罗马书 8
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)
随从圣灵而活
8 因此，如今那些在基督耶稣里的人不被定罪， 2 因为赐人生命之圣灵的律已经在基督耶稣里使我获得自由，脱离了罪与死的律。 3 律法因为人性软弱而无法成就的事，上帝亲自成就了。祂差遣自己的儿子成为和罪人一样有血有肉的人，作了赎罪祭，废掉了罪的权势， 4 使律法公义的要求实现在我们这些不随从罪恶本性，只随从圣灵而活的人身上。
5 随从罪恶本性的人顾念罪恶本性的事，但随从圣灵的人顾念圣灵的事。 6 顾念罪恶本性的人结局是死亡，但顾念圣灵的人却有生命和平安。 7 因为顾念罪恶本性的人与上帝为敌，不服从上帝的律法，也无力服从。 8 所以受罪恶本性控制的人无法令上帝喜悦。
9 但如果上帝的灵住在你们里面，你们就不再受制于罪恶的本性，而是受圣灵管理。人若没有基督的灵，就不属于基督。 10 如果基督在你们里面，你们的身体虽然因罪恶而死亡，灵魂却因上帝所赐的义而活着。 11 如果使耶稣复活之上帝的灵住在你们里面，叫基督耶稣从死里复活的上帝，必借着住在你们里面的圣灵，使你们终有一死的身体活过来。
12 弟兄姊妹，这样看来，我们不必随从罪恶本性活着。 13 你们若随从罪恶本性活着，必定死亡；但若靠着圣灵除去身体的恶行，就必活着。
14 因为凡有上帝的圣灵引导的人都是上帝的儿女。 15 你们接受的圣灵不是使你们做奴隶，仍旧害怕，而是使你们做儿子，可以称上帝为“阿爸，父亲”。 16 圣灵亲自与我们的心一同见证我们是上帝的儿女。 17 既然我们是儿女，就是继承人，是上帝的后嗣，并且与基督同做后嗣。所以，如果现在我们和基督一同受苦，将来也必和祂一同得荣耀。
将来的荣耀
18 我认为现在所受的痛苦与将来要显给我们的荣耀相比，简直微不足道。 19 受造之物正热切等候上帝众子的显现， 20 因为受造之物处在虚空之下并非出于情愿，而是出于上帝的旨意。 21 不过，受造之物仍然盼望脱离衰亡之律的奴役，享受上帝儿女荣耀的自由。 22 我们知道一切受造之物至今都在呻吟，如同经历分娩之痛。 23 不但如此，就是我们这些首先得到圣灵的人也在心里叹息，热切等候得到儿子的名分[a]，就是我们的身体得到救赎。 24 我们得救的人有这个盼望。不过，看得见的盼望根本不算盼望，因为谁会盼望已经看见的呢？ 25 但我们若盼望那尚未看见的，就会忍耐等候。
26 况且，我们软弱的时候，有圣灵帮助我们。我们本来不知道怎样祷告，但圣灵亲自用说不出来的叹息替我们祈祷。 27 洞悉人心的上帝知道圣灵的意思，因为圣灵是照着上帝的旨意替圣徒祈祷。
28 我们知道，上帝使万事互相效力[b]，使那些爱上帝，就是上帝按自己的旨意呼召的人得益处。 29 因为上帝预先知道谁是属祂的人，并预定这些人要被塑造成祂儿子的形象，使祂的儿子在许多弟兄中成为长子。 30 祂所预定的人，祂也呼召他们；祂所呼召的人，祂也称他们为义人；祂称为义人的，祂也使他们得荣耀。
上帝的爱
31 对于这些事，我们还可以说什么呢？上帝若帮助我们，谁能与我们对抗？ 32 上帝既然连自己的儿子也不顾惜，让祂为我们牺牲，岂不也把万物和祂一同白白地赐给我们吗？ 33 谁能指控上帝拣选的人呢？上帝已经称他们为义人了。 34 谁能定他们有罪呢？基督耶稣已经替他们死了，而且祂还从死里复活了，如今在上帝的右边替我们祈祷。 35 谁能使我们与基督的爱分离呢？难道是患难吗？困苦吗？迫害吗？饥饿吗？赤身露体吗？危险吗？刀剑吗？ 36 正如圣经上说：“为了你，我们终日出生入死，被视为待宰的羊。”
37 然而，靠着爱我们的主，我们在这一切事上已经得胜有余了。 38 因为我深信无论是死、是生，是天使、是鬼魔，是现在的事、是将来的事， 39 是高天之上的、是大地深处的或是其他受造之物，都不能使我们与上帝在主基督耶稣里赐下的爱分离。
羅馬書 8
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Traditional)
隨從聖靈而活
8 因此，如今那些在基督耶穌裡的人不被定罪， 2 因為賜人生命之聖靈的律已經在基督耶穌裡使我獲得自由，脫離了罪與死的律。 3 律法因為人性軟弱而無法成就的事，上帝親自成就了。祂差遣自己的兒子成為和罪人一樣有血有肉的人，作了贖罪祭，廢掉了罪的權勢， 4 使律法公義的要求實現在我們這些不隨從罪惡本性，只隨從聖靈而活的人身上。
5 隨從罪惡本性的人顧念罪惡本性的事，但隨從聖靈的人顧念聖靈的事。 6 顧念罪惡本性的人結局是死亡，但顧念聖靈的人卻有生命和平安。 7 因為顧念罪惡本性的人與上帝為敵，不服從上帝的律法，也無力服從。 8 所以受罪惡本性控制的人無法令上帝喜悅。
9 但如果上帝的靈住在你們裡面，你們就不再受制於罪惡的本性，而是受聖靈管理。人若沒有基督的靈，就不屬於基督。 10 如果基督在你們裡面，你們的身體雖然因罪惡而死亡，靈魂卻因上帝所賜的義而活著。 11 如果使耶穌復活之上帝的靈住在你們裡面，叫基督耶穌從死裡復活的上帝，必藉著住在你們裡面的聖靈，使你們終有一死的身體活過來。
12 弟兄姊妹，這樣看來，我們不必隨從罪惡本性活著。 13 你們若隨從罪惡本性活著，必定死亡；但若靠著聖靈除去身體的惡行，就必活著。
14 因為凡有上帝的聖靈引導的人都是上帝的兒女。 15 你們接受的聖靈不是使你們做奴隸，仍舊害怕，而是使你們做兒子，可以稱上帝為「阿爸，父親」。 16 聖靈親自與我們的心一同見證我們是上帝的兒女。 17 既然我們是兒女，就是繼承人，是上帝的後嗣，並且與基督同作後嗣。所以，如果現在我們和基督一同受苦，將來也必和祂一同得榮耀。
將來的榮耀
18 我認為現在所受的痛苦與將來要顯給我們的榮耀相比，簡直微不足道。 19 受造之物正熱切等候上帝眾子的顯現， 20 因為受造之物處在虛空之下並非出於情願，而是出於上帝的旨意。 21 不過，受造之物仍然盼望脫離衰亡之律的奴役，享受上帝兒女榮耀的自由。 22 我們知道一切受造之物至今都在呻吟，如同經歷分娩之痛。 23 不但如此，就是我們這些首先得到聖靈的人也在心裡歎息，熱切等候得到兒子的名分[a]，就是我們的身體得到救贖。 24 我們得救的人有這個盼望。不過，看得見的盼望根本不算盼望，因為誰會盼望已經看見的呢？ 25 但我們若盼望那尚未看見的，就會忍耐等候。
26 況且，我們軟弱的時候，有聖靈幫助我們。我們本來不知道怎樣禱告，但聖靈親自用說不出來的歎息替我們祈禱。 27 洞悉人心的上帝知道聖靈的意思，因為聖靈是照著上帝的旨意替聖徒祈禱。
28 我們知道，上帝使萬事互相效力[b]，使那些愛上帝，就是上帝按自己的旨意呼召的人得益處。 29 因為上帝預先知道誰是屬祂的人，並預定這些人要被塑造成祂兒子的形像，使祂的兒子在許多弟兄中成為長子。 30 祂所預定的人，祂也呼召他們；祂所呼召的人，祂也稱他們為義人；祂稱為義人的，祂也使他們得榮耀。
上帝的愛
31 對於這些事，我們還可以說什麼呢？上帝若幫助我們，誰能與我們對抗？ 32 上帝既然連自己的兒子也不顧惜，讓祂為我們犧牲，豈不也把萬物和祂一同白白地賜給我們嗎？ 33 誰能指控上帝揀選的人呢？上帝已經稱他們為義人了。 34 誰能定他們有罪呢？基督耶穌已經替他們死了，而且祂還從死裡復活了，如今在上帝的右邊替我們祈禱。 35 誰能使我們與基督的愛分離呢？難道是患難嗎？困苦嗎？迫害嗎？饑餓嗎？赤身露體嗎？危險嗎？刀劍嗎？ 36 正如聖經上說：「為了你，我們終日出生入死，被視為待宰的羊。」
37 然而，靠著愛我們的主，我們在這一切事上已經得勝有餘了。 38 因為我深信無論是死、是生，是天使、是鬼魔，是現在的事、是將來的事， 39 是高天之上的、是大地深處的或是其他受造之物，都不能使我們與上帝在主基督耶穌裡賜下的愛分離。
Romans 8
International Children’s Bible
Life in the Spirit
8 So now, those who are in Christ Jesus are not judged[a] guilty. 2 I am not judged guilty because in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit that brings life made me free. It made me free from the law that brings sin and death. 3 The law was without power, because the law was made weak by our sinful selves. But God did what the law could not do. He sent his own Son to earth with the same human life that others use for sin. He sent his Son to be an offering to pay for sin. So God used a human life to destroy sin. 4 He did this so that we could be right as the law said we must be. Now we do not live following our sinful selves, but we live following the Spirit.
5 Those who live following their sinful selves think only about things that their sinful selves want. But those who live following the Spirit are thinking about the things that the Spirit wants them to do. 6 If a person’s thinking is controlled by his sinful self, then there is death. But if his thinking is controlled by the Spirit, then there is life and peace. 7 This is true because if a person’s thinking is controlled by his sinful self, then he is against God. He refuses to obey God’s law. And really he is not able to obey God’s law. 8 Those people who are ruled by their sinful selves cannot please God.
9 But you are not ruled by your sinful selves. You are ruled by the Spirit, if that Spirit of God really lives in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, then he does not belong to Christ. 10 Your body will always be dead because of sin. But if Christ is in you, then the Spirit gives you life, because Christ made you right with God. 11 God raised Jesus from death. And if God’s Spirit is living in you, then he will also give life to your bodies that die. God is the One who raised Christ from death. And he will give life through[b] his Spirit that lives in you.
12 So, my brothers, we must not be ruled by our sinful selves. We must not live the way our sinful selves want. 13 If you use your lives to do the wrong things your sinful selves want, then you will die spiritually. But if you use the Spirit’s help to stop doing the wrong things you do with your body, then you will have true life.
14 The true children of God are those who let God’s Spirit lead them. 15 The Spirit that we received is not a spirit that makes us slaves again to fear. The Spirit that we have makes us children of God. And with that Spirit we say, “Father, dear Father.”[c] 16 And the Spirit himself joins with our spirits to say that we are God’s children. 17 If we are God’s children, then we will receive the blessings God has for us. We will receive these things from God together with Christ. But we must suffer as Christ suffered, and then we will have glory as Christ has glory.
Our Future Glory
18 We have sufferings now. But the sufferings we have now are nothing compared to the great glory that will be given to us. 19 Everything that God made is waiting with excitement for the time when God will show the world who his children are. The whole world wants very much for that to happen. 20 Everything that God made was changed to become useless. This was not by its own wish. It happened because God wanted it. But there was this hope: 21 that everything God made would be set free from ruin. There was hope that everything God made would have the freedom and glory that belong to God’s children.
22 We know that everything God made has been waiting until now in pain, like a woman ready to give birth. 23 Not only the world, but we also have been waiting with pain inside us. We have the Spirit as the first part of God’s promise. So we are waiting for God to finish making us his own children. I mean we are waiting for our bodies to be made free. 24 We were saved, and we have this hope. If we see what we are waiting for, then that is not really hope. People do not hope for something they already have. 25 But we are hoping for something that we do not have yet. We are waiting for it patiently.
26 Also, the Spirit helps us. We are very weak, but the Spirit helps us with our weakness. We do not know how to pray as we should. But the Spirit himself speaks to God for us, even begs God for us. The Spirit speaks to God with deep feelings that words cannot explain. 27 God can see what is in people’s hearts. And he knows what is in the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit speaks to God for his people in the way that God wants.
28 We know that in everything God works for the good of those who love him.[d] They are the people God called, because that was his plan. 29 God knew them before he made the world. And God chose them to be like his Son. Then Jesus would be the firstborn[e] of many brothers. 30 God planned for them to be like his Son. And those he planned to be like his Son, he also called. And those he called, he also made right with him. And those he made right, he also glorified.
God’s Love in Christ Jesus
31 So what should we say about this? If God is for us, then no one can defeat us. 32 God let even his own Son suffer for us. God gave his Son for us all. So with Jesus, God will surely give us all things. 33 Who can accuse the people that God has chosen? No one! God is the One who makes them right. 34 Who can say that God’s people are guilty? No one! Christ Jesus died, but that is not all. He was also raised from death. And now he is on God’s right side and is begging God for us. 35 Can anything separate us from the love Christ has for us? Can troubles or problems or sufferings? If we have no food or clothes, if we are in danger, or even if death comes—can any of these things separate us from Christ’s love? 36 As it is written in the Scriptures:
“For you we are in danger of death all the time.
People think we are worth no more than sheep to be killed.” Psalm 44:22
37 But in all these things we have full victory through God who showed his love for us. 38-39 Yes, I am sure that nothing can separate us from the love God has for us. Not death, not life, not angels, not ruling spirits, nothing now, nothing in the future, no powers, nothing above us, nothing below us, or anything else in the whole world will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Footnotes
- 8:1 judged Some Greek copies continue, “guilty, those who do not live in the power of their sinful selves, but in the power of the Spirit.”
- 8:11 through Some Greek copies read “because of.”
- 8:15 “Father, dear Father.” Literally, “Abba, Father.” Jewish children called their fathers “Abba.”
- 8:28 We . . . him. Some Greek copies read “We know that everything works together for good for those who love God.”
- 8:29 firstborn Here this probably means that Christ was the first in God’s family to share God’s glory.
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