1 Korinčanima 9
1 Nisam li ja slobodan? Nisam li apostol? Nisam li vidio Isusa, Gospodina našega? Niste li vi djelo moje u Gospodinu?
Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen our Lord Jesus? Aren’t you yourselves my work achieved in union with the Lord?
2 Ako drugima nisam apostol, vama svakako jesam. Ta vi ste pečat mojega apostolstva u Gospodinu.
If I am not an apostle to others, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal that stamps me as an apostle in union with the Lord.
3 Moj odgovor mojim tužiteljima jest ovo:
The defense that I make to my critics is this:
4 Zar nemamo prava jesti i piti?
Haven’t we a right to food and drink?
5 Zar nemamo prava ženu vjernicu voditi sa sobom kao i drugi apostoli i braća Gospodnja i Kefa?
Haven’t we a right to take a wife with us, if she is a Christian, as the other apostles and the Master’s brothers and Cephas all do?
6 Ili samo ja i Barnaba nemamo prava ne raditi?
Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to give up working for our bread?
7 Tko ikada vojuje o svojem trošku? Tko sadi vinograd pa roda njegova ne jede? Ili tko pase stado pa od mlijeka stada ne jede?
Does anyone ever serve as a soldier at his own expense? Does anyone plant a vineyard and not eat its produce? Or does anyone look after a herd and not drink the milk?
8 Zar to govorim po ljudsku? Ne kaže li to i Zakon?
Am I, in all this, speaking only from the human standpoint? Does not the Law also say the same?
9 Jer u Mojsijevu zakonu piše: Ne zavezuj usta volu koji vrši! Zar je Bogu do volova?
For in the Law of Moses it is said – ‘You should not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.’ Is it the bullocks that God is thinking of?
10 Ne govori li on baš radi nas? Doista, radi nas je napisano, jer tko ore, u nadi treba da ore; i tko vrši, u nadi da će dobiti dio.
Or is not is said entirely for our sakes? Surely it was written for our sakes, for the plowman ought not to plow, nor the thrasher to thrash, without expecting a share of the grain.
11 Ako smo mi vama sijali dobra duhovna, veliko li je nešto ako vam požanjemo tjelesna?
Since we, then, sowed spiritual seed for you, is it too much that we should reap from you an earthly harvest?
12 Ako drugi sudjeluju u vašim dobrima, zašto ne bismo mi mogli još većma. Ali nismo se poslužili tim pravom, nego sve teglimo da ne bismo postavili kakvu zapreku evanđelju Kristovu?
If others share in this right over you, don’t we even more? Still we did not avail ourselves of this right. No, we endure anything rather than impede the progress of the good news of the Christ.
13 Ne znate li: koji obavljaju svetinje, od svetišta se hrane; i koji žrtveniku služe, sa žrtvenikom dijele?
Don’t you know that those who do the work of the Temple live on what comes from the Temple, and that those who serve at the altar share the offerings with the altar?
14 Tako je i Gospodin onima koji evanđelje navješćuju odredio od evanđelja živjeti.
So, too, the Master has appointed that those who tell the good news should get their living from the good news.
15 No ja se ničim od toga nisam poslužio. A i ne napisah toga da bi se tako postupilo prema meni. Radije umrijeti, nego... Te mi slave nitko neće oduzeti!
I, however, have not availed myself of any of these rights. I am not saying this to secure such an arrangement for myself; indeed, I would far rather die – Nobody will make my boast a vain one!
16 Jer što navješćujem evanđelje, nije mi na hvalu, ta dužnost mi je. Doista, jao meni ako evanđelja ne navješćujem.
If I proclaim the good news, I have nothing to boast of, for I am compelled to do so. Woe is me if I do not share it!
17 Jer ako to činim iz vlastite pobude, ide me plaća; ako li ne iz vlastite pobude - služba je to koja mi je povjerena.
If I do this work willingly, I have a reward; but, if unwillingly, I have been charged to perform a duty.
18 Koja mi je dakle plaća? Da propovijedajući pružam evanđelje besplatno ne služeći se svojim pravom u evanđelju.
What is my reward, then? To present the good news free of all cost, and so make but a sparing use of the rights which it gives me.
19 Jer premda slobodan od sviju, sam sebe svima učinih slugom da ih što više steknem.
Although I was entirely free, yet, to win as many converts as possible, I made myself everyone’s slave.
20 Bijah Židovima Židov da Židove steknem; onima pod Zakonom, kao da sam pod Zakonom - premda ja nisam pod Zakonom - da one pod Zakonom steknem;
To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win Jews. To those who are subject to Law I became like a man subject to Law – though I was not myself subject to Law – to win those who are subject to Law.
21 onima bez Zakona, kao da sam bez zakona - premda nisam bez Božjega zakona, nego u Kristovu zakonu - da steknem one bez Zakona;
To those who have no Law I became like a man who has no Law – not that I am free from God’s Law; no, for I am under Christ’s Law – to win those who have no law.
22 bijah nejakima nejak da nejake steknem. Svima bijah sve da pošto-poto neke spasim.
To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people, so as at all costs to save some.
23 A sve činim poradi evanđelja da bih i ja bio suzajedničar u njemu.
And I do everything for the sake of the good news, so that with them I may share in its blessings.
24 Ne znate li: trkači u trkalištu svi doduše trče, ali jedan prima nagradu? Tako trčite da dobijete.
Don’t you know that on a racecourse, though all run, yet only one wins the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.
25 Svaki natjecatelj sve moguće izdržava; oni da dobiju raspadljiv vijenac, mi neraspadljiv.
Every athlete exercises self-restraint in everything; they, indeed, for a crown that fades, we for one that is unfading.
26 Ja dakle tako trčim - ne kao besciljno, tako udaram šakom - ne kao da mlatim vjetar,
I, therefore, do not run aimlessly. I do not box like a man hitting the air.
27 nego krotim svoje tijelo i zarobljavam da sam ne budem isključen pošto sam drugima propovijedao.
No, I bruise my body and make it my slave, so that I, who have called others to the contest, will not myself be rejected.
