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Ga-la-ti 5
Bản Dịch 2011
Ga-la-ti 5
Bản Dịch 2011
Bảo Vệ Tự Do Thuộc Linh
5 Ðấng Christ đã giải thoát chúng ta để được tự do. Vậy hãy đứng vững, và đừng đặt mình dưới ách nô lệ nữa.
2 Xin anh chị em hãy chú ý. Tôi, Phao-lô, nói với anh chị em rằng nếu anh em phải được cắt bì thì Ðấng Christ chẳng ích lợi gì cho anh chị em cả. 3 Tôi xin xác chứng lại với mọi người đã được cắt bì rằng người nào chịu cắt bì thì bị buộc phải tuân giữ toàn bộ Luật Pháp. 4 Anh chị em nào muốn được xưng công chính bởi Luật Pháp thì đã đoạn tuyệt với Ðấng Christ, anh chị em đã đánh mất ân sủng. 5 Vì nhờ Ðức Thánh Linh và bằng đức tin, chúng ta nôn nóng chờ đợi hy vọng của sự công chính. 6 Vì trong Ðức Chúa Jesus Christ, được cắt bì hay không được cắt bì chẳng có giá trị gì, nhưng điều có giá trị là đức tin được tỏ ra qua hành động yêu thương.
7 Anh chị em đang chạy ngon trớn, thế mà ai đã ngăn trở anh chị em trong nỗ lực vâng theo chân lý vậy? 8 Sự xúi giục đó dĩ nhiên không đến từ Ðấng kêu gọi anh chị em. 9 Một ít men làm dậy cả đống bột. 10 Trong Chúa, tôi tin tưởng ở anh chị em rằng anh chị em không có ý gì khác, nhưng kẻ gây rối cho anh chị em sẽ mang lấy án phạt, bất kể kẻ ấy là ai.
11 Thưa anh chị em, về phần tôi, nếu tôi giảng rằng sau khi tin Chúa người tin cần phải được cắt bì nữa thì tại sao tôi còn bị bắt bớ? Nếu vậy thì chướng ngại của thập tự giá đã được dẹp bỏ rồi. 12 Tôi ước gì những kẻ cứ gây rối cho anh chị em hãy tự cắt cho chính mình đi!
Ðức Thánh Linh và Xác Thịt
13 Thưa anh chị em, anh chị em đã được kêu gọi để hưởng tự do, xin anh chị em đừng lợi dụng sự tự do đó để sống theo xác thịt, nhưng hãy lấy tình thương mà phục vụ như thể làm nô lệ lẫn nhau, 14 vì toàn bộ Luật Pháp được tóm lại trong một câu này,
“Ngươi hãy yêu người lân cận như mình”
15 Nhưng nếu anh chị em cứ cắn xé và ăn nuốt lẫn nhau, hãy coi chừng, kẻo anh chị em sẽ tiêu diệt nhau.
16 Vậy tôi nói, anh chị em hãy sống theo Ðức Thánh Linh, đừng bao giờ chiều theo những dục vọng của xác thịt. 17 Vì những dục vọng của xác thịt nghịch với Ðức Thánh Linh, và Ðức Thánh Linh nghịch với xác thịt. Hai bên nghịch nhau như thế, nên anh chị em không làm được những điều mình muốn. 18 Nhưng nếu anh chị em được Ðức Thánh Linh dẫn dắt thì anh chị em không ở dưới Luật Pháp. 19 Những việc của xác thịt thật là rõ ràng: gian dâm, ô uế, trụy lạc, 20 thờ thần tượng, phù phép, thù hận, gây gổ, ghen ghét, giận dữ, ích kỷ, chia rẽ, phe đảng, 21 ganh tị, say sưa, nhậu nhẹt, và những điều tương tự. Tôi xin cảnh cáo anh chị em, như tôi đã nói trước đây, hễ ai làm những việc như thế sẽ không được thừa hưởng vương quốc Ðức Chúa Trời.
22 Nhưng trái của Ðức Thánh Linh là yêu thương, vui vẻ, bình an, nhịn nhục, nhân từ, hiền lành, trung tín, 23 khiêm tốn, tiết độ. Không có luật pháp nào cấm các điều đó. 24 Những người thuộc về Ðức Chúa Jesus Christ đã đóng đinh vào thập tự giá xác thịt với những tham muốn và dục vọng của mình rồi. 25 Nếu chúng ta sống nhờ Ðức Thánh Linh, chúng ta hãy bước đi theo Ðức Thánh Linh. 26 Xin chúng ta đừng tìm kiếm hư vinh mà khiêu khích nhau và ganh tị nhau.
Galatians 5
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Galatians 5
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Freedom in Christ
5 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free.(A) Stand firm,(B) then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.(C)
2 Mark my words! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised,(D) Christ will be of no value to you at all. 3 Again I declare to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.(E) 4 You who are trying to be justified by the law(F) have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.(G) 5 For through the Spirit we eagerly await by faith the righteousness for which we hope.(H) 6 For in Christ Jesus(I) neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value.(J) The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.(K)
7 You were running a good race.(L) Who cut in on you(M) to keep you from obeying the truth? 8 That kind of persuasion does not come from the one who calls you.(N) 9 “A little yeast works through the whole batch of dough.”(O) 10 I am confident(P) in the Lord that you will take no other view.(Q) The one who is throwing you into confusion,(R) whoever that may be, will have to pay the penalty. 11 Brothers and sisters, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted?(S) In that case the offense(T) of the cross has been abolished. 12 As for those agitators,(U) I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!
Life by the Spirit
13 You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free.(V) But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh[a];(W) rather, serve one another(X) humbly in love. 14 For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”[b](Y) 15 If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.
16 So I say, walk by the Spirit,(Z) and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.(AA) 17 For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh.(AB) They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever[c] you want.(AC) 18 But if you are led by the Spirit,(AD) you are not under the law.(AE)
19 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality,(AF) impurity and debauchery; 20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like.(AG) I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.(AH)
22 But the fruit(AI) of the Spirit is love,(AJ) joy, peace,(AK) forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control.(AL) Against such things there is no law.(AM) 24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh(AN) with its passions and desires.(AO) 25 Since we live by the Spirit,(AP) let us keep in step with the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited,(AQ) provoking and envying each other.
Footnotes
- Galatians 5:13 In contexts like this, the Greek word for flesh (sarx) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit; also in verses 16, 17, 19 and 24; and in 6:8.
- Galatians 5:14 Lev. 19:18
- Galatians 5:17 Or you do not do what
Galatians 5
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Galatians 5
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We should live as free people
5 Christ has made us free so that we can be really free! So be strong and do not turn back. Do not let yourselves become slaves to the Jewish rules again.
2 Listen carefully! I, Paul, tell you this. If you agree that someone should circumcise you, then Christ will be worth nothing to you. 3 I will say it very clearly. Every man who lets someone circumcise him must then obey all the Jewish rules. 4 I say this to you people who try to obey the rules of God's Law. If you think that God will accept you as right because you do that, you have turned away from Christ. You no longer agree to accept God's kind gift. 5 But if we trust what Christ has done for us, God's Spirit helps us to wait. We are sure that God will accept us as right with him. 6 We belong to Christ Jesus. So it does not matter whether anyone has circumcised us or not. The only thing that matters is that we believe in Christ. As a result we will love others in the way that we live.
7 Like good runners, you were doing very well! You should not have let anyone turn you away from God's true message. 8 It is not God who has caused you to change what you believe. No! God is the one who has chosen you to serve him. 9 People say this: ‘Only a small amount of yeast in the flour will cause a loaf of bread to grow big.’[a] 10 But I feel sure about you, because we belong to the Lord. I know that you will agree with what I say about this. But as for the man who is confusing you, God will punish him. It does not matter who he is, God will punish him.
11 My Christian friends, do you think that I still teach that someone must circumcise believers? If I really taught that, then I would not still receive trouble from people. What I teach about Christ's death on the cross would not cause anyone to become angry. 12 Those people who are causing trouble and want to circumcise you should cut their own bodies! Yes, that is what they should do!
Live by God's Spirit
13 My Christian friends, God has chosen you to serve him as free people. But you are still weak and human. So you are not free to do anything that you might want to do. Instead, you must serve one another, because you love each other. 14 One rule brings together all the rules in God's Law. That one rule says: ‘Love other people as much as you love yourself.’[b] 15 So you must not live like wild animals. Wild animals fight and they eat each other. If you live like that, be very careful! You may destroy one another completely.
16 So this is what I say: Let God's Spirit show you how to live in a good way. Then you will not do the wrong things that you may want to do, as people who are weak and human. 17 The things that you want to do as a weak person are opposite to the things that God's Spirit wants. The things that God's Spirit wants are the opposite of what we want as weak people. Our own thoughts fight against what God's Spirit wants us to do. As a result, you are not free to do the things that you really want to do. 18 But if God's Spirit leads you, then the rules of God's Law have no authority over you.
19 Everyone knows the kinds of bad things that weak people want to do. They have sex with people that they are not married to. They do things that are bad and disgusting. 20 They worship idols. They do magic to hurt people. They become enemies and they fight one another. They are jealous of other people. They become very angry. They want to please themselves and to be important. They cause trouble. They make people belong to different groups. 21 They want things that belong to other people. They are drunks. They have wild parties. And they like to do many other bad things like those. So I warn you again, as I have already warned you before. People who continue to do any of those bad things will not receive good things from God. God has prepared those good things for the people who belong to his kingdom.
22 But God's Spirit causes us to live in a different way. We love other people. We are happy and we have peace in our minds. We are patient, kind and good. People can trust us to do what is right. 23 We respect other people and we rule ourselves properly. God's Spirit helps us to live in that way. There is no law that says these things are wrong.
24 We belong to Christ. As a result, we no longer obey our wrong human thoughts. We stop doing the bad things that our thoughts want us to do. It is like we have killed those thoughts on the cross. 25 Now it is God's Spirit that gives us life. So we must let God's Spirit lead us in how we live. 26 We must not become proud. We must not be jealous of each other, so that we cause trouble to one another.
Footnotes
- 5:9 In the Bible, yeast is often a picture of something bad that causes more bad things to happen.
- 5:14 See Leviticus 19:18.
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