Colossians — 1
1 This letter is from Shaul, chosen by the will of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH to be a Shaliach of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏_YAHUSHA Ha'Mashyach, and from our brother Timothy.
2 We are writing to the Qadash people of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH in the city of Colosse, who are faithful Achks (brothers) and Achutys (sisters) in Ha'Mashyach. May 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH our ABBA give you favor and Shalum.
Shaul’s Tudah and Prayer
3 We always pray for you, and we give Tudah to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH, the Father of our Master 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏_YAHUSHA Ha'Mashyach.
4 For we have heard of your Amunah in 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏_YAHUSHA Ha'Mashyach and your Ahaba (love) for all of the people of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH,
5 Which come from your confident hope of what 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH has reserved for you in Shamaym. You have had this expectation ever since you first heard the truth of the Basurah (Good News).
6 This same Basurah that came to you is going out all over the world. It is bearing fruit everywhere by changing lives, just as it changed your lives from the day you first heard and understood the truth about the wonderful favor of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH.
7 You learned about the Basurah (Good News) from Epaphras, our beloved co-worker. He is a faithful servant of Ha'Mashyach, and he is helping us on your behalf.
8 He has told us about the love for others that the Ruach Ha'Qadash has given you.
9 So we have not stopped praying for you since we first heard about you. We ask 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH to give you complete knowledge of His will and to give you the Ruach of wisdom and understanding.
10 Then the way you live will always honor and please Ha'Mashyach, and your lives will produce every kind of good fruit. All the while, you will grow as you learn to know 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH better and better.
11 We also pray that you will be strengthened with all the marvelous power of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH so you will have all the endurance and patience you need. May you be filled with joy,
12 Always give Tudah to Abba 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH. For 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH has enabled you to share in the inheritance that belongs to His people, who live in the light.
13 For 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH has rescued us from the kingdom of darkness and transferred us into the Kingdom of His dear Son 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏_YAHUSHA Ha'Mashyach,
14 who purchased our freedom and forgave our sins.
Ha'Mashyach Is Supreme
15 Ha'Mashyach is the visible image of the invisible 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH. For Ha'Mashyach existed before anything was created and Ha'Mashyach is supreme over all creation,
16 For through Ha'Mashyach, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH created everything in the Shamaym realms and on Arath. For 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH made the things we can see and the things we can not see, such as thrones, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities in the unseen world. Everything was created through Ha'Mashyach and for Him.
17 Ha'Mashyach existed before anything else, and Ha'Mashyach holds all creation together.
18 Ha'Mashyach is also the head of the Qadash Assemblies, which is His body. For 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏_YAHUSHA Ha'Mashyach is the beginning, and supreme over all who rise from the dead. So Ha'Mashyach is first in everything.
19 For 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH in all HIS fullness was pleased to live in Ha'Mashyach,
20 And through 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏_YAHUSHA Ha'Mashyach 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH reconciled everything to HIMSELF. For 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH made Shalum with everything in Shamaym and on Arath by means of the blood on the execution stake.
21 This includes you who were once far away from 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH. You were His enemies, separated from 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH by your evil thoughts and actions.
22 Yet now 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH has reconciled you to HIMSELF through the death of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏_YAHUSHA Ha'Mashyach in his physical body. As a result 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH has brought you into HIS own presence, and you are Qadash and blameless as you stand before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH without a single fault.
23 But you must continue to believe this truth and stand firmly in it. Do not drift away from the assurance you received when you heard the Basurah (Good News). The Basurah has been preached all over the world, and I Shaul, have been appointed as the servant of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH to proclaim it.
24 I am glad when I suffer for you in my body, for I am participating in the sufferings of Ha'Mashyach that continue for His body, the Qadash Assemblies.
25 For 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH has given me the responsibility of serving HIS Qadash Assemblies by proclaiming HIS entire message to you.
26 This message was kept secret for centuries and generations past, but now it has been revealed to the people of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH.
27 For 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH wanted them to know that the riches and Kabad of Ha'Mashyach are for you the other nations too. And this is the secret: that 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏_YAHUSHA Ha'Mashyach lives in you. This gives you assurance of sharing Ha'Mashyach's Kabad.
28 So we tell others about 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏_YAHUSHA Ha'Mashyach, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all the wisdom 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH has given us. We want to present them to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH, perfect in their relationship to Ha'Mashyach.
29 That is why I work and struggle so hard, depending on the mighty power of Ha'Mashyach that works within me.