1 PBS Peanya ni-pule, u-elulu, janowe rerepa ni-enako notie-e, pa te-teba te-ete Laodikia pa tebafai, kei niba tuhowe tefijaka, 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 PBS u-hupala tete heve pa hevei teteti ali, ko jahelo lelepai terere pa jabamua teri, pa jaweko Tata-i teri, kei Kristus, 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 PBS kei Ke-toi jahelo palelepa hemo hupalakeke pa tutakeke. BSB BSB: in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
4 PBS Jawe ni-lo, u-baura piti hevepa e-keleluluka. BSB BSB: I say this so that no one will deceive you by smooth rhetoric.
5 PBS Pakei ebafai ni-lakuka, pa letu ninei ni-lakule ebafai pa ni-kalete elehuhufaelei hevewo pa hupala navei bamuawo kotu Kristus. 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 PBS Kristus Yesus e-ke, Tata nene. Peanya eletakoko Ke-wofa. BSB BSB: Therefore, just as you have received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to walk in Him,
7 PBS Bamuai e-hue-Ke pa ehaloruru-Ke, hupala nave kenalui watakoko-e, pa hupala memei pina hevefakoko. BSB BSB: rooted and built up in Him, established in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
9 PBS Neba noparawe Tata kefa Oke, BSB BSB: For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity dwells in bodily form.
10 PBS pa e-kelofa Ke. Teba rube pa teba tafa Kea rube. BSB BSB: And you have been made complete in Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority.
11 PBS Kea-ko e-poteja, po-tebajaeteka, pa potejaete noro ana Kristus, kei no-nene nole ketapu, 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 PBS kei Kea-ko ne-ikele panehe, pa Kea leko nelefuto u-Tata ma-ke kenenini, kei Ke-keleko kelefuto. 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 PBS Erai, lopafu nole e-eko ewu pa kei ana neba nero potejaka, Tata leko ehalo Kepa elopa rulele, kei nole nene kejufata, 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 PBS kei ropu nole nene putumoi Kejo fata, pa-ma hetejai tenikoi pa ne-tejijite. Pa kei kelufate pu Ke-kekefe rari. 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 PBS janapepe tototufua kewe balepepe, janapepei Kristus. BSB BSB: These are a shadow of the things to come, but the body that casts it belongs to Christ.
18 PBS Teba kau noteteko ana telano japate-ete e-emomo jae-enakoewei ewetakoko teteriko elojatetele pa lupopo jaele-e tebafapa, pakei teteri jalutopa tefue pa janakapa notete tetepate ana teba tafa pahupala fitowea fawae, 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 PBS pakei rubei teketi paka, kea notupawe, lakekaki pa kali atute ali pa epuwamotu, teheate tata-tete. 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 PBS Anara Kristus-pa ewu pa fito letupa elaka, tunaneko elakole pitete lelepai, kei anara ele-ele fitowea: 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 PBS jawe noelalaka, jai popa ea-aka, jai noehahihika; BSB BSB: “Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!”?
22 PBS jalelepai jatakukufatu pa teba jajikotu pa teba janarukotu. BSB BSB: These will all perish with use, because they are based on human commands and teachings.
23 PBS Piti telamotui, anara bamua kei lupopora teba pulamotu, anara telano, notetaki, janaraka kei fito japei tuko tenohae. 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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