COLOSSIANS 1 1Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, 2To God’s holy people in Colossae, the faithful brothers and sisters in Christ: Grace and peace to you from God our Father. Thanksgiving and Prayer 3We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, 4because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love you have for all God’s people— 5the faith and love that spring from the hope stored up for you in heaven and about which you have already heard in the true message of the gospel 6that has come to you. In the same way, the gospel is bearing fruit and growing throughout the whole world—just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and truly understood God’s grace. 7You learned it from Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf, 8and who also told us of your love in the Spirit. 9For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives, 10so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, 11being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, 12and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light. 13For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, 14in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. The Supremacy of the Son of God 15The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. 17He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. 19For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, 20and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross. 21Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. 22But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation— 23if you continue in your faith, established and firm, and do not move from the hope held out in the gospel. This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant. Paul’s Labor for the Church 24Now I rejoice in what I am suffering for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions, for the sake of his body, which is the church. 25I have become its servant by the commission God gave me to present to you the word of God in its fullness— 26the mystery that has been kept hidden for ages and generations, but is now disclosed to the Lord’s people. 27To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. 28He is the one we proclaim, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone fully mature in Christ. 29To this end I strenuously contend with all the energy Christ so powerfully works in me.
KOLOSSIANYS 1 Salusyans 1Powl, abostol Krist Yesu dre vodh Duw, ha Timothi agan broder, 2Dhe'n syns ha dhe'n vreder lel yn Krist yn Kolosse: Gras dhywgh hwi ha kres dhiworth Duw agan Tas. Grasyans Powl dhe Dhuw 3Ni a ras dhe Dhuw, Tas agan Arloedh Yesu Krist, pup-prys ow pysi ragowgh. 4Ni re glewas a'gas fydh yn Krist Yesu hag a'n kerensa usi genowgh troha'n syns oll, 5drefenn an govenek yw gwithys ragowgh y'n nevow, a glewsowgh kyns yn ger an gwir, an aweyl, 6a dheuth dhywgh hwi, kepar hag yn oll an bys hi a dheg frut ha tevi, kepar dell dyv ynnowgh hwi ynwedh, dhiworth an jydh may klewsowgh ha godhvos gras Duw yn gwirder; 7kepar dell dhys'sowgh gans Epafras agan keswas karadow, yw menyster lel a Grist ragowgh hwi, 8hag ev re dhiskwedhas dhyn dha gerensa y'n Spyrys. Gnas hag Ober Krist 9Rakhenna ni ynwedh, dhiworth an jydh may klewsyn, ny hedhyn pysi ha govynn ragowgh, may fewgh lenwys a wodhvos a'y vodh yn pub furneth ha konvedhes spyrysel, 10dhe gerdhes gwiw dhe'n Arloedh, ow plegya yn tien, ow toen frut yn pub ober da hag ow tevi yn aswonnvos Duw, 11nerthys gans pub galloes war-lergh krevder y splannder dhe bub perthyans ha godhevyans; gans lowena 12ow krassa dhe'n Tas re'gas gwrug gwiw dhe gavoes rann yn eretons an syns y'n golow. 13Ev a wrug agan delivra yn-mes a alloes an tewlder ha'gan gorra yn gwlaskor y Vab karadow, 14yn neb y'gan beus daspren, gevyans peghosow. 15Imaj yw ev a'n Duw diwel, an kynsa-genys a greashyon oll; 16rag ynno ev y feu pup-tra gwrys y'n nevow ha war an nor, hewel ha diwel, tronys, domynashyons, prynsipatys po potestatys; pup-tra a veu gwrys dredho ev ha ragdho ev. 17Hag yma ev a-dherag pup-tra, ha pup-tra a syns war-barth ynno ev. 18Hag ev yw penn an korf, an eglos, neb yw an dalleth, an kynsa-genys dhiworth an re varow, rag may fo ev an kynsa yn pup-tra. 19Rag ynno pub leunder a Dhuw a veu plesys dhe driga, 20ha dredho dhe unnverhe pup-tra dhodho, po taklow war an nor po taklow y'n nevow, ow kul kres dre woes y grows. 21Ha hwi, ytho, re beu alyons kyns, hag eskerens y'n brys, dre dhrog gwriansow; 22mes lemmyn ev re wrug unnverheans y'n korf a'y gig der y vernans, dh'agas profya sans, dinamm ha divlam a-dheragdho, 23mar kwrewgh pesya krev y'n fydh, grondys ha fyrv, heb bos removyes dhiworth govenek an aweyl a glewsowgh, pregewthys yn oll kreashyon yn-dann nev, ha my Powl, eth ha bos menyster anedhi. Lavur Powl rag an Eglos 24Lemmyn my a lowenha y'm galarow ragowgh, ha my a gowlwra an taklow a fyll dhe baynys Krist y'm kig rag y gorf, yw an eglos. 25My eth ha bos menyster anedhi war-lergh charj Duw res dhymmo ragowgh hwi, dhe gollenwel ger Duw, 26an mysteri kudhys dhiworth an oesow ha'n henedhow, mes diskwedhys lemmyn dh'y syns, 27dhe neb Duw a vynnas diskudha pyth yw rychys splannder an mysteri ma yn mysk an Jentilys, yw Krist ynnowgh hwi, govenek an splannder. 28Ni a'n deriv, ow keski pub den ha dyski pub den yn pub furneth, may kwrellyn profya pub den perfydh yn Krist. 29Rag hemma, my a lavur, ow strivya gans y oberyans owth oberi ynnov gans nerth.langbot langbot