ကလသိနး 1
1 ဤၑွရသျေစ္ဆယာ ယီၑုခြီၐ္ဋသျ ပြေရိတး ပေါ်လသ္တီမထိယော ဘြာတာ စ ကလသီနဂရသ္ထာန် ပဝိတြာန် ဝိၑွသ္တာန် ခြီၐ္ဋာၑြိတဘြာတၖန် ပြတိ ပတြံ လိခတး၊
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.
2 အသ္မာကံ တာတ ဤၑွရး ပြဘု ရျီၑုခြီၐ္ဋၑ္စ ယုၐ္မာန် ပြတိ ပြသာဒံ ၑာန္တိဉ္စ ကြိယာသ္တာံ၊
[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 ခြီၐ္ဋေ ယီၑော် ယုၐ္မာကံ ဝိၑွာသသျ သရွွာန် ပဝိတြလောကာန် ပြတိ ပြေမ္နၑ္စ ဝါရ္တ္တာံ ၑြုတွာ
Very often [HYP] we thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, while we are praying for you,
4 ဝယံ သဒါ ယုၐ္မဒရ္ထံ ပြာရ္ထနာံ ကုရွွန္တး သွရ္ဂေ နိဟိတာယာ ယုၐ္မာကံ ဘာဝိသမ္ပဒး ကာရဏာတ် သွကီယပြဘော ရျီၑုခြီၐ္ဋသျ တာတမ် ဤၑွရံ ဓနျံ ဝဒါမး၊
because we have heard that you believe in Christ Jesus, and that you love all God’s people.
5 ယူယံ တသျာ ဘာဝိသမ္ပဒေါ ဝါရ္တ္တာံ ယယာ သုသံဝါဒရူပိဏျာ သတျဝါဏျာ ဇ္ဉာပိတား
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 သာ ယဒွတ် ကၖသ္နံ ဇဂဒ် အဘိဂစ္ဆတိ တဒွဒ် ယုၐ္မာန် အပျဘျဂမတ်, ယူယဉ္စ ယဒ် ဒိနမ် အာရဘျေၑွရသျာနုဂြဟသျ ဝါရ္တ္တာံ ၑြုတွာ သတျရူပေဏ ဇ္ဉာတဝန္တသ္တဒါရဘျ ယုၐ္မာကံ မဓျေ'ပိ ဖလတိ ဝရ္ဒ္ဓတေ စ၊
[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 အသ္မာကံ ပြိယး သဟဒါသော ယုၐ္မာကံ ကၖတေ စ ခြီၐ္ဋသျ ဝိၑွသ္တပရိစာရကော ယ ဣပဖြာသ္တဒ် ဝါကျံ
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 ယုၐ္မာန် အာဒိၐ္ဋဝါန် သ ဧဝါသ္မာန် အာတ္မနာ ဇနိတံ ယုၐ္မာကံ ပြေမ ဇ္ဉာပိတဝါန်၊
He told us that you love [all God’s people], just like God’s Spirit [has enabled you to] (OR, spiritually).
9 ဝယံ ယဒ် ဒိနမ် အာရဘျ တာံ ဝါရ္တ္တာံ ၑြုတဝန္တသ္တဒါရဘျ နိရန္တရံ ယုၐ္မာကံ ကၖတေ ပြာရ္ထနာံ ကုရ္မ္မး ဖလတော ယူယံ ယတ် ပူရ္ဏာဘျာမ် အာတ္မိကဇ္ဉာနဝုဒ္ဓိဘျာမ် ဤၑွရသျာဘိတမံ သမ္ပူရ္ဏရူပေဏာဝဂစ္ဆေတ,
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 ပြဘော ရျောဂျံ သရွွထာ သန္တောၐဇနကဉ္စာစာရံ ကုရျျာတာရ္ထတ ဤၑွရဇ္ဉာနေ ဝရ္ဒ္ဓမာနား သရွွသတ္ကရ္မ္မရူပံ ဖလံ ဖလေတ,
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 ယထာ စေၑွရသျ မဟိမယုက္တယာ ၑက္တျာ သာနန္ဒေန ပူရ္ဏာံ သဟိၐ္ဏုတာံ တိတိက္ၐာဉ္စာစရိတုံ ၑက္ၐျထ တာဒၖၑေန ပူရ္ဏဗလေန ယဒ် ဗလဝန္တော ဘဝေတ,
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 ယၑ္စ ပိတာ တေဇောဝါသိနာံ ပဝိတြလောကာနာမ် အဓိကာရသျာံၑိတွာယာသ္မာန် ယောဂျာန် ကၖတဝါန် တံ ယဒ် ဓနျံ ဝဒေတ ဝရမ် ဧနံ ယာစာမဟေ၊
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 ယတး သော'သ္မာန် တိမိရသျ ကရ္တ္တၖတွာဒ် ဥဒ္ဓၖတျ သွကီယသျ ပြိယပုတြသျ ရာဇျေ သ္ထာပိတဝါန်၊
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 တသ္မာတ် ပုတြာဒ် ဝယံ ပရိတြာဏမ် အရ္ထတး ပါပမောစနံ ပြာပ္တဝန္တး၊
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 သ စာဒၖၑျသျေၑွရသျ ပြတိမူရ္တိး ကၖတ္သ္နာယား သၖၐ္ဋေရာဒိကရ္တ္တာ စ၊
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 ယတး သရွွမေဝ တေန သသၖဇေ သိံဟာသနရာဇတွပရာကြမာဒီနိ သွရ္ဂမရ္တ္တျသ္ထိတာနိ ဒၖၑျာဒၖၑျာနိ ဝသ္တူနိ သရွွာဏိ တေနဲဝ တသ္မဲ စ သသၖဇိရေ၊
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 သ သရွွေၐာမ် အာဒိး သရွွေၐာံ သ္ထိတိကာရကၑ္စ၊
and because it is his Son who existed before anything else existed, and because God sustains everything by what his Son [does].
18 သ ဧဝ သမိတိရူပါယာသ္တနော ရ္မူရ္ဒ္ဓါ ကိဉ္စ သရွွဝိၐယေ သ ယဒ် အဂြိယော ဘဝေတ် တဒရ္ထံ သ ဧဝ မၖတာနာံ မဓျာတ် ပြထမတ ဥတ္ထိတော'ဂြၑ္စ၊
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 ယတ ဤၑွရသျ ကၖတ္သ္နံ ပူရ္ဏတွံ တမေဝါဝါသယိတုံ
[God’s Son reveals perfectly what God his Father is like], because his Father chose to live completely in him.
20 ကြုၑေ ပါတိတေန တသျ ရက္တေန သန္ဓိံ ဝိဓာယ တေနဲဝ သွရ္ဂမရ္တ္တျသ္ထိတာနိ သရွွာဏိ သွေန သဟ သန္ဓာပယိတုဉ္စေၑွရေဏာဘိလေၐေ၊
[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 ပူရွွံ ဒူရသ္ထာ ဒုၐ္ကြိယာရတမနသ္ကတွာတ် တသျ ရိပဝၑ္စာသ္တ ယေ ယူယံ တာန် ယုၐ္မာန် အပိ သ ဣဒါနီံ တသျ မာံသလၑရီရေ မရဏေန သွေန သဟ သန္ဓာပိတဝါန်၊
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 ယတး သ သွသမ္မုခေ ပဝိတြာန် နိၐ္ကလင်္ကာန် အနိန္ဒနီယာံၑ္စ ယုၐ္မာန် သ္ထာပယိတုမ် ဣစ္ဆတိ၊
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 ကိန္တွေတဒရ္ထံ ယုၐ္မာဘိ ရ္ဗဒ္ဓမူလဲး သုသ္ထိရဲၑ္စ ဘဝိတဝျမ်, အာကာၑမဏ္ဍလသျာဓးသ္ထိတာနာံ သရွွလောကာနာံ မဓျေ စ ဃုၐျမာဏော ယး သုသံဝါဒေါ ယုၐ္မာဘိရၑြာဝိ တဇ္ဇာတာယာံ ပြတျာၑာယာံ ယုၐ္မာဘိရစလဲ ရ္ဘဝိတဝျံ၊
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 တသျ သုသံဝါဒသျဲကး ပရိစာရကော ယော'ဟံ ပေါ်လး သော'ဟမ် ဣဒါနီမ် အာနန္ဒေန ယုၐ္မဒရ္ထံ ဒုးခါနိ သဟေ ခြီၐ္ဋသျ က္လေၑဘောဂသျ ယောံၑော'ပူရ္ဏသ္တမေဝ တသျ တနေား သမိတေး ကၖတေ သွၑရီရေ ပူရယာမိ စ၊
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 ယတ ဤၑွရသျ မန္တြဏယာ ယုၐ္မဒရ္ထမ် ဤၑွရီယဝါကျသျ ပြစာရသျ ဘာရော မယိ သမပိတသ္တသ္မာဒ် အဟံ တသျား သမိတေး ပရိစာရကော'ဘဝံ၊
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 တတ် နိဂူဎံ ဝါကျံ ပူရွွယုဂေၐု ပူရွွပုရုၐေဘျး ပြစ္ဆန္နမ် အာသီတ် ကိန္တွိဒါနီံ တသျ ပဝိတြလောကာနာံ သန္နိဓော် တေန ပြာကာၑျတ၊ (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 ယတော ဘိန္နဇာတီယာနာံ မဓျေ တတ် နိဂူဎဝါကျံ ကီဒၖဂ္ဂော်ရဝနိဓိသမ္ဗလိတံ တတ် ပဝိတြလောကာန် ဇ္ဉာပယိတုမ် ဤၑွရော'ဘျလၐတ်၊ ယုၐ္မန္မဓျဝရ္တ္တီ ခြီၐ္ဋ ဧဝ သ နိဓိ ရ္ဂဲရဝါၑာဘူမိၑ္စ၊
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 တသ္မာဒ် ဝယံ တမေဝ ဃောၐယန္တော ယဒ် ဧကဲကံ မာနဝံ သိဒ္ဓီဘူတံ ခြီၐ္ဋေ သ္ထာပယေမ တဒရ္ထမေကဲကံ မာနဝံ ပြဗောဓယာမး ပူရ္ဏဇ္ဉာနေန စဲကဲကံ မာနဝံ ဥပဒိၑာမး၊
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 ဧတဒရ္ထံ တသျ ယာ ၑက္တိး ပြဗလရူပေဏ မမ မဓျေ ပြကာၑတေ တယာဟံ ယတမာနး ၑြာဘျာမိ၊
In order that I might [achieve/accomplish this], I am also working very hard, depending on Christ to empowering me very greatly.
