1 Thessalonians 2
1 For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn’t in vain,
Jer sami znate, braæo, ulazak naš k vama da ne bi uzalud;
2 but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell you the Good News of God in much conflict.
Nego postradavši prije i osramoæeni bivši, kao što znate, u Filibi, oslobodismo se u Bogu svojemu kazivati vama jevanðelje Božije s velikom borbom.
3 For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.
Jer utjeha naša nije od prijevare, ni od neèistote, ni u lukavstvu;
4 But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak—not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.
Nego kako nas okuša Bog da smo vjerni da primimo jevanðelje, tako govorimo, ne kao ljudima ugaðajuæi nego Bogu koji kuša srca naša.
5 For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),
Jer nigda iz laskanja ne govorismo k vama, kao što znate, niti iz uzroka lakomstva: Bog je svjedok;
6 nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.
Niti tražeæi od ljudi slave, ni od vas, ni od drugijeh.
7 But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.
Mogli smo vam biti na dosadu, kao Hristovi apostoli; ali bismo krotki meðu vama, kao što dojilica njeguje svoju djecu.
8 Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.
Tako smo vas rado imali da smo gotovi bili dati vam ne samo jevanðelje Božije, nego i duše svoje, jer ste nam omiljeli.
9 For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.
Jer pamtite, braæo, trud naš i posao: jer dan i noæ radeæi da ne dosadimo nijednome od vas, propovijedasmo vam jevanðelje Božije.
10 You are witnesses with God how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.
Vi ste svjedoci i Bog kako sveti i pravedni i bez krivice bismo vama koji vjerujete,
11 As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,
Kao što znate da svakoga vas kao otac djecu svoju
12 to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.
Molismo i utješavasmo, i svjedoèismo vam da živite kao što se pristoji Bogu, koji vas je prizvao u svoje carstvo i slavu.
13 For this cause we also thank God without ceasing that when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, God’s word, which also works in you who believe.
Toga radi i mi zahvaljujemo Bogu bez prestanka što vi primivši od nas rijeè èuvenja Božijega primiste ne kao rijeè èovjeèiju, nego kao što zaista jest) rijeè Božiju, koja i èini u vama koji vjerujete.
14 For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews
Jer vi, braæo, proðoste kao crkve Božije koje su u Judeji u Hristu Isusu; jer tako i vi postradaste od svojega roda kao i oni od Jevreja,
15 who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and don’t please God, and are contrary to all men,
Koji ubiše i Gospoda Isusa i proroke njegove, i koji nas istjeraše, i Bogu ne ugodiše, i koji se svijem ljudima protive,
16 forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.
I zabranjuju nam kazivati neznabošcima da se spasu; da ispune grijehe svoje svagda; ali napošljetku doðe gnjev na njih.
17 But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short season in presence, not in heart, tried even harder to see your face with great desire,
A mi, braæo, osirotjevši za vama neko vrijeme licem a ne srcem, veæma hiæasmo da vidimo lice vaše s velikom željom.
18 because we wanted to come to you—indeed, I, Paul, once and again—but Satan hindered us.
Zato šæadijasmo da doðemo k vama, ja Pavle jednom i drugom, i zabrani nam sotona.
19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?
Jer ko je naš nad ili radost, ili vijenac slave? Nijeste li i vi pred Gospodom našijem Isusom Hristom o njegovu dolasku?
20 For you are our glory and our joy.
Jer ste vi naša slava i radost.
