1 Corinthians 9
1 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?
Nijesam li ja apostol? Nijesam li sam svoj? Ne vidjeh li ja Isusa Hrista, Gospoda našega? Nijeste li vi djelo moje u Gospodu?
2 If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my office of apostle in the Lord.
Ako drugima i nijesam apostol, ali vama jesam, jer ste vi peèat mojega apostolstva u Gospodu.
3 My defense to those who examine me is this.
Moj odgovor onima koji me uspitaju ovo je:
4 Have we no right to eat and to drink?
Eda li nemamo vlasti jesti i piti?
5 Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
Eda li nemamo vlasti sestru ženu voditi, kao i ostali apostoli, i braæa Gospodnja, i Kifa?
6 Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?
Ili jedan ja i Varnava nemamo vlasti ovo èiniti?
7 What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and does not eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and does not drink from the flock's milk?
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?
8 Do I say these things according to human authority? Or does not the Law also say the same thing?
Eda li ovo govorim po èovjeku? Ne govori li ovo i zakon?
9 For it is written in the Law of Moses, "Do not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain." Is it for the oxen that God cares,
Jer je u Mojsijevu zakonu napisano: da ne zavežeš usta volu koji vrše. Eda li se Bog brine za volove?
10 or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in the hope of having a share.
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.
11 If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?
Kada mi vama duhovna sijasmo, je li to što veliko ako mi vama tjelesna požnjemo?
12 If others partake of this right over you, do not we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the gospel of Messiah.
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.
13 Do you not know that those who serve around sacred things eat from the things of the temple, and those who wait on the altar have their portion with the altar?
Ne znate li da oni koji èine svetu službu od svetinje se hrane? i koji oltaru služe s oltarom dijele?
14 Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the gospel should live from the gospel.
Tako i Gospod zapovjedi da oni koji jevanðelje propovijedaju od jevanðelja žive.
15 But I have used none of these things, and I do not write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.
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.
16 For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast about, because I am compelled to do this. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel.
Jer ako propovijedam jevanðelje, nema mi hvale: jer mi je za nevolju; i teško meni ako jevanðelja ne propovijedam.
17 For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.
Ako dakle ovo èinim od svoje volje, platu imam; a ako li èinim za nevolju, služba mi je predata.
18 What then is my reward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may present the gospel without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the gospel.
Kakva mi je dakle plata? Da propovijedajuæi jevanðelje uèinim bez plate jevanðelje Hristovo, da ne èinim po svojoj vlasti u propovijedanju jevanðelja.
19 For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
Jer premda sam slobodan od sviju, svima sebe uèinih robom, da ih više pridobijem.
20 To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, not being myself under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;
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;
21 to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Messiah), that I might win those who are without law.
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.
22 To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all people, that I may by all means save some.
Slabima bio sam kao slab, da slabe pridobijem; svima sam bio sve, da kakogod spasem koga.
23 Now I do all things for the sake of the gospel, that I may be a joint partaker of it.
A ovo èinim za jevanðelje, da bih imao dijel u njemu.
24 Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.
Ne znate li da oni što trèe na trku, svi trèe, a jedan dobije dar? Tako trèite da dobijete.
25 Now everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
Svaki pak koji se bori od svega se uzdržava: oni dakle da dobiju raspadljiv vijenac, a mi neraspadljiv.
26 I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air,
Ja dakle tako trèim, ne kao na nepouzdano; tako se borim, ne kao onaj koji bije vjetar;
27 but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
Nego morim tijelo svoje i trudim da kako sam drugima propovijedajuæi izbaèen ne budem.
