¹Koja je dakle prednost Židova? Ili kakva korist od obrezanja?

¹What then [is] the superiority of the Jew? or what the profit of circumcision?

²Velika u svakom pogledu. Ponajprije: povjerena su im obećanja Božja.

²Much every way: and first, indeed, that to them were entrusted the oracles of God.

³Da, a što ako su se neki iznevjerili? Neće li njihova nevjernost obeskrijepiti vjernost Božju?

³For what? if some have not believed, shall their unbelief make the faith of God of none effect?

⁴Nipošto! Nego neka Bog bude istinit, a svaki čovjek lažac, kao što je pisano: Da pravedan budeš po obećanjima svojim i pobijediš kada te sudili budu.

⁴Far be the thought: but let God be true, and every man false; according as it is written, So that thou shouldest be justified in thy words, and shouldest overcome when thou art in judgment.

⁵Ako pak naša nepravednost ističe Božju pravednost, što ćemo na to reći? Nije li onda - po ljudsku govorim - nepravedan Bog koji daje maha gnjevu?

⁵But if our unrighteousness commend God's righteousness, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak according to man.

⁶Nipošto! Ta kako će inače Bog suditi svijet?

⁶Far be the thought: since how shall God judge the world?

⁷Ako je, doista, istina Božja po mojoj lažljivosti obilno zasjala njemu na slavu, zašto da ja još budem suđen kao grešnik?

⁷For if the truth of God, in my lie, has more abounded to his glory, why yet am *I* also judged as a sinner?

⁸I zar da ne "činimo zlo da dođe dobro", kako nas kleveću i kako neki kažu da govorimo? Sud ih pravedni čeka!

⁸and not, according as we are injuriously charged, and according as some affirm that we say, Let us practise evil things, that good ones may come? whose judgment is just.

⁹Što dakle? Imamo li prednost? Ne baš! Jer upravo optužismo sve, i Židove i Grke, da su pod grijehom,

⁹What then? are we better? No, in no wise: for we have before charged both Jews and Greeks with being all under sin:

¹⁰kao što je pisano: Nema pravedna ni jednoga,

¹⁰according as it is written, There is not a righteous [man], not even one;

¹¹nema razumna, nema ga tko bi Boga tražio.

¹¹there is not the [man] that understands, there is not one that seeks after God.

¹²Svi skrenuše, svi se zajedno pokvariše, nitko da čini dobro - nijednoga nema.

¹²All have gone out of the way, they have together become unprofitable; there is not one that practises goodness, there is not so much as one:

¹³Grob otvoren grlo je njihovo, jezikom lažno laskaju, pod usnama im je otrov ljutičin,

¹³their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; asps' poison [is] under their lips:

¹⁴usta im puna kletve i grkosti;

¹⁴whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness;

¹⁵noge im hitre da krv proliju,

¹⁵swift their feet to shed blood;

¹⁶razvaline i nevolja na njinim su putima,

¹⁶ruin and misery [are] in their ways,

¹⁷put mira oni ne poznaju,

¹⁷and way of peace they have not known:

¹⁸straha Božjega nemaju pred očima.

¹⁸there is no fear of God before their eyes.

¹⁹A znamo: što god Zakon veli, govori onima pod Zakonom, da svaka usta umuknu i sav svijet bude krivac pred Bogom.

¹⁹Now we know that whatever the things the law says, it speaks to those under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world be under judgment to God.

²⁰Zato se po djelima Zakona nitko neće opravdati pred njim. Uistinu, po Zakonu - samo spoznaja grijeha!

²⁰Wherefore by works of law no flesh shall be justified before him; for by law [is] knowledge of sin.

²¹Sada se pak izvan Zakona očitovala pravednost Božja, posvjedočena Zakonom i Prorocima,

²¹But now without law righteousness of God is manifested, borne witness to by the law and the prophets;

²²pravednost Božja po vjeri Isusa Krista, prema svima koji vjeruju. Ne, nema razlike!

²²righteousness of God by faith of Jesus Christ towards all, and upon all those who believe: for there is no difference;

²³Svi su zaista sagriješili i potrebna im je slava Božja;

²³for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

²⁴opravdani su besplatno, njegovom milošću po otkupljenju u Kristu Isusu.

²⁴being justified freely by his grace through the redemption which [is] in Christ Jesus;

²⁵Njega je Bog izložio da krvlju svojom bude Pomirilište po vjeri. Htio je tako očitovati svoju pravednost kojom je u svojoj božanskoj strpljivosti propuštao dotadašnje grijehe;

²⁵whom God has set forth a mercy-seat, through faith in his blood, for [the] shewing forth of his righteousness, in respect of the passing by the sins that had taken place before, through the forbearance of God;

²⁶htio je očitovati svoju pravednost u sadašnje vrijeme - da bude pravedan i da opravdava onoga koji je od vjere Isusove.

²⁶for [the] shewing forth of his righteousness in the present time, so that he should be just, and justify him that is of [the] faith of Jesus.

²⁷Gdje je dakle hvastanje? Isključeno je. Po kojem zakonu? Po zakonu djela? Ne, nego po zakonu vjere.

²⁷Where then [is] boasting? It has been excluded. By what law? of works? Nay, but by law of faith;

²⁸Smatramo zaista da se čovjek opravdava vjerom bez djela Zakona.

²⁸for we reckon that a man is justified by faith, without works of law.

²⁹Ili je Bog samo Bog Židova? Nije li i pogana? Da, i pogana.

²⁹Is [God] the God of Jews only? is he not of [the] nations also? Yea, of nations also:

³⁰Jer jedan je Bog: on će opravdati obrezane zbog vjere i neobrezane po vjeri.

³⁰since indeed [it is] one God who shall justify [the] circumcision on the principle of faith, and uncircumcision by faith.

³¹Obeskrepljujemo li dakle Zakon po vjeri? Nipošto! Naprotiv, Zakon utvrđujemo.

³¹Do we then make void law by faith? Far be the thought: [no,] but we establish law.