Galaćanima 2 – CRO & NIVUK

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Galaćanima 2:1-21

Apostoli prihvaćaju Pavla

1Nakon četrnaest godina vratio sam se u Jeruzalem s Barnabom, a sa sobom sam poveo i Tita. 2Otišao sam onamo jer me je Bog tako uputio objavom. Ondje sam posebno razgovarao s crkvenim vođama. Htio sam da razumiju što propovijedam poganima. Želio sam biti siguran da se oni s time slažu kako moj trud za Gospodina ne bi bio uzaludan. 3Oni su se složili sa mnom. Nisu čak zahtijevali ni da se moj pratilac Tit obreže iako je Grk. 4Ne bi to nitko ni spominjao da ondje nije bilo uljeza, lažne braće koja su vrebala da nam oduzmu našu slobodu u Kristu Isusu. Pokušali su nas učiniti robovima—primorati nas da se držimo židovskih odredbi. 5Ali nismo im ni trenutka popustili. Htjeli smo sačuvati istinu evanđelja među vama.

6A crkveni vođe koji su bili ondje nisu imali što dodati mojemu propovijedanju. (Iako meni nije bilo važno to što su oni vođe jer Bog na to ne gleda.) 7Vidjeli su da mi je Bog povjerio propovijedanje evanđelja poganima, kao što je Petru povjerio da ga propovijeda Židovima. 8Jer onaj koji je kroz Petrovu apostolsku službu djelovao među Židovima djelovao je kroz mene među poganima. 9Jakov, Petar2:9 U grčkome: Kefa. i Ivan, stupovi Crkve, prepoznali su milost koju mi je Bog ukazao i pružili nam desnicu u znak zajedništva: mi ćemo raditi među poganima, a oni među Židovima. 10Jedino su nam rekli da vodimo brigu o siromasima, što sam revno i činio.

Pavao se suprotstavlja Petru

11Ali kad je Petar došao u Antiohiju, pred svima sam mu se usprotivio jer je ono što je učinio zasluživalo osudu. 12Kad je stigao, jeo je s kršćanima nežidovskog podrijetla. No kad su stigli neki Židovi, Jakovljevi prijatelji, nije više htio s njima jesti jer se bojao što će mu reći obrezani. 13Nakon toga su i ostali kršćani židovskog podrijetla, čak i Barnaba, počeli licemjeriti slijedeći Petrov primjer.

14Kad sam vidio da ne slijede istinu evanđelja, rekao sam Petru pred svima: “Kad si ti, Židov po rođenju, prestao izvršavati židovske zakone i živiš poput poganina, kako možeš pogane tjerati da se drže tih zakona? 15Ti i ja rođeni smo kao Židovi, a ne kao ‘grešnici iz poganstva’ koji se ne drže židovskoga Zakona.”

16Pa ipak, mi kršćani židovskog podrijetla znamo da pred Bogom nismo opravdani držimo li se zakonskih odredbi, već vjerom u Isusa Krista. Zato smo uzvjerovali u Krista Isusa, da nas Bog prihvati zbog naše vjere—a ne zato što smo bili poslušni Zakonu. Jer nitko se nikada neće spasiti vršenjem Zakona. 17Ako se zato što smo željeli biti opravdani u Kristu očitovalo da smo i mi kao “grešnici iz poganstva”, znači li to da nas je Krist odveo u grijeh? Zasigurno ne griješimo ne držeći se židovskoga Zakona! 18Naprotiv, bit ću kriv budem li iznova gradio ono staro što sam već srušio.

19Zato sam, po Zakonu, umro Zakonu da bih mogao živjeti Bogu; raspet sam s Kristom. 20Ja više ne živim, nego Krist živi u meni. Tako svoj život u ovome zemaljskom tijelu živim pouzdajući se u Sina Božjega, koji me je volio i koji je samog sebe za mene predao. 21Nisam od onih koji preziru tu Božju milost. Jer da smo se mogli spasiti izvršavanjem Zakona, Krist bi za nas uzalud umro.

New International Version – UK

Galatians 2:1-21

Paul accepted by the apostles

1Then after fourteen years, I went up again to Jerusalem, this time with Barnabas. I took Titus along also. 2I went in response to a revelation and, meeting privately with those esteemed as leaders, I presented to them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles. I wanted to be sure I was not running and had not been running my race in vain. 3Yet not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek. 4This matter arose because some false believers had infiltrated our ranks to spy on the freedom we have in Christ Jesus and to make us slaves. 5We did not give in to them for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might be preserved for you.

6As for those who were held in high esteem – whatever they were makes no difference to me; God does not show favouritism – they added nothing to my message. 7On the contrary, they recognised that I had been entrusted with the task of preaching the gospel to the uncircumcised,2:7 That is, Gentiles just as Peter had been to the circumcised.2:7 That is, Jews; also in verses 8 and 9 8For God, who was at work in Peter as an apostle to the circumcised, was also at work in me as an apostle to the Gentiles. 9James, Cephas2:9 That is, Peter; also in verses 11 and 14 and John, those esteemed as pillars, gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship when they recognised the grace given to me. They agreed that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcised. 10All they asked was that we should continue to remember the poor, the very thing I had been eager to do all along.

Paul opposes Cephas

11When Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. 12For before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself from the Gentiles because he was afraid of those who belonged to the circumcision group. 13The other Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that by their hypocrisy even Barnabas was led astray.

14When I saw that they were not acting in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, ‘You are a Jew, yet you live like a Gentile and not like a Jew. How is it, then, that you force Gentiles to follow Jewish customs?

15‘We who are Jews by birth and not sinful Gentiles 16know that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in2:16 Or but through the faithfulness of… justified on the basis of the faithfulness of Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no-one will be justified.

17‘But if, in seeking to be justified in Christ, we Jews find ourselves also among the sinners, doesn’t that mean that Christ promotes sin? Absolutely not! 18If I rebuild what I destroyed, then I really would be a law-breaker.

19‘For through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God. 20I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. 21I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!’2:21 Some interpreters end the quotation after verse 14.