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1:1 起初，神創造天地。 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
1:2 地是空虛混沌，淵面黑暗；神的靈運行在水面上。 Now the earth was 1:2 Or possibly ((became)) formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. 1:3 神說：要有光，就有了光。 And God said, <<Let there be light,>> and there was light. 1:4 神看光是好的，就把光暗分開了。 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 1:5 神稱光為晝，稱暗為夜。有晚上，有早晨，這是頭一日。 God called the light <<day,>> and the darkness he called <<night.>> And there was evening, and there was morning--the first day. 1:6 神說：諸水之間要有空氣，將水分為上下。 And God said, <<Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water.>> 1:7 神就造出空氣，將空氣以下的水、空氣以上的水分開了。事就這樣成了。 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 1:8 神稱空氣為天。有晚上，有早晨，是第二日。 God called the expanse <<sky.>> And there was evening, and there was morning--the second day. 1:9 神說：天下的水要聚在一處，使旱地露出來。事就這樣成了。 And God said, <<Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.>> And it was so. 1:10 神稱旱地為地，稱水的聚處為海。神看著是好的。 God called the dry ground <<land,>> and the gathered waters he called <<seas.>> And God saw that it was good. 1:11 神說：地要發生青草和結種子的菜蔬，並結果子的樹木，各從其類，果子都包著核。事就這樣成了。 Then God said, <<Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.>> And it was so. 1:12 於是地發生了青草和結種子的菜蔬，各從其類；並結果子的樹木，各從其類；果子都包著核。神看著是好的。 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 1:13 有晚上，有早晨，是第三日。 And there was evening, and there was morning--the third day. 1:14 神說：天上要有光體，可以分晝夜，作記號，定節令、日子、年歲， And God said, <<Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 1:15 並要發光在天空，普照在地上。事就這樣成了。 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth.>> And it was so. 1:16 於是神造了兩個大光，大的管晝，小的管夜，又造眾星， God made two great lights--the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 1:17 就把這些光擺列在天空，普照在地上， God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 1:18 管理晝夜，分別明暗。神看著是好的。 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 1:19 有晚上，有早晨，是第四日。 And there was evening, and there was morning--the fourth day. 1:20 神說：水要多多滋生有生命的物；要有雀鳥飛在地面以上，天空之中。 And God said, <<Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.>> 1:21 神就造出大魚和水中所滋生各樣有生命的動物，各從其類；又造出各樣飛鳥，各從其類。神看著是好的。 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 1:22 神就賜福給這一切，說：滋生繁多，充滿海中的水；雀鳥也要多生在地上。 God blessed them and said, <<Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.>> 1:23 有晚上，有早晨，是第五日。 And there was evening, and there was morning--the fifth day. 1:24 神說：地要生出活物來，各從其類；牲畜、昆蟲、野獸，各從其類。事就這樣成了。 And God said, <<Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind.>> And it was so. 1:25 於是神造出野獸，各從其類；牲畜，各從其類；地上一切昆蟲，各從其類。神看著是好的。 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 1:26 神說：我們要照著我們的形像、按著我們的樣式造人，使他們管理海裏的魚、空中的鳥、地上的牲畜，和全地，地上所爬的一切昆蟲。 Then God said, <<Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, 1:26 Hebrew; Syriac ((all the wild animals)) and over all the creatures that move along the ground.>> 1:27 神就照著自己的形像造人，乃是照著他的形像造男造女。 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. 1:28 神就賜福給他們，又對他們說：要生養眾多，遍滿地面，治理這地，也要管理海裏的魚、空中的鳥，和地上各樣動的活物。 God blessed them and said to them, <<Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground.>> 1:29 神說：看那，我將遍地上一切結種子的菜蔬和一切樹上所結有核的果子全賜給你們作食物。 Then God said, <<I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 1:30 至於地上的走獸和空中的飛鳥，並各樣爬在地上有生命的物，我將青草賜給他們作食物。事就這樣成了。 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground--everything that has the breath of life in it--I give every green plant for food.>> And it was so. 1:31 神看著一切所造的都甚好。有晚上，有早晨，是第六日。 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning--the sixth day. 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20日）
一月廿日 「憂愁強如喜笑，因為面帶愁容，終必使心喜樂。」傳道書七章3節 在神的恩典下，有時也有憂愁臨到，作我們生命上的益處。憂愁不是罣慮，憂愁常會帶領我進入更深。終日嘻嘻哈哈的人，常是淺薄的人。憂愁是神的犁頭，掘到土的深處，地就能多結果子。如果我們從來沒有墮落過，我們就不需要憂愁；我們只需要屬天的喜樂鼓勵我們進入更深；可是我們曾墮落過，我們就需要憂愁帶領我們省察、痛悔、認識自己。所以憂愁常使我們多思想多考慮。 憂愁使我們想得更周到，致操之過急，以及深深體察我們的動機和目標。憂愁可以從我們的內心啟發天堂生活，使我們願意施展我們的力量，對神和人類作無窮的服務。 我們不妨設想一群懶惰的人，住在山嶺之下，他們從未一探山中的峽谷與巖穴。有一天，大雷雨掃蕩這山嶺，在那些峽谷巖穴之間呼嘯迴盪，聲若擂鼓，揭露了山谷內部的深奧幽秘，像個盤旋曲折的大螺殼。然後，住在山麓的居民，對於這近在咫尺而從未接觸過並且素不熟悉的迷津，大感驚異。許多得過且過祗在人性浮面生活的人，也是如此，直到要受到了大雷雨的打擊，他們纔窺見靈魂的深奧。 凡是被神大用的人，都受過憂愁。因為神若不將他擘開，就不能用他。約瑟比雅各其餘的兒子憂愁更多，神用他拯救以色列全家和其他的民族。因此，聖靈說：「約瑟是多結果子的樹枝，是泉旁多結果的枝子，他的枝條探出牆外。」（創四九22）大衛和保羅也都經歷過不少憂愁。我們的主為了我們的緣故亦嚐過憂愁，經上稱祂「憂患之子」。神常利用憂愁去訓練祂的僕人。 ─譯自屬天的生命 尖銳的犁耙， 翻開了棕褐色的泥土； 使我得到了啟示。 我的生命就像是一塊田地， 伸展在天空之下， 等待未來的豐年。 何來的金黃的穀穗？ 何來信心？ 何來同情？ 乃是被犁耙得粉碎的泥土。 ─巴伯考克 每一個人和每一個國家，都必須在神所賜的逆境中接受教訓。我們能夠說：「夜是有福的，因為夜顯示了星星」。我們同樣可以說：「憂愁是有福的，因為憂愁顯示了神的安慰」。洪水沖走了窮人的家和磨坊，這是他僅有的財產，當洪水退去之後，而他心碎地站在那遭劫的地點，卻看到被洪水刷過的竿上有些亮晶晶的東西。「好像金子」，他說。真是金子，曾使他的財產一掃而光的洪水，卻亦能使他成了富翁，人生亦常如此。 ─特榮布爾
■ 英文荒漠甘泉（01月20日）
January 20 "Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better."(Eccles. 7:3.) ＷHEN sorrow comes under the power of Divine grace, it works out a manifold ministry in our lives. Sorrow reveals unknown depths in the soul, and unknown capabilities of experience and service. Gay, trifling people are always shallow, and never suspect the little meannesses in their nature. Sorrow is God's plowshare that turns up and subsoils the depths of the soul, that it may yield richer harvests. If we had never fallen, or were in a glorified state, then the strong torrents of Divine joy would be the normal force to open up all our souls' capacities; but in fallen ld, sorrow, with despair taken out of it, is the chosen power to reveal ourselves to ourselves. Hence it is sorrow that makes us think deeply, long, and soberly. Sorrow makes us go slower and more considerately, and introspect our motives and dispositions, It is sorrow that opens up within us the capacities of the heavenly life, and it is sorrow that makes us willing to launch our capacities on a bundless sea of service for God and our fellows. We may suppose a class of indolent people living at the base of a great mountain range, who had never ventured to explore the valleys and canyons back in the mountains; and some day, when a great thunderstorm goes careening through the mountains, it turns the hidden glens into echoing trumpets, and reveals the inner recesses of the valley, like the convolutions of a monster shell, and then the dwellers at the foot of the hills are astonished at the labyrinths and unexplored recesses of a region so near by, and yet so little known. So it is with many souls who indolently live on the outer edge of their own natures until great thunderstorms of sorrow reveal hidden depths within that were never hitherto suspected. God never uses anybody to a large degree, until after he breaks that one all to pieces. Joseph had more sorrow than all the other sons of Jacob, and it led him out into a ministry of bread for all nations. For this reason, the Holy Spirit said of him, "Joseph is a fruitful bough...by a well, whose branches run over the wall"(Gen. 49:22). It takes sorrow to widen the soul. ─The heavenly Life. The dark brown mould's upturned, By the sharp-pointed plow; And I've a lesson learned., My life is but a field, Stretched out beneath God's sky, Some harvest rich to yield. Where grows the golden grain? Where faith? Where sympathy? In a furrow cut by pain. ─Maltbie d. Babcock. Every person and every nation must take lessons in Gold's school of adversity. "We can say, `Blessed is night, for it reveals to us the stars.' In the same way we can say,`Blessed is sorrow, for it reveals God's confort.' The floods washed away home and mill, all the poor man had in the world. But as he stood on the scene of his loss, after the water had subsided, broken-hearted and discouraged, he saw something shining in the bank which the waters had washed bare. `It looks like gold,' he said. It was gold. The flood which had beggared him made him rich. So it is ofttimes in life." ─H. C. Trumbull.
■ 永活之泉（01月20日）
一月廿日 代禱 「靠著聖靈，隨時多方禱告祈求，並要在此儆醒不倦，為眾聖徒祈求。」以弗所書六章18節 代禱的祝福是述說不盡的。人為自己禱告而帶下屬天的恩賜，固然是恩典的奇蹟，但是人竟然能為別人帶下祝福，那就更是一個無法想像的榮耀了！神真的要因著我們的禱告，才把祝福傾倒在別人身上麼？是的，祂要我們作提醒祂的人，並祂的同工。因為在祂的工作中，祂把我們當作合夥人；若是我們沒有盡我們分內的職責，別人就要因此受虧損，而祂的工作也要受到無可估計的損失了。 神已經命定，代禱乃是使靈魂得救的一個方法，也是使聖徒在信心上得建立、受造就的一個方法；就是遠在地極，也要因我們的禱告，得到生命和祝福。我們豈不該盼望神的兒女，歡然竭力藉著代禱，努力將祝福帶到世界上麼？ 基督徒啊！請開始用代禱作為你自己與別人得恩典的方法罷！要為你的鄰舍禱告；要存著一個專一願望為著靈魂禱告，使他們能被基督得著；要為教會中作工的人禱告，為所有的傳道人禱告；要為你的國家和同胞，執政的、掌權的，和子民禱告；也要為萬人禱告。你若將自己降服在聖靈的引導之下，並全然為神活著，你就真的認識花在禱告中的時間，乃是神所悅納的祭，能為你自己帶來祝福，也能為著你所禱告的那些人生命帶來能力。 是的，「隨時多方禱告祈求，並要在此儆醒不倦，為眾聖徒祈求。」當你這樣作的時候，你就要學到一個功課：代禱乃是得著靈魂，和叫神得著榮耀的主要方法。
■ 中文屬天日子（01月20日）
一月廿日 你們對事事，都精神煥發麼？ 「人若不重生，就不能見神的國。」約翰福音三章3節 有時我們赴祈禱會，精神煥發，但是擦皮靴，便興味索然！ 從靈而生，是神明顯的工作；如風之神秘，如神本身之驚奇，我們不知道從何開始，是隱藏在我人生命的深處。從上頭生的，是一種連綿不絕的開始，是在思想，在言談以及在生活諸方面的一種興奮，也是不斷地驚訝神的生命。萎靡不振是一種與神不諧和的表示──「我必做這，不然，絕難成功，」那是萎靡不振的第一種現象。我們是精神煥發呢？還是萎靡不振呢？煥發的精神不是自服從而來，卻是從聖靈而來；服從是把我們留在光中，如同神在光中一樣。 務要努力保衛你與神的關係。耶穌祈禱著說：「叫他們合而為一，像我們合而為一。」（約十七22）──毫無間隔。向基督把我們全部的生命永遠敞開著，切不要與祂虛偽的周旋。你除神而外，還有其他的源頭取得你的生命麼？如果你除神而外，還別有所賴，神將早離你而去了。 從靈而生，其意比我們普通所領會的意義還要深。這種生給與我們一種新的啟示，又使我們藉著神之生命不絕的灌輸，能叫我們對任何事有絕對煥發的精神。
■ 中文上海嗎哪（01月20日）
一月二十日 「你們的心如何，你們並不知道。」路加福音九章45節 有人曾經說最屬靈的人，往往是最容易相處的人。當一個人只有一點點屬靈時，他就像一個才疏學淺的人，非常危險。但是一個被聖靈充滿、有紀律、堅定、經過考驗的屬靈生命，往往使一個人變得樸實、溫柔、有耐性、體貼，而且像孩子一樣率真。 雅各和約翰曾經憑一股血氣，要主耶穌從天降火在撒瑪利亞人當中。但是上了年紀的約翰不僅讓人把自己趕出教會，並且帶著耶穌的耐性，為了神國的緣故在拔摩島上受罪。保羅晚年時，非但接納他早期拒絕的同工馬可，甚至承認馬可對他的事工有益。 我要擁有一種不是只幫助人， 而是單純愛人的愛。 我要像神一樣，為了愛的緣故而愛。 當一個泉源滿時，水自然會湧出來。 因為我們的泉源是從天而來的。 「如今常存的，有信、有望、有愛這三樣，其中最大的是愛。」(林前十三13)
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