1 Korinæanima 9
1 Nijesam li ja apostol? Nijesam li sam svoj? Ne vidjeh li ja Isusa Hrista, Gospoda našega? Nijeste li vi djelo moje u Gospodu?
Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not you my work in the Lord?
2 Ako drugima i nijesam apostol, ali vama jesam, jer ste vi peèat mojega apostolstva u Gospodu.
If I be not an apostle to others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of my apostleship are you in the Lord.
3 Moj odgovor onima koji me uspitaju ovo je:
My answer to them that do examine me is this,
4 Eda li nemamo vlasti jesti i piti?
Have we not power to eat and to drink?
5 Eda li nemamo vlasti sestru ženu voditi, kao i ostali apostoli, i braæa Gospodnja, i Kifa?
Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
6 Ili jedan ja i Varnava nemamo vlasti ovo èiniti?
Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?
7 Ko vojuje kad o svome trošku? Ili ko sadi vinograd i od rodova njegovijeh da ne jede? Ili ko pase stado i od mlijeka stada da ne jede?
Who goes a warfare any time at his own charges? who plants a vineyard, and eats not of the fruit thereof? or who feeds a flock, and eats not of the milk of the flock?
8 Eda li ovo govorim po èovjeku? Ne govori li ovo i zakon?
Say I these things as a man? or says not the law the same also?
9 Jer je u Mojsijevu zakonu napisano: da ne zavežeš usta volu koji vrše. Eda li se Bog brine za volove?
For it is written in the law of Moses, You shall not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treads out the corn. Does God take care for oxen?
10 Ili govori jamaèno za nas? Jer se za nas napisa: koji ore treba u nadanju da ore; i koji vrše u nadanju da æe dobiti od onoga što vrše.
Or says he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that plows should plow in hope; and that he that threshes in hope should be partaker of his hope.
11 Kada mi vama duhovna sijasmo, je li to što veliko ako mi vama tjelesna požnjemo?
If we have sown to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
12 Kad se drugi miješaju u vašu vlast, akamoli da ne bi mi? Ali ne uèinismo po vlasti ovoj nego sve trpimo da ne uèinimo kake smetnje jevanðelju Hristovu.
If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.
13 Ne znate li da oni koji èine svetu službu od svetinje se hrane? i koji oltaru služe s oltarom dijele?
Do you not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?
14 Tako i Gospod zapovjedi da oni koji jevanðelje propovijedaju od jevanðelja žive.
Even so has the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.
15 A ja to nijedno ne uèinih. I ne pišem ovo da tako bude za mene; jer bih voljeo umrijeti nego da ko slavu moju uništi.
But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done to me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.
16 Jer ako propovijedam jevanðelje, nema mi hvale: jer mi je za nevolju; i teško meni ako jevanðelja ne propovijedam.
For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid on me; yes, woe is to me, if I preach not the gospel!
17 Ako dakle ovo èinim od svoje volje, platu imam; a ako li èinim za nevolju, služba mi je predata.
For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed to me.
18 Kakva mi je dakle plata? Da propovijedajuæi jevanðelje uèinim bez plate jevanðelje Hristovo, da ne èinim po svojoj vlasti u propovijedanju jevanðelja.
What is my reward then? Truly that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.
19 Jer premda sam slobodan od sviju, svima sebe uèinih robom, da ih više pridobijem.
For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant to all, that I might gain the more.
20 Jevrejima sam bio kao Jevrejin da Jevreje pridobijem; onima koji su pod zakonom bio sam kao pod zakonom, da pridobijem one koji su pod zakonom;
And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;
21 Onima koji su bez zakona bio sam kao bez zakona, premda nijesam Bogu bez zakona nego sam u zakonu Hristovu, da pridobijem one koji su bez zakona.
To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ, ) that I might gain them that are without law.
22 Slabima bio sam kao slab, da slabe pridobijem; svima sam bio sve, da kakogod spasem koga.
To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
23 A ovo èinim za jevanðelje, da bih imao dijel u njemu.
And this I do for the gospel’s sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.
24 Ne znate li da oni što trèe na trku, svi trèe, a jedan dobije dar? Tako trèite da dobijete.
Know you not that they which run in a race run all, but one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain.
25 Svaki pak koji se bori od svega se uzdržava: oni dakle da dobiju raspadljiv vijenac, a mi neraspadljiv.
And every man that strives for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
26 Ja dakle tako trèim, ne kao na nepouzdano; tako se borim, ne kao onaj koji bije vjetar;
I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beats the air:
27 Nego morim tijelo svoje i trudim da kako sam drugima propovijedajuæi izbaèen ne budem.
But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
