Colossians 2
1 For I would have you know in how severe a struggle I am engaged on behalf of you and the brethren in Laodicea and of all who have not known me personally,
Misondi duyito bikpukpodi wandi mitonitumbi, nitu biwandi baheni lawundikiya, nikuma bari iwandi bana hiye to shishi mu na.
2 in order that their hearts may be cheered, they themselves being welded together in love and enjoying all the advantages of a reasonable certainty, till at last they attain the full knowledge of God's truth, which is Christ Himself.
Mitindu donindu sronba ndu heni gworo nimyi nyeme hinibiwo ni gbuglu'u unjaji urji ni'u Almasihu.
3 In Him all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are stored up, hidden from view.
Nimina ikpibiheloh ni uheni kpran ba rii ki.
4 I say this to prevent your being misled by any one's plausible sophistry.
Mihla tomba ndudiorinduma yenaye gruyi naye ban mrenbi niyuna.
5 For although, as you say, I am absent from you in body, yet in spirit I am present with you and am delighted to witness your good discipline and the solid front presented by your faith in Christ.
Tokimame mina heniyi nimyi kpana, ammahmi henyi ni birji. Mingyri niwandi mitoyi ndidime ni ngbengblen dindima nimyi Almasihu.
6 As therefore you have received the Christ, even Jesus our Lord, live and act in vital union with Him;
Nitu yanda kpewandi kikpa Almasihu, itimbu kikre tsatsranituma.
7 having the roots of your being firmly planted in Him, and continually building yourselves up in Him, and always being increasingly confirmed in the faith as you were taught it, and abounding in it with thanksgiving.
Kukji ngbangbah nituma, mmenituma, kurli ngbangbanituma yanda kpewandi batsroyi ngyrizu konintse yi
8 Take care lest there be some one who leads you away as prisoners by means of his philosophy and idle fancies, following human traditions and the world's crude notions instead of following Christ.
Mlaya nandu ndiori nduye gyruyi nitu memenko iwandi atouhrji batia, nitu hukpewandi ahi gbungblu, iwandi anahiurjina.
9 For it is in Christ that the fulness of God's nature dwells embodied, and in Him you are made complete,
Nitu kima jijirji atrotuma ndendeme.
10 and He is the Lord of all princes and rulers.
Biyime bitsra nimyima, kima hikoshishi gbengle bituchu.
11 In Him also you were circumcised with a circumcision not performed by hand, when you threw off your sinful nature in true Christian circumcision;
Nitumaii bafonjuniyiwu, ana fonjubiuntakpana. ahi bi'u Almasihu mu.
12 having been buried with Him in your baptism, in which you were also raised with Him through faith produced within you by God who raised Him from among the dead.
Barju yi babah ninko'u sukpah nima, nitumaingarli balah shbeyi unjaji ninmyi gbengle irji, iandi ashbenimyibe.
13 And to you--dead as you once were in your transgressions and in the uncircumcision of your natural state--He has nevertheless given Life with Himself, having forgiven us all our transgressions.
Intou wandi bina heni myibe ni lantrebi, niwandi banafunju ukpani yiwuna. A hota ni wawume alakalatrembu Rjinitawu.
14 The bond, with its requirements, which was in force against us and was hostile to us, He cancelled, and cleared it out of the way, nailing it to His Cross.
Ase ihla ni kpibiwandi kitatiwandi ataa tinfuniba binygayga rjunitawu. ajuba mpempeme wonibema.
15 And the hostile princes and rulers He shook off from Himself, and boldly displayed them as His conquests, when by the Cross He triumphed over them.
Achu ngbengble gangbah. nikyinjirji a ngraba na srubachi ngyri u wlundema.
16 Therefore suffer no one to sit in judgement on you as to eating or drinking or with regard to a festival, a new moon or a sabbath.
Nitu kima nandudiori bkatre nitu rli ko nitu so ko ihwasamarju, konitu chachu.
17 These were a shadow of things that were soon to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.
Bii 'i' ba yukpibari biandi basiyeni koshishi ama unjaji wawui hi Almasihu
18 Let no one defraud you of your prize, priding himself on his humility and on his worship of the angels, and taking his stand on the visions he has seen, and idly puffed up with his unspiritual thoughts.
Kodandudiori iwandi anyebeni kpatsiri'a nihlatrerji malaiku nduye blatreniyiu nduyina fe Isanbin ukpana.
19 Such a one does not keep his hold upon Christ, the Head, from whom the Body, in all its parts nourished and strengthened by its points of contact and its connections, grows with a divine growth.
Ana kabi ni'una. Rjiniwamba ahikpa wawu'u ninghama kpa ni chibikpa ba zo natindu nikpanba. ba wlunde ni wlunde wandi irjininuba'a
20 If you have died with Christ and have escaped from the world's rudimentary notions, why, as though your life still belonged to the world, do you submit to such precepts as
Idan bi kyu ni Almasihu nibirji njanji ungbugblu ni tungye bizrenandi bihinji bin gbunglua.
21 "Do not handle this;" "Do not taste that;" "Do not touch that other thing" --
Najina, narhlena, nabrewona?
22 referring to things which are all intended to be used up and perish--in obedience to mere human injunctions and teachings?
Penpeme ikpibiba batimeme idan batindu niba, nitunkoh iwandi inji batso kpanbah.
23 These rules have indeed an appearance of wisdom where self-imposed worship exists, and an affectation of humility and an ascetic severity. But not one of them is of any value in combating the indulgence of our lower natures.
Dokoki bii baheni hetohnikpa irlibi iriu adinai biandi bayo kpatsiri niyah ukpah u' bana hemudukperiwa ndiikpani so'ana
