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1:1 奉 神旨意,照著在基督耶穌裏生命的應許,作基督耶穌使徒的保羅 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, according to the promise of life that is in Christ Jesus,
1:2 寫信給我親愛的兒子提摩太。願恩惠、憐憫、平安從父 神和我們主基督耶穌歸與你! To Timothy, my dear son: Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. 1:3 我感謝 神,就是我接續祖先用清潔的良心所事奉的 神。祈禱的時候,不住的想念你, I thank God, whom I serve, as my forefathers did, with a clear conscience, as night and day I constantly remember you in my prayers. 1:4 記念你的眼淚,晝夜切切地想要見你,好叫我滿心快樂。 Recalling your tears, I long to see you, so that I may be filled with joy. 1:5 想到你心裏無偽之信,這信是先在你外祖母羅以和你母親友妮基心裏的,我深信也在你的心裏。 I have been reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, now lives in you also. 1:6 為此我提醒你,使你將 神藉我按手所給你的恩賜再如火再挑旺起來。 For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands. 1:7 因為 神賜給我們,不是膽怯的心,乃是剛強、仁愛、謹守的心。 For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline. 1:8 你不要以給我們的主作見證為恥,也不要以我這為主被囚的為恥;總要按 神的能力,與我為福音同受苦難。 So do not be ashamed to testify about our Lord, or ashamed of me his prisoner. But join with me in suffering for the gospel, by the power of God, 1:9 神救了我們,以聖召召我們,不是按我們的行為,乃是按他的旨意和恩典;這恩典是萬古之先,在基督耶穌裏賜給我們的, who has saved us and called us to a holy life--not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time, 1:10 但如今藉著我們救主基督耶穌的顯現才表明出來了。他已經把死廢去,藉著福音,將不能壞的生命彰顯出來。 0 but it has now been revealed through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has destroyed death and has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. 1:11 我為這福音奉派作傳道的,作使徒,作師傅。 And of this gospel I was appointed a herald and an apostle and a teacher. 1:12 為這緣故,我也受這些苦難。然而我不以為恥;因為知道我所信的是誰,也深信他能保全我所交付他的〔或譯:他所交託我的〕,直到那日。 That is why I am suffering as I am. Yet I am not ashamed, because I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him for that day. 1:13 你從我聽的那純正話語的規模,要用在基督耶穌裏的信心和愛心,常常守著。 What you heard from me, keep as the pattern of sound teaching, with faith and love in Christ Jesus. 1:14 從前所交託你的善道,你要靠著那住在我們裏面的聖靈牢牢的守著。 Guard the good deposit that was entrusted to you--guard it with the help of the Holy Spirit who lives in us. 1:15 凡在亞細亞的人都離棄我,這是你所知道的,其中有腓吉路和黑摩其尼。 You know that everyone in the province of Asia has deserted me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes. 1:16 願主憐憫阿尼色弗一家的人;因他屢次使我暢快,不以我的鎖鍊為恥, May the Lord show mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains. 1:17 反倒在羅馬的時候,殷勤的找我,並且找著了。 On the contrary, when he was in Rome, he searched hard for me until he found me. 1:18 願主使他在那日得主的憐憫。他在以弗所怎樣多多地服事我,是你明明知道的。 May the Lord grant that he will find mercy from the Lord on that day! You know very well in how many ways he helped me in Ephesus. 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25日)
一月廿五日 「您的杖,您的竿,都安慰我。」詩篇廿三篇4節 在我父親的家中有一個小房間,裡面藏著我家幾代所用的許多手杖。有的是爬山用的,有的是走平坦大道用的,有的是走泥濘之地用的,有的是雨後雪後行路用的,每種手杖的樣式各不相同。有時我回故鄉去探望父親,他老人家常喜歡和我出外散步;每次出發之前,我們總先到手杖室中去揀選我們那一次所適用的手杖。因此我們常常想起神的話語是我們生活中的手杖,會給我無限幫助和安慰。 在打仗的時候,緊急的風聲使我們心慌意亂,神給我們的杖是:「他必不怕兇惡的信息;他心堅定,倚靠耶和華。」(詩一一二7)這杖扶持我們經過許多黑暗的日子。 當死亡奪去我們的孩子,使我們心碎的時候,我在應許中找到另一根安慰的杖:「一宿雖然有哭泣,早晨便必歡呼。」(詩卅5) 有一次我病倒了,在外養病有一年之久,在這時期中我不知道究竟我是否再會恢復,再能回到我的家中去,再擔任我以前的工作。在這樣沒有指望之中,我始終抓住神的杖:「耶和華說:『我知道我向你們所懷的意念,是賜平安的意念,不是降災禍的意念。』」(耶廿九11) 在危險或疑懼的時候,人的評判都說「完了」的時候,我發見了一根帶領我安然過去的杖:「你們得力在乎平靜安穩。」(賽卅15) 在遇到意外事情的時候,似乎沒有一點工夫可以設法補救了,我發見了一根從來沒有誤過我的杖:「信靠的人必不著急。」(賽廿八16) ─亞保德便雅憫 馬丁路德的妻子說:「如果神不叫我經過苦難,我永遠不會知道詩篇中這些話語是甚麼意思;我也永遠不會明白基督人的責任是甚麼。」真的,神杖好像教員指示孩子識字的教鞭一般,指到某一個字,孩子就注意這一個字;照樣,神指導我們許多有益的功課,是我們在別的地方永不會學到的。 ─選 「神總是用祂的竿和杖指引我們。」 「你的鞋是銅的、鐵的。你的日子如何,你的力量也必如何。」(申卅三25) 讓我們記得:如果神要我們走在堅固的石路上,祂必先給我們穿上鐵鞋或是銅鞋;祂絕不會不先替我們預備好了,就差我們出外去走崎嶇的路。 ─麥克勞
■ 英文荒漠甘泉(01月25日)
January 25 "Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me."(Psa. 23:4.) AT my father's house in the country there is a little closet in the chimney corner where are kept the canes and walking-sticks of several generations of our family. In my visits to the old house, when my father and I are going out for a walk, we often go to the cane closet, and pich out our sticks to suit the fancy of the occasion. In this I have frequently been reminded that the Word of God is a staff. During the war, when the season of discouragement and impending danger was upon us, the verse, "He shall not be afraid of evil tidings; his heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord." was a staff to walk with many dark days. When death took away our child and left us almost heartbrokden, I found another staff in the promise that "weeping may endure for the night, but joy cometh in the morning." When in impaired health, I was exiled for a year, not knowing whether I should be permitted to return to my home and work again, I took with me this staff which never failed, "He knoweth the thoughts that he thinketh toward me, thoughts of peace and not of evil." In times of special danger or doubt, when human judgment has seemed to be set at naught, I have found it easy to go forward with this staff, "In quietness and confidence shall be your strength." And in emergencies, when there has seemed to be no adequate time for deliberation or for action, I have never found that this staff has failed me, "He that believeth shall not make haste." ─Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, in The Outlook. "I had never known," said Martin Luther's wife, "what such and such things meant, in such and such psalms, such complaints and workings of spirit; I had never understood the practice of Christian duties, had not God brought me under some affiction." It is very true that God's rod is as the schoolmaster's pointer to the child, pointing out the letter, that he may the better take notice of it; thus He pointeth out to us many good lessons which we should never otherwise have learned. ─Selected. "God always sends His staff with His rod." "Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be." (Deut.33:25.) Each of us may be sure that if God sends us on stony paths He will provide us with strong shoes, and He will not send us out on any journey for which He does not equip us well. ─Maclaren
■ 永活之泉(01月25日)
一月廿五日 世界 「不要愛世界,和世界上的事,人若愛世界,父的愛就不在他裡面了。」約翰一書二章15節直譯 約翰很清楚地告訴我們,他所說的世界是甚麼意思。他說:「凡世界上的事,就像肉體的情慾、眼目的情慾,並今生的驕傲,都不是從父來的,乃是從世界來的。」(約壹二16) 世界是一種性質,或者說是一種權勢,就是人因著罪所墮落在其中的。這世界的神為著欺騙人的緣故,就把自己隱藏在神所創造的東西裡面,天天藉著世界上的福樂用諸般的試探圍繞著基督徒。 這就是夏娃在伊甸園裡所發生的故事,在創世記三章6節裡,我們也發現約翰所提到的三種情形:第一,肉體的情慾——「女人見那棵樹的果子好作食物:」第二,眼目的情慾——「也悅人的眼目;」第三,今生的驕傲——「且是可喜愛的,能使人有智慧。」就是在今天,世界仍然將引人食慾的美食,以及許多叫肉體嗜慾喜好的東西,並許多眼目的情慾、財富、美色,和奢華擺在我們的面前。此外還有今生的驕傲。當一個人想像他是知道並且瞭解每一件事物的時候,他就因此驕傲起來了。 我們在這個世界中的生活,因著這許多引誘肉體的事物,(那麼多能霸佔我們眼目和我們內心的事物,那麼多屬世的智慧和知識)豈不是充滿了危險麼?所以約翰告訴我們說:「不要愛世界,人若愛世界,父的愛就不在他裡面了。」我們的主也呼召我們,如同當初呼召祂的門徒一樣,要我們撇下一切來跟隨祂。 基督徒啊!你是生活在一個危險的世界中,緊緊的倚靠主耶穌吧!當祂教導你遠避世界和世界吸引的時候,你的愛就要在忠誠的事奉裡歸給祂。但是請記得,你必須每天和主耶穌有交通,獨有祂的愛才能消滅你愛世界的心,所以要花時間單獨與你的主同在。
■ 中文屬天日子(01月25日)
一月廿五日 留餘地給神 「神…既然樂意……」加拉太書一章16節 既為神的工人,我們就要為神稍留地步──給神旋轉自如的地方。我們計算著說,將要發生這,將要發生那;卻忘記替神留著容身之地。如果神用我們所不期望的一種方式,來參加我們的聚會或我們的佈道,我們驚奇麼?不要期望神從固定的方式到來,卻要期望祂來,期望祂來便是為祂稍留餘地。盼望祂來,卻不可盼望祂以一定方式裡來。知道神愈多,愈能叫我們曉得祂有隨時來到的可能。我們容易忽視神來的突兀,不過神絕然不用別的方法。神能於忽然之間,碰進生命裡面──「這是隨神的美意……。」 常常保持你的生活,與神有密切的關係,以便祂的威力臨近你的左右,圍繞著你。常存期望之心,留意你為神所留的餘地,是否是祂喜歡進來的地方?
■ 中文上海嗎哪(01月25日)
一月廿五日 「善美的要持守」帖撒羅尼迦前書五章21節 我們若是能學習真理,而有更新的發現、接受更多的祝福,但是不排斥已經證實的真理,或是忽略奠定好的基礎,那是最理想不過了。 有些人似乎總是在奠定新的基礎,但是最後那些基礎看起來卻像廢墟,以及半途而廢的建築,沒有一樣是完工的成品。 如果今天你為了某些新的亮光,而拋棄一些一年前你認為珍貴且屬靈的真理,那麼我可以保證一年以後,你可能會為了另外一些更新的亮光,而放棄你現在所認識的真理。 雖然神不斷地加添我們的智慧,使我們成長茁壯,但是祂總是藉著祂已經教導我們的,或是在我們生命已經建立的基礎,給我們更多的教導。 總言之,我們應該凡事察驗,善美的要持守,正如腓立比書三章16節所說:「我們到了甚麼地步,就當照著甚麼地步行。」
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