كُولُوسِي 1

١ 1 بُولُسُ، رَسُولُ يَسُوعَ ٱلْمَسِيحِ بِمَشِيئَةِ ٱللهِ، وَتِيمُوثَاوُسُ ٱلْأَخُ،

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

٢ 2 إِلَى ٱلْقِدِّيسِينَ فِي كُولُوسِّي، وَٱلْإِخْوَةِ ٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ فِي ٱلْمَسِيحِ: نِعْمَةٌ لَكُمْ وَسَلَامٌ مِنَ ٱللهِ أَبِينَا وَٱلرَّبِّ يَسُوعَ ٱلْمَسِيحِ.

to the believers and faithful brothers in Christ who are at Colossae. May grace be to you, and peace from God our Father.

٣ 3 نَشْكُرُ ٱللهَ وَأَبَا رَبِّنَا يَسُوعَ ٱلْمَسِيحِ كُلَّ حِينٍ، مُصَلِّينَ لِأَجْلِكُمْ،

We give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, and we always pray for you.

٤ 4 إِذْ سَمِعْنَا إِيمَانَكُمْ بِٱلْمَسِيحِ يَسُوعَ، وَمَحَبَّتَكُمْ لِجَمِيعِ ٱلْقِدِّيسِينَ،

We have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all those set apart for God.

٥ 5 مِنْ أَجْلِ ٱلرَّجَاءِ ٱلْمَوْضُوعِ لَكُمْ فِي ٱلسَّمَاوَاتِ، ٱلَّذِي سَمِعْتُمْ بِهِ قَبْلًا فِي كَلِمَةِ حَقِّ ٱلْإِنْجِيلِ،

You have this love because of the certain hope reserved for you in heaven. You heard about this confident expectation before in the word of truth, the gospel,

٦ 6 ٱلَّذِي قَدْ حَضَرَ إِلَيْكُمْ كَمَا فِي كُلِّ ٱلْعَالَمِ أَيْضًا، وَهُوَ مُثْمِرٌ كَمَا فِيكُمْ أَيْضًا مُنْذُ يَوْمَ سَمِعْتُمْ وَعَرَفْتُمْ نِعْمَةَ ٱللهِ بِٱلْحَقِيقَةِ.

which has come to you. This gospel is bearing fruit and is growing in all the world. It has been doing this in you also from the day you heard it and learned about the grace of God in truth.

٧ 7 كَمَا تَعَلَّمْتُمْ أَيْضًا مِنْ أَبَفْرَاسَ ٱلْعَبْدِ ٱلْحَبِيبِ مَعَنَا، ٱلَّذِي هُوَ خَادِمٌ أَمِينٌ لِلْمَسِيحِ لِأَجْلِكُمُ،

This is the gospel as you learned it from Epaphras, our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ on our behalf.

٨ 8 ٱلَّذِي أَخْبَرَنَا أَيْضًا بِمَحَبَّتِكُمْ فِي ٱلرُّوحِ.

Epaphras has made known to us your love in the Spirit.

٩ 9 مِنْ أَجْلِ ذَلِكَ نَحْنُ أَيْضًا، مُنْذُ يَوْمَ سَمِعْنَا، لَمْ نَزَلْ مُصَلِّينَ وَطَالِبِينَ لِأَجْلِكُمْ أَنْ تَمْتَلِئُوا مِنْ مَعْرِفَةِ مَشِيئَتِهِ، فِي كُلِّ حِكْمَةٍ وَفَهْمٍ رُوحِيٍّ،

Because of this love, from the day we heard this we have not stopped praying for you. We have been asking that you will be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.

١٠ 10 لِتَسْلُكُوا كَمَا يَحِقُّ لِلرَّبِّ، فِي كُلِّ رِضًى، مُثْمِرِينَ فِي كُلِّ عَمَلٍ صَالِحٍ، وَنَامِينَ فِي مَعْرِفَةِ ٱللهِ،

We have been praying that you will walk worthily of the Lord in pleasing ways. We have been praying that you will bear fruit in every good deed and that you will grow in the knowledge of God.

١١ 11 مُتَقَوِّينَ بِكُلِّ قُوَّةٍ بِحَسَبِ قُدْرَةِ مَجْدِهِ، لِكُلِّ صَبْرٍ وَطُولِ أَنَاةٍ بِفَرَحٍ،

We pray you may be strengthened in every ability according to the power of his glory into all perseverance and patience.

١٢ 12 شَاكِرِينَ ٱلْآبَ ٱلَّذِي أَهَّلَنَا لِشَرِكَةِ مِيرَاثِ ٱلْقِدِّيسِينَ فِي ٱلنُّورِ،

We pray that you will joyfully give thanks to the Father, who has made you able to have a share in the inheritance of the saints in light.

١٣ 13 ٱلَّذِي أَنْقَذَنَا مِنْ سُلْطَانِ ٱلظُّلْمَةِ، وَنَقَلَنَا إِلَى مَلَكُوتِ ٱبْنِ مَحَبَّتِهِ،

He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son.

١٤ 14 ٱلَّذِي لَنَا فِيهِ ٱلْفِدَاءُ، بِدَمِهِ غُفْرَانُ ٱلْخَطَايَا.

In his Son we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

١٥ 15 ٱلَّذِي هُوَ صُورَةُ ٱللهِ غَيْرِ ٱلْمَنْظُورِ، بِكْرُ كُلِّ خَلِيقَةٍ.

The Son is the image of the invisible God. He is the firstborn of all creation.

١٦ 16 فَإِنَّهُ فِيهِ خُلِقَ ٱلْكُلُّ: مَا في ٱلسَّمَاوَاتِ وَمَا عَلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ، مَا يُرَى وَمَا لَا يُرَى، سَوَاءٌ كَانَ عُرُوشًا أَمْ سِيَادَاتٍ أَمْ رِيَاسَاتٍ أَمْ سَلَاطِينَ. ٱلْكُلُّ بِهِ وَلَهُ قَدْ خُلِقَ.

For by him all things were created, those in the heavens and those on the earth, the visible and the invisible things. Whether thrones or dominions or governments or authorities, all things were created by him and for him.

١٧ 17 ٱلَّذِي هُوَ قَبْلَ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ، وَفِيهِ يَقُومُ ٱلْكُلُّ،

He himself is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

١٨ 18 وَهُوَ رَأْسُ ٱلْجَسَدِ: ٱلْكَنِيسَةِ. ٱلَّذِي هُوَ ٱلْبَدَاءَةُ، بِكْرٌ مِنَ ٱلْأَمْوَاتِ، لِكَيْ يَكُونَ هُوَ مُتَقَدِّمًا فِي كُلِّ شَيْءٍ.

He is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so he has first place among all things.

١٩ 19 لِأَنَّهُ فِيهِ سُرَّ أَنْ يَحِلَّ كُلُّ ٱلْمِلْءِ،

For God was pleased that all his fullness should live in him,

٢٠ 20 وَأَنْ يُصَالِحَ بِهِ ٱلْكُلَّ لِنَفْسِهِ، عَامِلًا ٱلصُّلْحَ بِدَمِ صَلِيبِهِ، بِوَاسِطَتِهِ، سَوَاءٌ كَانَ: مَا عَلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ، أَمْ مَا فِي ٱلسَّمَاوَاتِ.

and to reconcile through the Son all things to himself. God made peace through the blood of his cross. God reconciled all things to himself, whether the things on the earth or the things in heaven.

٢١ 21 وَأَنْتُمُ ٱلَّذِينَ كُنْتُمْ قَبْلًا أَجْنَبِيِّينَ وَأَعْدَاءً فِي ٱلْفِكْرِ، فِي ٱلْأَعْمَالِ ٱلشِّرِّيرَةِ، قَدْ صَالَحَكُمُ ٱلْآنَ

At one time, you also were strangers to God and were his enemies in mind and in evil deeds.

٢٢ 22 فِي جِسْمِ بَشَرِيَّتِهِ بِٱلْمَوْتِ، لِيُحْضِرَكُمْ قِدِّيسِينَ وَبِلَا لَوْمٍ وَلَا شَكْوَى أَمَامَهُ،

But now he has reconciled you by his physical body through death. He did this in order to present you holy, blameless, and above reproach before him,

٢٣ 23 إِنْ ثَبَتُّمْ عَلَى ٱلْإِيمَانِ، مُتَأَسِّسِينَ وَرَاسِخِينَ وَغَيْرَ مُنْتَقِلِينَ عَنْ رَجَاءِ ٱلْإِنْجِيلِ، ٱلَّذِي سَمِعْتُمُوهُ، ٱلْمَكْرُوزِ بِهِ فِي كُلِّ ٱلْخَلِيقَةِ ٱلَّتِي تَحْتَ ٱلسَّمَاءِ، ٱلَّذِي صِرْتُ أَنَا بُولُسَ خَادِمًا لَهُ.

if you continue in the faith, established and firm, not moved away from the certain hope of the gospel that you heard. This is the gospel that was proclaimed to every person created under heaven. This is the gospel of which I, Paul, became a servant.

٢٤ 24 ٱلَّذِي ٱلْآنَ أَفْرَحُ فِي آلَامِي لِأَجْلِكُمْ، وَأُكَمِّلُ نَقَائِصَ شَدَائِدِ ٱلْمَسِيحِ فِي جِسْمِي لِأَجْلِ جَسَدِهِ، ٱلَّذِي هُوَ ٱلْكَنِيسَةُ،

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is lacking of the afflictions of Christ for the sake of his body, which is the church.

٢٥ 25 ٱلَّتِي صِرْتُ أَنَا خَادِمًا لَهَا، حَسَبَ تَدْبِيرِ ٱللهِ ٱلْمُعْطَى لِي لِأَجْلِكُمْ، لِتَتْمِيمِ كَلِمَةِ ٱللهِ.

It is of this church that I am a servant, according to the responsibility from God that was given to me for you, to fulfill the word of God.

٢٦ 26 ٱلسِّرِّ ٱلْمَكْتُومِ مُنْذُ ٱلدُّهُورِ وَمُنْذُ ٱلْأَجْيَالِ، لَكِنَّهُ ٱلْآنَ قَدْ أُظْهِرَ لِقِدِّيسِيهِ، (aiōn g165)

This is the secret truth that was hidden for ages and for generations. But now it has been revealed to those who believe in him. (aiōn g165)

٢٧ 27 ٱلَّذِينَ أَرَادَ ٱللهُ أَنْ يُعَرِّفَهُمْ مَا هُوَ غِنَى مَجْدِ هَذَا ٱلسِّرِّ فِي ٱلْأُمَمِ، ٱلَّذِي هُوَ ٱلْمَسِيحُ فِيكُمْ رَجَاءُ ٱلْمَجْدِ.

It is to them that God wanted to make known the riches of the glory of this secret truth among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

٢٨ 28 ٱلَّذِي نُنَادِي بِهِ مُنْذِرِينَ كُلَّ إِنْسَانٍ، وَمُعَلِّمِينَ كُلَّ إِنْسَانٍ، بِكُلِّ حِكْمَةٍ، لِكَيْ نُحْضِرَ كُلَّ إِنْسَانٍ كَامِلًا فِي ٱلْمَسِيحِ يَسُوعَ.

This is he whom we proclaim. We admonish every person, and we teach every person with all wisdom, so that we may present every person complete in Christ.

٢٩ 29 ٱلْأَمْرُ ٱلَّذِي لِأَجْلِهِ أَتْعَبُ أَيْضًا مُجَاهِدًا، بِحَسَبِ عَمَلِهِ ٱلَّذِي يَعْمَلُ فِيَّ بِقُوَّةٍ.

For this I labor and strive according to his energy that is at work in me in power.