Hebrews 12
1 Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set 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 looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has 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 For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.
Doista pomno promotrite njega, koji podnese toliko protivljenje grešnika protiv sebe, da - premoreni - ne klonete duhom.
4 You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin.
Ta još se do krvi ne oduprijeste u borbi protiv grijeha.
5 You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;
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 loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”
Jer koga Gospodin ljubi, onoga i stegom odgaja, šiba sina koga voli.
7 It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?
Poradi vašega odgajanja trpite. Bog s vama postupa kao sa sinovima: a ima li koji sin kojega otac stegom ne odgaja?
8 But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then you are illegitimate, and not children.
Pa ako niste pod stegom, na kojoj su svi imali udjela, onda ste kopilad, a ne djeca.
9 Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in 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 disciplined us as seemed good to them, but he for our profit, that we may 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 All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
Isprva se doduše čini da nijedno odgajanje nije radost, nego žalost, ali onima koji su njime uvježbani poslije donosi mironosni plod pravednosti.
12 Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,
Zato uspravite ruke klonule i koljena klecava,
13 and make straight paths for your feet, so what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
poravnite staze za noge svoje da se hromo ne iščaši, nego, štoviše, da ozdravi.
14 Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,
Nastojte oko mira sa svima! I oko posvećenja bez kojega nitko neće vidjeti Gospodina!
15 looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you and many be defiled by it,
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 sexually immoral person or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.
da tko ne postane bludnik ili svetogrdnik kao Ezav, koji za jedan jedini obrok proda svoje prvorodstvo.
17 For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently 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 you have not come to a mountain that might be touched and that burnt with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,
Jer niste pristupili opipljivoj gori i usplamtjelu ognju, ni mraku, tami i vihoru,
19 the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them,
ni ječanju trublje i tutnjavi riječi. - Koji su je slušali, zamoliše da im se više ne govori
20 for they could not stand that which was commanded, “If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned”.
jer nisu podnosili naredbe: Ako se ma i živinče dotakne brda, neka se kamenuje!
21 So fearful was the appearance that Moses said, “I am terrified and trembling.”
I prizor bijaše tako strašan da Mojsije reče: “Strah me je i dršćem!” -
22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,
Nego, vi ste pristupili gori Sionu i gradu Boga živoga, Jeruzalemu nebeskom, nebrojenim tisućama anđela, svečanom skupu,
23 to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,
Crkvi prvorođenaca zapisanih na nebu, Bogu, sucu sviju, dusima savršenih pravednika
24 to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.
i Posredniku novog Saveza - Isusu - i krvi škropljeničkoj što snažnije govori od Abelove.
25 See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns 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 shook the earth then, but now he has promised, saying, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens.”
Njegov glas tada zemlju uzdrma, sada pak obećava: Još jednom ja ću potresti ne samo zemlju nego i nebo.
27 This phrase, “Yet once more” signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain.
Ono “još jednom” pokazuje da će, kao stvoreno, uminuti ono uzdrmano da ostane ono neuzdrmljivo.
28 Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let’s have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and 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 consuming fire.
Jer Bog je naš oganj što proždire.
