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 Catholic Bible
Let Us Run with Eyes Fixed on Jesus[a]
Chapter 12
You Have Not Yet Resisted to the Point of Bloodshed. 1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses,[b] let us throw off everything that weighs us down and the sins that so easily distract us and with perseverance run the race that lies ahead of us, 2 with our eyes fixed on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith. For the sake of the joy that lay before him, he endured the cross, ignoring its shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
3 Reflect on how he endured such great hostility from sinners so 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 your blood.
God Is Treating You as His Children.[c] 5 You have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as children:
“My son, do not scorn the discipline of the Lord
or lose heart when you are punished by him.
6 For the Lord disciplines those whom he loves,
and he chastises every son whom he acknowledges.”
7 Endure the trials you receive as a form of discipline. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there who is not disciplined by his father? 8 If you have not received the discipline in which all share, then you are illegitimate and not true sons.
9 In addition, we have all received discipline from our earthly fathers, and we respected them. Should we not then be even more willing to submit to the Father of spirits and live? 10 They disciplined us for a short time as they thought best, but he does so for our benefit so that we may share his holiness.
11 At the time that discipline is received, it always seems painful rather than pleasant, but afterward it yields a harvest of peace and uprightness to those who have been trained by it. 12 Therefore, strengthen your drooping hands and your weak knees, 13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that your weakened limbs may not be disabled but rather may be healed.
14 Seek Peace and Sanctification.[d] Seek peace with everyone, as well as the holiness without which no one will ever see the Lord. 15 See to it that no one is deprived of the grace of God, and that no root of bitterness may spring up and cause trouble, resulting in the defilement of many.
16 Do not be like Esau, an immoral and worldly-minded person who sold his birthright for a single meal. 17 Afterward, as you know, when he sought to inherit the blessing, he was rejected. Even though he sought it with tears, he found no possibility for repentance.
18 Listen to the One Who Is Speaking.[e] You have not come to something that can be touched: a blazing fire, or complete darkness, or gloom, or a storm, 19 or the sound of a trumpet, or a voice speaking words that made those who heard them beg that nothing more be said to them. 20 For they could not bear to hear the command that was given, “If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned to death.” 21 Indeed, so terrifying was the sight that Moses cried out, “I am terrified and trembling.”
22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to myriads of angels in joyful gathering, 23 and to the assembly of the firstborn[f] whose names are written in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous who have been made perfect. 24 You have come to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant and to the sprinkled blood that speaks more powerfully than even the blood of Abel.
25 See that you do not reject the one who is speaking. For if those did not escape when they rejected the one who warned them on earth, how much more is this true of us if we turn away from the one who is from heaven? 26 At that time, his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “Once more I will shake not only the earth but heaven as well.”
27 The words “once more” indicate the removal of what can be shaken—that is, all created things—so that what cannot be shaken may remain. 28 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us give thanks, offering to God a worship that is pleasing to him. 29 For our God is a consuming fire.
Footnotes
- Hebrews 12:1 Christians have only one person on whom to keep their eyes as the object of faith and salvation: Christ (see Heb 11:26f; Acts 7:55f; Phil 3:8). They look to the Crucified Lord to understand how to behave at all times, and especially in difficulties and persecution.
- Hebrews 12:1 Surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses: the author may be thinking of an athletic contest in a large amphitheater wherein the heroes just mentioned are inspiring examples for us, urging us on to stand firm in the faith and even to martyrdom if need be.
- Hebrews 12:5 God treats us as his sons and daughters. And the trials that we must withstand in order to make progress in the faith is another sign of this point for us. Hence, we must take heart.
- Hebrews 12:14 Once again the author places their responsibilities before his hearers. They must not revert to the past by returning to Judaism. This would be tantamount to dishonoring the gift of salvation and perverting the atmosphere of the community.
- Hebrews 12:18 The author alludes to the Covenant of Sinai, which was a fascinating and terrifying spectacle in the history of Israel (see Ex 19–20; Deut 4:11; 9:19). The New Covenant is a celebration of peace and festivity. Israel’s way of life was only a figure for the conduct of the Church. Once people are gripped by the Covenant of grace, they cannot turn back toward an insufficient religion of yesteryear—that would be to show disdain for God. The Lord is “a consuming fire”: the image evokes all at once his holiness, his demands, his judgment to the very depths of a being, and his hold that burns one’s existence.
- Hebrews 12:23 Assembly of the firstborn: either all the elect or the angels as the first creatures.
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