¹Znamo doista: ako se razruši naš zemaljski dom, šator, imamo zdanje od Boga, dom nerukotvoren, vječan na nebesima.

¹For we know that if our earthly tabernacle house be destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

²U ovome doista stenjemo i čeznemo da se povrh njega zaodjenemo svojim nebeskim obitavalištem;

²For indeed in this we groan, ardently desiring to have put on our house which [is] from heaven;

³dakako, ako se nađemo obučeni, ne goli.

³if indeed being also clothed we shall not be found naked.

⁴Da, i mi koji smo u ovom šatoru, stenjemo opterećeni jer nećemo da budemo svučeni, nego da se još obučemo da život iskapi što je smrtno.

⁴For indeed we who are in the tabernacle groan, being burdened; while yet we do not wish to be unclothed, but clothed, that [what is] mortal may be swallowed up by life.

⁵A zato nas je sazdao Bog - on koji nam dade zalog Duha.

⁵Now he that has wrought us for this very thing [is] God, who also has given to us the earnest of the Spirit.

⁶Uvijek smo stoga puni pouzdanja makar i znamo: naseljeni u tijelu, iseljeni smo od Gospodina.

⁶Therefore [we are] always confident, and know that while present in the body we are absent from the Lord,

⁷Ta u vjeri hodimo, ne u gledanju.

⁷(for we walk by faith, not by sight;)

⁸Da, puni smo pouzdanja i najradije bismo se iselili iz tijela i naselili kod Gospodina.

⁸we are confident, I say, and pleased rather to be absent from the body and present with the Lord.

⁹Zato se i trsimo da mu omilimo, bilo naseljeni, bilo iseljeni.

⁹Wherefore also we are zealous, whether present or absent, to be agreeable to him.

¹⁰Jer svima nam se pojaviti pred sudištem Kristovim da svaki dobije što je kroz tijelo zaradio, bilo dobro, bilo zlo.

¹⁰For we must all be manifested before the judgment-seat of the Christ, that each may receive the things [done] in the body, according to those he has done, whether [it be] good or evil.

¹¹Prožeti dakle strahom Gospodnjim uvjeravamo ljude; razotkriveni smo Bogu, a nadam se - i vašim savjestima.

¹¹Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord we persuade men, but have been manifested to God, and I hope also that we have been manifested in your consciences.

¹²Ne preporučujemo vam opet sami sebe, nego vam dajemo prigodu ponositi se nama, da imate odgovor za one koji se diče licem, a ne srcem.

¹²[For] we do not again commend ourselves to you, but [we are] giving to you occasion of boast in our behalf, that ye may have [such] with those boasting in countenance, and not in heart.

¹³Doista, ako bijasmo "izvan sebe" - Bogu bijasmo; ako li "pri sebi" - vama bijasmo.

¹³For whether we are beside ourselves, [it is] to God; or are sober, [it is] for you.

¹⁴Jer ljubav nas Kristova obuzima kad promatramo ovo: jedan za sve umrije, svi dakle umriješe;

¹⁴For the love of the Christ constrains us, having judged this: that one died for all, then all have died;

¹⁵i za sve umrije da oni koji žive ne žive više sebi, nego onomu koji za njih umrije i uskrsnu.

¹⁵and he died for all, that they who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who died for them and has been raised.

¹⁶Stoga mi od sada nikoga ne poznajemo po tijelu; ako smo i poznavali po tijelu Krista, sada ga tako više ne poznajemo.

¹⁶So that *we* henceforth know no one according to flesh; but if even we have known Christ according to flesh, yet now we know [him thus] no longer.

¹⁷Dakle, je li tko u Kristu, nov je stvor. Staro uminu, novo, gle, nasta!

¹⁷So if any one [be] in Christ, [there is] a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold all things have become new:

¹⁸A sve je od Boga koji nas sa sobom pomiri po Kristu i povjeri nam službu pomirenja.

¹⁸and all things [are] of the God who has reconciled us to himself by [Jesus] Christ, and given to us the ministry of that reconciliation:

¹⁹Jer Bog je u Kristu svijet sa sobom pomirio ne ubrajajući im opačina njihovih i polažući u nas riječ pomirenja.

¹⁹how that God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their offences; and putting in us the word of that reconciliation.

²⁰Kristovi smo dakle poslanici; Bog vas po nama nagovara. Umjesto Krista zaklinjemo: dajte, pomirite se s Bogom!

²⁰We are ambassadors therefore for Christ, God as [it were] beseeching by us, we entreat for Christ, Be reconciled to God.

²¹Njega koji ne okusi grijeha Bog za nas grijehom učini da mi budemo pravednost Božja u njemu.

²¹Him who knew not sin he has made sin for us, that *we* might become God's righteousness in him.