来12:5 你们又忘了那劝你们如同劝儿子的话,说,我儿,你不可轻看主的管教,被他责备的时候,也不可灰心。
And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
12:6 因为主所爱的他必管教,又鞭打凡所收纳的儿子。
For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
12:7 你们所忍受的,是神管教你们,待你们如同待儿子。焉有儿子不被父亲管教的呢。
If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
12:8 管教原是众子所共受的,你们若不受管教,就是私子,不是儿子了。
But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
12:9 再者,我们曾有生身的父管教我们,我们尚且敬重他,何况万灵的父,我们岂不更当顺服他得生吗。
Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
12:10 生身的父都是暂随己意管教我们。惟有万灵的父管教我们,是要我们得益处,使我们在他的圣洁上有分。
For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
12:11 凡管教的事,当时不觉得快乐,凡觉得愁苦。后来却为那经练过的人,结出平安的果子,就是义。
Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
要相信神的话,神爱你到底!他不撇下我们为孤儿!
[此贴子已经被作者于2003-12-3 9:46:58编辑过]
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