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1:1 作使徒的保羅（不是由於人，也不是藉著人，乃是藉著耶穌基督，與叫他從死裏復活的父 神） Paul, an apostle--sent not from men nor by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead--
1:2 和一切與我同在的眾弟兄，寫信給加拉太的各教會。 and all the brothers with me,To the churches in Galatia: 1:3 願恩惠、平安從父 神與我們的主耶穌基督歸與你們！ Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, 1:4 基督照我們父 神的旨意，為我們的罪捨己，要救我們脫離這罪惡的世代。 who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, 1:5 但願榮耀歸於 神，直到永永遠遠。阿們！ to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. 1:6 我希奇你們這麼快離開那藉著基督之恩召你們的，去從別的福音。 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel-- 1:7 那並不是福音，不過有些人攪擾你們，要把基督的福音更改了。 which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. 1:8 但無論是我們，是天上來的使者，若傳福音給你們，與我們所傳給你們的不同，他就應當被咒詛。 But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned! 1:9 我們已經說了，現在又說，若有人傳福音給你們，與你們所領受的不同，他就應當被咒詛。 As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned! 1:10 我現在是要得人的心呢？還是要得 神的心呢？我豈是討人的喜歡嗎？若仍舊討人的喜歡，我就不是基督的僕人了。 0 Am I now trying to win the approval of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ. 1:11 弟兄們，我告訴你們，我素來所傳的福音不是出於人的意思。 I want you to know, brothers, that the gospel I preached is not something that man made up. 1:12 因為我不是從人領受的，也不是人教導我的，乃是從耶穌基督啟示來的。 I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it; rather, I received it by revelation from Jesus Christ. 1:13 你們聽見我從前在猶太教中所行的事，怎樣極力逼迫殘害 神的教會。 For you have heard of my previous way of life in Judaism, how intensely I persecuted the church of God and tried to destroy it. 1:14 我又在猶太教中，比我本國許多同歲的人更有長進，為我袓宗的遺傳更加熱心。 I was advancing in Judaism beyond many Jews of my own age and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my fathers. 1:15 然而，那把我從母腹裏分別出來、又施恩召我的 神， But when God, who set me apart from birth(\f1 1:15 Or|i from my mother's womb|d ) and called me by his grace, was pleased 1:16 既然樂意將他兒子啟示在我心裏，叫我把他傳在外邦人中，我就沒有與屬血氣的人商量， to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not consult any man, 1:17 也沒有上耶路撒冷去見那些比我先作使徒的，惟獨往阿拉伯去，後又回到大馬士革。 nor did I go up to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before I was, but I went immediately into Arabia and later returned to Damascus. 1:18 過了三年，才上耶路撒冷去見磯法，和他同住了十五天。 Then after three years, I went up to Jerusalem to get acquainted with Peter(\f2 1:18 Greek|i Cephas|d) and stayed with him fifteen days. 1:19 至於別的使徒，除了主的兄弟雅各，我都沒有看見。 I saw none of the other apostles--only James, the Lord's brother. 1:20 我寫給你們的不是謊話，這是我在 神面前說的。 I assure you before God that what I am writing you is no lie. 1:21 以後我到了利亞和基利家境內。 Later I went to Syria and Cilicia. 1:22 那時，猶太信基督的各教會都沒有見過我的面。 I was personally unknown to the churches of Judea that are in Christ. 1:23 不過聽說那從前逼迫我們的，現在傳揚他原先所殘害的真道。 They only heard the report: <<The man who formerly persecuted us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy.>> 1:24 他們就為我的緣故，歸榮耀給 神。 And they praised God because of me. 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13日）
三月十三日 「眾聖之王阿，您的方法義哉、誠哉。」啟示錄十五章3節 在患難中經歷頂深的司布真師母說：有一天陰沈的晚上，我獨自坐在椅子上休息；雖然室中很光亮，但是我心靈中有一層黑暗罩著，使我不能看見甚麼。我也不覺得主的手纔住我，我好似滑跌在傷痛中。我憂憂愁愁地自問說： 「為甚麼我的神如此待祂的孩子呢？為甚麼祂一直把銳利的痛苦加給我呢？為甚麼祂應許纏綿的軟弱來攔阻我去事奉祂呢？」 這些煩惱的問題立即得到了答覆；頂希奇，答覆我的是一個特異的聲音；用不著翻譯的人，神在我心中輕輕地替我解釋。 室內寂靜了好久，我忽然聽見一聲清幽悅耳的樂音，很像窗下知更雀的歌聲。 這是甚麼聲音？絕不會是知更雀在那裏唱歌，因為這是寒冷的晚上。 又是一聲。這次我纔發現：原來壁爐中一根橡樹枝，正被猛烈的火焰焚燒著，從裂口中發出那個好聽的音樂來！ 此時，我發生了一些感想：當這些樹枝嫩綠青翠的時候，許多歌鳥遊歇其上，唱出美麗的調兒來，牠就把那些歌聲收集起來，含蓄在裏面。後來牠漸漸老了，樹枝漸漸硬了；那聲音便永久被封住在裏面了，直到猛烈的火焰燒燬了牠的堅硬，久囚的音樂纔被釋放。啊，照樣，神用痛苦的火焰燃燒我們，原是要從我們久寂的心中抽出讚美的歌聲來，叫我們的神得著榮耀！就在此時，我得了安慰。 恐怕我們中間有幾個很像這根橡樹枝—─老、冷、硬、麻木；我們不會發出讚美的聲音來，如果沒有火的催逼。 「在火煉中歌唱，是的，神幫助我們。」如果苦難的火焰會叫無情的冷心得到溫暖，願爐中的火焰較前加旺「七倍！」 ─選
■ 英文荒漠甘泉（03月13日）
March 13 "Just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints."(Rev. 15:3.) ＴHE following incident is related by Mrs. Charles Spurgeon, who was a great sufferer for more than a quarter of a century: "At the close of a dark and gloomy day, I lay resting on my couch as the deeper night drew on; and though all was bright within my cozy room, some of the external darkness seemed to have entered into my soul and obscured its spiritual vision. Vainly I tried to see the Hand which I knew held mine, and guided my fogenveloped feet along a steep and slippery path of suffering. In sorrow of heart I asked, "`Why does my Lord thus deal with His child? Why does He so often send sharp and bitter pain to visit me? Why does He permit lingering weakness to hinder the sweet service I long to render to His poor servants?' "These fretful questions were quickly answered, and through a strange language; no interpreter was needed save the conscious whisper of my heart. "For a while silence reigned in the little room, broken only by the crackling of the oak log burning in the fireplace. Suddenly I heard a sweet, soft sound, a little, clear, musical note, like the tender trill of a robin beneath my window. "`What can it be? surely no bird can be singing out there at this time of the year and night.' "Again came the faint, plaintive notes, so sweet, so melodious, yet mysterious enough to provoke our wonder. My friend exclaimed, "Perchance he had garnered up this song in the days when all was well with him, when birds twittered merrily on his branches, and the soft sunlight flecked his tender leaves with gold. But he had grown old since then, and hardened; ring after ring of knotty growth had sealed up the long-forgotten melody, until the fierce tongues of the flames came to consume his callousness, and the vehement heart of the fire wrung from him at once a song and a sacrifice. `Ah,' thought I, `when the fire of affliction draws songs of praise from us, then indeed we are purified, and our God is glorified!' "Perhaps some of us are like this old oak log, cold, hard, insensible; we should give forth no melodious sounds, were it not for the fire which kindles around us, and releases notes of trust in Him, and cheerful compliance with his will. "Singing in the fire! Yes, God helping us, if that is the only way to get harmony out of these hard apathetic hearts, let the furnace be heated seven times hotter than before."
■ 永活之泉（03月13日）
三月十三日 代禱生活的祝福 「呼籲耶和華的，你們不要歇息，也不要使祂歇息，直等祂建立耶路撒冷，使耶路撒冷在地上成為可讚美的。」以賽亞書六十二章6—7節 我們能有權為著別人的需要代禱，是一種非人口所能述說的祝福。何等的福氣，我們能與基督緊緊聯合，在代禱上與祂同工，並與祂的禱告結合為一。何等榮耀能與神同在天上，超過萬人之上，並為他們代求，使他們所得到的遠超過所知所想的。 何等的特權像我們！身為神恩典的管家竟能將教會或個人的光景、神話語的執事，或神在外邦人中使者的光景，帶到神的面前為他們呼籲，直到神答應了我們。 何等的福氣使我們得以與神所有兒女聯合，在禱告中同心協力，直至勝過地上一切的艱難，並那空中掌權者的黑暗權勢。若能認識神要使用我這個人成為一個代禱者，且在地上承受並分賜祂屬天的祝福並祂聖靈的大能，那我的生活定規是非常有價值的。 這實在是屬天生命的實際顯出，也就是主耶穌祂自己的生命，在祂捨己的愛裡將我們得著，並因著祂愛的催促，使我們甘心獻出自己，在祂面前肩負著人的需要，而呼籲神使他們得以存活。 我們一直以為禱告不過是求神供應生活及服事上的需要。求神幫助我們看見代禱的地位在神的旨意及祂國度的工作上是何其重要。但願我們的心真地感覺到，地上根本沒有一種祝福能與我們由神所得的，非口能述的特權相比，此權柄使我們能等候神從天上賜福，更開出一條路使祂所樂意賜的福能在地上。 禱告： 父啊，求您將您的生命傾下，充滿在您兒女的心中，正如主耶穌在祂不止息的代禱中傾下祂的愛一般；讓我們在地上也能活出一個傾倒愛及永不止息的代禱生活。阿們。
■ 中文屬天日子（03月13日）
三月十三日 神的捨棄 「神愛世人，甚至將祂的獨生子賜給他們。」約翰福音三章16節 救贖不僅是脫離罪孽，也不僅是個人成聖的經驗；救贖是要人不為自己打算而為神打算。我的救贖經驗，只有走向脫離罪惡和個人成聖的路線；但是救贖的意義，是神的靈使我與神的本性接觸，令我驚奇我以外的無限偉大；完全與神合而為一。 如果說我們蒙召是宣傳聖潔或成聖，那便走入了歧途。我們蒙召是宣傳耶穌基督。祂救我們脫離罪，使我們成聖，是神捨棄的效果的一部份。 撇棄從不會使我們感覺吃力，因為整個生命已與我們所歸向的一位打成了一片。當心談論撇棄，如果你不知的話，非到你明白了約翰三書16節所說神絕對捨棄自己，你是不會知道的。我們不為神憂慮，撇棄是要像神不憂慮的把自己交給我們一樣。因為我們的生命與祂打成一片，就不會想到撇棄的效果了。
■ 中文上海嗎哪（03月13日）
三月十三日 「保守自己常在神的愛中……」猶大書21節 不久以前，我得空享受了一次美麗的夕陽景象，我看到西邊的天彷彿像一大群金色的海島，那遙遠成群的海島又宛如從群山中上升的光輪。當我從西往東看過去，天空的色彩燦爛無比，似乎整個大地都染上了它的顏色。不僅整個大地五光十色，田野更是變得出奇的鮮紅，全地似乎披上了屬天的露水。 就像當神的愛照耀整個天空時，祂的愛能摭蓋地上的一切，一切的生命都發出光彩。困難的事變得容易，辛酸的事變得甜美。負擔不再是重擔，悲哀也會轉為希望和喜樂。 要生活在神的愛中只有兩個秘訣：一是繼續的信靠神，二是全然順服。而神的話語充滿了這兩個信息。「你們若遵守我的命令，就常在我的愛裡，正如我遵守了我父的命令，常在祂的愛裡。」(約十五10)
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