Rimljanima 8
1 Nikakve dakle sada osude onima koji su u Kristu Isusu!
There is, therefore, now no condemnation for those who are in union with Christ Jesus;
2 Ta zakon Duha života u Kristu Isusu oslobodi me zakona grijeha i smrti.
for through your union with Christ Jesus, the Law of the life-giving Spirit has set you free from the Law of sin and death.
3 Uistinu, što je bilo nemoguće Zakonu, jer je zbog tijela onemoćao, Bog je učinio: poslavši Sina svoga u obličju grešnoga tijela i s obzirom na grijeh, osudi grijeh u tijelu
What Law could not do, in so far as our earthly nature weakened its action, God did, by sending his own Son, with a nature resembling our sinful nature, to atone for sin. He condemned sin in that earthly nature,
4 da se pravednost Zakona ispuni u nama koji ne živimo po tijelu nego po Duhu.
so that the requirements of the Law might be satisfied in us who live now in obedience, not to our earthly nature, but to the Spirit.
5 Da, oni koji žive po tijelu, teže za onim što je tjelesno; a koji po Duhu, za onim što je Duhovo:
They who follow their earthly nature are earthly-minded, while they who follow the Spirit are spiritually minded.
6 težnja je tijela smrt, a težnja Duha život i mir.
To be earthly-minded means death, to be spiritually minded means life and peace;
7 Jer težnja je tijela protivna Bogu: zakonu se Božjemu ne podvrgava, a i ne može.
because to be earthly-minded is to be an enemy to God, for such a mind does not submit to the Law of God, nor indeed can it do so.
8 Oni pak koji su u tijelu, ne mogu se Bogu svidjeti.
They who are earthly cannot please God.
9 A vi niste u tijelu, nego u Duhu, ako Duh Božji prebiva u vama. A nema li tko Duha Kristova, taj nije njegov.
You, however, are not earthly but spiritual, since the Spirit of God lives within you. Unless a person has the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ;
10 I ako je Krist u vama, tijelo je doduše mrtvo zbog grijeha, ali Duh je život zbog pravednosti.
but, if Christ is within you, then, though the body is dead as a consequence of sin, the spirit is life as a consequence of righteousness.
11 Ako li Duh Onoga koji uskrisi Isusa od mrtvih prebiva u vama, Onaj koji uskrisi Krista od mrtvih oživit će i smrtna tijela vaša po Duhu svome koji prebiva u vama.
And, if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead lives within you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will give life even to your mortal bodies, through his Spirit living within you.
12 Dakle, braćo, dužnici smo, ali ne tijelu da po tijelu živimo!
So then, friends, we owe nothing to our earthly nature, that we should live in obedience to it.
13 Jer ako po tijelu živite, umrijeti vam je, ako li pak Duhom usmrćujete tjelesna djela, živjet ćete.
If you live in obedience to your earthly nature, you will inevitably die; but if, by the power of the Spirit, you put an end to the evil habits of the body, you will live.
14 Svi koje vodi Duh Božji sinovi su Božji.
All who are guided by the Spirit of God are children of God.
15 Ta ne primiste duh robovanja da se opet bojite, nego primiste Duha posinstva u kojem kličemo: “Abba! Oče!”
For you did not receive the spirit of a slave, to fill you once more with fear, but the spirit of a child by adoption, which leads us to cry “Abba, our Father.”
16 Sam Duh susvjedok je s našim duhom da smo djeca Božja;
The Spirit himself unites with our spirits in bearing witness to our being God’s children,
17 ako pak djeca, onda i baštinici, baštinici Božji, a subaštinici Kristovi, kada doista s njime zajedno trpimo, da se zajedno s njime i proslavimo.
and if children, then heirs – heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ, since we share Christ’s sufferings in order that we may also share his glory.
18 Smatram, uistinu: sve patnje sadašnjega vremena nisu ništa prema budućoj slavi koja se ima očitovati u nama.
I do not count the sufferings of our present life worthy of mention when compared with the glory that is to be revealed and bestowed on us.
19 Doista, stvorenje sa svom žudnjom iščekuje ovo objavljenje sinova Božjih:
All nature awaits with eager expectation the appearing of the sons of God.
20 stvorenje je uistinu podvrgnuto ispraznosti - ne po svojoj volji, nego zbog onoga koji ga podvrgnu - ali u nadi.
For nature was made subject to imperfection – not by its own choice, but owing to him who made it so –
21 Jer i stvorenje će se osloboditi robovanja pokvarljivosti da sudjeluje u slobodi i slavi djece Božje.
yet not without the hope that some day nature, also, will be set free from enslavement to decay, and will attain to the freedom which will mark the glory of the children of God.
22 Jer znamo: sve stvorenje zajedno uzdiše i muči se u porođajnim bolima sve do sada.
We know, indeed, that all nature alike has been groaning in the pains of labour to this very hour.
23 Ali ne samo ono! I mi koji imamo prvine Duha, i mi u sebi uzdišemo iščekujući posinstvo, otkupljenje svoga tijela.
And not nature only; but we ourselves also, though we have already a first gift of the Spirit – we ourselves are inwardly groaning, while we eagerly await our full adoption as sons – the redemption of our bodies.
24 Ta u nadi smo spašeni! Nada pak koja se vidi nije nada. Jer što tko gleda, kako da se tomu i nada?
By our hope we were saved. But the thing hoped for is no longer an object of hope when it is before our eyes; for who hopes for what is before his eyes?
25 Nadamo li se pak onomu čega ne gledamo, postojano to iščekujemo.
But when we hope for what is not before our eyes, then we wait for it with patience.
26 Tako i Duh potpomaže našu nemoć. Doista ne znamo što da molimo kako valja, ali se sam Duh za nas zauzima neizrecivim uzdasima.
So, also, the Spirit supports us in our weakness. We do not even know how to pray as we should; but the Spirit himself pleads for us in sighs that can find no utterance.
27 A Onaj koji proniče srca zna koja je želja Duha - da se on po Božju zauzima za svete.
Yet he who searches all our hearts knows what the Spirit’s meaning is, because the pleadings of the Spirit for Christ’s people are in accordance with his will.
28 Znamo pak da Bog u svemu na dobro surađuje s onima koji ga ljube, s onima koji su odlukom njegovom pozvani.
But we do know that God causes all things to work together for the good of those who love him – those who have received the call in accordance with his purpose.
29 Jer koje predvidje, te i predodredi da budu suobličeni slici Sina njegova te da on bude prvorođenac među mnogom braćom.
For those whom God chose from the first he also destined from the first to be transformed into likeness to his Son, so that his Son might be the eldest among many brothers and sisters.
30 Koje pak predodredi, te i pozva; koje pozva, te i opravda; koje opravda, te i proslavi.
And those whom God destined for this he also called; and those whom he called he also pronounced righteous; and those whom he pronounced righteous he also brought to glory.
31 Što ćemo dakle na to reći? Ako je Bog za nas, tko će protiv nas?
What are we to say, then, in the light of all this? If God is on our side, who can there be against us?
32 Ta on ni svojega Sina nije poštedio, nego ga je za sve nas predao! Kako nam onda s njime neće sve darovati?
God did not withhold his own Son, but gave him up on behalf of us all; will he not, then, with him, freely give us all things?
33 Tko će optužiti izabranike Božje? Bog opravdava!
Who will bring a charge against any of God’s people? He who pronounces them righteous is God!
34 Tko će osuditi? Krist Isus umrije, štoviše i uskrsnu, on je i zdesna Bogu - on se baš zauzima za nas!
Who is there to condemn them? He who died for us is Christ Jesus! – or, rather, it was he who was raised from the dead, and who is now at God’s right hand and is even pleading on our behalf!
35 Tko će nas rastaviti od ljubavi Kristove? Nevolja? Tjeskoba? Progonstvo? Glad? Golotinja? Pogibao? Mač?
Who is there to separate us from the love of the Christ? Will trouble, or difficulty, or persecution, or hunger, or nakedness, or danger, or the sword?
36 Kao što je pisano: Poradi tebe ubijaju nas dan za danom i mi smo im ko ovce za klanje.
Scripture says – “For your sake we are being killed all the day long, We are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”
37 U svemu tome nadmoćno pobjeđujemo po onome koji nas uzljubi.
Yet amid all these things we more than conquer through him who loved us!
38 Uvjeren sam doista: ni smrt ni život, ni anđeli ni vlasti, ni sadašnjost ni budućnost, ni sile,
For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor archangels, nor the present, nor the future, nor any powers,
39 ni dubina ni visina, ni ikoji drugi stvor neće nas moći rastaviti od ljubavi Božje u Kristu Isusu Gospodinu našem.
nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God revealed in Christ Jesus, our Lord!
