Hebrews 12
1 Seeing, therefore, that there is on every side of us such a throng of witnesses, let us also lay aside everything that hinders us, and the sin that clings about us, and run with patient endurance the race that lies before us,
Zato vidite, ker smo tudi mi obdani naokoli s tako velikim oblakom pričevalcev, odložimo vsako breme in greh, ki nas tako z lahkoto pesti in s potrpežljivostjo tecimo tekmo, ki je postavljena pred nas;
2 our eyes fixed on Jesus, the leader and perfect example of our faith, who, for the joy that lay before him, endured the cross, heedless of its shame, and now ‘has taken his seat at the right hand’ of the throne of God.
glejmo k Jezusu, avtorju in dopolnitelju naše vere; ki je zaradi radosti, ki je bila postavljena predenj, pretrpel križ in preziral sramoto in je posedèn na desnico Božjega prestola.
3 Weigh well the example of him who had to endure such opposition from ‘people who were sinning against themselves,’ so that you should not grow weary or faint-hearted.
Kajti razmislite vendar o tistem, ki je prestal takšno nasprotovanje grešnikov proti sebi, da ne bi bili vi utrujeni in oslabeli v svojih umih.
4 You have not yet, in your struggle with sin, resisted to the death;
Niste se še do krvi uprli v boju zoper greh.
5 and you have forgotten the encouraging words which are addressed to you as God’s children – ‘My child, think not lightly of the Lord’s discipline, do not despond when he rebukes you;
In pozabili ste na spodbujanje, ki vam govori kakor otrokom: »Moj sin, ne preziraj Gospodovega karanja niti ne izgubljaj poguma, kadar te ošteva;
6 For it is him whom he loves that he disciplines, and he chastises every child whom he acknowledges.’
kajti kogar Gospod ljubi, strogo vzgaja, in biča vsakega sina, ki ga sprejema.«
7 It is for your discipline that you have to endure all this. God is dealing with you as his children. For where is there a child whom his father does not discipline?
Če ste prestali vzgojo, Bog z vami ravna kakor s sinovi; kajti kakšen sin je ta, ki ga oče ne bi strogo vzgajal?
8 If you are left without that discipline, in which all children share, it shows that you are bastards, and not true children.
Toda če ste brez vzgoje, česar so vsi soudeleženi, potem ste nezakonski otroci, ne pa sinovi.
9 Further, when our earthly fathers disciplined us, we respected them. Should we not, then, much rather yield submission to the Father of souls, and live?
Nadalje smo imeli očete svojega mesa, ki so nas vzgajali in smo jim dali spoštovanje. Mar ne bomo veliko raje v podrejenosti Očetu duhov in živeli?
10 Our fathers disciplined us for only a short time and as seemed best to them; but God disciplines us for our true good, to enable us to share his holiness.
Kajti oni so nas resnično strogo vzgajali za nekaj dni, po svoji lastni volji; toda on za našo korist, da mi lahko postanemo soudeleženci njegove svetosti.
11 No discipline is pleasant at the time; on the contrary, it is painful. But afterward its fruit is seen in the peacefulness of a righteous life which is the lot of those who have been trained under it.
Torej nobeno opominjanje zaenkrat ni videti, da bi bilo veselo, temveč bridko. Kljub temu potem obrodi miren sad pravičnosti v teh, ki so z njim izurjeni.
12 Therefore ‘lift again the down-dropped hands and straighten the weakened knees;
Zatorej dvignite roke, ki visijo in slabotna kolena;
13 make straight paths for your feet,’ so that the lame limb may not be put out of joint, but rather be cured.
in naredite ravne steze za svoja stopala, da se ne bi to, kar šepa, obrnilo proč s poti, temveč naj bo raje ozdravljeno.
14 Try earnestly to live at peace with everyone, and to attain to that purity without which no one will see the Lord.
Prizadevajte si za mir z vsemi ljudmi in svetost, brez katere noben človek ne bo videl Gospoda.
15 Take care that no one fails to use the loving help of God, ‘that no bitterness is allowed to take root and spring up, and cause trouble,’ and so poison the whole community.
Marljivo zrite, da ne bi katerikoli človek padel od Božje milosti; da vas ne bi zbegala nobena korenina grenkobe, ki poganja in bi bili z njo mnogi omadeževani;
16 Take care that no one becomes immoral, or irreligious like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal.
da ne bi bilo nobenega prešuštvovalca ali oskrunjene osebe, kakor Ezav, ki je za en košček hrane prodal pravico svojega prvorojenstva.
17 For you know that even afterward, when he wished to claim his father’s blessing, he was rejected – for he never found an opportunity to repair his error – though he begged for the blessing with tears.
Kajti veste, kako je bil potem, ko je želel podedovati blagoslov, zavrnjen; kajti ni našel nobenega prostora za kesanje, čeprav ga je skrbno iskal s solzami.
18 It is not to tangible ‘flaming fire’ that you have drawn near, nor to ‘gloom, and darkness, and storm,
Kajti niste prišli h gori, ki se jo lahko dotakne in ki gori z ognjem in niti k črnosti in ne temi in ne viharju
19 and the blast of a trumpet, and an audible voice.’ Those who heard that voice entreated that they might hear no more,
in ne donenju trobente in ne glasu besed; katerega glas so tisti, ki so poslušali, rotili, da jim beseda ne bi bila več izgovorjena.
20 for they could not bear to think of the command – ‘If even an animal touches the mountain, it is to be stoned to death;’
(Kajti niso mogli prenesti tega, kar je bilo ukazano: »In če se žival komaj dotakne gore, naj bo kamnana ali prebodena s puščico.«
21 and so fearful was the sight that Moses said – ‘I tremble with fear.’
In prizor je bil tako strašen, da je Mojzes rekel: »Silno se bojim in tresem.«)
22 No, but it is to Mount Zion that you have drawn near, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to countless hosts of angels,
Toda vi ste prišli h gori Sion in k mestu živega Boga, nebeškemu Jeruzalemu in k nepreštevni angelski druščini,
23 to the festal gathering and assemblage of God’s firstborn whose names are enrolled in heaven, to God the judge of all people, to the spirits of the righteous who have attained perfection,
h glavnemu zboru in cerkvi prvorojenih, ki so zapisani v nebesih in k Bogu, Sodniku vseh in k duhovom pravičnih ljudi, ki so dosegli popolnost
24 to Jesus, the intermediary of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that tells of better things than the blood of Abel.
in k Jezusu, posredniku nove zaveze in h krvi škropljenja, ki govori boljše stvari kakor ta od Abela.
25 Beware how you refuse to hear him who is speaking. For, if the Israelites did not escape punishment, when they refused to listen to him who taught them on earth the divine will, far worse will it be for us, if we turn away from him who is teaching us from heaven.
Glejte, da ne zavrnete tistega, ki govori. Kajti če niso ušli tisti, ki so zavrnili tistega, ki je govoril na zemlji, koliko bolj ne bomo ušli mi, če se odvrnemo od tistega, ki govori iz nebes;
26 Then his voice shook the earth, but now his declaration is – ‘Still once more I will cause not only the earth to tremble, but also the heavens.’
katerega glas je takrat stresel zemljo; toda sedaj je obljubil, rekoč: »Še enkrat stresem, ne samo zemljo, temveč tudi nebo.«
27 And those words ‘still once more’ indicate the passing away of all that is shaken – that is, of all created things – in order that only what is unshaken may remain.
In ta beseda: »Še enkrat, « pomeni odstranitev tistih stvari, ki so lahko stresene, kakor od stvari, ki so narejene, da te stvari, ki ne morejo biti stresene, lahko ostanejo.
28 Therefore, let us, who have received a kingdom that cannot be shaken, be thankful, and so offer acceptable worship to God, with awe and the deepest respect.
Zaradi tega mi, ki prejemamo kraljestvo, ki ne more biti omajano, imejmo milost, s katero lahko sprejemljivo služimo Bogu, s spoštovanjem in bogaboječim strahom.
29 For our God is ‘a consuming fire.’
Kajti naš Bog je požirajoč ogenj.
