anu tarsa Asere me mani utuba nan vana utuba anyimo ani wono, barki anime mazi na hira utuba anyimo atimum vat.
19 [God’s Son reveals perfectly what God his Father is like], because his Father chose to live completely in him.
Barki sa Asere ma wuzi puru arum ugunna vat ubari ume me ucukuno anyimo ame.
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.
Ma kuri ma barka konde iya imum uhana ahira ame usuro usam me. Asere ayen ticukum turunta ahira ama ye mu gankirka ume. Asere abarka vat uhana ahira ame, nani ti mum me ti rani asesere.
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,
Barki sa unu tuba shi agenu wani ahira Asere, anu eru ume amuriba nan anyimo akatuma kaburi.
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.
Ana me, ma barka shi ahira iwono ime me ini pum. Ma wuza ani me bati ma witi shi lau, anu zatu umadini nan uzatu imum iti zogo aje ame.
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.
Inge yare aje anyimo uhem, uturi ahira a'inde, anu zatu seserke ahira u'inko iriba ikadura nan tize ta Asere sa awuzi barki konde vi sa ma rani unee. Tine tini tizi ta Asere sa mi Bulus ma cukuno urere.
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.
Ana me izin niriba irum ini jassi im barki shi. Ani pum num ma myincika ukasu ijasi ivana Asere barki nipum ni meme nini anu tarsa Asere.
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.
Barki anu tarsa Asere agino me, ma cukuno urere nan unu gittak sa Asere acanum barki wa anu umyinca ukadura ka Asere.
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)
Ane ani nizunzi nikadura sa a hunze tiwe nan ticara gbardang. Ani me apoko ande sa wa hem in me ini. (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].
Ahira awe me ani Asere a hem upoko ugbardang uhunze me ni anyimo anu zatu tarsa Asere. Maa bezi vana Asere mani anyimo ashi, ugbardang ukatuma sa ka aze.
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.
Me mani de sa tizin unu boo me, tizin unu gbara ukonde uya unu, ti zin unu dugura ukonde uya unu nigoo me nan konde uya urusa, bati ti witi konde uya unu anyimo avana Asere gbem.
29 In order that I might [achieve/accomplish this], I am also working very hard, depending on Christ to empowering me very greatly.
Barki nikara ni meme nan ubari ume me sa urani anyimo am unee uni wa wunam izinin katuma in nu inko iriba.
