¹Pauro muapositori waKristu Jesu nekuda kwechido chaMwari, naTimotio hama,

¹Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timotheus the brother,

²kuvatsvene nehama dzakatendeka muna Kristu vari paKorose: Nyasha kwamuri, nerugare rwunobva kuna Mwari Baba vedu naIshe Jesu Kristu.

²to the saints in Colossae, and to the faithful brethren in Christ: Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ!

³Tinopa kuvonga kuna Mwari naBaba vaIshe wedu Jesu Kristu, tichikunyengetererai nguva dzose,

³We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, always praying for you,

⁴sezvo takanzwa zverutendo rwenyu muna Kristu Jesu, uye zverudo kuvatsvene vose,

⁴having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love that [is] to all the saints,

⁵nekuda kwetariro yakagadzirirwa imwi kumatenga, yamakagara manzwa pashoko rechokwadi cheevhangeri,

⁵because of the hope that is laid up for you in the heavens, which ye heard of before in the word of the truth of the good news,

⁶iyo yasvika kwamuri sepanyika yosewo; ichibereka chibereko, sezvainoitawo kwamuri, kubvira pazuva ramakanzwa nekuziva nyasha dzaMwari muchokwadi;

⁶which is present to you, as also in all the world, and is bearing fruit, as also in you, from the day in which ye heard, and knew the grace of God in truth;

⁷sezvamakadzidzawo kuna Epafrasi, muranda unodikamwa pamwe nesu, mushumiri wakatendeka waKristu nekuda kwenyu,

⁷as ye also learned from Epaphras, our beloved fellow-servant, who is for you a faithful ministrant of the Christ,

⁸iye wakatiudzawo zverudo rwenyu muMweya.

⁸who also did declare to us your love in the Spirit.

⁹Nekuda kweizvi isuwo, kubvira pazuva ratakanzwa, hatimiri kukunyengetererai, nekukumbira kuti muzadzwe neruzivo rwechido chake, pauchenjeri hwose nekunzwisisa kwemweya;

⁹Because of this, we also, from the day in which we heard, do not cease praying for you, and asking that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

¹⁰kuti mufambe sezvinofanira Ishe muchimufadza pazvose, muchibereka zvibereko pabasa rose rakanaka, muchikura paruzivo rwaMwari;

¹⁰to your walking worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, in every good work being fruitful, and increasing to the knowledge of God,

¹¹muchisimbiswa nesimba rose, zvichienderana nesimba rekurumbidzwa kwake, muve nemoyo murefu nekutsungirira nemufaro;

¹¹in all might being made mighty according to the power of His glory, to all endurance and long-suffering with joy.

¹²muchipa kuvonga kuna Baba, vakatiita kuti tifanire kugoverana kwenhaka yevatsvene muchiedza.

¹²Giving thanks to the Father who did make us meet for the participation of the inheritance of the saints in the light,

¹³vakatinunura pasimba rerima, vakatishandurira muushe hweMwanakomana werudo rwavo,

¹³who did rescue us out of the authority of the darkness, and did translate [us] into the reign of the Son of His love,

¹⁴watine dzikinuro maari kubudikidza neropa rake, ndiko kukangamwirwa kwezvivi.

¹⁴in whom we have the redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of the sins,

¹⁵Ndiye mufananidzo waMwari usingaonekwi, dangwe rechisikwa choga choga;

¹⁵who is the image of the invisible God, first-born of all creation,

¹⁶Nekuti maari zvinhu zvose zvakasikwa, zviri kumatenga nezviri panyika, zvinoonekwa nezvisingaonekwi, kana zviri zvigaro zveushe kana ushe, kana ukuru, kana masimba; zvinhu zvose zvakasikwa naye, zvikasikirwa iye.

¹⁶because in him were the all things created, those in the heavens, and those upon the earth, those visible, and those invisible, whether thrones, whether lordships, whether principalities, whether authorities; all things through him, and for him, have been created,

¹⁷Ndiye unotangira zvinhu zvose, uye zvinhu zvose zvakabatanidzwa maari.

¹⁷and himself is before all, and the all things in him have consisted.

¹⁸Uye ndiye musoro wemuviri, kereke; unova kutanga, dangwe kune vakafa; kuti pazvose iye ave wokutanga.

¹⁸And himself is the head of the body — the assembly — who is a beginning, a first-born out of the dead, that he might become in all [things] — himself — first,

¹⁹Nekuti zvakafadza Baba, kuti kuzara kose kugare maari,

¹⁹because in him it did please all the fulness to tabernacle,

²⁰uye akonzere naye kuti zvinhu zvose zviyananiswe kwaari, amboita rugare kubudikidza neropa remuchinjikwa wake kubudikidza naiye, kunyange zviri panyika kunyange zviri kumatenga.

²⁰and through him to reconcile the all things to himself — having made peace through the blood of his cross — through him, whether the things upon the earth, whether the things in the heavens.

²¹Nemwi maimbova vaeni nevavengi mufungwa nemabasa akaipa, asi zvino wayanana nemwi

²¹And you — once being alienated, and enemies in the mind, in the evil works, yet now did he reconcile,

²²mumuviri wenyama yake kubudikidza nekufa akukumikidzei muri vatsvene, uye musina mhosva uye musingamhuriki pachiso chake,

²²in the body of his flesh through the death, to present you holy, and unblemished, and unblameable before himself,

²³kana muchirambira parutendo makateyiwa uye makasimbiswa, uye hamubviswi patariro yeevhangeri yamakanzwa, yakaparidzirwa chisikwa choga choga chiri pasi pedenga; iyo yandakaitwa mushumiri wayo ini Pauro.

²³if also ye remain in the faith, being founded and settled, and not moved away from the hope of the good news, which ye heard, which was preached in all the creation that [is] under the heaven, of which I became — I Paul — a ministrant.

²⁴Zvino ndinofara pamatambudziko angu nekuda kwenyu, nekuzadzisa zvakasara pamatambudziko aKristu munyama yangu nekuda kwemuviri wake, inova kereke;

²⁴I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and do fill up the things lacking of the tribulations of the Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the assembly,

²⁵iyo ini yandakaitwa mushumiri wayo zvichienderana nekuita kwaMwari kwandakapiwa pamusoro penyu, kuzadzisa shoko raMwari,

²⁵of which I — I did become a ministrant according to the dispensation of God, that was given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God,

²⁶chakavanzika chakange chakafukidzwa kubvira kare, nekubva kumazera, asi zvino chinoratidzwa kuvatsvene vake,

²⁶the secret that hath been hid from the ages and from the generations, but now was manifested to his saints,

²⁷kuna ivo Mwari vaakada kuzivisa kiti fuma yekubwinya kwechakavanzika ichi pakati pevahedheni chii, chinova Kristu mamuri, tariro yekubwinya;

²⁷to whom God did will to make known what [is] the riches of the glory of this secret among the nations — which is Christ in you, the hope of the glory,

²⁸watinoparidza isu, tichiyambira munhu umwe neumwe, nekudzidzisa munhu umwe neumwe munjere dzose, kuti tikumikidze munhu umwe neumwe akakwana muna Kristu;

²⁸whom we proclaim, warning every man, and teaching every man, in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus,

²⁹ndizvo zvandinoshingairirawo, ndichirwa zvinoenderana nekubata kwake kunobata mandiri nesimba.

²⁹for which also I labour, striving according to his working that is working in me in power.