希伯来书 12
Chinese Standard Bible (Simplified)
要坚忍到底
12 因此，我们既然有这么一大群见证人，如同云彩围绕着我们，就让我们脱去各样的重担和容易缠累我们的罪，藉着忍耐去跑那摆在我们前面的赛程， 2 仰望信仰的创始者和成终者耶稣。他为了[a]那摆在他前面的喜乐，就轻看羞辱，忍受了十字架，如今坐在神宝座的右边。
为父的管教
3 其实，你们应当仔细地思想耶稣如何忍受了罪人的顶撞，这样你们心里[b]就不会因丧气而疲倦。 4 你们与罪争战，还没有抵抗到流血的地步。 5 难道你们已经忘记那安慰的话吗？就是他对你们如同对儿女那样讲论的话：
“我儿，你不可轻看主的管教；
被他责备的时候，也不可丧气。
6 因为主所爱的人，主都管教；
他所接纳的每一个儿子，他都鞭打。”[c]
7 对管教的事，你们要忍受；神对待你们，就像对待儿女那样。到底哪一个儿子不受父亲的管教呢？ 8 大家都有份受管教；你们如果没有受管教，那么，你们就是私生子，不是儿子了。 9 再者，我们有肉身的父亲来管教我们，我们尚且敬重他们，何况对这位万灵之父，我们难道不更要服从他而活着吗？ 10 肉身的父亲在短暂的日子里，固然照着自己的意思来管教我们；但万灵之父是为了我们的益处管教我们，好使我们在他的圣洁上有份。 11 不过所有的管教，当时虽然不觉得是愉快的事，反觉得是忧伤的事，而后来却为那些由此受到操练的人，结出平安和义行的果子。
12 因此，你们要把发软的手、发酸的腿伸直吧！ 13 也要为你们的脚把道路修直[d]，好使瘸腿的不至扭脚[e]，反得痊愈。
警告弃绝神恩典的人
14 你们要追求与众人和睦，要追求圣洁。任何不圣洁的人，都不能见到主。 15 你们要谨慎，免得有人亏缺了神的恩典；免得有苦毒的根长起来搅扰你们，使许多人因此被污秽了； 16 又免得有淫乱的，或像以扫那样不敬神的。以扫为了[f]一点食物，就把自己长子的名份卖了； 17 你们知道，后来他想继承祝福，却被弃绝了，虽然他流着泪水寻求，还是找不到悔改的机会。
18 你们并不是来到了摸得着的山[g]、燃烧着的火、阴云、幽暗、风暴、 19 号角的响声和说话的声音面前——那些听见这声音的人，都恳求不要再向他们说话了， 20 因为他们担当不了那吩咐他们的话：“即使是野兽触摸这山，也要用石头砸死[h]。”[i] 21 那景象实在可怕，连摩西也说：“我非常害怕战兢。”[j] 22 相反，你们却是来到了锡安山、永生神的城、天上的耶路撒冷面前；来到了千万天使的盛会面前； 23 来到了长子们[k]的教会面前——他们的名字[l]已经登记在天上；来到了神面前——他是万人的审判者；来到了义人的灵魂面前——他们得以完全； 24 来到了耶稣面前——他是新约的中保；来到了所洒的血面前——这血比亚伯的血所述说的更美好。
25 你们要当心，不要拒绝向你们[m]说话的那一位。要知道，那些拒绝了在地上警告他们的，尚且无法逃脱惩罚[n]，更何况我们背弃从天上警告我们的那一位呢！ 26 那时候，他的声音震动了大地，但如今他应许说：“我不仅要再一次震动地，而且还要震动天。”[o] 27 “再一次”这句话表明了那些能够被震动的，就如被造之物，都要被挪去，好使那些不能被震动的可以存留。 28 因此，我们既然在领受一个不能被震动的国度，就让我们怀有感恩的心[p]，藉此以虔诚和敬畏，照着神所喜悦的[q]来事奉他。 29 要知道，我们的神实在是吞噬的烈火。
Footnotes
- 希伯来书 12:2 为了——或译作“替换”。
- 希伯来书 12:3 心里——或译作“灵魂”。
- 希伯来书 12:6 《箴言》3:11-12。
- 希伯来书 12:13 修直——或译作“修平”。
- 希伯来书 12:13 扭脚——或译作“偏离”或“被人避开”。
- 希伯来书 12:16 为了——或译作“替换”。
- 希伯来书 12:18 有古抄本没有“山”。
- 希伯来书 12:20 有古抄本附“或被标枪刺穿”。
- 希伯来书 12:20 《出埃及记》19:12-13。
- 希伯来书 12:21 《申命记》9:19。
- 希伯来书 12:23 长子——原文直译“首生者”。
- 希伯来书 12:23 名字——辅助词语。
- 希伯来书 12:25 向你们——辅助词语。
- 希伯来书 12:25 惩罚——辅助词语。
- 希伯来书 12:26 《哈该书》2:6。
- 希伯来书 12:28 怀有感恩的心——或译作“持守恩典”。
- 希伯来书 12:28 照着神所喜悦的——或译作“按蒙喜悦的方式”。
Hebrews 12
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Chapter 12
God Our Father.[a] 1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us rid ourselves of every burden and sin that clings to us[b] and persevere in running the race that lies before us 2 while keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus, the leader and perfecter of faith. For the sake of the joy that lay before him he endured the cross, despising its shame, and has taken his seat at the right of the throne of God.(A) 3 Consider how he endured such opposition from sinners, in order that you may not grow weary and lose heart. 4 In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood. 5 You have also forgotten the exhortation addressed to you as sons:
“My son, do not disdain the discipline of the Lord(B)
or lose heart when reproved by him;
6 for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines;
he scourges every son he acknowledges.”
7 Endure your trials as “discipline”; God treats you as sons. For what “son” is there whom his father does not discipline?(C) 8 If you are without discipline, in which all have shared, you are not sons but bastards. 9 Besides this, we have had our earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them. Should we not [then] submit all the more to the Father of spirits and live?(D) 10 They disciplined us for a short time as seemed right to them, but he does so for our benefit, in order that we may share his holiness. 11 At the time, all discipline seems a cause not for joy but for pain, yet later it brings the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who are trained by it.(E)
12 So strengthen your drooping hands and your weak knees.(F) 13 Make straight paths for your feet, that what is lame may not be dislocated but healed.(G)
Penalties of Disobedience. 14 (H)Strive for peace with everyone, and for that holiness without which no one will see the Lord. 15 [c]See to it that no one be deprived of the grace of God, that no bitter root spring up and cause trouble, through which many may become defiled,(I) 16 that no one be an immoral or profane person like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal.(J) 17 For you know that later, when he wanted to inherit his father’s blessing, he was rejected because he found no opportunity to change his mind, even though he sought the blessing with tears.(K)
18 [d]You have not approached that which could be touched[e](L) and a blazing fire and gloomy darkness and storm 19 and a trumpet blast and a voice speaking words such that those who heard begged that no message be further addressed to them,(M) 20 for they could not bear to hear the command: “If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned.”(N) 21 Indeed, so fearful was the spectacle that Moses said, “I am terrified and trembling.”(O) 22 No, you have approached Mount Zion and the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and countless angels in festal gathering,(P) 23 and the assembly of the firstborn enrolled in heaven,[f] and God the judge of all, and the spirits of the just made perfect,(Q) 24 and Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and the sprinkled blood that speaks more eloquently[g] than that of Abel.(R)
25 See that you do not reject the one who speaks. For if they did not escape when they refused the one who warned them on earth, how much more in our case if we turn away from the one who warns from heaven.(S) 26 His voice shook the earth at that time, but now he has promised, “I will once more shake not only earth but heaven.”(T) 27 That phrase, “once more,” points to [the] removal of shaken, created things, so that what is unshaken may remain.(U) 28 Therefore, we who are receiving the unshakable kingdom should have gratitude, with which we should offer worship pleasing to God in reverence and awe.(V) 29 For our God is a consuming fire.(W)
Footnotes
- 12:1–13 Christian life is to be inspired not only by the Old Testament men and women of faith (Hb 12:1) but above all by Jesus. As the architect of Christian faith, he had himself to endure the cross before receiving the glory of his triumph (Hb 12:2). Reflection on his sufferings should give his followers courage to continue the struggle, if necessary even to the shedding of blood (Hb 12:3–4). Christians should regard their own sufferings as the affectionate correction of the Lord, who loves them as a father loves his children.
- 12:1 That clings to us: the meaning is uncertain, since the Greek word euperistatos, translated cling, occurs only here. The papyrus P46 and one minuscule read euperispastos, “easily distracting,” which also makes good sense.
- 12:15–17 Esau serves as an example in two ways: his profane attitude illustrates the danger of apostasy, and his inability to secure a blessing afterward illustrates the impossibility of repenting after falling away (see Hb 6:4–6).
- 12:18–29 As a final appeal for adherence to Christian teaching, the two covenants, of Moses and of Christ, are compared. The Mosaic covenant, the author argues, is shown to have originated in fear of God and threats of divine punishment (Hb 12:18–21). The covenant in Christ gives us direct access to God (Hb 12:22), makes us members of the Christian community, God’s children, a sanctified people (Hb 12:23), who have Jesus as mediator to speak for us (Hb 12:24). Not to heed the voice of the risen Christ is a graver sin than the rejection of the word of Moses (Hb 12:25–26). Though Christians fall away, God’s kingdom in Christ will remain and his justice will punish those guilty of deserting it (Hb 12:28–29).
- 12:18 This remarkably beautiful passage contrasts two great assemblies of people: that of the Israelites gathered at Mount Sinai for the sealing of the old covenant and the promulgation of the Mosaic law, and that of the followers of Jesus gathered at Mount Zion, the heavenly Jerusalem, the assembly of the new covenant. This latter scene, marked by the presence of countless angels and of Jesus with his redeeming blood, is reminiscent of the celestial liturgies of the Book of Revelation.
- 12:23 The assembly of the firstborn enrolled in heaven: this expression may refer to the angels of Hb 12:22, or to the heroes of the Old Testament (see Hb 11), or to the entire assembly of the new covenant.
- 12:24 Speaks more eloquently: the blood of Abel, the first human blood to be shed, is contrasted with that of Jesus. Abel’s blood cried out from the earth for vengeance, but the blood of Jesus has opened the way for everyone, providing cleansing and access to God (Hb 10:19).
Hebrews 12
New King James Version
The Race of Faith
12 Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, (A)let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and (B)let us run (C)with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking unto Jesus, the [a]author and [b]finisher of our faith, (D)who for the joy that was set before Him (E)endured the cross, despising the shame, and (F)has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
The Discipline of God(G)
3 (H)For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, (I)lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls. 4 (J)You have not yet resisted to bloodshed, striving against sin. 5 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons:
(K)“My son, do not despise the [c]chastening of the Lord,
Nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him;
6 For (L)whom the Lord loves He chastens,
And scourges every son whom He receives.”
7 (M)If[d] you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what (N)son is there whom a father does not chasten? 8 But if you are without chastening, (O)of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons. 9 Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to (P)the Father of spirits and live? 10 For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, (Q)that we may be partakers of His holiness. 11 Now no [e]chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields (R)the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
Renew Your Spiritual Vitality(S)
12 Therefore (T)strengthen the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees, 13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
14 (U)Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, (V)without which no one will see the Lord: 15 looking carefully lest anyone (W)fall short of the grace of God; lest any (X)root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled; 16 lest there be any (Y)fornicator or [f]profane person like Esau, (Z)who for one morsel of food sold his birthright. 17 For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was (AA)rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears.
The Glorious Company
18 For you have not come [g]to (AB)the mountain that may be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness and [h]darkness and tempest, 19 and the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, so that those who heard it (AC)begged that the word should not be spoken to them anymore. 20 (For they could not endure what was commanded: (AD)“And if so much as a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned [i]or shot with an arrow.” 21 And so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, (AE)“I am exceedingly afraid and trembling.”)
22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, 23 to the [j]general assembly and church of (AF)the firstborn (AG)who are registered in heaven, to God (AH)the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men (AI)made perfect, 24 to Jesus (AJ)the Mediator of the new covenant, and to (AK)the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things (AL)than that of Abel.
Hear the Heavenly Voice
25 See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For (AM)if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven, 26 whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, (AN)“Yet once more I [k]shake not only the earth, but also heaven.” 27 Now this, “Yet once more,” indicates the (AO)removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain.
28 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we [l]may (AP)serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. 29 For (AQ)our God is a consuming fire.
Footnotes
- Hebrews 12:2 originator
- Hebrews 12:2 perfecter
- Hebrews 12:5 discipline
- Hebrews 12:7 NU, M It is for discipline that you endure; God
- Hebrews 12:11 discipline
- Hebrews 12:16 godless
- Hebrews 12:18 NU to that which
- Hebrews 12:18 NU gloom
- Hebrews 12:20 NU, M omit the rest of v. 20.
- Hebrews 12:23 festal gathering
- Hebrews 12:26 NU will shake
- Hebrews 12:28 M omits may
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