¹Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

¹Sada o onome što ste mi pisali. Dobro je čovjeku ne dotaći ženu.

²But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

²Ipak, zbog bludnosti, neka svaki ima svoju ženu i svaka neka ima svoga muža.

³Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

³Muž neka vrši dužnost prema ženi, a tako i žena prema mužu.

⁴The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife.

⁴Žena nije gospodar svoga tijela, nego muž, a tako ni muž nije gospodar svoga tijela, nego žena.

⁵Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

⁵Ne uskraćujte se jedno drugome, osim po dogovoru, povremeno, da se posvetite molitvi pa se opet združite da vas Sotona ne bi napastovao zbog vaše neizdržljivosti.

⁶But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.

⁶Ali to velim kao dopuštenje, ne kao zapovijed.

⁷Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.

⁷A htio bih da svi ljudi budu kao i ja; ali svatko ima svoj dar od Boga, ovaj ovako, onaj onako.

⁸But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.

⁸Neoženjenima pak i udovicama velim: dobro im je ako ostanu kao i ja.

⁹But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.

⁹Ako li se ne mogu uzdržati, neka se žene, udaju. Jer bolje je ženiti se negoli izgarati.

¹⁰But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband

¹⁰A oženjenima zapovijedam, ne ja, nego Gospodin: žena neka se od muža ne rastavlja -

¹¹(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.

¹¹ako se ipak rastavi, neka ostane neudana ili neka se s mužem pomiri - i muž neka ne otpušta žene.

¹²But to the rest I—not the Lord—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.

¹²Ostalima pak velim - ja, ne Gospodin: ima li koji brat ženu nevjernicu i ona privoli stanovati s njime, neka je ne otpušta.

¹³The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband.

¹³I žena koja ima muža nevjernika te on privoli stanovati s njome, neka ne otpušta muža.

¹⁴For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

¹⁴Ta muž nevjernik posvećen je ženom i žena nevjernica posvećena je bratom. Inače bi djeca vaša bila nečista, a ovako - sveta su.

¹⁵Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

¹⁵Ako li se nevjernik hoće rastaviti, neka se rastavi; brat ili sestra u takvim prilikama nisu vezani: ta na mir nas je pozvao Bog.

¹⁶For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

¹⁶Jer što znaš, ženo, hoćeš li spasiti muža? Ili što znaš, mužu, hoćeš li spasiti ženu?

¹⁷Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.

¹⁷U drugome svatko neka živi kako mu je Gospodin dodijelio, kako ga je Bog pozvao. Tako određujem po svim crkvama.

¹⁸Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.

¹⁸Je li tko pozvan kao obrezan, neka ne prepravlja obrezanja. Ako je pozvan kao neobrezan, neka se ne obrezuje.

¹⁹Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

¹⁹Obrezanje nije ništa i neobrezanje nije ništa, nego - držanje Božjih zapovijedi.

²⁰Let each man stay in that calling in which he was called.

²⁰Svatko neka ostane u onom zvanju u koje je pozvan.

²¹Were you called being a bondservant? Don’t let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.

²¹Jesi li pozvan kao rob? Ne brini! Nego, ako i možeš postati slobodan, radije se okoristi.

²²For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord’s free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ’s bondservant.

²²Jer tko je u Gospodinu pozvan kao rob, slobodnjak je Gospodnji. Tako i tko je pozvan kao slobodnjak, rob je Kristov.

²³You were bought with a price. Don’t become bondservants of men.

²³Otkupninom ste kupljeni: ne budite robovi ljudima.

²⁴Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition he was called, stay in that condition with God.

²⁴Svatko u čemu je pozvan, braćo, u tome neka i ostane pred Bogom.

²⁵Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.

²⁵O djevicama nemam zapovijedi, nego dajem savjet kao čovjek po milosrđu Gospodnjem vrijedan povjerenja.

²⁶I think that it is good therefore, because of the distress that is on us, that it is good for a man to be as he is.

²⁶Smatram dakle: dobro je to zbog sadašnje nevolje, dobro je čovjeku tako biti.

²⁷Are you bound to a wife? Don’t seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don’t seek a wife.

²⁷Jesi li vezan za ženu? Ne traži rastave. Jesi li slobodan od žene? Ne traži žene.

²⁸But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.

²⁸Ali ako se i oženiš, nisi sagriješio; i djevica ako se uda, nije sagriješila. Ali takvi će imati tjelesnu nevolju, a ja bih vas rado poštedio.

²⁹But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

²⁹Ovo hoću reći, braćo: Vrijeme je kratko. Odsele i koji imaju žene, neka budu kao da ih nemaju;

³⁰and those who weep, as though they didn’t weep; and those who rejoice, as though they didn’t rejoice; and those who buy, as though they didn’t possess;

³⁰i koji plaču, kao da ne plaču; i koji se vesele, kao da se ne vesele; i koji kupuju, kao da ne posjeduju;

³¹and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.

³¹i koji uživaju ovaj svijet, kao da ga ne uživaju, jer - prolazi obličje ovoga svijeta.

³²But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;

³²A rado bih da budete bezbrižni. Neoženjen se brine za Gospodnje, kako da ugodi Gospodinu.

³³but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

³³A oženjen se brine za svjetovno, kako da ugodi ženi,

³⁴There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world—how she may please her husband.

³⁴pa je razdijeljen. I žena neudana i djevica brine se za Gospodnje, da bude sveta i tijelom i duhom; a udana se brine za svjetovno, kako da ugodi mužu.

³⁵This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction.

³⁵Ovo pak govorim vama na korist, ne da vam postavim zamku, nego da primjerno i nesmetano budete privrženi Gospodinu.

³⁶But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn’t sin. Let them marry.

³⁶Misli li tko da je nepriličan prema svojoj djevici kad je preživotan i s njome mora biti, neka čini što je nakanio, ne griješi: neka se uzmu.

³⁷But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own heart, to keep his own virgin, does well.

³⁷Tko je pak nepokolebljivo stalan u srcu te nema potrebe, a u vlasti mu je volja pa to odluči u svom srcu - čuvati svoju djevicu - dobro čini.

³⁸So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who doesn’t give her in marriage does better.

³⁸Tako, tko se oženi svojom djevicom, dobro čini, a tko se ne oženi, bolje čini.

³⁹A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord.

³⁹Žena je vezana dokle živi muž njezin. Umre li muž, slobodna je: neka se uda za koga hoće, samo u Gospodinu.

⁴⁰But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgment, and I think that I also have God’s Spirit.

⁴⁰Bit će ipak blaženija ostane li onako, po mojem savjetu. A mislim da i ja imam Duha Božjega.