Jevrejima 12
1 Zato dakle i mi imajuæi oko sebe toliku gomilu svjedoka, da odbacimo svako breme i grijeh koji je za nas prionuo, i s trpljenjem da trèimo u bitku koja nam je odreðena,
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,
2 Gledajuæi na naèelnika vjere i svršitelja Isusa, koji mjesto odreðene sebi radosti pretrplje krst, ne mareæi za sramotu, i sjede s desne strane prijestola Božijega.
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.
3 Pomislite dakle na onoga koji je takovo protivljenje protiv sebe od grješnika podnio, da ne oslabe duše vaše i da vam ne dotuži.
For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.
4 Jer još do krvi ne doðoste boreæi se protiv grijeha,
You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin.
5 I zaboraviste utjehu koju vam govori, kao sinovima: sine moj! ne puštaj u nemar karanja Gospodnja, niti gubi volje kad te on pokara;
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;
6 Jer koga ljubi Gospod onoga i kara; a bije svakoga sina kojega prima.
for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”
7 Ako trpite karanje, kao sinovima pokazuje vam se Bog: jer koji je sin kojega otac ne kara?
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?
8 Ako li ste bez karanja, u kojemu svi dijel dobiše, daklem ste kopilad, a ne sinovi.
But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then you are illegitimate, and not children.
9 Ako su nam dakle tjelesni ocevi naši karaèi, i bojimo ih se, kako da ne slušamo oca duhova, da živimo?
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?
10 Jer oni za malo dana, kako im ugodno bješe, karahu nas; a ovaj na korist, da dobijemo dijel od njegove svetinje.
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.
11 Jer svako karanje kad biva ne èini se da je radost, nego žalost; ali poslije daæe miran rod pravde onima koji su nauèeni njime.
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.
12 Zato oslabljene ruke i oslabljena koljena ispravite,
Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,
13 I staze poravnite nogama svojima, da ne svrne što je hromo, nego još da se iscijeli.
and make straight paths for your feet, so what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
14 Mir imajte i svetinju sa svima; bez ovoga niko neæe vidjeti Gospoda.
Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,
15 Gledajte da ko ne ostane bez blagodati Božije: da ne uzraste kakav korijen grèine, i ne uèini pakost, i tijem da se mnogi ne opogane.
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,
16 Da ne bude ko kurvar ili opoganjen, kao Isav, koji je za jedno jelo dao prvorodstvo svoje.
lest there be any sexually immoral person or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.
17 Jer znate da je i potom, kad šæaše da primi blagoslov, odbaèen; jer pokajanje ne naðe mjesta, ako ga i sa suzama tražaše.
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.
18 Jer ne pristupiste ka gori koja se može opipati, i ognju razgorjelom, oblaku, i pomrèini, i oluji,
For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,
19 I trubnom glasu, i glasu rijeèi, kojega se odrekoše oni koji èuše, da ne èuju više rijeèi;
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,
20 Jer ne mogahu da podnesu ono što se zapovijedaše: ako se i zvijer dotakne do gore, biæe kamenjem ubijena.
for they could not stand that which was commanded, “If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned”.
21 I tako strašno bješe ono što se vidje da Mojsije reèe: uplašio sam se i drkæem.
So fearful was the appearance that Moses said, “I am terrified and trembling.”
22 Nego pristupiste k Sionskoj gori, i ka gradu Boga živoga, Jerusalimu nebeskome, i mnogijem hiljadama anðela,
But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,
23 K saboru i crkvi prvorodnijeh koji su napisani na nebesima, i Bogu, sudiji sviju, i duhovima savršenijeh pravednika,
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,
24 I k Isusu, posredniku zavjeta novoga, i krvi kropljenja, koja bolje govori negoli Aveljeva.
to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.
25 Ali gledajte da se ne odreèete onoga koji govori; jer kad oni ne utekoše koji se odrekoše onoga koji prorokovaše na zemlji, akamoli mi koji se odrièemo nebeskoga,
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,
26 Kojega glas potrese onda zemlju, a sad obeæa govoreæi: još jednom ja æu potresti ne samo zemlju nego i nebo.
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.”
27 A što veli: još jednom, pokazuje da æe se ukinuti ono što se pomièe, kao stvoreno, da ostane ono što se ne pomièe.
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.
28 Zato, primajuæi carstvo nepokolebano, da imamo blagodat kojom služimo za ugodnost Bogu, s poštovanjem i sa strahom.
Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let’s have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,
29 Jer je Bog naš oganj koji spaljuje.
for our God is a consuming fire.
