2 Korinčanima 11
1 O kad biste podnijeli nešto malo bezumlja mojega! Da, podnesite me!
I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.
2 Ljubomoran sam doista na vas Božjim ljubomorom: ta zaručih vas s jednim mužem, kao čistu djevicu privedoh vas Kristu.
For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you in marriage to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
3 Ali se bojim da se - kao što zmija zavede Evu svojom lukavštinom - misli vaše ne pokvare i odmetnu od iskrenosti prema Kristu.
But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
4 Uistinu, ako tko dođe i propovijeda drugog Isusa, kojega mi nismo propovijedali - ili ako drugoga Duha primate, kojega niste primili; ili drugo evanđelje, koje niste prigrlili - takva lijepo podnosÄite.
For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we didn’t preach, or if you receive a different spirit which you didn’t receive, or a different “good news” which you didn’t accept, you put up with that well enough.
5 Smatram, eto, da ni u čemu nisam manji od “nadapostola”.
For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.
6 Jer ako sam i nevješt u govoru, nisam u znanju; naprotiv, u svemu vam ga i pred svima očitovasmo.
But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things.
7 Ili sam grijeh počinio što sam vam - ponizujući sebe da se vi uzvisite - besplatno navješćivao Božje evanđelje?
Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God’s Good News free of charge?
8 Druge sam crkve plijenio, od njih primao potporu da bih mogao vama služiti. I dok bijah u vas, premda u oskudici, nikomu nisam bio na teret.
I robbed other assemblies, taking wages from them that I might serve you.
9 U oskudici su mi pomogla braća koja dođoše iz Makedonije. U svemu sam se čuvao da vam ne budem težak, a i čuvat ću se.
When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn’t a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.
10 Istine mi Kristove u meni, ove mi hvale nitko neće oduzeti u ahajskim krajevima.
As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
11 Zašto? Jer vas ne ljubim? Bog znade!
Why? Because I don’t love you? God knows.
12 A što činim, i dalje ću činiti da izbijem izliku onima koji izliku traže ne bi li se s nama izjednačili u onom čime se hvastaju.
But what I do, that I will continue to do, that I may cut off opportunity from those who desire an opportunity, that in which they boast, they may be recognized just like us.
13 Jer takvi su ljudi lažni apostoli, himbeni radnici, prerušuju se u apostole Kristove.
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.
14 I nikakvo čudo! Ta sam se Sotona prerušuje u anđela svjetla.
And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.
15 Ništa osobito dakle ako se i službenici njegovi prerušuju u službenike pravednosti. Svršetak će im biti po djelima njihovim.
It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
16 Opet velim: da me tko ne bi smatrao bezumnim! Uostalom, primite me makar i kao bezumna da se i ja nešto malo pohvalim.
I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little.
17 Što govorim, ne govorim po Gospodnju, nego kao u bezumlju, u ovoj hvalisavoj smionosti.
That which I speak, I don’t speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.
18 Budući da se mnogi hvale po ljudsku, i ja ću se hvaliti.
Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast.
19 Ta rado podnosÄite bezumne, vi umni!
For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise.
20 Da, podnosÄite ako vas tko zarobljava, ako vas tko proždire, ako tko otima, ako se tko uznosi, ako vas tko po obrazu bije.
For you bear with a man if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, or if he strikes you on the face.
21 Na sramotu govorim: bili smo, biva, slabi! Ipak, čime se god tko osmjeljuje - u bezumlju govorim - osmjeljujem se i ja!
To my shame, I speak as though we had been weak. Yet in whatever way anyone is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.
22 Hebreji su? I ja sam! Izraelci su? I ja sam! Potomstvo su Abrahamovo? I ja sam!
Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the offspring of Abraham? So am I.
23 Poslužitelji su Kristovi? Kao mahnit govorim: ja još više! U naporima - preobilno; u tamnicama - preobilno; u batinama - prekomjerno; u smrtnim pogiblima - često.
Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.
24 Od Židova primio sam pet puta po četrdeset manje jednu.
Five times I received forty stripes minus one from the Jews.
25 Triput sam bio šiban, jednom kamenovan, triput doživio brodolom, jednu noć i dan proveo sam u bezdanu.
Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep.
26 Česta putovanja, pogibli od rijeka, pogibli od razbojnika, pogibli od sunarodnjaka, pogibli od pogana, pogibli u gradu, pogibli u pustinji, pogibli na moru, pogibli od lažne braće;
I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;
27 u trudu i naporu, često u nespavanju, u gladu i žeđi, često u postovima, u studeni i golotinji!
in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
28 Osim toga, uz drugo, salijetanje svakodnevno, briga za sve crkve.
Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily: anxiety for all the assemblies.
29 Tko je slab, a ja da ne budem slab? Tko se sablažnjuje, a ja da ne izgaram?
Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don’t burn with indignation?
30 Treba li se hvaliti, svojom ću se slabošću hvaliti.
If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.
The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is blessed forever more, knows that I don’t lie. (aiōn g165)
32 U Damasku namjesnik kralja Arete čuvaše grad damaščanski hoteći me uhvatiti.
In Damascus the governor under King Aretas guarded the Damascenes’ city, desiring to arrest me.
33 Ali kroz prozor spustiše me u košari preko zida te umakoh njegovim rukama.
I was let down in a basket through a window by the wall, and escaped his hands.
