ဣဖိၐိဏး 1
1 ဤၑွရသျေစ္ဆယာ ယီၑုခြီၐ္ဋသျ ပြေရိတး ပေါ်လ ဣဖိၐနဂရသ္ထာန် ပဝိတြာန် ခြီၐ္ဋယီၑော် ဝိၑွာသိနော လောကာန် ပြတိ ပတြံ လိခတိ၊
I, Paul, am an apostle whom God appointed (to represent/to proclaim the message about) Christ Jesus because that is what God wanted. [I am writing this letter] to you who are the people of God in Ephesus [city. You are people who] (faithfully/continue to) trust in Christ Jesus and who have a close relationship with him.
2 အသ္မာကံ တာတသျေၑွရသျ ပြဘော ရျီၑုခြီၐ္ဋသျ စာနုဂြဟး ၑာန္တိၑ္စ ယုၐ္မာသု ဝရ္တ္တတာံ၊
[I pray that] God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord will continue to act kindly toward you and cause you to have [inner] peace.
3 အသ္မာကံ ပြဘော ရျီၑေား ခြီၐ္ဋသျ တာတ ဤၑွရော ဓနျော ဘဝတု; ယတး သ ခြီၐ္ဋေနာသ္မဘျံ သရွွမ် အာဓျာတ္မိကံ သွရ္ဂီယဝရံ ဒတ္တဝါန်၊
Praise God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! Because of our relationship with Christ, he has blessed us spiritually in every way by giving us blessings that come from heaven.
4 ဝယံ ယတ် တသျ သမက္ၐံ ပြေမ္နာ ပဝိတြာ နိၐ္ကလင်္ကာၑ္စ ဘဝါမသ္တဒရ္ထံ သ ဇဂတး သၖၐ္ဋေ ပူရွွံ တေနာသ္မာန် အဘိရောစိတဝါန်, နိဇာဘိလၐိတာနုရောဓာစ္စ
Before God created the world, he chose us to be his people because of our (relationship with/union with) Christ, in order that [God could consider] us to be completely holy [DOU]. Because [God] loves [us],
5 ယီၑုနာ ခြီၐ္ဋေန သွသျ နိမိတ္တံ ပုတြတွပဒေ'သ္မာန် သွကီယာနုဂြဟသျ မဟတ္တွသျ ပြၑံသာရ္ထံ ပူရွွံ နိယုက္တဝါန်၊
he decided long ago that he would adopt us to be [as though we were] his own children because of what Jesus Christ [has done]. He decided to do that because it pleased him to do that.
6 တသ္မာဒ် အနုဂြဟာတ် သ ယေန ပြိယတမေန ပုတြေဏာသ္မာန် အနုဂၖဟီတဝါန်,
He did it in order that we would praise him for acting very kindly toward us in a wonderful way that we did not deserve. He did it because of our relationship with his beloved Son {[one, who is also God, whom he] loves}.
7 ဝယံ တသျ ၑောဏိတေန မုက္တိမ် အရ္ထတး ပါပက္ၐမာံ လဗ္ဓဝန္တး၊
When the blood of Christ [flowed when he died] [MTY], [it was as though] he paid a price to free/save us [from the guilt of our sins]. [That] ([provided a way/made it possible]) [for] God to act very kindly toward us to forgive us for having sinned.
8 တသျ ယ ဤဒၖၑော'နုဂြဟနိဓိသ္တသ္မာတ် သော'သ္မဘျံ သရွွဝိဓံ ဇ္ဉာနံ ဗုဒ္ဓိဉ္စ ဗာဟုလျရူပေဏ ဝိတရိတဝါန်၊
He acted very kindly toward us and enabled us to become wise about many [HYP] things and to understand his truth.
9 သွရ္ဂပၖထိဝျော ရျဒျဒ် ဝိဒျတေ တတ္သရွွံ သ ခြီၐ္ဋေ သံဂြဟီၐျတီတိ ဟိတဲၐိဏာ
He has enabled us to know the things that he had planned secretly (OR, that he had not revealed to anyone yet). He did that because he wanted to do that, and because he planned to do that by means of the things Christ would do.
10 တေန ကၖတော ယော မနောရထး သမ္ပူရ္ဏတာံ ဂတဝတ္သု သမယေၐု သာဓယိတဝျသ္တမဓိ သ သွကီယာဘိလာၐသျ နိဂူဎံ ဘာဝမ် အသ္မာန် ဇ္ဉာပိတဝါန်၊
God planned that at the time that [he appointed], he would unite all things/beings in heaven and all things/beings on earth (OR, all beings in heaven and all things on earth), and cause Christ to be the one who will rule them [MET].
11 ပူရွွံ ခြီၐ္ဋေ ဝိၑွာသိနော ယေ ဝယမ် အသ္မတ္တော ယတ် တသျ မဟိမ္နး ပြၑံသာ ဇာယတေ,
Because of our close relationship with Christ, God has also chosen us [(inc)] (OR, us [(exc)] Jews) to receive what he has promised [to give] us. He decided long ago to do that. It was exactly what he planned. He accomplishes everything exactly as he plans and desires,
12 တဒရ္ထံ ယး သွကီယေစ္ဆာယား မန္တြဏာတး သရွွာဏိ သာဓယတိ တသျ မနောရထာဒ် ဝယံ ခြီၐ္ဋေန ပူရွွံ နိရူပိတား သန္တော'ဓိကာရိဏော ဇာတား၊
in order that we(exc) Jews, who confidently expected the Messiah to do great things for us before the non-Jews expected such things (OR, we [(inc)] who were already confidently expecting Christ [to do great things for us]) will praise him for his greatness.
13 ယူယမပိ သတျံ ဝါကျမ် အရ္ထတော ယုၐ္မတ္ပရိတြာဏသျ သုသံဝါဒံ နိၑမျ တသ္မိန္နေဝ ခြီၐ္ဋေ ဝိၑွသိတဝန္တး ပြတိဇ္ဉာတေန ပဝိတြေဏာတ္မနာ မုဒြယေဝါင်္ကိတာၑ္စ၊
You [Ephesians] also heard the true message, the good message about how God saves you. [People] put their seal on something to show that [it belongs to them]. Similarly, when you believed [in Christ], God [showed that you also belong to him by sending you] the Holy Spirit as he promised to do [MET].
14 ယတသ္တသျ မဟိမ္နး ပြကာၑာယ တေန ကြီတာနာံ လောကာနာံ မုက္တိ ရျာဝန္န ဘဝိၐျတိ တာဝတ် သ အာတ္မာသ္မာကမ် အဓိကာရိတွသျ သတျင်္ကာရသျ ပဏသွရူပေါ ဘဝတိ၊
The Holy Spirit is [like] [MET] a (deposit/down payment). That is, he (guarantees/assures us) that [we will receive] all that God has promised to give us, at the time when God will give to those who belong to him [MET] everything that [Christ] freed us to receive. [God also assures you that you belong to him], in order that you would praise him for his greatness.
15 ပြဘော် ယီၑော် ယုၐ္မာကံ ဝိၑွာသး သရွွေၐု ပဝိတြလောကေၐု ပြေမ စာသ္တ ဣတိ ဝါရ္တ္တာံ ၑြုတွာဟမပိ
Because of [what God has done for you], and because [people] told me that you continue to trust in the Lord Jesus and that you love all those who belong to God,
16 ယုၐ္မာနဓိ နိရန္တရမ် ဤၑွရံ ဓနျံ ဝဒန် ပြာရ္ထနာသမယေ စ ယုၐ္မာန် သ္မရန် ဝရမိမံ ယာစာမိ၊
I thank God for you constantly [LIT, HYP]. I (mention/pray for) you constantly, whenever I pray.
17 အသ္မာကံ ပြဘော ရျီၑုခြီၐ္ဋသျ တာတော ယး ပြဘာဝါကရ ဤၑွရး သ သွကီယတတ္တွဇ္ဉာနာယ ယုၐ္မဘျံ ဇ္ဉာနဇနကမ် ပြကာၑိတဝါကျဗောဓကဉ္စာတ္မာနံ ဒေယာတ်၊
[I pray] that God, who is the glorious/wonderful Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, may cause his Spirit to make you wise, and that his Spirit will reveal [God to you] so that you may fully know him.
18 ယုၐ္မာကံ ဇ္ဉာနစက္ၐူံၐိ စ ဒီပ္တိယုက္တာနိ ကၖတွာ တသျာဟွာနံ ကီဒၖၑျာ ပြတျာၑယာ သမ္ဗလိတံ ပဝိတြလောကာနာံ မဓျေ တေန ဒတ္တော'ဓိကာရး ကီဒၖၑး ပြဘာဝနိဓိ ရွိၑွာသိၐု စာသ္မာသု ပြကာၑမာနသျ
And I pray that God would enable you to understand [MTY] his truth, in order that in your (inner beings/hearts) you may know the things that we believers should confidently expect to receive because he chose us [to be his people]. And I pray that you will know how God will bless his people in a very wonderful way [when we finally receive] all that he has promised to give us.
19 တဒီယမဟာပရာကြမသျ မဟတွံ ကီဒၖဂ် အနုပမံ တတ် သရွွံ ယုၐ္မာန် ဇ္ဉာပယတု၊
And [I pray that] you will know how very powerfully [God helps] us who continue to trust [in Christ]. He works powerfully for us
20 ယတး သ ယသျား ၑက္တေး ပြဗလတာံ ခြီၐ္ဋေ ပြကာၑယန် မၖတဂဏမဓျာတ် တမ် ဥတ္ထာပိတဝါန်,
just like he acted powerfully for Christ when he caused Christ to become alive again after he died, and put him in the place of highest/greatest honor [MTY] in heaven.
21 အဓိပတိတွပဒံ ၑာသနပဒံ ပရာကြမော ရာဇတွဉ္စေတိနာမာနိ ယာဝန္တိ ပဒါနီဟ လောကေ ပရလောကေ စ ဝိဒျန္တေ တေၐာံ သရွွေၐာမ် ဦရ္ဒ္ဓွေ သွရ္ဂေ နိဇဒက္ၐိဏပါရ္ၑွေ တမ် ဥပဝေၑိတဝါန်, (aiōn g165)
[There], Christ is the supreme ruler over every powerful spirit of every level of authority. His rank is much higher than any powerful spirit can receive, not only now, but forever. (aiōn g165)
22 သရွွာဏိ တသျ စရဏယောရဓော နိဟိတဝါန် ယာ သမိတိသ္တသျ ၑရီရံ သရွွတြ သရွွေၐာံ ပူရယိတုး ပူရကဉ္စ ဘဝတိ တံ တသျာ မူရ္ဒ္ဓါနံ ကၖတွာ
God has caused all beings to be subject to Christ [MTY], and he has also appointed Christ, who rules over all things, to rule [MET] over all believers.
23 သရွွေၐာမ် ဥပရျျုပရိ နိယုက္တဝါံၑ္စ သဲဝ ၑက္တိရသ္မာသွပိ တေန ပြကာၑျတေ၊
We believers [relate to Christ like the parts of a person’s] body [MET] [relate to its head]. Christ uses all [his power among us] just like he uses his power throughout the whole universe.
