¹What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?

¹Što ćemo dakle reći? Što je Abraham, otac naš, našao po tijelu?

²For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.

²Doista, ako je Abraham po djelima opravdan, ima se čime dičiti - ali ne pred Bogom.

³For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” Genesis 15:6

³Ta što veli Pismo? Povjerova Abraham Bogu i uračuna mu se u pravednost.

⁴Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed.

⁴Onomu tko radi ne računa se plaća kao milost, nego kao dug.

⁵But to him who doesn’t work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.

⁵Onomu tko ne radi, a vjeruje u Onoga koji opravdava bezbožnika, vjera se uračunava u pravednost,

⁶Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works,

⁶kao što i David blaženim proglašuje čovjeka kojemu Bog uračunava pravednost bez djela:

⁷“Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, whose sins are covered.

⁷Blaženi oni kojima je zločin otpušten, kojima je grijeh pokriven!

⁸Blessed is the man whom the Lord will by no means charge with sin.” Psalm 32:1-2

⁸Blago čovjeku komu Gospodin ne ubraja krivnju.

⁹Is this blessing then pronounced on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.

⁹Ide li dakle ovo blaženstvo samo obrezane ili i neobrezane? Ta velimo: Vjera se Abrahamu uračuna u pravednost.

¹⁰How then was it counted? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

¹⁰A kako mu se uračuna? Već obrezanu ili još neobrezanu? Ne obrezanu, nego neobrezanu!

¹¹He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they might be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them.

¹¹I znak obrezanja primi kao pečat pravednosti koju je po vjeri zadobio još neobrezan, da bude ocem svih vjernika: neobrezanih - te im se uračuna pravednost -

¹²He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.

¹²i ocem obrezanih, ne onih koji su samo obrezani, nego onih koji uz to idu stopama vjere još neobrezana oca našeg Abrahama.

¹³For the promise to Abraham and to his seed that he should be heir of the world wasn’t through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

¹³Doista, obećanje da će biti baštinik svijeta nije Abrahamu ili njegovu potomstvu dano na temelju nekog zakona, nego na temelju pravednosti vjere.

¹⁴For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect.

¹⁴Jer ako su baštinici oni iz Zakona, prazna je vjera, jalovo obećanje.

¹⁵For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.

¹⁵Ta Zakon rađa gnjev; gdje pak nema Zakona, nema ni prekršaja.

¹⁶For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

¹⁶Zato - zbog vjere da bude po milosti to obećanje zajamčeno svemu potomstvu, ne potomstvu samo po Zakonu, nego i po vjeri Abrahama, koji je otac svih nas -

¹⁷As it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations.” Genesis 17:5 This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.

¹⁷kao što je pisano: Ocem mnoštva naroda ja te postavljam - pred Onim komu povjerova, pred Bogom koji oživljuje mrtve i zove da bude ono što nije.

¹⁸Who in hope believed against hope, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, “So will your seed be.” Genesis 15:5

¹⁸U nadi protiv svake nade povjerova Abraham da postane ocem naroda mnogih po onom što je rečeno: Toliko će biti tvoje potomstvo.

¹⁹Without being weakened in faith, he didn’t consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.

¹⁹Nepokolebljivom vjerom promotri on tijelo svoje već obamrlo - bilo mu je blizu sto godina - i obamrlost krila Sarina.

²⁰Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn’t waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God,

²⁰Ali pred Božjim obećanjem nije nevjeran dvoumio, nego se vjerom ojačao davši slavu Bogu,

²¹and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform.

²¹posve uvjeren da on može učiniti što je obećao.

²²Therefore it also was “reckoned to him for righteousness.” Genesis 15:6

²²Zato mu se i uračuna u pravednost.

²³Now it was not written that it was accounted to him for his sake alone,

²³Ali nije samo za nj napisano: Uračuna mu se,

²⁴but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus, our Lord, from the dead,

²⁴nego i za nas kojima se ima uračunati, nama što vjerujemo u Onoga koji od mrtvih uskrisi Isusa, Gospodina našega,

²⁵who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.

²⁵koji je predan za opačine naše i uskrišen radi našeg opravdanja.