Hebrews 12
1 THEREFORE also seeing we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, laying aside every weight, and that most easily besetting sin, let us run with patience the race lying 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!
2 earnestly looking up to Jesus the author and the finisher of faith; who, for the joy set before him, endured the cross, despising shame, and hath sat 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.
3 Consider then attentively him that endured from sinners such opposition against himself, that ye be not wearied out, fainting in your souls.
Doista pomno promotrite njega, koji podnese toliko protivljenje grešnika protiv sebe, da - premoreni - ne klonete duhom.
4 As yet ye have not resisted unto blood, struggling against sin.
Ta još se do krvi ne oduprijeste u borbi protiv grijeha.
5 And have you forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you, as children, “My son, count not lightly of the Lord’s childlike correction, nor faint when under his rebuke:
Pa zar ste zaboravili opomenu koja vam je kao sinovima upravljena: Sine moj, ne omalovažavaj stege Gospodnje i ne kloni kad te on ukori.
6 for whom the Lord loveth he correcteth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.”
Jer koga Gospodin ljubi, onoga i stegom odgaja, šiba sina koga voli.
7 If ye patiently endure correction, God carries himself towards you as his children: for who is the son whom the father doth not correct?
Poradi vašega odgajanja trpite. Bog s vama postupa kao sa sinovima: a ima li koji sin kojega otac stegom ne odgaja?
8 If then ye are without correction, of which all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not children.
Pa ako niste pod stegom, na kojoj su svi imali udjela, onda ste kopilad, a ne djeca.
9 If then we have had the fathers of our flesh for correctors, and reverenced them; shall we not much more be under subjection to 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?
10 For they indeed for a few days as seemed proper to themselves corrected us; but he for our own advantage, 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.
11 Now all correction at the moment seemeth not to be cause for joy, but for sorrow; but after a while it produceth peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have thereby been disciplined.
Isprva se doduše čini da nijedno odgajanje nije radost, nego žalost, ali onima koji su njime uvježbani poslije donosi mironosni plod pravednosti.
12 Wherefore stretch out again the hands that hang down, and the paralytic knees;
Zato uspravite ruke klonule i koljena klecava,
13 and make strait paths for your feet, that what is halting may not be turned out of the way; but that it may rather be healed.
poravnite staze za noge svoje da se hromo ne iščaši, nego, štoviše, da ozdravi.
14 Earnestly seek 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!
15 carefully observing lest any of you fail of attaining the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and by it 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,
16 lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of bread parted with his birthrights.
da tko ne postane bludnik ili svetogrdnik kao Ezav, koji za jedan jedini obrok proda svoje prvorodstvo.
17 For ye know, that when afterwards he wished to inherit the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place for a change of his father’s mind, though he sought it earnestly 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.
18 For ye have not approached the mountain that could only be groped for, and that burned with fire, and the thick cloud, and the darkness, and the tempest,
Jer niste pristupili opipljivoj gori i usplamtjelu ognju, ni mraku, tami i vihoru,
19 and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words, which they who heard, earnestly begged that the discourse might not be directed to them:
ni ječanju trublje i tutnjavi riječi. - Koji su je slušali, zamoliše da im se više ne govori
20 for they could not bear the charge given, and “If but a beast touch the mountain he shall be stoned, or shot through with a dart:”
jer nisu podnosili naredbe: Ako se ma i živinče dotakne brda, neka se kamenuje!
21 and so terrible was the appearance, that Moses said, I am exceedingly afraid and trembling:
I prizor bijaše tako strašan da Mojsije reče: “Strah me je i dršćem!” -
22 but ye are come unto mount Sion, and to the city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels,
Nego, vi ste pristupili gori Sionu i gradu Boga živoga, Jeruzalemu nebeskom, nebrojenim tisućama anđela, svečanom skupu,
23 and to the general assembly and church of the first-born registered in the heavens, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of just men perfected,
Crkvi prvorođenaca zapisanih na nebu, Bogu, sucu sviju, dusima savršenih pravednika
24 and to Jesus the mediator of the new testament, and to the blood of sprinkling, which speaketh better things than that of Abel.
i Posredniku novog Saveza - Isusu - i krvi škropljeničkoj što snažnije govori od Abelove.
25 Beware that ye reject not him that speaketh: for if they escaped not, who rejected him, that upon earth spake by divine influence, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him who speaks 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.
26 whose voice then shook the earth, but now he hath promised, saying, “Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also the heaven.”
Njegov glas tada zemlju uzdrma, sada pak obećava: Još jednom ja ću potresti ne samo zemlju nego i nebo.
27 Now this word yet once more manifests the removal of the things shaken, as of things formed, that the things not shaken may endure.
Ono “još jednom” pokazuje da će, kao stvoreno, uminuti ono uzdrmano da ostane ono neuzdrmljivo.
28 Wherefore receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, may we hold fast the grace, by which we can offer to God acceptably divine service, with reverence and pious awe:
Zato jer smo primili kraljevstvo neuzdrmljivo, iskazujmo zahvalnost iz koje služimo Bogu kako je njemu milo, s predanjem i strahopoštovanjem.
29 for our God is a devouring fire.
Jer Bog je naš oganj što proždire.
