¹For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

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

²that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,

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

³in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden.

³maari fuma yose yeuchenjeri neruzivo yakavigwa.

⁴Now this I say that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.

⁴Ndinoreva izvi, kuti kusava nemunhu unokurasai nemashoko anonyengera.

⁵For though I am absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.

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

⁶As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,

⁶Naizvozvo sezvamakagamuchira Kristu Jesu Ishe, fambai maari,

⁷rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.

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

⁸Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

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

⁹For in him all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily,

⁹Nekuti kuzara kose kweuMwari kunogara maari pamuviri.

¹⁰and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power;

¹⁰Nemwi maari makazadziswa, iye musoro weutungamiriri hwose nesimba;

¹¹in whom you were also 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 Christ;

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

¹²having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

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

¹³You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

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

¹⁴wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us; and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;

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

¹⁵having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

¹⁵akazumbura ukuru nemasimba, akavabudisa pachena, akavakunda mauri.

¹⁶Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,

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

¹⁷which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ’s.

¹⁷zvinova mumvuri wezvinhu zvichavuya, asi muviri ndewa Kristu.

¹⁸Let no one rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshipping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

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

¹⁹and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God’s growth.

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

²⁰If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,

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

²¹“Don’t handle, nor taste, nor touch”

²¹(usabata, usaravira, usagunzva,

²²(all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men?

²²izvi zvose zvichaparara nekushandiswa) zvichitevera mirairo nedzidziso dzevanhu?

²³Which things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, and humility, and severity to the body; but aren’t of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.

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