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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(03月06日)
三月六日 「我們曾信……」路加福音廿四章21節(直譯) 我常常覺得很是難過:往以馬忤斯去的兩個門徒不對耶穌說:「我們仍信」;卻說:「我們曾信……。」可憐,他們以為事情都完了。 他們若說:「似乎每一件事情都使我們失望;似乎我們的信心落了空,但是我們並不灰心;我們相信我們要再見祂……」豈不好麼?可惜他們並沒有這麼說,他們站在祂旁邊,臉上帶著愁容,以為主已死了三天;難怪主責備他們說:「無知的人哪……你們的心,信得太遲鈍了!」(25節) 親愛的,我們有否相似的情形,受主同樣的責備?我們寧可放棄任何東西,每一件東西,卻不能放棄對主的信心。 讓我們不像這兩個門徒一樣,把我們的信心變成過去式——「我們曾信…。」讓我們永遠堅持現在式的信心—─「我們永信。」 ─碎錦 溫暖的春天已去, 那枝頭開滿如錦鮮花。 玫瑰怒放的季節, 我曾盼望, 現在仍在盼望祂…… 如今玫瑰不開, 花事闌珊, 若畏縮躊躇, 我的信心何顢頇; 尤其風雪欲來的此刻, 若灰心失望, 更是脆弱可歎。 ─風雪中小鳥之歌
■ 英文荒漠甘泉(03月06日)
March 6 "We trusted." (Luke 24:21.) IHAVE always felt so sorry that in that walk to Emmaus the disciples had not said to Jesus, "We still trust"; instead of "We trusted." That is so sad─something that is all over. If they had only said, "Everything is against our hope; it looks as if our trust was vain, but we do not give up; we believe we shall see Him again." But no, they walked by His side declaring their lost faith, and He had to say to them "O fools, and slow of heart to believe!" Are we not in the same danger of having these words said to us? We can afford to lose anything and everything if we do not lose our faith in the God of truth and love. Let us never put our faith, as these disciples did, in a past tense─"We trusted." But let us ever say, "I am trusting." ─Crumbs. The soft, sweet summer was warm and glowing, Bright were the blossoms on every bough: I trusted Him when the roses were blooming; I trust Him now.... Small were my faith should it weakly falter Now that the roses have ceased to blow; Frail were the trust that now should alter, Doubting His love when storm clouds grow. ─The Song of a Bird in a Winter Storm.
■ 永活之泉(03月06日)
三月六日 基督為代禱者 「凡靠著祂進到神面前的人,祂都能拯救到底;因為祂是長遠活著,替他們祈求。」 當神在以賽亞書裡說過祂找不到一個代禱者,就甚詫異;接著又說:「祂用自己的膀臂施行拯救。必有一位救贖主來到錫安。」(賽五九16、20)神親自預備一位真正的代求者,祂曾論到祂的兒子基督:「……祂卻擔當多人的罪,又為罪犯代求。」(賽五三12) 基督在世上的生活中,已經開始祂代禱的職事。試想主為著祂的門徒及一切信祂名的人那個大祭司的禱告。再想想祂對彼得所說的話:「我已為你禱告,使你不致失去信心。」——這就證明祂的代禱是非常個人的。在十字架上,祂代禱著:「父啊,赦免他們」。 神如今已坐在神的右邊,祂仍為大祭司,繼續不斷地作代禱的工作。所不同者,祂將這個權利賜給祂的門徒,使他們也有份於祂的事工。在祂臨別談話中,七次的保證他們無論向祂求甚麼,祂都為他們成全。 天上的權能已賜給了人。神的恩典與權能等著人向祂祈求。藉著聖靈的引導,人能知道神的旨意。他們學習在信心中奉祂名祈求。祂要將他們的祈求帶到神面前,藉著祂和門徒們同心的代禱,使教會披戴聖靈的權能。 禱告: 可稱頌的救贖主啊:您呼召我們有份於您的代禱,乃是何等奇妙的恩典。我們喚醒您蒙救贖的兒女,使我們得知我們所蒙的呼召是何其榮耀,並得知您的救會在軟弱中,仍能因奉您的名代求而將天上極豐盛的祝福帶下。求您的聖靈在人裡面作工,使您的子民深深懊悔我們限制了禱告,以及懶惰、不信、自私的罪,深信您的愛使您的渴望賜下禱告的靈,以答應我們的祈求——奉您的名。阿們。
■ 中文屬天日子(03月06日)
三月六日 一大堆無謂的事 「就如在許多的忍耐、患難、窮乏、困苦……」哥林多後書六章4節 於無異象,無監護者的時候,要對付當前的順從,當前的研究,當前的瀏覽,當前的烹調;非訴之於全能的恩惠不可。你欲完成當前的本分,沒有從神來的異象,沒有勉勵,沒有監護者更是不行。傳福音固然重要,而此時此刻蒙神的恩惠,而與神親近,更為重要。 每個基督徒應具有基督化身成人的本質,要把事物帶到血肉的實際,要胼手胝足地行出來。我們沒有見異象,沒有得援助,即在平常的小事上也會停駐不前的。為神為人作一勞永逸之計,是在隱秘裡工作,要想保全生命,唯一的方法,是瞻仰神。求神打開你的靈眼,定睛仰望升天的基督,苦役絕不能挫折你。常常拋開心裡的瑣事,要達到約翰福音第十三章的程度!
■ 中文上海嗎哪(03月06日)
三月六日 「……不可依靠自己的聰明。」箴言三章5節 我們若依靠人的智慧,無論是自己的或是他人的,那麼信心就會受到阻礙。撒但給夏娃的第一個魚餌,就是提供她智慧;為了得著智慧,夏娃把信心賣了。創世記三章5節說:「……你們喫的日子眼睛就亮了,你們便如神能知道善惡。」從那以後,夏娃開始用她的智慧,不再依靠神。 使以色列民族無法如期進入神所應許之地的,乃是那些探子,因為他們在窺探迦南之後,做了一個很嚇人的報告,所以以色列民族變得沒有信心,更使得那一代所有的以色列人都無法進入迦南地。那些探子的名字幾乎都像徵人類的智慧、偉大和名聲,這是很有意義的。 基督在世的時候,猶太人一方面受到祖宗傳統的捆綁,一方面受到議論的影響,使他們不願接受主耶穌。主曾問猶太人:「你們互相受榮耀,卻不求從獨一之神來的榮耀,怎能信我呢?」(約五44) 讓我們專心仰賴耶和華,不可倚靠自己的聰明。
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