罗马书 9
Chinese Standard Bible (Simplified)
以色列人拒绝基督
9 我在基督里说真话，不是在说谎；我的良心藉着圣灵与我一同作证： 2 我极其忧伤，心里时常苦痛。 3 为了我的同胞[a]，我的骨肉之亲，就算我自己被诅咒、与基督分离，我也愿意。 4 他们是以色列人：儿子的名份、荣耀、诸约、所赐的律法、礼仪、各样应许，都是他们的； 5 祖先也是他们的；照着肉身说，基督也是出自他们的——他是那在万有之上当受颂赞的神，直到永远！阿们。
神拣选以色列人
6 但这并不是说神的话语[b]落了空，因为由以色列所生的，并不都是以色列人； 7 也不因为是亚伯拉罕的后裔，就都是他的儿女；只有“从以撒生的，才会被称为你的后裔。”[c] 8 这就是说，肉身的儿女并不是神的儿女，只有应许的儿女才算是后裔。 9 原来所应许的话是这样的：“到明年[d]这时候我要来，撒拉会生一个儿子。”[e] 10 不仅如此，丽贝卡也是这样。她由一个人，就是由我们的先祖以撒怀了孕。 11 实际上，双子[f]还没有出生，也没有行善或作恶以前——为了要显明神的拣选心意不是本于人的行为，而是出于召唤人的那一位—— 12 神[g]就对丽贝卡说：“大的将要服事小的。”[h] 13 正如经上所记：“我爱雅各，却恨以扫。”[i]
神公义的拣选
14 那么，我们要怎么说呢？难道神不公义吗？绝对不是！ 15 因为神对摩西说：
“我要怜悯谁，就怜悯谁；
我要同情谁，就同情谁。”[j]
16 由此可见，这不在于人的意愿，也不在于人的努力[k]，而在于施怜悯的神。 17 原来经上有话对法老说：
“我兴起你，正是为此：
好让我藉着你来显出我的大能，
使我的名传遍天下。”[l]
18 这样看来，神要怜悯谁，就怜悯谁；要使谁顽固，就使谁顽固。
19 那么，你会对我说：“既然如此，神为什么还要指责人呢？到底谁能抵挡他的旨意呢？” 20 哦，人哪！你到底是谁，竟然向神顶嘴呢？被造的难道可以对造它的说：“你为什么把我造成这样呢？” 21 难道陶匠没有权柄从同一团泥中，既造出贵重的器皿，又造出卑贱的器皿吗？ 22 但如果神想要显出他的震怒，显明他的能力，就以极大的耐心容忍那些承受震怒的器皿，就是他早已预备要归于灭亡[m]的器皿，那又怎么样呢？ 23 再者，如果这是为要将他那荣耀的丰盛显明在这些得蒙怜悯的器皿，就是他早已预备要归于荣耀的器皿上，那又怎么样呢？ 24 这些器皿就是我们这些蒙召的人：不仅是从犹太人中，也是从外邦人中蒙召的人。 25 正如神在何西阿书上也说：
27 以赛亚论到以色列人，呼喊说：
“以色列子民的人数虽然多如海沙，
将要得救的却是剩余的少数。
28 主就是要在地上
彻底、迅速地成就他的话。”[p]
29 又如以赛亚预先说过：
“要不是万军之主给我们留下后裔，
我们早就变得像所多玛、格摩拉那样了。”[q]
以色列人的不信
30 那么，我们要怎么说呢？那原来没有追求义的外邦人，却得到了义，就是因信而得的义； 31 而以色列人追求律法的义，却没有达到律法的义[r]。 32 这是为什么呢？因为他们不是本于信，倒像是本于[s]行为去追求的，所以他们就绊倒在那“绊脚的石头”上。 33 正如经上所记：
“看哪，我在锡安放一块绊脚的石头，
是使人绊倒的磐石；
可是信靠他的人将不至于蒙羞。”[t]
Footnotes
- 罗马书 9:3 同胞——原文直译“兄弟”。
- 罗马书 9:6 神的话语——或译作“神的道”。
- 罗马书 9:7 《创世记》21:12。
- 罗马书 9:9 明年——辅助词语。
- 罗马书 9:9 《创世记》18:10,14。
- 罗马书 9:11 双子——辅助词语。
- 罗马书 9:12 神——辅助词语。
- 罗马书 9:12 《创世记》25:23。
- 罗马书 9:13 《玛拉基书》1:2-3。
- 罗马书 9:15 《出埃及记》33:19。
- 罗马书 9:16 努力——原文直译“奔跑”。
- 罗马书 9:17 《出埃及记》9:16。
- 罗马书 9:22 灭亡——或译作“沉沦”。
- 罗马书 9:25 《何西阿书》2:23。
- 罗马书 9:26 《何西阿书》1:10。
- 罗马书 9:28 《以赛亚书》10:22-23；28:22；《何西阿书》1:10。
- 罗马书 9:29 《以赛亚书》1:9。
- 罗马书 9:31 律法的义——有古抄本作“律法”。
- 罗马书 9:32 有古抄本附“律法上的”。
- 罗马书 9:33 《以赛亚书》8:14；28:16。
Romans 9
Revised Standard Version
God’s Election of Israel
9 I am speaking the truth in Christ, I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit, 2 that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. 3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen by race. 4 They are Israelites, and to them belong the sonship, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises; 5 to them belong the patriarchs, and of their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ. God who is over all be blessed for ever.[a] Amen.
6 But it is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel, 7 and not all are children of Abraham because they are his descendants; but “Through Isaac shall your descendants be named.” 8 This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are reckoned as descendants. 9 For this is what the promise said, “About this time I will return and Sarah shall have a son.” 10 And not only so, but also when Rebecca had conceived children by one man, our forefather Isaac, 11 though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad, in order that God’s purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of his call, 12 she was told, “The elder will serve the younger.” 13 As it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
14 What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God’s part? By no means! 15 For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” 16 So it depends not upon man’s will or exertion, but upon God’s mercy. 17 For the scripture says to Pharaoh, “I have raised you up for the very purpose of showing my power in you, so that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.” 18 So then he has mercy upon whomever he wills, and he hardens the heart of whomever he wills.
God’s Wrath and Mercy
19 You will say to me then, “Why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?” 20 But who are you, a man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me thus?” 21 Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for beauty and another for menial use? 22 What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the vessels of wrath made for destruction, 23 in order to make known the riches of his glory for the vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory, 24 even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles? 25 As indeed he says in Hose′a,
“Those who were not my people
I will call ‘my people,’
and her who was not beloved
I will call ‘my beloved.’”
26 “And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’
they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’”
27 And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will be saved; 28 for the Lord will execute his sentence upon the earth with rigor and dispatch.” 29 And as Isaiah predicted,
“If the Lord of hosts had not left us children,
we would have fared like Sodom and been made like Gomor′rah.”
Israel’s Unbelief
30 What shall we say, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, righteousness through faith; 31 but that Israel who pursued the righteousness which is based on law did not succeed in fulfilling that law. 32 Why? Because they did not pursue it through faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone, 33 as it is written,
“Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone that will make men stumble,
a rock that will make them fall;
and he who believes in him will not be put to shame.”
Footnotes
- Romans 9:5 Or Christ, who is God over all, blessed for ever
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