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1. 1SNANdinoda kuti muzive kuti ndiri kurwa sei pamusoro penyu nepaavo vari paRaodhikea, navose vasina kuonana neni pachangu.BSBBSB: 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. 2SNAVavariro yangu ndeyokuti vakurudzirwe mumwoyo uye vabatane murudo, kuitira kuti vave nepfuma izere yokunzwisisa kwakakwana, kuti vagoziva chakavanzika chaMwari, iye Kristu,BSBBSB: 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. 3SNAmaari ndimo makachengetwa pfuma yose youchenjeri nokuziva.BSBBSB: in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
4. 4SNANdinokuudzai izvi kuitira kuti parege kuva nomunhu anokunyengerai namashoko anobata kumeso.BSBBSB: I say this so that no one will deceive you by smooth rhetoric.
5. 5SNANokuti kunyange ndisipo pamuri panyama, mumweya ndinemi uye ndinofara ndichiona kuti mugere zvakanaka sei uye kuti makasimba sei mukutenda kwenyu muna Kristu.BSBBSB: 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. 6SNASaka zvino, sezvamakagamuchira Kristu Jesu saShe, rambai muchifamba maari,BSBBSB: Therefore, just as you have received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to walk in Him,
7. 7SNAmune midzi uye makavakwa maari, makasimbiswa mukutenda sezvamakadzidziswa, uye muzere nokuvonga.BSBBSB: rooted and built up in Him, established in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
8. 8SNAMuone kuti parege kuva nomunhu anokutapai nokutaura kusina maturo kunonyengera, kunosendamira patsika dzavanhu nezvokuvamba kwenyika ino, asingateveri Kristu.BSBBSB: See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, which are based on human tradition and the spiritual forces of the world rather than on Christ.
9. 9SNANokuti muna Kristu kuzara kwouMwari kunogara maari pamuviri,BSBBSB: For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity dwells in bodily form.
10. 10SNAnemiwo makapiwa kuzara uku muna Kristu, iye ari pamusoro poushe hwose nesimba.BSBBSB: And you have been made complete in Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority.
11. 11SNANemiwo makadzingiswa maari, mukubviswa kwomunhu wezvivi, kwete nokudzingiswa kunoitwa namaoko avanhu, asi nokudzingiswa kunoitwa naKristu,BSBBSB: 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. 12SNAmakavigwa pamwe chete mukubhabhatidzwa uye mukamutswa pamwe chete naye nokutenda kwenyu musimba raMwari, akamumutsa kubva kuvakafa.BSBBSB: 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. 13SNAPamakanga makafa muzvivi zvenyu uye nokusadzingiswa kwomunhu wenyu wekare, Mwari akakuitai vapenyu muna Kristu. Akatikanganwira zvivi zvedu zvose,BSBBSB: 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. 14SNAakadzima mutemo wakanyorwa, nezvirevo zvawo, uyo wakanga uchirwa nesu uye waimira uchipikisana nesu; akaubvisa, achiuroverera pamuchinjikwa.BSBBSB: having canceled the debt ascribed to us in the decrees that stood against us. He took it away, nailing it to the cross!
15. 15SNAUye akati abvisa ushe namasimba, akazvibudisa pachena, akazvikunda nomuchinjikwa.BSBBSB: And having disarmed the powers and authorities, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.
16. 16SNANaizvozvo ngakurege kuva nomunhu anokutongai pamusoro pezvamunodya kana kunwa, kana nezvemitambo yechitendero, kupemberera Kugara kwoMwedzi kana zuva reSabata.BSBBSB: Therefore let no one judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a feast, a New Moon, or a Sabbath.
17. 17SNAIzvi mumvuri wezvinhu zvaizouya, kunyange zvakadaro, chokwadi chinowanikwa muna Kristu.BSBBSB: These are a shadow of the things to come, but the body that casts it belongs to Christ.
18. 18SNAMusarega munhu upi zvake anofarira kuzvininipisa kwenhema uye kunamata vatumwa achikutorerai mubayiro wenyu. Munhu akadaro anorondedzera zvikuru pamusoro pezvaakaona, uye nokufunga kwake kwenyama anozvikudza pasina.BSBBSB: 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. 19SNAAkarasika kubva paMusoro, uyo kubva pauri muviri wose, wakasimbiswa uye wakabatanidzwa pamwe chete nemitezo yawo namarunda, unokura sezvinoda Mwari.BSBBSB: 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. 20SNASezvo makafa pamwe chete naKristu kune mitemo yenyika ino, seiko muchiita kunge muchiri vayo, muchizviisa pasi pemitemo yayo inoti:BSBBSB: 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. 21SNA“Usabata! Usaravira! Usagunzva!”?BSBBSB: “Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!”?
22. 22SNAIzvi zvose zvichaparadzwa nokubata kwazvo, nokuti zvakavakwa pamirayiro yavanhu nokudzidzisa kwavanhu.BSBBSB: These will all perish with use, because they are based on human commands and teachings.
23. 23SNAZvirokwazvo mitemo yakadai inoita seino uchenjeri, nokunamata kwavo kwokuzvipa, kuzvininipisa kwavo kwenhema uye nokurwadzisa kwavo muviri, asi zvisingagoni kudzivisa kuchiva kwomuviri.BSBBSB: 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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