Ukolosiyawa 2
1 In nyara irusi ijase sa ma sa barki shi, barki an desa wa rani Ulaudikiya, nan aye gbardang sa daki wa mu ira muhenu mum ba.
For I would have you know how great a contest I am waging for you and the brethren in Laodicea, and for all who have never seen my face.
2 Ma wuza katuma bati muriba mu we me mu kem nikara uwatu upata uwe anyimo uhem uhana vat ure aje nan urusa! ukang ukadura kani hunzi na Asere, vana Asere.
May their hearts be comforted! May they be knit together in love! May they gain in all its riches the full assurance of their understanding! May they come to a perfect knowledge of the secret truth of God, which is Christ himself.
3 Anyimo ani hunzi vat muso murusa nan mu.
In Him are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge!
4 Ma buka shi ani me kati uye ma rangi shi intize tihunguko umuriba mushi.
And this I say, lest any one should mislead you with enticing words.
5 Vat unu zina sa inzom nigoo me nan shi abibe. In zin na puru arum in iri urusa tanu tishi nan akara ashi me.
For though I am absent from you in body, I am with you in spirit, happy to note your discipline and the solid front of your faith in Christ.
6 Sa yaa kabi vana ugomo Asere, tonno ni in nikara anyimo ame.
As then you have received Jesus Christ, your Lord, in him live your lives;
7 Cukuno nin gusi abira shi anyimo ame, akuri asuu shi asesere ame, i tonno anyimo u nya uhem, kasi udundura me sa awuzi shi, awuu gbardang anyimo ubezi iriba irum.
since you are rooted in him, and in him continually built up. Be firmly established in the faith as you were taught it, and continually abound in it with thanksgiving.
8 I wuzi seke kati uye ma rangi shi una urusa nan nu hunguko ushi ahira una utanda wa naabu, una utarsa utimum tu nee, inzo ti vana Asere ba.
Take care lest any man drag you away captive by his philosophy which is a vain deceit, following the traditions of men and the world’s crude notions, and not Christ.
9 Anyimo ame me anu rusa vat ubara Asere ani pum.
For it is in Christ that all the fullness of deity dwells bodily,
10 Shi, isa myinci anyimo ame. me mani aje ukonde uya ubari nan tigomo.
and in him you have your fulness, and he is the Lord of all the principalities and powers.
11 Anyimo ame me ani awuzi shi nigbari, inzo usandi unigbari sa anabu wa wuza ba, ni ukarsa uwa uni pum, ni vana Asere nini.
In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands; even in putting off your sensual nature in Christ’s own circumcision,
12 A vati shi nan me ahira uzoro. Anyimo ame me ani ahirza shi uhem wnyimo ubari Asere, de sa maa hirza me anyimo iccau.
when you were buried with him in baptism. In baptism also you were raised with him, through your faith in the energy of that God who raised him from the dead.
13 Uganiya me sa ya zi mukizi anyimo upilzo ushi me, anyimo uzati uni gbari nini pum, maa canti shi nigoo me nan me, ma kuri ma vete vat upilzo ushi me ni.
And you also, at one time dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sensual nature, he has made alive together with himself. For he forgave us all our transgressions,
14 Maa visi tireme tishi me sa amu zina anyertike nan unu inko utize sa wa raa ace aru, maa kari vat ma nuki asesere utiti ugankirka ume me.
blotted out the handwriting of ordinances that stood against us and was hostile to us, and took it out of our way, nailing it to his cross.
15 Maa kari ubari nan tigomo. Ama saa maa poki tini ma tarsi tini uhana ubukimure aje ahira ugangirka ume me.
Principalities and powers he disarmed, and openly displayed them as his trophies, when he triumphed over them in the cross.
16 Barki ani me, kati uye ma nya shi ayari ahira imum yare nani imum i usa, nani ahira upeu usoo, nani abanga uwui wa sabar.
Therefore do not permit any one to sit in judgment on you in regard to what you may eat or drink, or in regard to feast-days or new moons or sabbaths.
17 Timumum tigino me mazu mati mum me sa ti'eze ini aje, kadundura me kane kani vana Asere.
These were a shadow of things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.
18 Kati uye ushi sa ma nyara ukaska unice nan ninonzo ni be Asere ma iri ayari ashi sa adi wu adiri ukalum ushi me. Usandi unu ugino make ribe anyimo ti mum sa ma iri ma cukuno unu yeze uni ce ubasa ume uni pum.
Let no man at his will defraud you of your prize through his false humility and worship of the angels, taking his stand on the visions he has seen, and vainly puffed up by his material mind;
19 Nizi sas nan nice nani vat nipum tiji wan tihihira wa zin katuma nigoo me, mazin ti'uza nan ti uza me sa Asere a nyinza.
instead of keeping connection with the Head from the whole body draws nourishment for all its needs by the joints which bind it; and is knit together, and grows with a divine growth.
20 Inki ya wono nigoo me nan vana Asere ahira imum i unee, nyanini ya wuna izin nu wuza kasi shi anu unee wani.
If you died with Christ to the world’s rudimentary notions, why, as if you still lived in the world, do you submit yourselves to dogmatisms found on teachings and doctrines of men -
21 “Kati i canti, nani i donkino, nani idari?”.
such as "Do not handle this," "You must not taste that," "Do not touch this" -
22 Vat timumum ti ge me umara utini ene ani ucorno ingi awuza katuma una udungura wa anabu.
all things which are intended to perish in the using?
23 Ugino u'inso utize uzin uzini urusa uni pum usandi una sa ayo nan utuzo nan unya uni pum ijasi. Izo me katuma ka ge sa nipum ni nyara ba.
For these precepts, although they have a show of wisdom with their self-imposed devotions and fastings and bodily austerities, are of no real value against the indulgence of the carnal appetites.
