This Epistle has been highly esteemed by several learned men of the church of Rome and others. The Quakers have printed a translation and plead for it, as the reader may see, by consulting Poole's Annotations on Col. vi. 16. Sixtus Senensis mentions two MSS., the one in the Sorbonne Library at Paris, which is a very ancient copy, and the other in the Library of Joannes a Viridario, at Padua, which he transcribed and published, and which is the authority for the following translation. There is a very old translation of this Epistle in the British Museum, among the Harleian MSS., Cod. 1212.

1. Papila ra Pawulo Muapostola eka Valaodikiya
NDZIMA YA 1
1 Pawulo, Muapostola, ku nga ri wa vanhu kumbe hi munhu, kambe hi Yesu Kreste, eka
vamakwerhu lava nga eLaodikiya.
2 Tintswalo ni ku rhula a ku ve eka n’wina, leswi humaka eka Xikwembu Tatana ni Hosi ya
hina Yesu Kreste.
3 Ndzi nkhensa Kreste eka xikhongelo xin’wana ni xin’wana xa mina, leswaku mi hambeta
mi tiyisela entirhweni lowunene mi langutele leswi tshembisiweke hi siku ra ku avanyisa.
4 Mavulavulelo ya hava ya ku karhata mi nga n’wi karhati lava hambukisaka ntiyiso, leswaku
ma mi hambukisa eka ntiyiso wa Evhangeli leyi ndzi yi chumayeleke.
5 Nakona sweswi Xikwembu xi nga pfumelela, leswaku vahundzuki va mina va ta fikelela
vutivi lebyi hetisekeke bya ntiyiso wa Evhangeli, va pfuna, ni ku endla mintirho leyinene leyi
fambisanaka ni ku ponisiwa.
6 Kutani sweswi swibohiwa swa mina, leswi ndzi xanisekaka eka Kriste, swi kombisiwile,
leswi ndzi tsakaka ni ku tsaka ha swona.
7 Hikuva ndza swi tiva leswaku leswi swi ta hundzukela eka ku ponisiwa ka mina hilaha ku
nga heriki, loku nga ta va kona hi xikhongelo xa n’wina ni ku nyikiwa ka Moya lowo Kwetsima.
8 Ku nga khathariseki leswaku ndzi hanya kumbe ndzi fa; hikuva eka mina ku hanya ku ta va
vutomi eka Kriste, ku fa ku ta va ku tsaka.
9 Hosi ya hina yi ta hi nyika tintswalo ta yona, leswaku mi va ni rirhandzu leri fanaka, mi va
ni mianakanyo leyi fanaka.
10 Hikokwalaho, varhandziwa va mina, tani hi leswi mi swi tweke hi ta ku ta ka Hosi,
anakanyani mi endla hi ku chava, kutani eka n’wina swi ta va vutomi lebyi nga heriki;
11 Hikuva i Xikwembu lexi tirhaka eka n'wina;
12 Mi endla swilo hinkwaswo handle ka xidyoho.
13 Kutani leswi nga swinene, varhandziwa vanga, tsakani Hosi Yesu Kreste, u papalata
mimbuyelo hinkwayo ya thyaka.
14 Swikombelo swa n’wina hinkwaswo a swi tivise Xikwembu, mi tiyisela eka dyondzo ya
Kreste.
15 Swilo swin’wana ni swin’wana leswinene ni leswi nga ntiyiso, ni leswi nga ni vuxongi, ni
leswi tengeke, ni leswi lulameke, ni leswi rhandzekaka, swilo leswi swi endla tano.
16 Swilo leswi mi swi tweke ni leswi mi swi amukeleke, anakanya hi swilo leswi, kutani ku
rhula ku ta va na n’wina.
17 Vakwetsimi hinkwavo va mi losa.
18 Tintswalo ta Hosi ya hina Yesu Kreste a ti ve ni moya wa n’wina. Amen.
19 Endla leswaku Papila leri ri hlayeriwa Vakolosa, ni Papila ra Vakolosa ri hlayiwa exikarhi
ka n’wina.