1 Corinthians 4
1 So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants and stewards of God’s mysteries.
Tako da nas drže ljudi kao sluge Hristove i pristave tajna Božijeh.
2 Here, moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.
A od pristava se ne traži više ništa, nego da se ko vjeran naðe.
3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by a human court. Yes, I don’t even judge my own self.
A ja malo marim što me sudite vi ili èovjeèij dan; a ni sam sebe ne sudim.
4 For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.
Jer ne znam ništa na sebi; no za to nijesam opravdan, ali onaj koji mene sudi Gospod je.
5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.
Zato ne sudite ništa prije vremena, dokle Gospod ne doðe, koji æe iznijeti na vidjelo što je sakriveno u tami i objaviæe savjete srdaène, i tada æe pohvala biti svakome od Boga.
6 Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.
A ovo, braæo moja, prigovorih sebi i Apolu vas radi, da se od nas nauèite da ne mislite za sebe više nego što je napisano, i da se koga radi ne nadimate jedan na drugoga.
7 For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?
Jer ko tebe povišuje? Šta li imaš što nijesi primio? A ako si primio, što se hvališ kao da nijesi primio?
8 You are already filled. You have already become rich. You have come to reign without us. Yes, and I wish that you did reign, that we also might reign with you!
Eto ste siti, eto se obogatiste, bez nas carujete. O da biste carovali, da bismo i mi s vama carovali!
9 For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.
Jer mislim da Bog nas apostole najstražnje postavi, kao one koji su na smrt osuðeni; jer bismo gledanje i svijetu i anðelima i ljudima.
10 We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.
Mi smo budale Hrista radi, a vi ste mudri u Hristu; mi slabi, a vi jaki; vi slavni, a mi sramotni.
11 Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.
Do ovoga èasa i gladujemo, i trpimo žeðu, i golotinju, i muke, i potucamo se,
12 We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.
I trudimo se radeæi svojijem rukama. Kad nas psuju, blagosiljamo; kad nas gone, trpimo;
13 Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.
Kad hule na nas, molimo; postasmo kao smetlište svijeta, po kojemu svi gaze dosad.
14 I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
Ne pišem ja ovo da posramim vas, nego vas uèim kao svoju ljubaznu djecu.
15 For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, you don’t have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.
Jer ako imate i trista uèitelja u Hristu, ali nemate mnogo otaca. Jer vas ja u Hristu Isusu rodih jevanðeljem.
16 I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.
Nego vas molim, ugledajte se na mene kao i ja na Hrista.
17 Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.
Zato poslah k vama Timotija, koji mi je sin ljubazni i vjerni u Gospodu; on æe vam opomenuti putove moje koji su u Hristu Isusu, kao što svuda i u svakoj crkvi uèim.
18 Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.
Neki se naduše kao da ja neæu doæi k vama.
19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is willing. And I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.
Ali æu vam doæi skoro, ako Bog da, i neæu gledati na rijeèi onijeh što su se naduli, nego na silu.
20 For God’s Kingdom is not in word, but in power.
Jer carstvo Božije nije u rijeèi nego u sili.
21 What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?
Šta hoæete? da doðem k vama s prutom ili s ljubavi i duhom krotosti?
