Kolose 1
1 Kepada saudara-saudari seiman saya, umat Allah di Kolose, yaitu kalian yang sudah disucikan Allah karena percaya penuh kepada Kristus Yesus dan bersatu dengan-Nya. Salam sejahtera dari saya, Paulus, yang menjadi rasul Kristus Yesus karena kehendak Allah, dan dari saudara kita Timotius. Kiranya kalian semua senantiasa hidup tenang dan menikmati kebaikan dari Allah Bapa dan Kristus Yesus Penguasa kita.
I, Paul, [am writing this letter to you], and our fellow believer Timothy [is with me]. I am an apostle who represents Christ Jesus, because that is what God wanted.
[I am sending this letter] to you who are in Colossae [city], and who are God’s people, and our faithful fellow believers who have a close relationship with Christ. We pray that God our Father will be acting kindly towards you, and that he will cause you to have [inner] peace.
3 Setiap kali kami mendoakan kalian, kami sangat bersyukur kepada Allah, Bapa dari Penguasa kita Kristus Yesus.
Very often [HYP] we thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, while we are praying for you,
4 Kami bersyukur karena mendengar bahwa kalian terus percaya penuh kepada Kristus Yesus dan sangat mengasihi semua umat Allah.
because we have heard that you believe in Christ Jesus, and that you love all God’s people.
5 Kalian tetap percaya dan saling mengasihi karena yakin bahwa kita pasti akan menerima berkat yang sudah Allah sediakan bagi kita di surga. Kalian sudah belajar tentang itu dalam Kabar Baik tentang Yesus, yaitu ajaran benar
You do that because you confidently expect to receive that which God is (reserving/keeping safe) for you in heaven, which you heard about previously when you heard the true message, that is, the message [about Christ].
6 yang sudah disampaikan kepada kalian. Ajaran itu seperti benih yang tertanam di tanah yang subur. Dari Kabar Baik itu kita mengetahui dengan benar bahwa Allah sangat berbaik hati kepada kita. Kabar Baik itu juga sedang disampaikan ke semua daerah di dunia. Dan seperti yang terjadi di antara kalian, semakin banyak orang menjadi percaya dan cara hidup mereka diubahkan.
[People] proclaimed it [PRS] to you, just like [people] have proclaimed it in many different countries [HYP, IDM]. The true message is changing more and more people’s lives, just like it changed your lives because you heard it and you truly experienced that God acts kindly towards us in ways we do not deserve.
7 Yang mengajarkan berita itu kepada kalian adalah Epafras, sahabat kami dalam pelayanan Kristus. Dengan setia dia bekerja sebagai wakil kami di daerah kalian.
That is just what Epaphras taught you [would happen]. We love Epaphras. He serves Christ together with us and works for Christ faithfully for your benefit.
8 Sewaktu Epafras tiba di sini, dia menyampaikan kepada kami bahwa kalian sangat mengasihi kami dan semua umat Allah dengan kasih dari Roh Kudus.
He told us that you love [all God’s people], just like God’s Spirit [has enabled you to] (OR, spiritually).
9 Karena itu, sejak mendengar tentang kalian, kami tidak berhenti mendoakan kalian, “Ya Allah, kami mohon agar setiap umat-Mu di Kolose menjadi orang yang bijaksana, agar melalui Roh-Mu mereka mengerti cara hidup yang sesuai dengan kemauan-Mu,
Because of what we heard about you, we have also been praying [LIT] very often to God for you [HYP], ever since we heard this report about you. We pray that you will truly know all that God wants you to do; that is, that you will become very wise, and that you will understand spiritual matters well.
10 supaya mereka selalu hidup sebagai milik Tuhan Yesus dan melakukan perbuatan yang berkenan kepada-Nya. Jadikanlah mereka seperti tanaman subur yang bertumbuh semakin mengenal Engkau dan senantiasa menghasilkan segala hal yang baik.
We have been praying like that in order that you will conduct yourselves as the Lord’s people should conduct themselves, in order that you will please the Lord in every way. Specifically, we have been praying like that in order that you will be doing every sort of good deed [IDM] and in order that you will be getting to know God truly, more and more.
11 Kami juga berdoa agar Engkau menguatkan mereka dengan kuasa-Mu yang sangat luar biasa, sehingga mereka pantang menyerah dan tidak putus asa waktu mengalami kesusahan. Kami berdoa supaya dalam keadaan apa pun mereka terus bersukacita
And we pray that [God] will greatly strengthen you [spiritually] with the mighty power that he has shown [to people], in order that you will always be steadfast and patient [when you experience difficulties], while [at the same time] you will be rejoicing.
12 dan bersyukur kepada-Mu, ya Allah Bapa. Sebab Engkau sudah mengangkat kami sebagai milik-Mu sendiri, sehingga kami berhak tinggal selama-lamanya dalam terang-Mu yang mulia, dan menerima semua yang Engkau janjikan kepada kami yang sudah Engkau sucikan.
And we pray that you will be thanking God our Father, because he has enabled you/us to receive the things that he will give to his people in heaven [SYN].
13 Ya Allah, Engkau sudah melepaskan kami dari kuasa gelap dan menjadikan kami warga kerajaan Anak-Mu yang sangat Engkau kasihi.
God our Father rescued us [spiritually] so that the evil one no longer rules us [MET, MTY], and he caused us now to be ruled by his Son, whom he loves.
14 Semua itu terjadi karena Yesus, Anak-Mu itu, sudah membayar semua hutang dosa kami sehingga kami menerima pengampunan-Mu.”
That is, because of our relationship with his Son (OR, because of what the one who is also God did), God has redeemed/bought us; in particular, he has forgiven our sins.
15 Kristus Yesus mencerminkan semua sifat Allah. Walaupun manusia tidak dapat melihat Allah, tetapi kita bisa mengenal Dia melalui Kristus, Anak-Nya. Kristus adalah yang Terutama di atas semua yang diciptakan.
God’s Son reveals perfectly what God, his Father, is like, whom no one can see. God’s Son existed before and ranks above everything that God has created.
16 Karena melalui Dia, Allah sudah menciptakan segala yang ada, baik di bumi maupun di semua tingkat surga dan langit, baik hal-hal yang kelihatan maupun yang tidak kelihatan oleh mata manusia, termasuk semua penguasa rohani yang tinggi dan yang rendah, juga semua kerajaan di dunia. Allah menciptakan semua itu melalui Kristus, supaya Anak-Nya itu menjadi Raja atas segala ciptaan.
When God created everything that is on the earth, he did it by having his Son do it. He created everything that [people] can see, and also everything which is in heaven that [people] cannot see. In particular, his Son created all ranks of important spirit beings. [And his Son ranks above everything], because God by the work of had his Son, and because by his Son all things were created {because [God] had his Son create everything} in order that everything might praise his Son,
17 Yesus sudah ada sebelum segala sesuatu diciptakan, dan Dialah yang menopang seluruh ciptaan-Nya agar tetap berlangsung.
and because it is his Son who existed before anything else existed, and because God sustains everything by what his Son [does].
18 Yesus adalah Kepala atas semua orang yang percaya penuh kepada-Nya, yaitu kita yang berperan sebagai tubuh-Nya di dunia ini. Dia jugalah sumber hidup bagi kita, dan Dialah yang pertama kali mempunyai hidup yang kekal sesudah bangkit dari kematian. Hal itu sesuai dengan rencana Allah Bapa supaya Anak-Nya menjadi yang terutama dalam segala hal.
And [God’s Son ranks above everything], because it is his Son who [rules over his people] [MET] [as a person’s] head [controls his physical] body, because his Son causes his people to live [spiritually]. [God’s Son] is the first one who became alive again, in order that he should become more important than anything and everyone.
19 Karena Bapa-Nya sendiri yang menghendaki dan memutuskan supaya Anak-Nya— ketika menjadi manusia— tetap mempunyai semua sifat Allah.
[God’s Son reveals perfectly what God his Father is like], because his Father chose to live completely in him.
20 Allah merencanakan hal itu supaya melalui Yesus, segala sesuatu baik yang ada di langit maupun di bumi berdamai kembali dengan Allah Bapa. Perdamaian itu terjadi hanya melalui darah Anak-Nya yang mengalir di kayu salib.
[God our Father caused his Son to rule us], because he decided to reconcile with himself everything that is on earth and that is in heaven by what his Son did, in order that everything might honor his Son; that is, God our Father decided to reconcile everything to himself as a result of his [Son’s] blood [flowing when he died] on the cross. [The chiastic material is rearranged below so that the directly related propositional clusters are joined together.] 13 God our Father rescued us [spiritually] so that we are no longer ruled by the evil one, and God our Father caused us now to be ruled by his Son (OR, the man who is also God) whom he loves. 14a That is, by means of what his Son did, we have been redeemed by God, our Father. 14b In particular, our sins have been forgiven by God, our Father. 20 God, our Father, has done this because he decided to reconcile to himself, by means of his Son, everything that is on earth and that is in heaven, in order that his Son might be honored; that is, God, our Father decided to reconcile everything to himself by means of God’s Son’s blood [flowing out when he died] on the cross. 15b God cannot be seen by anyone, 15a but his Son reveals perfectly what God—his Father—is like, 19a because it is in his Son that the Father chose 19b that he himself would dwell completely. 15c God’s Son ranks above everything 15d that has been created, 16 because it was by means of God’s Son that God created everything that is on the earth and that can be seen by people, and also everything that is in heaven and that cannot be seen by people. In particular, all types of important spirit beings were created by means of him, since everything has been created by God by means of God’s Son. And his Son ranks above everything, because everything has been created by God, in order that God’s Son might be honored by everything, 17 and because it is he who existed before anything else existed, and since everything is sustained by God by means of God’s Son. 18 And God’s Son ranks above everything because it is he who [rules over all believers, just like a person’s] head [controls his physical body, because he causes all believers to live spiritually]. His Son is the first one who rose from among those who have died, in order that he should become more important than everything and everyone.
21 Memang, sebelum mengenal Yesus, hidup kita jauh dari Allah dan kita selalu memusuhi Dia dalam pikiran dan perbuatan kita yang jahat. Tetapi sekarang, Yesus sudah menjadi Pengantara sehingga kita berdamai dengan Allah.
As for you, [although] formerly God [considered you his] enemies (OR, [God considered you] as alienated [from him]) and [although] you were formerly hostile [to God] because you thought evil thoughts and because you did evil deeds,
22 Hal itu terjadi sewaktu Yesus, dalam keadaan sebagai manusia, mati disalibkan untuk menggantikan setiap kita. Jadi di hadapan Allah kita sudah disucikan dan bersih tanpa noda, seakan tidak pernah berbuat dosa.
nevertheless, God our Father has now reconciled you [with himself. He did that] as a result of his Son dying physically. He did it in order that you should be completely holy when he brings you into his presence.
23 Kesucian itu akan terus berlaku bagi kita asalkan kita tetap percaya pada Kabar Baik yang sudah kita terima. Kabar itulah dasar dari semua yang kita harapkan. Janganlah kalian berpindah dari dasar itu. Bertahanlah, karena Kabar Baik itu sedang disebarkan ke semua daerah di dunia ini. Dan saya, Paulus, sudah ditugaskan untuk memberitakannya.
He wants you to continue [DOU] to believe the message about Christ; specifically, he wants you to continue to be stable/steadfast and to continue to confidently expect to receive that which you heard about when you heard that message. That message has been proclaimed {They have proclaimed that message} to people in very many places [HYP]; and I, Paul, also become someone who tells it to people.
24 Sekarang saya bersukacita karena saya tahu bahwa penderitaan yang sedang saya alami di dalam penjara ini sebenarnya demi kepentingan kalian dan semua pengikut Kristus. Kita masing-masing adalah seperti bagian-bagian tubuh Kristus di dunia ini. Jadi kalau salah satu bagian menderita, Kristus sendiri juga turut menderita. Dan sebagai anggota tubuh-Nya, saya sudah dipilih oleh Dia untuk menderita di penjara ini untuk menguatkan semua orang yang percaya kepada-Nya.
At the present time I am rejoicing that I am suffering for your benefit; that is, I am completing what Christ [decided] that I should suffer physically for the benefit of all believers, [who are as dear to him as] his own body.
25 Sesuai rencana Allah, saya menjadi pelayan untuk kalian semua, dan tugas saya adalah menyampaikan Kabar Baik dari Allah dengan selengkapnya kepada semua orang, khususnya kalian yang bukan Yahudi.
I myself became someone who serves God’s people, because I was appointed {[God] appointed me} to be responsible to [help] you [who are non-Jews]. I became one who serves God’s people in order that I should make known to you non-Jews the whole message from/about God.
26 Isi Kabar itu sama sekali tidak diketahui oleh siapa pun sejak permulaan dunia, karena Allah merahasiakannya. Tetapi sekarang, hal itu dinyatakan kepada kita yang sudah disucikan oleh Yesus. (aiōn g165)
[We did not know this message previously; that is, God] concealed it from [the people who lived in all] the previous ages, but he has now revealed it to his people. (aiōn g165)
27 Kabar Baik Allah itu sangat menyenangkan dan sangat indah bagi semua orang, termasuk kalian yang bukan Yahudi. Inilah inti Kabar itu: Kristus hidup di dalam hatimu! Dan hal itu memberi keyakinan bahwa kita akan masuk ke dalam kemuliaan Allah di surga.
That is, God decided to reveal to them this message, which declares that he will greatly bless the non-Jews. Specifically, this message declares that Christ, [by his Spirit], will live in you who are non-Jews, with the result that you confidently expect that you will experience how glorious [God is].
28 Oleh sebab itulah kami yang sudah menjadi rasul Yesus terus memberitakan Kabar Baik! Kami berusaha menasihati dan mengajar setiap orang dengan menggunakan segala hikmat yang Allah berikan. Karena kami rindu membawa sebanyak mungkin orang kepada Allah untuk menjadi bagian tubuh Kristus tanpa cacat dan noda.
We tell about Christ [to every class of persons]; we warn them, and specifically, we teach everyone very wisely. We do this in order that every person who (has a close relationship with/is united to) Christ may be (all that God wants them to be/perfect) when we present them to Christ.
29 Untuk itulah saya berjuang dan berusaha keras dengan bersandar kepada Yesus yang selalu memberi kekuatan kepada saya.
In order that I might [achieve/accomplish this], I am also working very hard, depending on Christ to empowering me very greatly.
