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,
Ọ bụ ọchịchọ m ka unu ghọta otu m si na-agbasi mgba ike nke ukwuu nʼihi unu, na nʼihi ndị nọ nʼobodo Laodisia, na ndị niile na-enwebeghị ike ịhụ m ihu na ihu.
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.
Ebumnobi m bụ ka a gbaa ha ume, jikọọkwa ha nʼotu nʼịhụnanya, ka ha nweta ụba niile nke nghọta zuruoke na amamihe nke ihe omimi Chineke ahụ bụ Kraịst nʼonwe ya.
3 In Him all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are stored up, hidden from view.
Ọ bụkwa nʼime ya ka ụlọakụ ihe zoro ezo niile nke amamihe na ihe ọmụma dị.
4 I say this to prevent your being misled by any one's plausible sophistry.
Ana m ekwu nke a ka onye ọbụla ghara iji ire ụtọ duhie unu ụzọ.
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.
Ọ bụ ezie na anọghị m nʼetiti unu nʼanụ ahụ, ma anọ m nʼetiti unu nʼime mmụọ. Ana m aṅụrị ọṅụ ịhụ mkpebi unu na iguzosi ike nʼokwukwe unu nʼime Kraịst.
6 As therefore you have received the Christ, even Jesus our Lord, live and act in vital union with Him;
Ya mere, dị ka unu si nabata Kraịst Jisọs Onyenwe anyị, na-ebinụ ndụ unu nʼime ya.
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.
Bụrụnụ ndị mgbọrọgwụ ha mibanyere nʼime ya, ndị a na-ewuli elu nʼime ya, ndị dị ike nʼime okwukwe, dị ka e si kuziere unu, ndị jupụtara na-inye ekele.
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.
Lezienụ anya ka onye ọbụla ghara iji ozizi na amamihe efu niile nke na-achị ụwa, na aghụghọ duhie unu nʼokwukwe. Okwu amamihe ahụ nke ihe ozizi ya na ọsịsa ya niile dabeere na mmụọ nke ụwa na ntụpụta mmadụ kama ịdabere nʼihe Kraịst kwuru.
9 For it is in Christ that the fulness of God's nature dwells embodied, and in Him you are made complete,
Nʼihi na nʼime Kraịst ka izuoke niile nke Chineke bi nʼụdịdị mmadụ.
10 and He is the Lord of all princes and rulers.
Ya mere, unu nwere ihe niile nʼime ya, onye bụ isi ndị niile na-achị achị, onye bụkwa isi nʼebe ike na ịchị isi niile dị.
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;
Nʼime ya, e biri unu ugwu nke ejighị aka bie, site nʼiwepụ ọdịdị anụ ahụ nʼobibi ugwu nke Kraịst biri.
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.
Mgbe e likọtara unu na ya na baptizim, e sitere nʼọnwụ kpọlite unu na ya site nʼokwukwe ahụ dị nʼike Chineke onye sitere nʼọnwụ kpọlite ya.
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.
Mgbe unu bụ ndị nwụrụ anwụ nʼime mmehie unu, na nʼime ebighị ugwu nke anụ ahụ mmehie unu, Chineke mere ka unu soro Kraịst dịrị ndụ ọzọ. Ọ gbaghara anyị mmehie anyị niile,
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.
kagbuo iwu niile e dere ede, ya na usoro ya niile nke guzoro imegide anyị. O wezugara ha, kpọgide ha nʼobe.
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.
Mgbe ọ napụrụ ike niile, na ịchị isi niile, ngwa agha ha niile, ọ gbara ha ọtọ nʼihu ọha, igosi mmeri o meriri ha nʼobe.
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.
Nʼihi ya, unu ekwela ka onye ọbụla kpee unu ikpe banyere ihe ọbụla unu na-eri, maọbụ ihe unu na-aṅụ, maọbụ ihe banyere ido ụbọchị nsọ, maọbụ ime mmemme ọnwa ọhụrụ maọbụ mmemme ụbọchị izuike.
17 These were a shadow of things that were soon to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.
Ihe ndị a niile bụ onyinyo nke ihe ga-abịa nʼọdịnihu ma nke pụtara ihe dị nʼime Kraịst.
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.
Unu ekwela ka onye ọbụla nke ọ na-amasị ife ndị mmụọ ozi maọbụ ibi ndụ umeala nke aghụghọ dị nʼime ya, onye na-ekwu ọtụtụ okwu banyere ọhụ ọ hụrụ, si otu a na-afụli onwe ya elu nʼefu nʼihi echiche nke onwe ya, maa unu ikpe ma napụ unu ihe nrite unu.
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.
Onye na-adịghị ejidesikwa onye bụ isi aka ike, onye a na-esite nʼaka ya na-eme ka ahụ niile, nke nkwonkwo ha na akwara ha niile na-ejikọta nʼotu, too eto dị ka Chineke si chọọ ka ha too.
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
Ebe ọ bụ na unu esorola Kraịst nwụọ nʼebe ozizi na amamihe niile nke na-achị ụwa nọ, gịnị mekwaranụ unu ji ka na-ebi ndụ dị ka a ga-asị na unu bụ nke ụwa, gịnị mere unu ji na-edo onwe unu nʼokpuru iwu ya dị iche?
21 "Do not handle this;" "Do not taste that;" "Do not touch that other thing" --
“Ejidela nke a aka, edetụla nke a ire, ebitụkwala nke a aka”?
22 referring to things which are all intended to be used up and perish--in obedience to mere human injunctions and teachings?
Iwu ndị a niile na-ekwu banyere ihe ndị ga-ala nʼiyi mgbe a na-etinye ha nʼọrụ, ha sitere nʼiwu na ozizi nke mmadụ.
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.
Nʼezie, iwu ndị a yiri ihe e ji amamihe guzobe, nʼihi ụzọ o si akwali mmụọ mmadụ nʼife ofufe dị ka ọ chọrọ, na iweda onwe nʼala, na ịta anụ ahụ ahụhụ. Ma ha abaghị uru o bụla iji ha gbochie agụụ ọjọọ nke anụ ahụ.
