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

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

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

²To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ [that are] at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father.

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

³We give thanks to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always 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 which ye have toward all the saints,

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

⁵because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel,

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

⁶which is come unto you; even as it is also in all the world bearing fruit and increasing, as [it doth] in you also, since the day ye heard and knew the grace of God in truth;

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

⁷even as ye learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow-servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf,

⁸iye wakatiudzawo zverudo rwenyu muMweya.

⁸who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.

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

⁹For this cause we also, since the day we heard [it], do not cease to pray and make request for you, that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

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

¹⁰to walk worthily of the Lord unto all pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

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

¹¹strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, unto all patience and longsuffering with joy;

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

¹²giving thanks unto the Father, who made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light;

¹³vakatinunura pasimba rerima, vakatishandurira muushe hweMwanakomana werudo rwavo,

¹³who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love;

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

¹⁴in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins:

¹⁵Ndiye mufananidzo waMwari usingaonekwi, dangwe rechisikwa choga choga;

¹⁵who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn 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.

¹⁶for in him were all things created, in the heavens and upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and unto him;

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

¹⁷and he is before all things, and in him all things consist.

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

¹⁸And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.

¹⁹Nekuti zvakafadza Baba, kuti kuzara kose kugare maari,

¹⁹For it was the good pleasure [of the Father] that in him should all the fulness dwell;

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 all things unto himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross; through him, [I say], whether things upon the earth, or things in the heavens.

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

²¹And you, being in time past alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil works,

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

²²yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and unreproveable before him:

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 so be that ye continue in the faith, grounded and stedfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel which ye heard, which was preached in all creation under heaven; whereof I Paul was made a minister.

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

²⁴Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church;

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

²⁵whereof I was made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which was given me to you-ward, to fulfil the word of God,

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

²⁶[even] the mystery which hath been hid for ages and generations: but now hath it been 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 was pleased to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

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

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

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

²⁹whereunto I labor also, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.