罗马书 8
Chinese New Version (Traditional)
聖靈使人脫離罪的律得自由
8 所以現在，那些在耶穌基督裡的人就不被定罪了； 2 因為生命之靈的律在基督耶穌裡使我自由，脫離了罪和死的律。 3 律法是因肉體而軟弱無力，所作不到的， 神作到了：他差遣自己的兒子成為罪身的樣式，為了除掉罪，就在肉體中把罪判決了， 4 使律法所要求的義，可以在我們這些不隨從肉體而隨從聖靈去行的人身上實現出來。 5 隨從肉體的人，以肉體的事為念；隨從聖靈的人，以聖靈的事為念。 6 以肉體為念就是死，以聖靈為念就是生命、平安； 7 因為以肉體為念就是與 神為仇，既不服從 神的律法，也的確不能夠服從； 8 屬肉體的人不能得 神的喜悅。 9 神的靈既然住在你們裡面，你們就不是屬於肉體，而是屬於聖靈的了。如果人沒有基督的靈，就不是屬於基督的。 10 基督若在你們裡面，你們的身體因著罪的緣故是死的，而聖靈卻因著義的緣故賜給你們生命。 11 如果那使耶穌從死人中復活者的靈住在你們裡面，那使基督從死人中復活的，也必藉著住在你們裡面的聖靈，使你們必死的身體活過來。
與基督同作 神的後嗣
12 弟兄們，可見我們並不是欠肉體的債，隨著肉體而活。 13 如果隨著肉體而活，你們必定死；如果靠著聖靈治死身體的惡行，你們就必活著。 14 因為蒙 神的靈引導的，都是 神的兒子。 15 你們接受的，不是奴僕的靈，使你們仍舊懼怕；你們接受的，是使人成為嗣子的靈，使我們呼叫“阿爸、父”。 16 聖靈親自和我們的靈一同證明我們是 神的兒女。 17 既然是兒女，就是後嗣；是 神的後嗣，也和基督一同作後嗣。我們既然和他一同受苦，就必和他一同得榮耀。
耐心期待將來的榮耀
18 我看現在的苦難，與將要向我們顯出的榮耀，是無法相比的。 19 被造的萬物都熱切渴望 神的眾子顯現出來。 20 因為被造的萬物服在虛空之下，不是自己願意這樣，而是由於使它屈服的那一位； 21 被造的萬物盼望自己得著釋放，脫離敗壞的奴役，得著 神兒女榮耀的自由。 22 我們知道被造的萬物直到現在都一同在痛苦呻吟。 23 不但這樣，連我們這些有聖靈作為初熟果子的人，自己也在內心歎息，熱切期待成為嗣子，就是我們的身體得贖。 24 我們得救時就存著這盼望；但是看得見的盼望不是盼望，因為誰會盼望自己看見了的呢？ 25 但如果我們盼望沒有看見的，就會耐心地熱切期待。
26 照樣，聖靈也在我們的軟弱上幫助我們。原來我們不曉得應當怎樣禱告，但聖靈親自用不可言喻的歎息，替我們祈求。 27 那鑒察人心的，曉得聖靈的心意，因為聖靈照著 神的旨意替聖徒祈求。 28 我們知道，為了愛 神的人，就是按他旨意蒙召的人的益處，萬事都一同效力。 29 因為 神預先知道的人，他就預先命定他們和他兒子的形象一模一樣，使他的兒子在許多弟兄中作長子， 30 他預先命定的人，又呼召他們；所召來的人，又稱他們為義；所稱為義的人，又使他們得榮耀。
靠主就得勝有餘
31 既是這樣，我們對這一切還有甚麼話說呢？ 神若這樣為我們，誰能敵對我們呢？ 32 他連自己的兒子都捨得，為我們眾人把他交出來，難道不也把萬有和他一同白白地賜給我們嗎？ 33 誰能控告 神揀選的人呢？有 神稱我們為義了。 34 誰能定我們的罪呢？有基督耶穌死了，而且復活了，現今在 神的右邊，也替我們祈求。 35 誰能使我們與基督的愛隔絕呢？是患難嗎？是困苦嗎？是迫害嗎？是飢餓嗎？是赤身露體嗎？是危險嗎？是刀劍嗎？ 36 正如經上所記：
“為你的緣故，我們終日面對死亡，
人看我們像待宰的羊。”
37 但靠著愛我們的那一位，我們在這一切事上就得勝有餘了。 38 因為我深信：無論是死、是生，是天使、是掌權的，是現在的事，是將來的事，是有能力的， 39 是高天的、是深淵的，或是任何別的被造之物，都不能叫我們與 神的愛隔絕，這愛是在我們的主耶穌基督裡的。
Romans 8
New Catholic Bible
The Spirit of God Dwells in Christians[a]
Chapter 8
There Is No Longer Any Condemnation. 1 Hence, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death. 3 That which the Law, weakened by the flesh, was unable to do, God has done. By sending his own Son in the likeness of our sinful nature as a sin offering, he condemned sin in the flesh 4 so that the righteous requirements of the Law[b] might be fulfilled in us who live not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Animated by the Spirit and Rendered Children of God.[c] 5 Those who live according to the flesh fix their attention on the things of the flesh, while those who live according to the Spirit set their thoughts on spiritual things. 6 The desires of the flesh result in death, but the desires of the Spirit result in life and peace. 7 Indeed, the desires of the flesh will be hostile to God, for they do not submit to the Law of God, nor could they do so. 8 Those who live according to the flesh can never be pleasing to God.
9 You, however, do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit, since the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not possess the Spirit of Christ cannot belong to him. 10 But if Christ is in you, then even though the body is dead as a result of sin, the Spirit is alive in you because of righteousness. 11 If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, then the one who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit that dwells in you.[d]
12 Consequently, brethren, we are not debtors to the flesh and obliged to live according to the flesh. 13 If you do live according to the flesh, you will die. However, if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
14 [e]Those who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. 15 For you did not receive a spirit of slavery leading to fear; rather, you received the Spirit of adoption, enabling us to cry out, “Abba! Father!” 16 The Spirit himself bears witness with our Spirit that we are children of God. 17 And if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, provided that we share his sufferings so that we may also share his glory.
18 The Future Glory That Shall Be Revealed.[f] I consider that the sufferings we presently endure are not worth comparing with the glory to be revealed in us. 19 Indeed, creation itself eagerly awaits the revelation of the children of God. 20 For creation was subjected to frustration, not of its own choice but by the will of the one who subjected it, in the hope 21 that creation itself will be freed from its slavery to corruption and share in the glorious freedom of the children of God.
22 As we know, the entire creation has been groaning in labor pains until now— 23 and not only creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait for our adoption as children, the redemption of our bodies. 24 For in hope we were saved. Now to see something does not involve hope. For why should we hope for what we have already seen? 25 But if we hope for what we do not yet see, then we wait for it with patience.
26 In the same way, even the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with sighs that cannot be put into words. 27 And the one who searches hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God’s will.
28 We know that God makes all things work together for good for those who love him[g] and who are called according to his purpose. 29 For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son so that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30 Those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.
31 Who Can Separate Us from the Love of Christ? What then can we say in response to all this? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He did not spare his own Son but gave him up for all of us. How then can he fail also to give us everything else along with him?
33 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who acquits. 34 Who will condemn? Christ Jesus, who died, or rather rose again, who is at God’s right hand and intercedes for us?[h] 35 Who then can separate us from the love of Christ? Will hardship, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or the sword? 36 As it is written,
“For your sake we are being slain all day long;
we are treated like sheep to be slaughtered.”
37 No, throughout all these things we are conquerors because of him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor present things, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth,[i] nor any other creature will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Footnotes
- Romans 8:1 In the experience of the love of God there are three dominant elements: the life of the Spirit (vv. 5-13), the sure realization of being children of God (vv. 14-17), and the certainty of future glory (vv. 18-30). This ascending description ends with a triumphant hymn to the unfailing love of the Lord (vv. 31-39).
- Romans 8:4 Righteous requirements of the Law: although the Law is not a means of salvation, it still plays a role in the life of a believer as a moral guide, obeyed out of love for God and by the power of the Holy Spirit. This marks the fulfillment of Jeremiah’s prophecy of the New Covenant (Jer 31:33ff).
- Romans 8:5 What is the Christian life in its deepest reality? Paul thinks of all that the Holy Spirit inaugurates in the existence of the believer. He is the Spirit of the Father and of Christ, dwells in every Christian, and is a source of spiritual life for each. We can look upon him as the soul of the Church. He is the power of a progressive transformation, which culminates in the resurrection of the body. In a privileged moment—that of prayer—believers grasp their new state as children of God. Thus, believers escape from the flesh, i.e., an orientation to and a realization of a life without future and without accomplishment (see Gal 5:16-25).
- Romans 8:11 For the connection between the Resurrection of Christ and that of believers, see 1 Cor 6:14; 15:20, 23; 2 Cor 4:14; Phil 3:21; 1 Thes 4:14.
- Romans 8:14 Because of the Holy Spirit’s presence in them, Christians possess a new life as well as a new relationship with God. They have become adopted children of God and heirs through Christ, sharing both in his sufferings and in his glory.
- Romans 8:18 The exalting perspective of salvation is expanded to the dimensions of the universe. Paul takes up a Biblical idea: the cosmos is linked with the fate of humankind, cursed then redeemed. All creation prepares for the new world (v. 22). Paul beautifully sketches the proofs of this movement that is nearing its fulfillment:
(1) the presentiment of the universe whose Creator and Lord is Christ (vv. 19-22); (2) the firm hope of believers transformed through Baptism and urged to seize fully that which—even here below—the Spirit inaugurates in them (vv. 23-25); (3) the very prayer by which the Spirit inspires this grand aspiration (vv. 26-27); and finally (4) the will of God, whose love embraces believers in order to associate them with the risen and glorified Christ, so that they may be in the image of his Son, who is himself the perfect image of the Father (see Col 1:15) (vv. 28-30). - Romans 8:28 We know that God makes all things work together for good for those who love him: some manuscripts have: “We know that all things work together for good to those who love God.”
- Romans 8:34 The reasons why no one can condemn us who are God’s elect are three: (1) Christ died for us; (2) Christ is alive and seated at God’s right hand, a position of awesome power; and (3) Christ himself makes intercession for us.
- Romans 8:39 In the terms angels . . . principalities . . . height . . . depth Paul is perhaps speaking of spiritual entities that were considered to be intermediaries between God and humanity.
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