Hebrews 12

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

Zato i mi, okruženi tolikim oblakom svjedoka, odložimo svaki teret i grijeh koji nas sapinje te postojano trčimo u borbu koja je pred nama!

Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Uprimo pogled u Početnika i Dovršitelja vjere, Isusa, koji umjesto radosti što je stajala pred njim podnese križ, prezrevši sramotu te sjedi zdesna prijestolja Božjega.

For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

Doista pomno promotrite njega, koji podnese toliko protivljenje grešnika protiv sebe, da - premoreni - ne klonete duhom.

Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

Ta još se do krvi ne oduprijeste u borbi protiv grijeha.

And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:

Pa zar ste zaboravili opomenu koja vam je kao sinovima upravljena: Sine moj, ne omalovažavaj stege Gospodnje i ne kloni kad te on ukori.

For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

Jer koga Gospodin ljubi, onoga i stegom odgaja, šiba sina koga voli.

If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

Poradi vašega odgajanja trpite. Bog s vama postupa kao sa sinovima: a ima li koji sin kojega otac stegom ne odgaja?

But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

Pa ako niste pod stegom, na kojoj su svi imali udjela, onda ste kopilad, a ne djeca.

Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

Zatim, tjelesne smo oce imali odgojiteljima i poštovali ih. Pa nećemo li se kudikamo više podlagati Ocu duhova te živjeti?

For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.

Oni su nas doista nešto malo dana stegom odgajali kako se njima činilo, a On - nama na korist, da postanemo sudionici njegove svetosti.

Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

Isprva se doduše čini da nijedno odgajanje nije radost, nego žalost, ali onima koji su njime uvježbani poslije donosi mironosni plod pravednosti.

Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;

Zato uspravite ruke klonule i koljena klecava,

And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.

poravnite staze za noge svoje da se hromo ne iščaši, nego, štoviše, da ozdravi.

Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

Nastojte oko mira sa svima! I oko posvećenja bez kojega nitko neće vidjeti Gospodina!

Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;

Pripazite da se tko ne sustegne od milosti Božje, da kakav gorki korijen ne proklija pa ne unese zabunu i ne zarazi mnoge,

Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.

da tko ne postane bludnik ili svetogrdnik kao Ezav, koji za jedan jedini obrok proda svoje prvorodstvo.

For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.

Ta znate da je i poslije, kad je htio baštiniti blagoslov, odbačen jer nije našao mogućnosti promjene premda ju je sa suzama tražio.

For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,

Jer niste pristupili opipljivoj gori i usplamtjelu ognju, ni mraku, tami i vihoru,

And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:

ni ječanju trublje i tutnjavi riječi. - Koji su je slušali, zamoliše da im se više ne govori

(For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:

jer nisu podnosili naredbe: Ako se ma i živinče dotakne brda, neka se kamenuje!

And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)

I prizor bijaše tako strašan da Mojsije reče: "Strah me je i dršćem!" -

But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,

Nego, vi ste pristupili gori Sionu i gradu Boga živoga, Jeruzalemu nebeskom, nebrojenim tisućama anđela, svečanom skupu,

To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

Crkvi prvorođenaca zapisanih na nebu, Bogu, sucu sviju, dusima savršenih pravednika

And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.

i Posredniku novog Saveza - Isusu - i krvi škropljeničkoj što snažnije govori od Abelove.

See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:

Pazite da ne odbijete Onoga koji vam govori! Jer ako ne umakoše oni što su odbili onoga koji je na zemlji davao upute, kudikamo ćemo manje mi ako se okrenemo od Onoga koji ih daje s nebesa.

Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.

Njegov glas tada zemlju uzdrma, sada pak obećava: Još jednom ja ću potresti ne samo zemlju nego i nebo.

And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.

Ono "još jednom" pokazuje da će, kao stvoreno, uminuti ono uzdrmano da ostane ono neuzdrmljivo.

Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:

Zato jer smo primili kraljevstvo neuzdrmljivo, iskazujmo zahvalnost iz koje služimo Bogu kako je njemu milo, s predanjem i strahopoštovanjem.

For our God is a consuming fire.

Jer Bog je naš oganj što proždire.