2 Corinthians 11
1 I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.
O kad biste podnijeli nešto malo bezumlja mojega! Da, podnesite me!
2 For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
Ljubomoran sam doista na vas Božjim ljubomorom: ta zaručih vas s jednim mužem, kao čistu djevicu privedoh vas Kristu.
3 But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the sincerity and purity that is in Christ.
Ali se bojim da se - kao što zmija zavede Evu svojom lukavštinom - misli vaše ne pokvare i odmetnu od iskrenosti prema Kristu.
4 For if he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or if you receive a different spirit, which you did not receive, or a different "good news", which you did not accept, you put up with that well enough.
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.
5 For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.
Smatram, eto, da ni u čemu nisam manji od “nadapostola”.
6 Even though I am unskilled in speech, I am not unskilled in knowledge. But in every way we have made this known to you in all things.
Jer ako sam i nevješt u govoru, nisam u znanju; naprotiv, u svemu vam ga i pred svima očitovasmo.
7 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?
Ili sam grijeh počinio što sam vam - ponizujući sebe da se vi uzvisite - besplatno navješćivao Božje evanđelje?
8 I robbed other churches, taking wages from them that I might serve you.
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.
9 When I was present with you and was in need, I was not 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.
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.
10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
Istine mi Kristove u meni, ove mi hvale nitko neće oduzeti u ahajskim krajevima.
11 Why? Because I do not love you? God knows.
Zašto? Jer vas ne ljubim? Bog znade!
12 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.
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.
13 For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ's apostles.
Jer takvi su ljudi lažni apostoli, himbeni radnici, prerušuju se u apostole Kristove.
14 And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.
I nikakvo čudo! Ta sam se Sotona prerušuje u anđela svjetla.
15 It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
Ništa osobito dakle ako se i službenici njegovi prerušuju u službenike pravednosti. Svršetak će im biti po djelima njihovim.
16 I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little.
Opet velim: da me tko ne bi smatrao bezumnim! Uostalom, primite me makar i kao bezumna da se i ja nešto malo pohvalim.
17 That which I speak, I do not speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.
Što govorim, ne govorim po Gospodnju, nego kao u bezumlju, u ovoj hvalisavoj smionosti.
18 Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast.
Budući da se mnogi hvale po ljudsku, i ja ću se hvaliti.
19 For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise.
Ta rado podnosÄite bezumne, vi umni!
20 For you put up with it if someone makes slaves of you, if someone exploits you, if someone takes advantage of you, if someone exalts himself, if someone strikes you on the face.
Da, podnosÄite ako vas tko zarobljava, ako vas tko proždire, ako tko otima, ako se tko uznosi, ako vas tko po obrazu bije.
21 I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet however any is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.
Na sramotu govorim: bili smo, biva, slabi! Ipak, čime se god tko osmjeljuje - u bezumlju govorim - osmjeljujem se i ja!
22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I.
Hebreji su? I ja sam! Izraelci su? I ja sam! Potomstvo su Abrahamovo? I ja sam!
23 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, in deaths often.
Poslužitelji su Kristovi? Kao mahnit govorim: ja još više! U naporima - preobilno; u tamnicama - preobilno; u batinama - prekomjerno; u smrtnim pogiblima - često.
24 Five times from the Jews I received forty stripes minus one.
Od Židova primio sam pet puta po četrdeset manje jednu.
25 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.
Triput sam bio šiban, jednom kamenovan, triput doživio brodolom, jednu noć i dan proveo sam u bezdanu.
26 I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from those who are not Jews, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;
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;
27 in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
u trudu i naporu, često u nespavanju, u gladu i žeđi, često u postovima, u studeni i golotinji!
28 Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily, anxiety for all the churches.
Osim toga, uz drugo, salijetanje svakodnevno, briga za sve crkve.
29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I do not burn with indignation?
Tko je slab, a ja da ne budem slab? Tko se sablažnjuje, a ja da ne izgaram?
30 If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.
Treba li se hvaliti, svojom ću se slabošću hvaliti.
31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed forevermore, knows that I do not lie. (aiōn g165)
Bog i Otac Gospodina Isusa, blagoslovljen u vijeke, zna da ne lažem. (aiōn g165)
32 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king guarded the city of the Damascenes, desiring to arrest me.
U Damasku namjesnik kralja Arete čuvaše grad damaščanski hoteći me uhvatiti.
33 Through a window I was let down in a basket by the wall, and escaped his hands.
Ali kroz prozor spustiše me u košari preko zida te umakoh njegovim rukama.
