Kolosa 2
1 NO ka mea, ke ake nei au e ike oukou i ko'u ehaeha nui ana no oukou, a me ko Laodikeia, a me ka poe i ike ole mai i ko'u maka, i ke Kino nei;
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 I hooluolu pu ia ko lakou naau, i hookui pu ia hoi i ke aloha, a i ka waiwai a pau o ka manao maopopo loa, i ka ike paka ana i ka mea pohihihi a ke Akua ka Makua a me Kristo;
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 Kahi i hunaia'i ka waiwai nui o ke akamai, a me ka naauao.
In Him all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are stored up, hidden from view.
4 O ka'u ia e olelo nei, o puni oukou i kekahi, i na olelo hoowalewale.
I say this to prevent your being misled by any one's plausible sophistry.
5 No ka mea, i ko'u kaawale ana ma ke kino, owau pu kekahi me oukou ma ka uhane, e hauoli ana, me ka nana ana i ko oukou pono like, a me ke kupaa ana o ko oukou manaeio ia Kristo.
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 Nolaila hoi, no ka loaa ana mai o Kristo ia oukou, e hele oukou iloko ona;
As therefore you have received the Christ, even Jesus our Lord, live and act in vital union with Him;
7 I hookumuia, a i hookukuluia iloko ona, a me ka hoomauia i ka manaoio i hoikeia mai ia oukou, a malaila e hoomahuahua ae ia me ka hoomaikai aku.
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 E malama hoi, o hokai mai kekahi ia oukou me ka manao maalea, a me ka hoopunipuni lapuwale, mamuli o ka mooolelo o Kanaka, mamuli o na kumu o ko ke ao nei, aole hoi mamuli o Kristo.
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 No ka mea, maloko ona e noho ana ka pono nui a pau o ke Akua ma ko kino.
For it is in Christ that the fulness of God's nature dwells embodied, and in Him you are made complete,
10 Ua hemolele oukou maloko ona, oia ke poo o na'lii a pau a me ka mana.
and He is the Lord of all princes and rulers.
11 Iloko ona, ua okipoepoeia oukou i ke okipoepoe hana ole ia e ka lima, i ke pale ana aku i ke kino o ka hewa o ka io, ma ko Kristo okipoepoe ana;
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 I kanu pu ia me ia, i ka bapetizo ana, a ilaila hoi e ala pu hou ai me ia, ma ka manaoio i ka hana a ke Akua, a ka mea i hoala ia ia, mai ka make mai.
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 O oukou hoi ka poe i make iloko o ka hewa, a me ke okipoepoe ole ia o ko oukou kino, o oukou Kana i hoala pu hou mai nei me ia, a ua kala mai i ko oukou hewa a pau;
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 E hokai ana i ka palapala lima o na oihana i pono ole ai Kakou, o ka mea i ku e mai ia kakou, oia kana i lawe aku ai, a makia aku la ma kona kea.
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 A kaili ae la oia i ko na'lii, a me ko na mea mana, ua hoike ia lakou ma ke akea, e lanakila ana maluna o lakou ma keia.
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 Nolaila, mai hoahewa mai kekahi ia oukou, i ka mea ai, a me ka mea inu, aole hoi no kahi la hoano, a me ka mahina hou, a me na sabati.
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 He aka no ia mau mea no na mea e hiki mai ana: aka o ke kino, no Kristo no ia.
These were a shadow of things that were soon to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.
18 Mai hoonele mai kekahi ia oukou i ko oukou uku ma ka hoohaahaa wale ana, a me ka hoomana ana i na anela, e maoi wale ana iloko o na mea ana i ike ole ai, e hookano wale ana kona naau kanaka,
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 Me ka malama ole i ke Poo, i ka mea i hanaiia mai ai ke kino a pau, i paa i na ami a me na olona, ua mahuahua aku ia i ko ke Akua hoomahuahua ana mai.
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 Ina hoi i make pu oukou me Kristo, a kaawale na kumu liilii o ko ke ao nei, no ke aha hoi oukou, e like me ka noho ana ma keia ao, i malama ai i na kapu,
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 (Mai hoopa, mai hoao, mai lawelawe;
"Do not handle this;" "Do not taste that;" "Do not touch that other thing" --
22 O na mea ia e make ai ma ka lawe ana; ) mamuli o na kauoha a me na oleloao a kanaka?
referring to things which are all intended to be used up and perish--in obedience to mere human injunctions and teachings?
23 He mau mea hookohukohu naauao, i ka hoomana e, a i ka hoohaahaa, a i ka malama ole i ke kino, aole nae i ka mea nui e oluolu ai ke kino.
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.
