Kolossiyawa 2
1 Ina so ku san irin famar da nake yi saboda ku da kuma waɗanda suke a Lawodiseya, da kuma saboda dukan waɗanda ba su taɓa ganina ido da ido ba.
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,
2 Manufata ita ce a ƙarfafa su su kuma zama ɗaya a cikin ƙauna. Ina so su kasance da cikakken ƙarfin hali domin suna da cikakken fahimtar asirin Allah, wato, Kiristi kansa,
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.
3 a cikinsa ne aka ɓoye dukkan dukiya ta hikima da ta sani.
In Him all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are stored up, hidden from view.
4 Ina faɗa muku wannan ne don kada wani yă ruɗe ku da daɗin baki.
I say this to prevent your being misled by any one's plausible sophistry.
5 Gama ko da yake ba na nan tare da ku a cikin jiki, ina tunaninku kullum, ina kuma farin ciki da gani kuna rayuwa yadda ya kamata, kuna kuma dāgewarku a kan bangaskiyarku a cikin Kiristi.
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.
6 To, da yake kun karɓi Kiristi Yesu a matsayin Ubangiji, sai ku ci gaba da rayuwa a cikinsa,
As therefore you have received the Christ, even Jesus our Lord, live and act in vital union with Him;
7 ku tsaya daram ku kuma ginu a cikinsa, ku sami ƙarfafawa a cikin bangaskiya kamar yadda aka koya muku, kuna kuma cike da godiya.
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.
8 Ku lura kada wani yă ruɗe ku da ilimin banza da wofi. Wannan koyarwa ta mutane ce kawai. Ta fito daga ikokin wannan duniya ne ba daga Kiristi ba.
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.
9 Gama a cikin Kiristi cikin jiki dukkan cikar Allahntaka take tabbata,
For it is in Christ that the fulness of God's nature dwells embodied, and in Him you are made complete,
10 an kuma mai da ku cikakku a cikin Kiristi, wanda yake shi ne kai a kan kowane iko da kuma hukuma.
and He is the Lord of all princes and rulers.
11 A cikinsa ne kuma aka yi muku kaciya, ba kuwa yin mutum ba, amma wadda Kiristi ya yi muku, ta wurin tuɓe halinku na mutuntaka.
In Him also you were circumcised with a circumcision not performed by hand, when you threw off your sinful nature in true Christian circumcision;
12 Da yake an binne ku tare da shi cikin baftisma haka kuma aka tashe ku tare da shi ta wurin bangaskiyarku a cikin ikon Allah, wanda ya tashe shi daga matattu.
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.
13 Kun zama matattu saboda ku masu zunubi ne kuma saboda halin zunubanku aka ware. Sa’an nan Allah ya sa kuka rayu tare da Kiristi. Ya gafarta mana dukan zunubanmu.
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.
14 Ya soke rubutacciyar doka tare da ƙa’idodinta, wadda take gāba da mu, take kuma hamayya da mu; ya kuma kawar da ta, ya kafe ta a kan gicciye.
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.
15 Bayan ya ƙwace makaman ikoki da hukumomi, ya kunyata su a sarari, ya ci nasara a bisansu ta wurin gicciye.
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.
16 Saboda haka kada ku bar wani yă shari’anta ku a kan abin da kuke ci ko sha, ko bisa ga abin da ya shafi wani bikin addini, ko Bikin Sabon Wata ko na ranar Asabbaci.
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.
17 Waɗannan su ne hoton abubuwan da za su zo; amma Kiristi ne ainihinsu.
These were a shadow of things that were soon to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.
18 Kada ku yarda wani yă ɓata ku, cewa shi wani abu ne don yă ga wahayi. Irin mutumin nan yakan nuna ƙasƙancin kai na ƙarya, yă kuma ce yana yi wa mala’iku sujada. Irin mutumin nan yana kumbura kansa ba dalili, sai son zuciya irin na halin mutuntaka.
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.
19 Ya yanke dangantaka da Kiristi wanda yake kai, wanda ta gare shi ne dukan jiki yake a haɗe, yake tsaye ta wurin taimakon gaɓoɓi da jijiyoyi, yana kuma girma kamar yadda Allah yake sa yă yi girma.
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.
20 Kun mutu tare da Kiristi. Yanzu ƙa’idodin wannan duniya ba su da iko a kanku. Don me kuke zama har yanzu kamar ku nasu ne? Kuna biyayya da umarnansu cewa,
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
21 “Kada ka kama! Kada ka ɗanɗana! Kada ka taɓa”?
"Do not handle this;" "Do not taste that;" "Do not touch that other thing" --
22 Irin waɗannan dokoki suna magana a kan abubuwan da ba sa daɗewa. Su ayyukan mutane ne, sun kuma fito daga koyarwar mutane.
referring to things which are all intended to be used up and perish--in obedience to mere human injunctions and teachings?
23 Yin biyayya da irin waɗannan ƙa’idodi za su yi kamar su ne abu mafi kyau da za a yi. Sukan yi kamar suna sa a ƙaunaci Allah sosai a kuma kasance da sauƙinkai a kuma kasance da kamunkai. Amma ba su da wani iko a kan sha’awace-sha’awacenmu.
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.
