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1:1 奉我們救主 神和我們的盼望基督耶穌之命,作基督耶穌使徒的保羅 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope,
1:2 寫信給那因信主作我真兒子的提摩太。願恩惠、憐憫、平安從父 神和我們主基督耶穌歸與你! To Timothy my true son in the faith: Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. 1:3 我往馬其頓去的時候,曾勸你仍住在以弗所,好囑咐那幾個人不可傳異教, As I urged you when I went into Macedonia, stay there in Ephesus so that you may command certain men not to teach false doctrines any longer 1:4 也不可聽從荒渺無憑的話語和無窮的家譜;這等事只生辯論,並不發明 神在信上所立章程。 nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies. These promote controversies rather than God's work--which is by faith. 1:5 但命令的總歸就是愛;這愛是從清潔的心和無虧的良心,無偽的信心生出來的。 The goal of this command is love, which comes from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. 1:6 有人偏離這些,反去講虛浮的話, Some have wandered away from these and turned to meaningless talk. 1:7 想要作教法師,卻不明白自己所講說的所論定的。 They want to be teachers of the law, but they do not know what they are talking about or what they so confidently affirm. 1:8 我們知道律法原是好的,只要人用得合宜; We know that the law is good if one uses it properly. 1:9 因為律法不是為義人設立的,乃是為不法和不服的,不虔誠和犯罪的,不聖潔和戀世俗的,弒父母和殺人的, We also know that law(\f1 1:9 Or|i that the law|d) is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious; for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers, 1:10 行淫和親男色的,搶人口和說謊話的,並起假誓的,或是為別樣敵正道的事設立的。 0 for adulterers and perverts, for slave traders and liars and perjurers--and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine 1:11 這是照著可稱頌之 神交託我榮耀福音說的。 that conforms to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which he entrusted to me. 1:12 我感謝那給我力量的我們主基督耶穌,因他以我有忠心,派我服事他。 I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me strength, that he considered me faithful, appointing me to his service. 1:13 我從前是褻瀆 神的,逼迫人的,侮慢人的;然而我還蒙了憐憫,因我是不信不明白的時候而做的。 Even though I was once a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent man, I was shown mercy because I acted in ignorance and unbelief. 1:14 並且我主的恩是格外豐盛,使我在基督耶穌裏有信心和愛心。 The grace of our Lord was poured out on me abundantly, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. 1:15 「基督耶穌降世,為要拯救罪人。」這話是可信的,是十分可佩服的。在罪人中我是個罪魁。 Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners--of whom I am the worst. 1:16 然而,我蒙了憐憫,是因耶穌基督要在我這罪魁身上顯明他一切的忍耐,給後來信他得永生的人作榜樣。 But for that very reason I was shown mercy so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display his unlimited patience as an example for those who would believe on him and receive eternal life. 1:17 但願尊貴、榮耀歸與那不能朽壞、不能看見、永世的君王、獨一的 神,直到永永遠遠。阿們! Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen. 1:18 我兒提摩太啊,我照從前指著你的預言,將這命令交託你,叫你因此可以打那美好的仗。 Timothy, my son, I give you this instruction in keeping with the prophecies once made about you, so that by following them you may fight the good fight, 1:19 常存信心和無虧的良心。有人丟棄良心,就在真道上如同船破壞了一般。 holding on to faith and a good conscience. Some have rejected these and so have shipwrecked their faith. 1:20 其中有許米乃和亞力山大;我已經把他們交給撒但,使他們受責罰就不再謗瀆了。 Among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan to be taught not to blaspheme. 本模組中文化由長島基督福音教會的Jack起始。多次經本人修改,2025年11月由AI協助更改加入朗讀功能,2026年加入搜尋「中、英」字皆可,顯示「黃底紅字」歡迎大家使用!! 荒漠甘泉五合一■ 中文荒漠甘泉(01月15日)
一月十五日 「當夜耶和華向他顯現。」創廿六章24節 以撒上別示巴去,當夜耶和華向他顯現。你想這個顯現是偶然的麼?你想「當夜」也是碰巧的麼?你想神儘可以在別一夜顯現麼?如果你這麼想,你是絕對錯誤了。為甚麼神在以撒到別示巴的那一夜向他顯現呢?因為那一夜以撒進入了安息。在原有之地,他為了幾口井起了幾次的爭鬧,他的心頂紛亂、頂痛苦。雖然爭鬧過去了,可是難保那地的居民以後無事。他覺悟了,決意離開那爭鬧之地,上別示巴去,另換一個環境。那裡他把所有的爭鬧拋卸了,他得了安息。當夜耶和華向他顯現,神的啟示只臨到靈裡沒有風波的人。以撒在靈的安息裡聽見神的話語,那安靜的夜也就是多星的夜。 我的心哪,你可記得「你們要鎮靜,並要知道……」(詩四六10,直譯)你心裡紛亂的時候,你不能聽見神給你的禱告的答應。多少時候,我們禱告了許久,可是還沒有得到神的答應,都因為內心有雷轟、地震、風波、炸裂。可是當你的心靜下來,進入了安息,神的答應就來了。哦,我的心哪,你必須安息,不要為了爭鬧、紛亂、掛慮……而跳得緊張了。那麼,當夜耶和華會向你顯現。洪水退落的時候,發見了虹霓;照樣,當你鎮靜的時候,也會聽見神的聲音。 ─馬得勝 在孤寂中走你的路, 心平氣和, 無懼無慮, 你會領略神的奇蹟, 決非語言所能傾訴。 那群市井小人, 錙珠計較, 而結果一切流於空妄, 你眼前卻浮現出天國的美景, 玄妙的音樂, 正在那裏迴盪。 讓別人去走污濁的道路, 保持你靈魂的純潔光明, 就像海面太陽的飛昇, 反射出水天一色,輝耀晶瑩。 ─選 「那賜諸般恩典的神,曾在基督裡召你們,得享祂永遠的榮耀,等你們暫受苦難之後,必要親自成全你們,堅固你們,賜力量給你們。」(彼前五10)
■ 英文荒漠甘泉(01月15日)
January 15 "And the Lord appeared unto Isaac the same night." (Gen. 26:24.) APPEARED the same night," the night on which he went to beer-sheba. Do you think this revelation was an accident? Do you think the time of it was an accident? Do you think it could have happened on any other night as well as this? If so, you are grievously mistaken. Why did it come to Isaac in the night on which he reached beer-sheba? Beacuse that was the night on which he reached rest. In his old locality, he had been tormented. There had been a whole series of petty quarrels about the possession of paltry wells. There are no worries like little worries, particularly if there is an accumulation of them. Isaac felt this. Even after the strife was past, the place retained a disagreeable association. He determined to leave. He sought change of scene. He pitched his tent away from the place of former strife. That very night the revelation came. God spoke when there was no inward storm. He could not speak when the mind was fretted; His voice demands the silence of the soul. Only in the hush of the spirit could Isaac hear the garments of his God sweep by. His still night was his starry night. My soul, hast thou pondered these words, "Be still, and know"? In the hour of perturbation, thou canst not hear the answer to thy prayers. How often has the answer seemed to come long after! The heart got no response in the moment of its crying─in its thunder, its earthquake, and its fire. But when the crying ceased, when the stillness fell, when thy hand desisted from knocking on the iron gate, when the interest of other lives broke the tragedy of thine own, then appeared th long-delayed reply. Thou must rest, O soul, it thou wouldst have thy heart's desire. Still the beating of thy pulse of personal care. Hide thy tempest of individual trouble behind the altar of a common tribulation and, that same night, the Lord shall appear to thee. The rainbow shall span the place of the subsiding flood, and in thy stillness thou shalt hear the everlasting music. ─George Matheson. Tread in solitude thy pathway, Quiet heart and undismayed. Thou shalt know things strange, mysterious, Which to thee no voice has said. While the crowd of petty hustlers Grasps at vain and paltry things, Thou wilt see a great world rising Where soft mystic music rings. Leave the dusty road to others, Spotless keep thy soul and bright, As the radiant ocean's surface When the sun is taking flight. ─(From the German of V. Schoffel) H.F.
■ 永活之泉(01月15日)
一月十五日 對弟兄的愛 「我賜給你們一條新命令,乃是叫你們彼此相愛;我怎樣愛你們,你們也要怎樣相愛。」約翰福音十三章34節 主耶穌曾告訴祂的門徒說,父怎樣愛祂,祂也怎樣愛他們。現在我們既傚法祂的榜樣,我們就必須用這同一的愛來彼此相愛。「你們若有彼此相愛的心,眾人因此就認出你們是我的門徒了。」(約十三35)祂曾禱告說:「使他們都合而為一;正如你父在我裡面,我在你裡面,使他們也在我們裡面;叫世人可以信您差了我來。」(約十七21)若是我們把神向著基督的愛,並基督向著我們的愛彰顯出來,世人就不能不承認我們的信仰乃是純正的,也是從上頭來的了。 這就是實際所發生的事:希利尼人和羅馬人,猶太人和外邦人,彼此原是互相仇恨的,但他們現在能夠相愛。在全世界各國中,難得有這一個彼此相愛的思想。對於犧牲自己的觀念,他們更是陌生的。當外邦人看見來自各國各地的基督徒,在聖靈大能的工作之下,成為一個;甚至在患難或疾病中,需要犧牲自己的關頭,還能彼此相愛,——他們就驚奇了,說道:「看哪!這些人怎麼會這樣彼此相愛呢?」 在許多基督徒中間,他們能在信仰上有一些合一,並且也能有一點弟兄的感覺,然而基督那個屬天的愛,卻是常常缺少的,所以他們不能擔當別人的重擔,也不能熱切的去愛別人。 要禱告主,好讓你能用基督愛你的那個愛,去愛你的弟兄。若是我們住在基督的愛裡,並讓這一個愛充滿在我們心裡,就必有一個超然的能力賜給我們,使我們能從心裡去愛所有神的兒女。聖父和聖子之間的愛,基督與跟隨祂的人之間的愛,是聯結得如何親密,照樣所有神兒女中間的愛,也必須這樣親密。
■ 中文屬天日子(01月15日)
一月十五日 你穿著白衣行走麼? 「和祂一同埋葬,原是叫我們一舉一動有新生的樣式。」羅馬書六章4節 一個人如果不經過「白葬」──舊生命的埋葬,就不會獲得完全成聖的經驗。如果從沒有經過這種死的轉變,成聖,至多是一種幻像。務必有一次的白葬,一次的死。僅僅只有一次的復活──一種歸於耶穌基督的生命的復活。這種生命是不能覆滅的,是與神一致的,是見證神的。 你真的達到你生命的盡頭麼?也許你曾經在感覺中達到過;但是你真的達到了麼?你不能興奮起來去埋葬自己,也不能興奮起來去死。死的意思是停止存在。你曾像做過熱誠而奮鬥的基督徒,如今,你與神同意,就不做這樣基督徒了麼?我們徘徊於墳園之旁,而從未死去。這並不是真的死去,而是垂死,如死去了一樣──「受洗歸入祂的死。」(羅六3) 你曾經「白葬了」嗎?還是用你的靈魂正在扮演丑角呢?你在你的生命中,畫著一個死期的標記沒有?在這死期標記之下回憶的時候,你能留下一個警惕和恩意的記憶嗎?「是的,能,就是在那『白葬禮』的時候,就是我與神結約同意的時候。」 「甚至你的成聖也是神的旨意。」當你確覺神的旨意是甚麼的時候,你就自自然然的達到成聖的地步。你現在願意經過「白葬」麼?這是你在世上的死期,你與祂同意麼?那同意的全權操在你,以你為轉移。
■ 中文上海嗎哪(01月15日)
一月十五日 「你們既然接受了主基督耶穌,就當遵祂而行。」歌羅西書二章6節 讓我們一直住在祂裡面,因為讓火繼續燃燒,比起熄了再點燈要容易得多。讓我們不需天天將灰燼從爐底掃出,然後再重新起火;就讓火不斷地燒、永不停止。希臘人從來不讓聖火熄滅,所以再次提昇這個意義,使屬天的火焰在我們心中的祭壇上繼續發光。 保持一個好習慣,要比培養一個好習慣容易得多。當一個屬靈的習性成形之後,就會變成我們的自然天性,而且我們會快樂地、自由地順著習慣走天路。「我們……竭力進到完全的地步,不必再立根基,就如那懊悔死行……」(來六1),「我們到了甚麼地步,就當照著甚麼地步行。」(腓三16) 每一個屬靈的習性在培養之初都有困難、需要特別費力費心,但是只要我們有恆心地建立這些習慣,而後在我們的生命中,我們就可以順著這些習慣、自然且自由地與神繼續同行。
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