Bakolose 1
1 Polo, ntoma ya Yesu-Klisto, kolanda mokano ya Nzambe, mpe ndeko Timote;
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timotheus the brother,
2 Epai ya bandeko oyo, kati na engumba Kolose, bazali bule mpe bayengebene kati na Klisto: Tika ete ngolu mpe kimia epesamela bino kowuta na Nzambe, Tata na biso!
to the saints in Colossae, and to the faithful brethren in Christ: Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ!
3 Tozongisaka tango nyonso matondi epai ya Nzambe, Tata ya Yesu-Klisto, Nkolo na biso, tango tosambelaka mpo na bino,
We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, always praying for you,
4 pamba te toyokaki sango ya kondima na bino kati na Yesu-Klisto, mpe sango ya bolingo na bino mpo na basantu nyonso.
having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love that [is] to all the saints,
5 Kondima mpe bolingo yango etongami na likolo ya elikya ya bomengo oyo Nzambe abongisela bino kati na Likolo; elikya yango ebotamaki kati na bino tango boyokaki Liloba ya solo, Sango Malamu
because of the hope that is laid up for you in the heavens, which ye heard of before in the word of the truth of the good news,
6 oyo ekomaki kino epai na bino. Sango Malamu yango epanzani mokili mobimba, ezali kobota bambuma ebele mpe ezali kokende liboso, ndenge kaka esalaki kati na bino wuta mokolo oyo boyokaki yango mpe bozwaki penza bososoli ya kokoka na tina na ngolu ya Nzambe.
which is present to you, as also in all the world, and is bearing fruit, as also in you, from the day in which ye heard, and knew the grace of God in truth;
7 Ezali molingami Epafrasi, moninga na biso ya mosala, nde ateyaki bino Sango Malamu yango; azali mosali ya Klisto mpe asalaka na bosembo epai na bino.
as ye also learned from Epaphras, our beloved fellow-servant, who is for you a faithful ministrant of the Christ,
8 Ezali mpe kaka ye moto ayebisaki biso ndenge nini Molimo atindikaka bino na bolingo.
who also did declare to us your love in the Spirit.
9 Yango wana, wuta mokolo oyo toyokaki sango na tina na bino, totikaka te kobondela mpo na bino mpe kosenga na Nzambe ete atondisa bino na boyebi ya mokano na Ye, na bwanya nyonso mpe na bososoli oyo Molimo apesaka,
Because of this, we also, from the day in which we heard, do not cease praying for you, and asking that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,
10 mpo ete bozala na bizaleli oyo ebongi liboso ya Nkolo, mpo ete bosepelisa Ye na nyonso, mpo ete bobota bambuma na nzela ya lolenge nyonso ya misala na bino ya malamu, mpo ete bokola kati na boyebi ya Nzambe,
to your walking worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, in every good work being fruitful, and increasing to the knowledge of God,
11 mpo ete bokoma bato na nguya kati na makambo nyonso kolanda makasi ya nkembo na Ye, mpo ete boyikela nyonso mpiko mpe bozala na molende mpe esengo kino na suka;
in all might being made mighty according to the power of His glory, to all endurance and long-suffering with joy.
12 mpe mpo ete, na esengo nyonso, bozongisaka matondi epai ya Tata oyo apesaki bino makoki ya kosangana na libula ya basantu kati na Bokonzi ya pole. Pamba te:
Giving thanks to the Father who did make us meet for the participation of the inheritance of the saints in the light,
13 Akangolaki biso na bokonzi ya molili mpe amemaki biso kati na bokonzi ya Mwana na Ye ya bolingo,
who did rescue us out of the authority of the darkness, and did translate [us] into the reign of the Son of His love,
14 oyo, kati na Ye, tozwi lisiko mpe bolimbisi ya masumu.
in whom we have the redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of the sins,
15 Klisto azali elilingi ya Nzambe oyo amonanaka te, azala liboso ya bikelamu nyonso,
who is the image of the invisible God, first-born of all creation,
16 pamba te ezali na nzela na Yesu nde nyonso ekelama kati na Likolo mpe na mabele, bikelamu oyo emonanaka mpe oyo emonanaka te, milimo mpe bokonzi ya milimo, bakonzi ya milimo mpe banguya. Ezali na nzela na Yesu mpe mpo na Yesu nde nyonso ekelama.
because in him were the all things created, those in the heavens, and those upon the earth, those visible, and those invisible, whether thrones, whether lordships, whether principalities, whether authorities; all things through him, and for him, have been created,
17 Yesu azali liboso na nyonso, mpe nyonso esimbama kati na Ye;
and himself is before all, and the all things in him have consisted.
18 azali moto ya nzoto na Ye, oyo ezali Lingomba; azali ebandeli, Mosekwi ya liboso kati na bakufi, mpo ete azala na bokonzi ya liboso kati na nyonso,
And himself is the head of the body — the assembly — who is a beginning, a first-born out of the dead, that he might become in all [things] — himself — first,
19 pamba te, kati na Ye, Nzambe asepelaki kovandisa bonzambe na Ye nyonso
because in him it did please all the fulness to tabernacle,
20 mpe kozongisa, na nzela ya Klisto, boyokani kati na Ye moko Nzambe mpe bikelamu nyonso, ezala oyo ezali na mabele to mpe oyo ezali kati na Likolo, na kotia kimia na nzela ya makila oyo Mwana na Ye asopaki na ekulusu.
and through him to reconcile the all things to himself — having made peace through the blood of his cross — through him, whether the things upon the earth, whether the things in the heavens.
21 Nzokande na kala, bozalaki mosika ya Nzambe mpe bozalaki banguna na Ye mpo na mabe nyonso oyo bozalaki kokanisa mpe kosala.
And you — once being alienated, and enemies in the mind, in the evil works, yet now did he reconcile,
22 Kasi sik’oyo, Nzambe azongisi boyokani kati na Ye mpe bino na nzela ya kufa ya Yesu, Mwana na Ye, oyo akabaki nzoto na Ye ya bomoto lokola mbeka mpo na kotalisa bino epai ya Nzambe lokola bato ya bule, bazanga pamela mpe bazanga mbeba.
in the body of his flesh through the death, to present you holy, and unblemished, and unblameable before himself,
23 Kasi bosengeli penza kowumela, kotelema ngwi mpe kolenda kati na kondima na bino; mpe bosengeli koboya kopengwa mosika ya elikya oyo bozwaki wuta tango boyokaki Sango Malamu. Sango Malamu yango esakolamaki kati na bikelamu nyonso oyo ezali na se ya Likolo, mpe ngai Polo nakoma mosali na yango.
if also ye remain in the faith, being founded and settled, and not moved away from the hope of the good news, which ye heard, which was preached in all the creation that [is] under the heaven, of which I became — I Paul — a ministrant.
24 Nazali sik’oyo kosepela na pasi oyo nazali komona mpo na bino; pamba te pasi oyo Klisto atikalaki komona te, ngai nazali kokokisa yango kati na nzoto na ngai mpo na bolamu ya nzoto na Ye, oyo ezali Lingomba.
I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and do fill up the things lacking of the tribulations of the Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the assembly,
25 Nakoma mosali na yango kolanda mokumba oyo Nzambe apesa ngai: mokumba ya koteya bino Liloba na Nzambe na mobimba na yango.
of which I — I did become a ministrant according to the dispensation of God, that was given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God,
26 Sango Malamu ezali mabombami oyo Nzambe abomba wuta na ebandeli, kasi alakisi yango sik’oyo epai ya basantu na Ye. (aiōn g165)
the secret that hath been hid from the ages and from the generations, but now was manifested to his saints, (aiōn g165)
27 Nzambe asepeli kolakisa bango bomengo ya nkembo, oyo evandi kati na mabombami ya mabongisi na Ye mpo na Bapagano. Mabombami yango ezali: Klisto kati na bino, elikya ya nkembo.
to whom God did will to make known what [is] the riches of the glory of this secret among the nations — which is Christ in you, the hope of the glory,
28 Ezali Ye Klisto nde biso tosakolaka, na kokebisa mpe na koteya moto nyonso, na bwanya nyonso, mpo na kokomisa moto nyonso ya kokoka kati na Klisto.
whom we proclaim, warning every man, and teaching every man, in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus,
29 Ezali mpo na yango nde nasalaka mpe nabundaka na nzela ya makasi ya Klisto, oyo esalaka na nguya kati na ngai.
for which also I labour, striving according to his working that is working in me in power.
