1 GLT فَإِنِّي أُرِيدُ أَنْ تَعْلَمُوا أَيُّ جِهَادٍ لِي لِأَجْلِكُمْ، وَلِأَجْلِ ٱلَّذِينَ فِي لَاوُدِكِيَّةَ، وَجَمِيعِ ٱلَّذِينَ لَمْ يَرَوْا وَجْهِي فِي ٱلْجَسَدِ، BSB BSB: For I want you to know how much I am struggling for you and for those at Laodicea, and for all who have not met me face to face,
2 GLT لِكَيْ تَتَعَزَّى قُلُوبُهُمْ مُقْتَرِنَةً فِي ٱلْمَحَبَّةِ لِكُلِّ غِنَى يَقِينِ ٱلْفَهْمِ، لِمَعْرِفَةِ سِرِّ ٱللهِ ٱلْآبِ وَٱلْمَسِيحِ، BSB BSB: that they may be encouraged in heart, knit together in love, and filled with the full riches of complete understanding, so that they may know the mystery of God, namely Christ,
3 GLT ٱلْمُذَّخَرِ فِيهِ جَمِيعُ كُنُوزِ ٱلْحِكْمَةِ وَٱلْعِلْمِ. BSB BSB: in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
4 GLT وَإِنَّمَا أَقُولُ هَذَا لِئَلَّا يَخْدَعَكُمْ أَحَدٌ بِكَلَامٍ مَلِقٍ. BSB BSB: I say this so that no one will deceive you by smooth rhetoric.
5 GLT فَإِنِّي وَإِنْ كُنْتُ غَائِبًا فِي ٱلْجَسَدِ لَكِنِّي مَعَكُمْ فِي ٱلرُّوحِ، فَرِحًا، وَنَاظِرًا تَرْتِيبَكُمْ وَمَتَانَةَ إِيمَانِكُمْ فِي ٱلْمَسِيحِ. BSB BSB: For although I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, and I delight to see your orderly condition and firm faith in Christ.
6 GLT فَكَمَا قَبِلْتُمُ ٱلْمَسِيحَ يَسُوعَ ٱلرَّبَّ ٱسْلُكُوا فِيهِ، BSB BSB: Therefore, just as you have received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to walk in Him,
7 GLT مُتَأَصِّلِينَ وَمَبْنِيِّينَ فِيهِ، وَمُوَطَّدِينَ فِي ٱلْإِيمَانِ، كَمَا عُلِّمْتُمْ، مُتَفَاضِلِينَ فِيهِ بِٱلشُّكْرِ. BSB BSB: rooted and built up in Him, established in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
9 GLT فَإِنَّهُ فِيهِ يَحِلُّ كُلُّ مِلْءِ ٱللَّاهُوتِ جَسَدِيًّا. BSB BSB: For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity dwells in bodily form.
10 GLT وَأَنْتُمْ مَمْلُوؤُونَ فِيهِ، ٱلَّذِي هُوَ رَأْسُ كُلِّ رِيَاسَةٍ وَسُلْطَانٍ. BSB BSB: And you have been made complete in Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority.
11 GLT وَبِهِ أَيْضًا خُتِنْتُمْ خِتَانًا غَيْرَ مَصْنُوعٍ بِيَدٍ، بِخَلْعِ جِسْمِ خَطَايَا ٱلْبَشَرِيَّةِ، بِخِتَانِ ٱلْمَسِيحِ. BSB BSB: In Him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of your sinful nature, with the circumcision performed by Christ and not by human hands.
12 GLT مَدْفُونِينَ مَعَهُ فِي ٱلْمَعْمُودِيَّةِ، ٱلَّتِي فِيهَا أُقِمْتُمْ أَيْضًا مَعَهُ بِإِيمَانِ عَمَلِ ٱللهِ، ٱلَّذِي أَقَامَهُ مِنَ ٱلْأَمْوَاتِ. BSB BSB: And having been buried with Him in baptism, you were raised with Him through your faith in the power of God, who raised Him from the dead.
13 GLT وَإِذْ كُنْتُمْ أَمْوَاتًا فِي ٱلْخَطَايَا وَغَلَفِ جَسَدِكُمْ، أَحْيَاكُمْ مَعَهُ، مُسَامِحًا لَكُمْ بِجَمِيعِ ٱلْخَطَايَا، BSB BSB: When you were dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our trespasses,
14 GLT إِذْ مَحَا ٱلصَّكَّ ٱلَّذِي عَلَيْنَا فِي ٱلْفَرَائِضِ، ٱلَّذِي كَانَ ضِدًّا لَنَا، وَقَدْ رَفَعَهُ مِنَ ٱلْوَسَطِ مُسَمِّرًا إِيَّاهُ بِٱلصَّلِيبِ، BSB BSB: having canceled the debt ascribed to us in the decrees that stood against us. He took it away, nailing it to the cross!
17 GLT ٱلَّتِي هِيَ ظِلُّ ٱلْأُمُورِ ٱلْعَتِيدَةِ، وَأَمَّا ٱلْجَسَدُ فَلِلْمَسِيحِ. BSB BSB: These are a shadow of the things to come, but the body that casts it belongs to Christ.
18 GLT لَا يُخَسِّرْكُمْ أَحَدٌ ٱلْجِعَالَةَ، رَاغِبًا فِي ٱلتَّوَاضُعِ وَعِبَادَةِ ٱلْمَلَائِكَةِ، مُتَدَاخِلًا فِي مَا لَمْ يَنْظُرْهُ، مُنْتَفِخًا بَاطِلًا مِنْ قِبَلِ ذِهْنِهِ ٱلْجَسَدِيِّ، BSB BSB: Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you with speculation about what he has seen. Such a person is puffed up without basis by his unspiritual mind.
19 GLT وَغَيْرَ مُتَمَسِّكٍ بِٱلرَّأْسِ ٱلَّذِي مِنْهُ كُلُّ ٱلْجَسَدِ بِمَفَاصِلَ وَرُبُطٍ، مُتَوَازِرًا وَمُقْتَرِنًا يَنْمُو نُمُوًّا مِنَ ٱللهِ. BSB BSB: He has lost connection to the head, from whom the whole body, supported and knit together by its joints and ligaments, grows as God causes it to grow.
20 GLT إِذًا إِنْ كُنْتُمْ قَدْ مُتُّمْ مَعَ ٱلْمَسِيحِ عَنْ أَرْكَانِ ٱلْعَالَمِ، فَلِمَاذَا كَأَنَّكُمْ عَائِشُونَ فِي ٱلْعَالَمِ؟ تُفْرَضُ عَلَيْكُمْ فَرَائِضُ: BSB BSB: If you have died with Christ to the spiritual forces of the world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its regulations:
21 GLT «لَا تَمَسَّ! وَلَا تَذُقْ! وَلَا تَجُسَّ!» BSB BSB: “Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!”?
22 GLT ٱلَّتِي هِيَ جَمِيعُهَا لِلْفَنَاءِ فِي ٱلِٱسْتِعْمَالِ، حَسَبَ وَصَايَا وَتَعَالِيمِ ٱلنَّاسِ، BSB BSB: These will all perish with use, because they are based on human commands and teachings.
23 GLT ٱلَّتِي لَهَا حِكَايَةُ حِكْمَةٍ، بِعِبَادَةٍ نَافِلَةٍ، وَتَوَاضُعٍ، وَقَهْرِ ٱلْجَسَدِ، لَيْسَ بِقِيمَةٍ مَا مِنْ جِهَةِ إِشْبَاعِ ٱلْبَشَرِيَّةِ. BSB BSB: Such restrictions indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-prescribed worship, their false humility, and their harsh treatment of the body; but they are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.
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