Colossians 2
1 For I want you to know how great a struggle I have had for you, for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh.
Nokuti ndinoda kuti muzive kuti kurwa kukuru zvakadini kwandinako pamusoro penyu, nevari paRaodhikia, nevese vasina kuona chiso changu panyama,
2 I work so that their hearts may be encouraged by being brought together in love and into all the riches of full assurance of understanding, into the knowledge of the secret truth of God, that is, Christ.
kuti moyo yavo inyaradzwe, vasonanidzwe murudo, nemufuma yese yekuvimbiswa kwakakwana kwekunzwisisa, paruzivo rwechakavanzika chaMwari naBaba, nechaKristu,
3 In him all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.
maari fuma yese yeuchenjeri neyeruzivo yakavigwa.
4 I say this so that no one may trick you with persuasive speech.
Ndinoreva izvi, kuti kusava nemunhu anokunyengerai nemashoko anonyengera.
5 Although I am not with you in the flesh, yet I am with you in spirit. I rejoice to see your good order and the strength of your faith in Christ.
Nokuti kunyange ndisipo panyama, zvakadaro ndinemwi pamweya, ndichifara nekuvona kurongeka kwenyu, nekusimba kwerutendo rwenyu muna Kristu.
6 As you received Christ the Lord, walk in him.
Naizvozvo sezvamakagamuchira Kristu Jesu Ishe, fambai maari,
7 Be rooted in him, be built on him, be established in faith just as you were taught, and abound in thanksgiving.
makadzika midzi nekuvakwa maari, nekusimbiswa murutendo, sezvamakadzidziswa, muchiwedzera makuri nekuvonga.
8 See that no one captures you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, conforming to the elements of the world, and not conforming to Christ.
Chenjerai, zvimwe umwe munhu angakupambai neuchenjeri, nekunyengera kusina maturo, setsika dzevanhu, sedzidziso dzekuvamba dzenyika, uye kwete sekuna Kristu.
9 For in him all the fullness of God lives in bodily form.
Nokuti kuzara kwese kweuMwari kunogara maari pamuviri.
10 You have been filled in him, who is the head over every power and authority.
Uye makazadziswa maari, iye musoro weutungamiriri hwese nesimba;
11 In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not done by humans in the removal of the body of flesh, but in the circumcision of Christ.
wamakadzingiswawo maari nedzingiso isina kuitwa nemaoko, pakubvisa muviri wezvivi zvenyama, pakudzingisa kwaKristu;
12 You were buried with him in baptism, and in him you were raised up through faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead.
makavigwa pamwe naye pabhabhatidzo, pamakamutswawo pamwe naye nerutendo rwekuita kwaMwari, wakamumutsa kubva kuvakafa.
13 When you were dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he made you alive together with him and forgave us all of our trespasses.
Nemwi makafa mukudarika nekusadzingiswa kwenyama yenyu, wakakuitai vapenyu pamwe naye, akukanganwirai kudarika kwese,
14 He canceled the written record of debts that stood against us with its regulations. He took it away by nailing it to the cross.
akadzima rugwaro rwezviga rwaipikisana nesu, rwaipesana nesu, akarubvisa pakati, aruroverera pamuchinjikwa;
15 He disarmed the powers and authorities and made a public spectacle of them, by being victorious over them by the cross.
akurura vatungamiriri nemasimba, akavabudisa pachena, akatungamira kuvakunda mauri.
16 So then, let no one judge you in eating or in drinking, or about a feast day or a new moon, or about Sabbath days.
Naizvozvo kusava nemunhu anokutongai pakudya kana pachinwiwa, kana panhau yemutambo kana yekugara kwemwedzi kana yemasabata;
17 These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance is Christ.
zvinova mumvuri wezvinhu zvichauya, asi muviri ndewa Kristu.
18 Let no one who wants humility and the worship of angels judge you out of your prize. Such a person enters into the things he has seen and becomes puffed up by his fleshly thinking.
Kusava nemunhu anokutorerai mubairo wenyu nemano, achifarira kuzvininipisa nekunamata vatumwa, achipindira pazvinhu zvaasina kuona, achizvikudza pasina nefungwa dzake dzenyama,
19 He does not hold on to the head. It is from the head that the whole body throughout its joints and ligaments is supplied and held together; it grows with the growth given by God.
uye asingabatisisi Musoro, uyo maari muviri wese nezvisungo nemarunda unoriritirwa, nekurukirwa pamwe, uchikura nekukura kwaMwari.
20 If you died together with Christ to the elements of the world, why do you live as obligated to the world:
Naizvozvo kana makafa pamwe naKristu kune dzidziso dzekuvamba dzenyika, munosungikanirei nemirairo semugere munyika,
21 “Do not handle, nor taste, nor touch”?
(usabata, usaravira, usagunzva,
22 All these things will perish with use, according to the instructions and teachings of men.
izvo zvese zvichaparara nekushandiswa) semirairo nedzidziso dzevanhu?
23 These rules have the wisdom of self-made religion and humility and severity of the body. But they have no value against the indulgence of the flesh.
Zvine chimiro cheuchenjeri pakuzvidira kunamata, nekuzvininipisa, nekutambudza muviri; hazvitongobatsiri kukunda kugutsa nyama.
