詩篇 120-122
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Traditional)
祈求上帝幫助
上聖殿朝聖之詩。
120 我在患難中向耶和華禱告，
祂就應允了我。
2 耶和華啊，
求你救我遠離虛謊詭詐之徒。
3 詭詐之徒啊！
你會受到怎樣的懲罰呢？
你會有什麼下場呢？
4 等待你的是勇士的利箭和炙熱的炭火。
5 我寄居在米設和基達的人當中有禍了！
6 我住在憎惡和平的人當中太久了。
7 我愛和平，
但我倡導和平的時候，
他們卻要戰爭。
上帝是我的保護者
上聖殿朝聖之詩。
121 我舉目觀看群山，
我的幫助從哪裡來？
2 我的幫助來自創造天地的耶和華。
3 祂必不讓你滑倒，
保護你的不會打盹。
4 保護以色列的不打盹也不睡覺。
5 耶和華保護你，
在你身邊蔭庇你。
6 白天太陽不會傷你，
夜間月亮不會害你。
7 耶和華必使你免受災害，
保護你的性命。
8 不論你出或入，
耶和華都會保護你，從現在直到永遠。
為耶路撒冷禱告
大衛上聖殿朝聖之詩。
122 人們對我說：
「讓我們去耶和華的殿吧！」
我感到歡喜。
2 耶路撒冷啊，
我們踏進你的城門了。
3 耶路撒冷是一座整齊堅固的城。
4 以色列各支派，耶和華的子民，
都遵照祂賜的法度去那裡稱謝祂。
5 那裡有審判的王座，
就是大衛家的王座。
6 要為耶路撒冷的和平禱告，
願愛這城的人亨通。
7 耶路撒冷啊！
願你城內有平安，
你的宮裡有安寧，
8 為了我的親人和朋友，
我要祈求平安臨到你。
9 為了我們的上帝耶和華的殿，
我要為你求福祉。
Psalm 120-122
King James Version
120 In my distress I cried unto the Lord, and he heard me.
2 Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
3 What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?
4 Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.
5 Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!
6 My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.
7 I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.
121 I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
2 My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth.
3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.
4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
5 The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand.
6 The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
7 The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.
8 The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.
122 I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord.
2 Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem.
3 Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together:
4 Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the Lord.
5 For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David.
6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.
7 Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces.
8 For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee.
9 Because of the house of the Lord our God I will seek thy good.
哥林多前書 9
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Traditional)
使徒的權利
9 我不是自由的嗎？我不是使徒嗎？我不是見過我們的主耶穌嗎？你們不是我在主裡工作的成果嗎？ 2 即使對別人來說我不是使徒，對你們來說我也是使徒，因為你們就是我在主裡作使徒的印證。
3 對那些責難我的人，我的答覆是這樣： 4 難道我們沒有權利接受弟兄姊妹供應的飲食嗎？ 5 難道我們沒有權利像主的兄弟、彼得和其他使徒一樣，娶信主的姊妹為妻，一同出入嗎？ 6 難道只有我和巴拿巴要自食其力嗎？ 7 有誰當兵要自備糧餉呢？有誰栽種葡萄園，卻不吃園中出產的葡萄呢？有誰牧養牛羊，卻不喝牛羊的奶呢？
8 我這樣說難道只是人的觀點嗎？律法不也是這樣說的嗎？ 9 摩西的律法書上說：「牛在踩穀時，不可籠住牠的嘴。」難道上帝關心的只是牛嗎？ 10 祂這樣說難道不是為了我們嗎？這話的確是為我們寫的，因為耕耘的和打穀的農夫都應該存著分享收成的盼望勞作。 11 既然我們在你們中間撒下了屬靈的種子，難道就不能從你們那裡得到物質上的收穫嗎？ 12 如果別人有權要求你們供應他們，我們豈不更有權嗎？可是我們從來沒有用過這權利，反而凡事忍耐，免得妨礙了基督的福音。
13 你們難道不知道，在聖殿裡事奉的人可以吃聖殿裡的食物，在祭壇前事奉的人可以分享祭壇上的祭物嗎？ 14 同樣，主也曾吩咐：傳福音的人理當藉著福音得到生活的供應。
15 但是，我完全沒有使用這權利，如今我談這些事，並不是要你們這樣待我。因為我寧死也不要讓人抹摋我所誇耀的。 16 其實我傳福音並沒有什麼可誇的，因為這是我的任務，我不傳福音就有禍了！ 17 我若甘心樂意地傳福音，就可以得獎賞；我若不甘願，責任也已經委託給我了。 18 我能得到什麼獎賞呢？就是我可以把福音白白地傳給人，不使用自己因傳福音而應有的權利。
19 我雖然是自由之身，不受任何人支配，但我甘願成為眾人的奴僕，為了要得到更多的人。 20 面對猶太人我就做猶太人，為了要贏得猶太人。面對守律法的人，我這不受律法束縛的人就守律法，為了要贏得守律法的人。 21 面對沒有律法的人，我就像個沒有律法的人，為了要贏得沒有律法的人。其實我並非在上帝的律法之外，我是在基督的律法之下。 22 面對軟弱的人我就做軟弱的人，為了要得軟弱的人。面對什麼人，我就做什麼人，為了要盡可能地救一些人。 23 我做的一切都是為了福音的緣故，為了要與人分享福音的祝福。
24 你們不知道嗎？在運動場上賽跑的人雖然個個都在跑，但冠軍只有一個。同樣，你們也要努力奔跑，好獲得獎賞。 25 參加比賽的選手要接受嚴格的訓練，以求贏得桂冠，但這桂冠終必朽壞，我們要贏得的卻是永不朽壞的桂冠。 26 因此，我奔跑不是漫無目標，我擊拳不是打空氣。 27 我嚴格訓練自己，克服自身的軟弱，免得我傳福音給別人，自己卻被淘汰了。
1 Corinthians 9
King James Version
9 Am I am not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord?
2 If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.
3 Mine answer to them that do examine me is this,
4 Have we not power to eat and to drink?
5 Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
6 Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?
7 Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?
8 Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?
9 For it is written in the law of Moses, thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?
10 Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.
11 If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
12 If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.
13 Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?
14 Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.
15 But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.
16 For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!
17 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.
18 What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.
19 For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.
20 And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;
21 To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.
22 To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
23 And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.
24 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.