¹Nekuti ndinoda kuti muzive kuti kurwa kukuru zvakadini kwandinako pamusoro penyu, naivo vepaRaodhikia, navose vasina kumboona chiso changu panyama,

¹For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh,

²kuti moyo yavo inyaradzwe, vasonanidzwe murudo, nemufuma yose yekuvimbiswa kwakakwana kwekunzwisisa, paruzivo rwechakavanzika chaMwari, nechaBaba, nechaKristu,

²that their hearts may be comforted, being united in love, and to all riches of the full assurance of the understanding, to the full knowledge of the secret of the God and Father, and of the Christ,

³maari fuma yose yeuchenjeri neruzivo yakavigwa.

³in whom are all the treasures of the wisdom and the knowledge hid,

⁴Ndinoreva izvi, kuti kusava nemunhu unokurasai nemashoko anonyengera.

⁴and this I say, that no one may beguile you in enticing words,

⁵Nekuti kunyange ndisipo panyama, zvakadaro ndinemwi pamweya, ndichifara nekuvona kurongeka kwenyu, nekusimba kwerutendo rwenyu muna Kristu.

⁵for if even in the flesh I am absent — yet in the spirit I am with you, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in regard to Christ;

⁶Naizvozvo sezvamakagamuchira Kristu Jesu Ishe, fambai maari,

⁶as, then, ye did receive Christ Jesus the Lord, in him walk ye,

⁷makadzika midzi nekuvakwa maari, nekusimbiswa murutendo, sezvamakadzidziswa, muchiwedzera makuri nekuvonga.

⁷being rooted and built up in him, and confirmed in the faith, as ye were taught — abounding in it in thanksgiving.

⁸Chenjerai, zvimwe umwe munhu ungakupambai neuchenjeri, nekunyengera kusina maturo, achitevera tsika dzevanhu, achitevera dzidziso dzekuvamba dzenyika, uye kwete kutevera Kristu.

⁸See that no one shall be carrying you away as spoil through the philosophy and vain deceit, according to the deliverance of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ,

⁹Nekuti kuzara kose kweuMwari kunogara maari pamuviri.

⁹because in him doth tabernacle all the fulness of the Godhead bodily,

¹⁰Nemwi maari makazadziswa, iye musoro weutungamiriri hwose nesimba;

¹⁰and ye are in him made full, who is the head of all principality and authority,

¹¹iye wamakadzingiswawo maari nedzingiso isina kuitwa nemaoko, pakubvisa muviri wezvivi zvenyama, pakudzingisa kwaKristu;

¹¹in whom also ye were circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh in the circumcision of the Christ,

¹²makavigwa pamwe naye pabhabhatidzo, pamakamutswawo pamwe naye kubudikidza nerutendo rwekuita kwaMwari wakamumutsa kuvakafa.

¹²being buried with him in the baptism, in which also ye rose with [him] through the faith of the working of God, who did raise him out of the dead.

¹³Nemwi makafa mukudarika kwenyu, nepakusadzingiswa kwenyama yenyu, wakakuitai vapenyu pamwe naye, akukangamwirai kudarika kose,

¹³And you — being dead in the trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh — He made alive together with him, having forgiven you all the trespasses,

¹⁴akadzima rugwaro rwezviga rwaipikisana nesu, rwaipesana nesu; akarubvisa irwo pakati, akaruroverera;

¹⁴having blotted out the handwriting in the ordinances that is against us, that was contrary to us, and he hath taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross;

¹⁵akazumbura ukuru nemasimba, akavabudisa pachena, akavakunda mauri.

¹⁵having stripped the principalities and the authorities, he made a shew of them openly — having triumphed over them in it.

¹⁶Naizvozvo kusava nemunhu unokutongai pachikafu kana chimwiwa, kana nekuda kwemusi wemutambo kana pakugara kwemwedzi kana pasabata;

¹⁶Let no one, then, judge you in eating or in drinking, or in respect of a feast, or of a new moon, or of sabbaths,

¹⁷zvinova mumvuri wezvinhu zvichavuya, asi muviri ndewa Kristu.

¹⁷which are a shadow of the coming things, and the body [is] of the Christ;

¹⁸Kusava nemunhu unokutorerai mubairo wenyu nemano, achifanira kuzvininipisa nekunamata vatumwa, achipindira pazvinhu zvaasina kuona, achizvikudza pasina nefungwa dzake dzenyama,

¹⁸let no one beguile you of your prize, delighting in humble-mindedness and [in] worship of the messengers, intruding into the things he hath not seen, being vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,

¹⁹asingabatisisi Musoro, uyo maari muviri wose nemafundo nemarunda unofundiwa, nekurukirwa pamwe, uchikura nekukura kwaMwari.

¹⁹and not holding the head, from which all the body — through the joints and bands gathering supply, and being knit together — may increase with the increase of God.

²⁰Zvino kana makafa pamwe naKristu kune dzidziso dzekuvamba dzenyika, munosungikanireiko nemirairo, semugere munyika,

²⁰If, then, ye did die with the Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances?

²¹(usabata, usaravira, usagunzva,

²¹— thou mayest not touch, nor taste, nor handle —

²²izvi zvose zvichaparara nekushandiswa) zvichitevera mirairo nedzidziso dzevanhu?

²²which are all for destruction with the using, after the commands and teachings of men,

²³Izvo zvine chimiro cheuchenjeri pakuzvidira kunamata, nekuzvininipisa, nekuramba muviri; hazvibatsiri kukunda kugutsa nyama.

²³which are, indeed, having a matter of wisdom in will-worship, and humble-mindedness, and neglecting of body — not in any honour, unto a satisfying of the flesh.