Galačanima 3
1 O bezumni Galaćani, tko li vas opčara? A pred očima vam je Isus Krist bio ocrtan kao Raspeti.
O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you? You, before whose very eyes Jesus Christ was placarded as crucified!
2 Ovo bih samo htio doznati od vas: jeste li primili Duha po djelima Zakona ili po vjeri u Poruku?
Answer me this one question. "When you received the Spirit, was it from doing what the Law commands or from believing the message heard?"
3 Tako li ste bezumni? Započeli ste u Duhu pa da sada u tijelu dovršite?
Are you so without sense? After beginning with the Spirit, will you now end with the flesh?
4 Zar ste toliko toga uzalud doživjeli? A kad bi doista bilo uzalud!
Did you have such experience to no purpose - if indeed it was really to no purpose?
5 Onaj dakle koji vam daje Duha i čini među vama silna djela, čini li to zbog djela Zakona ili zbog vjere u Poruku?
Does he then who supplies you with his Spirit and works miracles among you, do it because you do what the law commands of because you believe the message heard?
6 Tako Abraham povjerova Bogu i uračuna mu se u pravednost.
Even as Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness?
7 Shvatite dakle: oni od vjere, to su sinovi Abrahamovi.
Notice then that the true sons of Abraham are children of faith.
8 A Pismo, predvidjevši da Bog po vjeri opravdava pogane, unaprijed navijesti Abrahamu: U tebi će blagoslovljeni biti svi narodi.
And the Scripture, anticipating God’s justification of the Gentiles by faith, announced the gospel to Abraham beforehand in the words, In thee shall all the Gentiles be blessed.
9 Tako: oni od vjere blagoslivlju se s vjernikom Abrahamom.
So then they who are children of faith are blessed with Abraham the faithful;
10 Doista, koji su god od djela Zakona, pod prokletstvom su. Ta pisano je: Proklet tko se god ne drži i tko ne vrši svega što je napisano u Knjizi Zakona.
but a curse rests on those who have their root in the works of the Law; for it is written. Cursed is every one that continues not in all the things written in the Book of the Law, to do them.
11 A da se pred Bogom nitko ne opravdava Zakonom, očito je jer: Pravednik će od vjere živjeti.
And it is manifest that by the Law no man is justified in the sight of God. because The just shall live by faith,
12 Zakon pak nije od vjere, nego veli: Tko ga vrši, u njemu će naći život.
and the Law has nothing to do with faith, but declares, The man that has done these things shall live therein.
13 Krist nas otkupi od prokletstva Zakona, postavši za nas prokletstvom - jer pisano je: Proklet je tko god visi na drvetu -
Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the Law by becoming a curse for us (for it is written, Cursed is every one who is hanged upon a tree),
14 da u Kristu Isusu na pogane dođe blagoslov Abrahamov: da Obećanje, Duha, primimo po vjeri.
to the end that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles, so that through faith we might receive the promised Spirit.
15 Braćo, po ljudsku govorim: već i ljudski valjan savez nitko ne poništava niti mu što dodaje.
Let me illustrate, brothers, from every-day life. When once a human testament is made, and formally ratified, no one sets it aside or adds to it.
16 A ova su obećanja dana Abrahamu i potomstvu njegovu. Ne veli se: “i potomcima” kao o mnogima, nego kao o jednomu: I potomstvu tvojem, to jest Kristu.
Now it was to Abraham that the promises were spoken, and to his offspring. God did not say, "offsprings" as if speaking of many, but "and to your offspring," as of one; and this is Christ.
17 Ovo hoću kazati: Saveza koji je Bog valjano sklopio ne obeskrepljuje Zakon, koji je nastao četiri stotine i trideset godina poslije, i ne dokida obećanja.
I mean to say that the testament which God has already ratified could not be annulled by the Law which came four hundred and thirty years later, so as to make the Promise void.
18 Doista, ako se baština zadobiva po Zakonu, ne zadobiva se po obećanju. A Abrahama je Bog po obećanju obdario.
For if the inheritance comes from law, it no longer comes from a promise; but God did give it as a free gift to Abraham by a promise.
19 Čemu onda Zakon? Dometnut je poradi prekršaja dok ne dođe potomstvo komu je namijenjeno obećanje; sastavljen je po anđelima preko posrednika.
To what purpose, then, was the Law? It was imposed later for the sake of transgressions, until the "Offspring" should come to whom the promise had been made. It was arranged through angels by the hand of a mediator.
20 Posrednika pak nema gdje je samo jedan. A Bog je jedan.
(Now a mediator implies more than one person, but God is only one.)
21 Zar je dakle Zakon protiv obećanja Božjih? Nipošto! Jer da je dan Zakon koji bi mogao oživljavati, pravednost bi doista proizlazila iz Zakona.
Is the Law then opposed to the promises of God? Certainly not; for if a law had been given which could make alive, then righteousness would actually have come from law;
22 Ali je Pismo sve zatvorilo pod grijeh da se, po vjeri u Isusa Krista, obećano dade onima koji vjeruju.
but the Scripture has shut up the whole world in prison together under sin, in order that the promise due to faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who have faith.
23 Prije dolaska vjere, pod Zakonom zatvoreni, bili smo čuvani za vjeru koja se imala objaviti.
Before the Faith came we were perpetual prisoners under the Law, in preparation for the destined faith about to be revealed.
24 Tako nam je Zakon bio nadzirateljem sve do Krista da se po vjeri opravdamo.
So the Law has been our tutor-slave our pedagogue to lead us to Christ, so that we may be justified by faith;
25 A otkako je nadošla vjera, nismo više pod nadzirateljem.
but now that the Faith is come, we are no longer under a tutor-slave.
26 Uistinu, svi ste sinovi Božji, po vjeri u Kristu Isusu.
You are all sons of God through your faith in Jesus Christ.
27 Doista, koji ste god u Krista kršteni, Kristom se zaodjenuste.
For all of you who were baptized into Christ, have clothed yourselves with Christ.
28 Nema više: Židov - Grk! Nema više: rob - slobodnjak! Nema više: muško - žensko! Svi ste vi Jedan u Kristu Isusu!
In him there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
29 Ako li ste Kristovi, onda ste Abrahamovo potomstvo, baštinici po obećanju.
And if you belong to Christ, then you are the descendants of Abraham, heirs according to the promise.
