¹ Man Pool, ndawul Kirist Yeesu ci coobareg Yàlla, man ak Timote sunu mbokk,

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

² noo leen di bind, yéen gaayi Yàlla yu sell, yi dëkk Kolos te di ay bokk ci gëm Kirist. Na leen Yàlla sunu Baay may yiw ak jàmm.

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!

³ Dunu noppee sant Yàlla, Baayu sunu Boroom Yeesu Kirist, saa su nu leen di ñaanal,

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

⁴ ndaxte yég nanu seen ngëm ci Kirist Yeesu ak seen mbëggeel ci gaayi Yàlla yépp.

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

⁵ Ngëm googu ak mbëggeel googu ñu ngi sosoo ci yaakaaru ëllëg, jiy cér bi leen Yàlla dencal ca asamaan. Mas ngeen a dégg yaakaar jooju ci kàddug dëgg gi, di xebaar bu baax bi.

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,

⁶ Ni xebaar bu baax bi wàcce ci yéen, noonu lay wàcce ci àddina sépp, di meññ te di law. Te noonu lay doxale ci yéen, li dale ci bés, ba ngeen dégge xebaaru yiwu Yàlla, te xam dëggam gi mu ëmb;

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;

⁷ moom ngeen jànge ci Epafras, miy sunu nawle ci liggéey bi te nu sopp ko, di jawriñu Kirist bu takku ngir seen njariñ.

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

⁸ Te moo nu yégal it mbëggeel, gi Xelu Yàlla mi sol ci yéen.

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

⁹ Looloo tax ci sunu wàllu bopp, ba nu ko yégee ba tey, jógunu ci di leen ñaanal. Nu ngi ñaan Yàlla, ngeen xam bu baax coobareem ci xel mu mat ak ràññee gu aju ci dooley Xelam.

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,

¹⁰ Noonu dingeen dund dund gu dëppoo ak seen bokk ci Boroom bi, ba neex ko ci fànn gu nekk, di def bépp jëf yu baax, te yokk seen xam-xam ci Yàlla.

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

¹¹ Te Yàlla dina leen dooleel ak bépp doole, mu mengoo ak kàttanu ndamam, ngir ngeen man a tegoo coono te muñ, ba fa muñ di yem.

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

¹² Dingeen gërëm Yàlla Baay bi, ànd ci ak mbég, moom mi leen jagleel, ngeen bokk ci cér, bi mu dencal gaayam yu sell yi ci leer.

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

¹³ Yàlla musal na nu ci dooley lëndëm, yóbbu nu ci nguuru Doomam ji mu bëgg,

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

¹⁴ moom mi nu jot, maanaam baal nu sunuy bàkkaar.

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

¹⁵ Doom jooju moo di melokaanu Yàlla, ji kenn gisul. Mooy taaw bi, ki gën a màgg lépp luy mbindeef.

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

¹⁶ Ndaxte ci moom la Yàlla sàkke lépp lu nekk ci asamaan ak suuf, li ñuy gis ak li ñu mënul a gis, muy buur, njiit, kilifa mbaa boroom sañ-sañ. Lépp lu ñu sàkk, ci moom lañu ko jaarale, ci moom lañu ko jëme.

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,

¹⁷ Laata dara di am, fekkoon na moom mu nekk, te lépp a ngi jàppoo ci moom.

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

¹⁸ Mooy bopp bi yilif jëmm ji, di mbooloom ñi ko gëm, ndaxte moom mooy njàlbéen gi, di taaw bi, maanaam ki jëkk a dekki, ngir muy kilifa ci bépp fànn.

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,

¹⁹ Ndaxte soob na Yàlla mu dëkkal matam gépp ci moom

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

²⁰ te jaar ci moom, jubale lépp ak boppam, muy ci kaw asamaan yi mbaa ci suuf, ba mu wàccee jàmm jaarale ko ci deret ji tuuru, bi Doom ji deeyee ca bant ba.

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.

²¹ Te yéen ñi sore woon Yàlla te doon ay noonam ci seen xel ak seen jëf yu bon,

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

²² léegi nag Yàlla jubale na leen ak boppam jaare ko ci deewu Kirist ci yaramu nitam, ngir taxawal leen ca kanamam, ngeen sell te ñàkk sikk ak i ŋàññ.

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

²³ Loolu nag na fekk ngeen wéy ci ngëm, sampu ci ba dëgër ci, tey séentu cér, bi leen xebaar bu baax bi jox. Te xebaar bu baax, boobu ngeen dégg te ñu yégal waa àddina sépp, man Pool moom laay yégle.

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.

²⁴ Léegi nag maa ngi am bànneex ci coono, yi may daj ngir seen njariñ; te li des sax ci fitnay Kirist, noonu laa koy àggalee ngir njariñu mbooloom ñi gëm, di jëmmam.

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,

²⁵ Jawriñu mbooloo moomu laa, ndaxte Yàlla sas na ma ngir yéen, may yégle fu nekk kàddoom,

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,

²⁶ maanaam ma yégle kumpa, gi nëbbu woon ay jamonoy jamono, waaye léegi Yàlla xamal na ko ay gaayam

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

²⁷ ci xeeti àddina sépp. Ñoom nag la Yàlla bëgg a xamal ni ndamu kumpa googu màgge, maanaam Kirist a ngi dëkk ci yéen, di yaakaar ju wér ci ndamu ëllëg.

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,

²⁸ Moom Kirist lanuy yégle, di artu te di jàngal ku nekk, ànd ak xel mu mat, ngir jébbal Yàlla ku nekk ni ku mat ci Kirist.

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

²⁹ Ci loolu laay jëmale sama liggéey, di bëree dooley Kirist, jiy yengu ci man ak kàttan.

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