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保罗不传自己只传基督

我们既然蒙怜悯,受了这职分,就不丧胆, 乃将那些暗昧可耻的事弃绝了,不行诡诈,不谬讲神的道理,只将真理表明出来,好在神面前把自己荐于各人的良心。 如果我们的福音蒙蔽,就是蒙蔽在灭亡的人身上。 此等不信之人被这世界的神弄瞎了心眼,不叫基督荣耀福音的光照着他们;基督本是神的像。 我们原不是传自己,乃是传基督耶稣为主,并且自己因耶稣做你们的仆人。 那吩咐光从黑暗里照出来的神,已经照在我们心里,叫我们得知神荣耀的光显在耶稣基督的面上。

我们有这宝贝放在瓦器里,要显明这莫大的能力是出于神,不是出于我们。 我们四面受敌,却不被困住;心里作难,却不致失望; 遭逼迫,却不被丢弃;打倒了,却不致死亡; 10 身上常带着耶稣的死,使耶稣的生也显明在我们身上。 11 因为我们这活着的人是常为耶稣被交于死地,使耶稣的生在我们这必死的身上显明出来。 12 这样看来,死是在我们身上发动,生却在你们身上发动。 13 但我们既有信心,正如经上记着说:“我因信,所以如此说话”,我们也信,所以也说话。 14 自己知道那叫主耶稣复活的,也必叫我们与耶稣一同复活,并且叫我们与你们一同站在他面前。 15 凡事都是为你们,好叫恩惠因人多越发加增,感谢格外显多,以致荣耀归于神。

外体毁坏内心日新

16 所以我们不丧胆,外体虽然毁坏,内心却一天新似一天。 17 我们这至暂至轻的苦楚,要为我们成就极重无比、永远的荣耀。 18 原来我们不是顾念所见的,乃是顾念所不见的,因为所见的是暂时的,所不见的是永远的。

The Light of the Gospel

Therefore, since we have this ministry because we were shown mercy,(A) we do not give up.(B) Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful things, not acting(C) deceitfully or distorting the word of God,(D) but commending ourselves before God to everyone’s conscience by an open display of the truth.(E) But if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. In their case, the god of this age(F) has blinded the minds of the unbelievers to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ,[a](G) who is the image of God.(H) For we are not proclaiming ourselves but Jesus Christ as Lord,(I) and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’s sake. For God who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,”(J) has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge(K) of God’s glory(L) in the face of Jesus Christ.

Treasure in Clay Jars

Now we have this treasure in clay jars, so that this extraordinary power(M) may be from God and not from us. We are afflicted in every way but not crushed; we are perplexed but not in despair; we are persecuted but not abandoned; we are struck down but not destroyed. 10 We always carry the death of Jesus(N) in our body, so that the life of Jesus may also be displayed in our body. 11 For we who live are always being given over to death(O) for Jesus’s sake, so that Jesus’s life may also be displayed in our mortal flesh. 12 So then, death is at work in us, but life in you. 13 And since we have the same spirit of faith in keeping with what is written, I believed, therefore I spoke,[b](P) we also believe, and therefore speak. 14 For we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus will also raise us with Jesus(Q) and present us with you. 15 Indeed, everything is for your benefit so that, as grace extends through more and more people, it may cause thanksgiving(R) to increase to the glory of God.

16 Therefore we do not give up.(S) Even though our outer person is being destroyed, our inner person(T) is being renewed day by day. 17 For our momentary light affliction(U) is producing for us an absolutely incomparable eternal weight of glory.(V) 18 So we do not focus on what is seen,(W) but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

Footnotes

  1. 4:4 Or the gospel of the glorious Christ, or the glorious gospel of Christ
  2. 4:13 Ps 116:10 LXX