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1:1 奉 神旨意作基督耶穌使徒的保羅和兄弟提摩太，寫信給在哥林多 神的教會，並亞該亞遍處的眾聖徒。 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,To the church of God in Corinth, together with all the saints throughout Achaia:
1:2 願恩惠、平安從 神我們的父和主耶穌基督歸與你們！ Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 1:3 願頌讚歸與我們的主耶穌基督的父 神，就是發慈悲的父，賜各樣安慰的 神。 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 1:4 我們在一切患難中，他就安慰我們，叫我們能用 神所賜的安慰去安慰那遭各樣患難的人。 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God. 1:5 我們既多受基督的苦楚，就靠基督多得安慰。 For just as the sufferings of Christ flow over into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows. 1:6 我們受患難呢，是為叫你們得安慰，得拯救；我們得安慰呢，也是為叫你們得安慰；這安慰能叫你們忍受我們所受的那樣苦楚。 If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer. 1:7 我們為你們所存的盼望是確定的，因為知道你們既是同受苦楚，也必同得安慰。 And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort. 1:8 弟兄們，我們不要你們不曉得，我們從前在亞細亞遭遇苦難，被壓太重，力不能勝，甚至連活命的指望都絕了； We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about the hardships we suffered in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life. 1:9 自己心裏也斷定是必死的，叫我們不靠自己，只靠叫死人復活的 神。 Indeed, in our hearts we felt the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead. 1:10 他曾救我們脫離那極大的死亡，現在仍要救我們，並且我們指望他將來還要救我們。 0 He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us, 1:11 你們以祈禱幫助我們，好叫許多人為我們謝恩，就是為我們因許多人所得的恩。 as you help us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our(\f1 1:11 Many manuscripts|i your|d) behalf for the gracious favor granted us in answer to the prayers of many. 1:12 我們所誇的是自己的良心，見證我們憑著 神的聖潔和誠實；在世為人不靠人的聰明，乃靠 神的恩惠，向你們更是這樣。 Now this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in our relations with you, in the holiness and sincerity that are from God. We have done so not according to worldly wisdom but according to God's grace. 1:13 我們現在寫給你們的話，並不外乎你們所念的，所認識的，我也盼望你們到底還是要認識； For we do not write you anything you cannot read or understand. And I hope that, 1:14 正如你們已經有幾分認識我們，以我們誇口，好像我們在我們主耶穌的日子以你們誇口一樣。 as you have understood us in part, you will come to understand fully that you can boast of us just as we will boast of you in the day of the Lord Jesus. 1:15 我既然這樣深信，就早有意到你們那裏去，叫你們再得益處； Because I was confident of this, I planned to visit you first so that you might benefit twice. 1:16 也要從你們那裏經過，往馬其頓去，再從馬其頓回到你們那裏，叫你們給我送行往猶太去。 I planned to visit you on my way to Macedonia and to come back to you from Macedonia, and then to have you send me on my way to Judea. 1:17 我有此意，豈是反覆不定嗎？我所起的意，豈是從情慾起的，叫我忽是忽非嗎？ When I planned this, did I do it lightly? Or do I make my plans in a worldly manner so that in the same breath I say, <<Yes, yes>> and <<No, no>>? 1:18 我指著信實的 神說，我們向你們所傳的道，並沒有是而又非的。 But as surely as God is faithful, our message to you is not <<Yes>> and <<No.>> 1:19 因為我和西拉並提摩太，在你們中間所傳 神的兒子耶穌基督，總沒有是而又非的，在他只有一是。 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by me and Silas(\f2 1:19 Greek|i Silvanus|d, a variant of|i Silas|d0 and Timothy, was not <<Yes>> and <<No,>> but in him it has always been <<Yes.>> 1:20 神的應許，不論有多少，在基督都是是的。所以藉著他也都是實在〔實在：原文是阿們〕的，叫 神因我們得榮耀。 For no matter how many promises God has made, they are <<Yes>> in Christ. And so through him the <<Amen>> is spoken by us to the glory of God. 1:21 那在基督裏堅固我們和你們，並且膏我們的就是 神。 Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us, 1:22 他又用印印了我們，並賜聖靈在我們心裏作憑據〔原文是質〕。 set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come. 1:23 我呼籲 神給我的心作見證，我沒有往哥林多去是為要寬容你們。 I call God as my witness that it was in order to spare you that I did not return to Corinth. 1:24 我們並不是轄管你們的信心，乃是幫助你們的快樂，因為你們憑信才站立得住。 Not that we lord it over your faith, but we work with you for your joy, because it is by faith you stand firm. This is Alex Markley's PHPScripture v1.2.0, displaying a copy of Chinese Union Version Bible in XOOPS. 本模組中文化由長島基督福音教會的Jack起始, 聖經文字部分由CCIM(網路基督使團)網站下載. 如欲修改經文請洽聖經公會. 荒漠甘泉五合一■ 中文荒漠甘泉（01月28日）
一月廿八日 「我為你們起的憤恨，原是神那樣的憤恨。」哥林多後書十一章2節（衛莫司譯本） 一個善奏古琴的琴師，何等寵愛他的古琴呢！他把它懷抱在胸中，撫它、親它、偎它！他和它相依為命。可是，你看他怎樣調整弦音。他把它緊緊握住，用力地在弦上撥一下；弦立刻震顫，好似驚痛之下的戰慄；他側耳細聽，覺得弦音粗浮，還未準確。於是他把弦絞緊；彈撥再三，直等到它能發出柔和準確的聲音來。他臉上纔露出笑容，點頭滿意。 親愛的，其實神也是如此對待你。祂愛你遠勝琴師愛琴，祂發你的聲音不和諧。祂把你緊緊抓住，用力撥你的心弦；祂側耳細聽，豈知你所發的聲音仍是咒詛和怨言；祂只得絞緊你的心弦，再撥，再彈，直等你的聲音是讚美、感謝，和「不要成就我的意思，只要成就您的意思。」（路廿二40）——神所最喜聽的音樂。 ─選 豎琴有許多琴弦， 在愛的旋律中震顫， 一一和諧合拍， 流露出蘊蓄的甜美。 忽有一二弦驀地斷裂崩弛， 破壞了緊湊， 就如不起的波瀾的一泓死水。 愛的狂喜和傷痛相連， 取得王冠的手， 必曾受過許多苦難和酸痛； 未曾爭鬥的人， 不會有得勝者的榮譽， 經過了辛苦， 才能領略休息和平靜的美夢。 阿爾卑斯山的遊客， 唯有在兩場風雨之間， 才能欣賞天空的明淨和霞光的奇觀， 如果夏季永遠碧空無雲， 也會有十丈紅塵飛揚迷漫。 悲哀與快樂， 誰也不能作分別的選擇， 雨者， 必須都有體念， 否則懵懂恍惚， 無所知悉， 沒有非常的痛苦， 就沒有非常的福祉， 對苦痛麻木的心靈， 對福祉也不會敏感。
■ 英文荒漠甘泉（01月28日）
January 28 "I am jealous over you with God's own jealousy." (2Cor. 11:2.)(Weymouth.) ＨOW an old harper dotes on his harp! How he fondles and caresses it, as a child resting on his bosom! His life is bound up in it. But, see him tuning it. He grasps it firmly, strikes a chord with a sharp, quick blow; and while it quivers as if in pain, he leans over intently to catch the first note that rises. The note, as he feared, is false and harsh. He strains the chord with the torturing thumb-screw; and though it seems ready to snap with the tension, he strikes it again, bending down to listen softly as before, till at length you see a smile on his face as the first true tone trembles upward. So it may be that God is dealing with you. Loving you better than any harper loves his harp, He finds you a mass of jarring discords. He wrings your heartstrings with some torturing anguish; He bends over you tenderly, striking and listening; and, hearing only a harsh murmur, strikes you again, while His heart bleeds for you, anxiously waiting for that strain－"Not my will, but thine be done"─which is melody sweet to His ear as angels' songs. Nor will He cease to strike until your chastened soul shall blend with all the pure and infinite harmonies of His own being. ─Selected. "Oh, the sweetness that dwells in a harp of many strings, While each, all vocal with love in a tuneful harmony rings! But, oh, the wail and the discord, when one and another is rent, Tensionless, broken and lost, from the cherished instrument. "For rapture of love is linked with the pain or fear of loss, And the hand that takes the crown, must ache with many a cross; Yet he who hath never a conflict, hath never a victor's palm, And only the toilers know the sweetness of rest and calm, "Only between the storms can the Alpine traveller know Transcendent glory of clearness, marvels of gleam and glow; Had he the brightness unbroken of cloudless summer days, This had been dimmed by the dust and the veil of a brooding haze. "Who would dare the choice, neither or both to know, The finest quiver of joy or the agony thrill of woe! Never the exquisite pain, then never the exquisite bliss, For the heart that is dull to that can never be striung to this."
■ 永活之泉（01月28日）
一月廿八日 全心 「我全心尋求了您。」詩篇一一九篇10節原文 請注意詩人在這裡頻頻提起全心這兩個字。「全心尋求祂的。」（2節）「我便遵守您的律法，且要全心遵守。」（34節）「我卻要全心守您的訓詞。」（69節）「我全心呼籲您。」（145節）無論是為著尋求神，為著遵守祂的律法，或為著呼籲祂的幫助，每次都要用全心。 我們如果要把屬世的事作得成功，我們就把我們的全心都放在裡面。在事奉這位聖潔之神的事上，我們豈不更需要擺上全心麼？難道祂不配麼？祂至高的聖潔以及我們心中厭棄神的天性，豈不更要求我們該擺上全心麼？當我們在隱密處敬拜祂的時候，我們需要用全心來事奉祂。 但是有大多數的基督徒，根本沒有想到這一點！他們在禱告的時候，在讀神話語的時候，在努力遵行祂旨意的時候，從不記得需要一直說這一句話：「我們全心尋求您。」是的，當我們禱告的時候，當我們想要明白神話語的時候，當我們要遵行祂旨意的時候，但願我們能說：「我渴慕用全心來尋求神，來事奉神，並討祂的喜悅。」 「我全心尋求了您。」親愛的讀者啊！請把這句話放在你的心裡，把它思想過、禱告過。你要在神面前，把它說出來，直等到你感覺你真的知道你所說的是甚麼，並且確實相信神要聽你的禱告。每天早晨，當你進到神面前去禱告的時候，都請說這句話：「我全心尋求您。」你會逐漸的覺得需要在聖潔的安靜裡等候神，這樣祂就要得著你整個的心，你也就要學習用你的全心和全力來愛祂。
■ 中文屬天日子（01月28日）
一月廿八日 難相信一個人能這樣逼害耶穌 「掃羅，掃羅，為甚麼逼迫我？」使徒行傳廿六章14節 我替神決定我自己的道路麼？除非我們被領進聖靈和火洗的經驗裡面去，我們難得擺脫這種圈套。頑固和我見總是阻擋耶穌基督的，也許不傷害別人，卻傷害祂的靈。無論何時，我們固執己見，決定我們自己的雄圖，我們就損傷了耶穌。無論何時，我們要保持自己的權利，堅持我們所要作的事，我們就逼迫了耶穌。無論何時，我們要保持自己的尊嚴，我們就故意的使祂的靈憂傷了。當我們覺悟我們所逼迫的是耶穌，才有保羅在大馬色路上的覺悟迸出來。 我把神的道傳給人，我自己是否持守了這道呢？抑或我的生命與我所傳的道不一致呢？我也許教人成聖，自己反而表露撒但的精神，危逼耶穌基督的精神。耶穌的靈只感覺一件事──完全與父合一，祂說：「我心裡柔和謙卑，學我的樣式。」（太十一29）我一切所作的，應該建立在與祂完全合一的上面，不在自己決定如何敬虔的上面。這樣，或者我是易於受欺，易於受委屈，易於受人輕視；但是如果我因祂的緣故忍受這一切，耶穌基督之受逼便停止了。
■ 中文上海嗎哪（01月28日）
一月廿八日 「這些事我已經對你們說了，是要叫我的喜樂存在你們心裡，並叫你們的喜樂可以滿足。」約翰福音十五章11節 有一種喜樂乃是油然從心中發出的，並不需要任何外在或甚至合理的原因。這種喜樂宛如一口深水井，自然流露、完全不能自已。因為這樣的喜樂是神的榮耀，是因基督的心，更因主叫祂的喜樂存在我們心裡，並叫我們的喜樂可以滿足。 這樣的喜樂是人不能挪去的，因為有喜樂泉源的人，不會被環境左右、顯得失望；相反的，這些人經常因有毫無原因、但深且甘甜的喜樂，而覺得驚訝。這種喜樂往往在環境最艱難、在人最容易覺得痛苦和沮喪時，顯得更加豐富。這情景就像我們心中有隻夜鶯，在夜間時嘹亮地歌唱。 這種榮耀不朽的喜樂，不僅是屬天的，而且已經成為永恆的歌聲。主啊！在任何情況之下，您都賜給我們喜樂，讓我們心中的祝福滿溢、使我們成為他人的祝福。
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