彼得前书 2
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)
渴慕灵奶
2 因此，你们既然已经除去一切恶毒、欺诈、虚伪、嫉妒和毁谤， 2 就要像初生的婴儿一样渴慕纯净的灵奶，好不断成长，直到完全得救。 3 因为你们尝过主恩的滋味是何等甘美。
灵宫活石
4 主是活石，虽然被人弃绝，却被上帝拣选、视为宝贵。 5 你们也如同活石，被用来建造属灵的宫殿，好做圣洁的祭司，借着耶稣基督献上蒙上帝悦纳的灵祭。 6 因为圣经上说：
“看啊，我在锡安放了一块蒙拣选的宝贵房角石，
信靠祂的人必不会蒙羞。”
7 所以，对你们信的人而言，这石头是宝贵的；但对那些不信的人来说，却是：
“工匠丢弃的石头，
已成了房角石。”
8 也是：
“绊脚石和使人跌倒的磐石。”
他们跌倒是因为他们不顺服真道，这种下场早已注定了。
9 但你们是蒙拣选的族群，是君尊的祭司，是圣洁的国度，是上帝的子民，因此你们可以宣扬上帝的美德。祂曾呼召你们离开黑暗，进入祂奇妙的光明。 10 从前你们不是上帝的子民，现在却做了祂的子民；从前你们未蒙怜悯，现在却蒙了怜悯。
上帝的仆人
11 亲爱的弟兄姊妹，你们是客旅，是寄居的，我劝你们要禁戒与灵魂为敌的邪情私欲。 12 你们在异教徒当中要品行端正。这样，尽管他们毁谤你们是作恶的人，但看见你们的好行为，也会在主来的日子把荣耀归给上帝。
13 为主的缘故，你们要服从人间的一切权柄，不管是居首位的君王， 14 还是被君王派来赏善罚恶的官员。 15 因为上帝的旨意是要你们行善，使那些愚昧无知的人哑口无言。 16 你们是自由的人，不要以自由为借口去犯罪作恶，要做上帝的奴仆。 17 要尊重所有的人，爱主内的弟兄姊妹，敬畏上帝，尊敬君王。
受苦的榜样
18 你们做奴仆的，要存敬畏的心顺服主人，不但顺服那良善温和的，也要顺服那凶暴的。 19 因为人若为了让良心对得起上帝而忍受冤屈之苦，就会得到恩福。 20 如果你们犯罪受责打，能够忍受得住，有什么功劳呢？但如果你们因行善而受苦，还能忍受，就是上帝所喜悦的。
21 你们蒙召也是为此，因为基督也为你们受过苦，给你们留下榜样，叫你们可以追随祂的脚步。 22 祂没有犯罪，口中也没有诡诈。 23 祂被辱骂也不还口，被迫害也不扬言报复，只把自己交托给按公义施行审判的上帝。 24 祂被钉在十字架上，亲身担当了我们的罪，使我们向着罪死了，可以过公义的生活。因祂所受的鞭伤，你们得到了医治。 25 从前你们好像是迷路的羊，现在却归向了你们灵魂的牧人和监护者。
1 Peter 2
Lexham English Bible
Chosen as Living Stones
2 Therefore, ridding yourselves of all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander, 2 like newborn infants long for the unadulterated spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation, 3 if you have tasted that the Lord is kind,[a] 4 to whom you are drawing near, a living stone rejected by men but chosen and precious in the sight of God. 5 And you yourselves, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 6 For it stands in scripture,
“Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a chosen and precious cornerstone,
and the one who believes in him will never be put to shame.”[b]
7 Therefore the honor is for you who believe, but for those who refuse to believe,
“The stone that the builders rejected,
this one has become the cornerstone[c],”
8 and
“A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense,”[d]
who stumble because they[e] disobey the word to which also they were consigned. 9 But you are a chosen race,[f] a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s possession, so that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light, 10 who once were not a people, but now are the people of God, the ones who were not shown mercy, but now are shown mercy.[g]
11 Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and temporary residents to abstain from fleshly desires which wage war against your[h] soul, 12 maintaining your good conduct among the Gentiles, so that in the things in which they slander you as evildoers, by seeing your good deeds they may glorify God on the day of visitation.
Submission to Established Authority
13 Subject yourselves to every human authority for the sake of the Lord, whether to a king[i] as having supreme authority, 14 or to governors as those sent out by him for the punishment of those who do evil and the praise of those who do good. 15 For the will of God is as follows: by[j] doing good to silence the ignorance of foolish people. 16 Live as free persons, and not using your[k] freedom as a covering for evil, but as slaves of God. 17 Honor all people, love the community of believers, fear God, honor the king.[l]
18 Domestic slaves, be subject to your[m] masters with all respect, not only to those who are good and gentle, but also to those who are unjust. 19 For this finds favor, if because of consciousness of God someone endures sorrows while[n] suffering unjustly. 20 For what credit is it if, when you[o] sin and are beaten for it, you endure? But if you endure when you[p] do good and suffer for it, this finds favor with God. 21 For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you should follow in his footsteps, 22 who did not commit sin, nor was deceit found in his mouth,[q] 23 who when he[r] was reviled, did not revile in return; when[s] suffering, he did not threaten, but entrusted himself to the one who judges justly, 24 who himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we may die to sins and live to righteousness, by whose wounds you were healed. 25 For you were going astray like sheep, but you have turned back now to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.
Footnotes
- 1 Peter 2:3 A quotation from Ps 34:8
- 1 Peter 2:6 A quotation from Isa 28:16
- 1 Peter 2:7 Literally “into the head of the corner”
- 1 Peter 2:8 A quotation from Isa 8:14
- 1 Peter 2:8 Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“disobey”) which is understood as causal
- 1 Peter 2:9 Or “people,” or “generation,” or “nation”
- 1 Peter 2:10 This verse contains quotations from Hos 1:6, 9; 2:23
- 1 Peter 2:11 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
- 1 Peter 2:13 Or “to the emperor”
- 1 Peter 2:15 Here “by” is supplied as a component of the participle (“doing good”) which is understood as means
- 1 Peter 2:16 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
- 1 Peter 2:17 Or “the emperor”
- 1 Peter 2:18 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
- 1 Peter 2:19 Here “while” is supplied as a component of the participle (“suffering”) which is understood as temporal
- 1 Peter 2:20 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“sin”) which is understood as temporal
- 1 Peter 2:20 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“do good”) which is understood as temporal
- 1 Peter 2:22 This verse contains quotations from Isa 53:9
- 1 Peter 2:23 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“was reviled”) which is understood as temporal
- 1 Peter 2:23 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“suffering”) which is understood as temporal
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