1 Korinæanima 1
1 Od Pavla, voljom Božijom pozvanoga apostola Isusa Hrista, i od Sostena brata,
I, Paul, [am writing this letter]. Sosthenes, our fellow believer, is with [me as I write it]. [God] appointed me to be an apostle of Christ Jesus because that is what God desired.
2 Crkvi Božijoj koja je u Korintu, osveæenima u Hristu Isusu, pozvanima svetima, sa svima koji prizivlju ime Gospoda našega Isusa Hrista na svakome mjestu i njihovome i našemu:
[I am sending this letter] to all you who are God’s believers in Corinth [city]. You have been set apart [by God] {[God] has set you apart} for himself because (of your close relationship with/you belong to) Christ Jesus. God has appointed you to be his people and to live in a morally pure way, just like he has appointed all the people everywhere who belong to him to live in a morally pure way. You and they have trusted in the Lord Jesus Christ [MTY]. He is their sovereign Lord as well as the sovereign Lord of all of us [(inc)] who have trusted in him.
3 Blagodat vam i mir od Boga oca našega i Gospoda Isusa Hrista.
We [(exc)] desire that God, who is our [heavenly] Father, and Jesus Christ, who is our sovereign Lord, will continue to act kindly toward you and cause you to experience [inner] peace.
4 Zahvaljujem svagda Bogu svojemu za vas što vam je dana blagodat Božija u Hristu Isusu,
I very often [HYP] thank God for you because he has acted toward you kindly, acting in ways that you do not deserve. He has done this because of your (having a close relationship with/being united to) Christ Jesus.
5 Te se u svemu obogatiste kroza nj, u svakoj rijeèi i svakom razumu,
That is, [God] has [HYP] helped you spiritually very much because of your (having a close relationship with/being united to) Christ. Specifically, God has very much [HYP] enabled you to speak messages [that his Spirit revealed to you], and he has very much enabled you to know many things [HYP] that his Spirit revealed to you.
6 Kao što se svjedoèanstvo Hristovo utvrdi meðu vama;
In that way, [he] confirmed to you that what we [(exc)] proclaimed about Christ is true.
7 Tako da nemate nedostatka ni u jednome daru, vi koji èekate otkrivenja Gospoda našega Isusa Hrista,
As a result, while you wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to return, within your group you truly have [LIT] every ability that [God’s] Spirit gives [to believers].
8 Koji æe vas i utvrditi do samoga kraja da budete pravi na dan Gospoda našega Isusa Hrista.
God will also cause you to steadfastly [trust Christ to the very end of your lives] [EUP]. The result will be that God will not consider you guilty [of any sin] when our Lord Jesus Christ returns to earth [MTY].
9 Vjeran je Bog koji vas pozva u zajednicu sina svojega Isusa Hrista Gospoda našega.
You can depend on God to do that. He is the one who chose you to become intimately associated with his Son, Jesus Christ, who is our Lord.
10 Molim vas pak, braæo, imenom Gospoda našega Isusa Hrista da svi jedno govorite, i da ne budu meðu vama raspre, nego da budete utvrðeni u jednom razumu i u jednoj misli.
My fellow believers, by the authority of [MTY] our Lord Jesus Christ, I urgently appeal to all of you to agree with one another. What I mean is, stop dividing into groups. Instead, be united [MET] concerning what you understand [about spiritual matters], and be united in what you decide.
11 Jer sam èuo za vas, braæo moja, od Hlojinijeh domašnjijeh da su svaðe meðu vama,
My fellow believers, [I urge this] because some members of Chloe’s household have told me that you are quarreling among yourselves.
12 A to kažem da jedan od vas govori: ja sam Pavlov; a drugi: ja sam Apolov; a treæi: ja sam Kifin; a èetvrti: ja sam Hristov.
That is, some of you say, “Paul is the one to whom we [are loyal],” and others say, “Peter is the one to whom we [are loyal],” and still others say, “Christ is the one to whom we [are loyal].”
13 Eda li se Hristos razdijeli? Eda li se Pavle razape za vas? ili se u ime Pavlovo krstiste?
[It is ridiculous that] [RHQ] [you are quarreling and] dividing up [into groups instead of being loyal to] Christ alone. Christ certainly has not divided himself into parts and distributed those parts out [to groups of people who oppose each other]! [MET, RHQ] I, Paul, certainly did not die on the cross for you! [RHQ] When you were baptized {When someone baptized you}, you certainly did not promise that you were submitting to me! [RHQ]
14 Hvala Bogu što ja nijednoga od vas ne krstih osim Krispa i Gaja;
I thank [God] that Crispus and Gaius were the only ones from among you whom I baptized.
15 Da ne reèe ko da u svoje ime krstih.
As a result, no one [there in Corinth except those two] can say, “Paul baptized me so that I would become (his disciple/submissive to him).”
16 A krstih i Stefanin dom: dalje ne znam jesam li koga drugog krstio.
[Now I remember that] I also baptized the household of Stephanas, but I do not remember baptizing anyone else [there].
17 Jer Hristos ne posla mene da krstim, nego da propovijedam jevanðelje, ne premudrijem rijeèima, da ne izgubi silu krst Hristov.
Christ sent me not [primarily] to baptize people but to preach the good message about him. When I do that, he does not want me to use words that human philosophers [consider] wise [IRO]. I do not want the message about [what] he [accomplished when he was nailed to] the cross [MTY] to lose its power.
18 Jer je rijeè krstova ludost onima koji ginu; a nama je koji se spasavamo sila Božija.
Those who are perishing spiritually [because they do not believe that message consider] that the message [about what Christ accomplished when he was nailed to the] cross [MTY] [is] foolish. But to us who are being saved {whom [God] is saving} [spiritually because we believe that message], it [demonstrates that] God acts powerfully [in order to save us].
19 Jer je pisano: pogubiæu premudrost premudrijeh, i razum razumnijeh odbaciæu.
[It is like what God said that] a prophet wrote long ago, [By the things that I will do], I will show that the ideas of those who [think] [IRO] they are wise are completely useless. I will ignore the ideas that they think are [IRO] so smart.
20 Gdje je premudri? Gdje je književnik? Gdje je prepiraè ovoga vijeka? Ne pretvori li Bog mudrost ovoga svijeta u ludost? (aiōn g165)
So, do you know [what God thinks] about what [RHQ] people who [IRO] consider themselves to be wise and scholars and philosophers say? [He does not pay attention to what they say, because] [RHQ] he has shown clearly that what unbelievers [think is] [IRO] wise is [not wise at all], but is really foolish. (aiōn g165)
21 Jer buduæi da u premudrosti Božijoj ne pozna svijet premudrošæu Boga, bila je Božija volja da ludošæu pouèenja spase one koji vjeruju.
God, acting very wisely, made it impossible for unbelievers to know God by doing what they thought was [IRO] wise. Instead, he was happy to save those who trust [in Christ] as the result of their hearing [the message that] was proclaimed to them, a message that others consider to be foolish.
22 Jer i Jevreji znake ištu, i Grci premudrosti traže.
The Jews want [people to prove, by performing] miracles, [that their message is true]. The non-Jews want to hear only messages consisting of talk that they consider to be very wise.
23 A mi propovijedamo Hrista razapeta, Jevrejima dakle sablazan a Grcima bezumlje;
As for us, we proclaim [the message about what] Christ [accomplished for us when] he was nailed {[when they] nailed him} to the cross. That message offends Jews [because they do not think that the Messiah will die, and] non-Jews think it is [IRO] a foolish message.
24 Onima pak koji su pozvani, i Jevrejima i Grcima, Hrista, Božiju silu i Božiju premudrost.
But to us whom God has chosen to belong to himself, both Jews and non-Jews, that message shows that God acted powerfully and wisely [by sending] Christ [to die] for us.
25 Jer je ludost Božija mudrija od ljudi, i slabost je Božija jaèa od ljudi.
[Unbelievers may think] [IRO] [that] God was [acting] foolishly [by doing that], but [the truth is that] he was acting more wisely than unbelievers who [just think that] [IRO] they are wise. And unbelievers may think that God was [acting] weakly [by sending his son to die], but he was acting more powerfully than unbelievers who [just think] [IRO] [that they] act powerfully.
26 Jer pogledajte znanje svoje, braæo, da nema ni mnogo premudrijeh po tijelu, ni mnogo silnijeh ni mnogo plemenitijeh;
My fellow believers, remember what [kind of people you] were when God chose you. [Not many of you] whom he chose are people whom [unbelievers considered to be] wise. Very few of you were considered to be important. Very few of you came from families with a high social standing.
27 Nego što je ludo pred svijetom ono izabra Bog da posrami premudre; i što je slabo pred svijetom ono izabra Bog da posrami jako;
Instead, it was [usually] those whom [unbelievers considered to be] foolish whom God chose. He did that in order to shame/discredit those whom [unbelievers consider] [IRO] wise. It was [usually] those [whom unbelievers] considered [IRO] unimportant whom God chose, in order to shame/discredit those whom unbelievers consider important.
28 I što je neplemenito pred svijetom i uništeno izabra Bog, i što nije, da uništi ono što jest,
It was usually those who are despised and considered {whom [unbelievers] despise and consider} worthless whom God chose, in order to make completely ineffective [what unbelievers consider to be important].
29 Da se ne pohvali nijedno tijelo pred Bogom.
[He did that] in order that no one could boast to God about being wise or important.
30 Iz kojega ste vi u Hristu Isusu, koji nam posta premudrost od Boga i pravda i osveæenje i izbavljenje.
It is because of what God [has done] that you (have a close relationship with/belong to) Christ Jesus. God [put into effect] his wise [plan to save us] by what Christ did for us. As a result of what Christ did, God erases the record of our sins, sets us apart for himself, and frees us from our being guilty [for our sins].
31 Da kao što se piše) ko se hvali, Gospodom da se hvali.
So, it is the Lord whom we should boast about, [not about one spiritual leader being better than another]. We should do as ([a prophet/Jeremiah]) wrote [in the Scriptures that we should do]: Those who boast should boast [only] about what the Lord [has done].
