今日讀經

不要輕易為人作保

¹我兒，你若為朋友作保，替外人擊掌，My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, if you have struck hands in pledge with a stranger,

²你就被口中的話語纏住，被嘴裡的言語捉住。if you have been trapped by the words of your lips, ensnared by the words of your mouth,

³我兒，你既落在朋友手中，就當這樣行才可救自己：你要自卑，去懇求你的朋友。then do this, my son, to free yourself, for you have fallen into your neighbor’s hands: Go, humble yourself, and press your plea with your neighbor.

⁴不要容你的眼睛睡覺；不要容你的眼皮打盹。Allow no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.

⁵要救自己，如鹿脫離獵戶的手，如鳥脫離捕鳥人的手。Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

懶惰人要察看螞蟻

⁶懶惰人哪，你去察看螞蟻的動作就可得智慧。Walk in the manner of the ant, O slacker; observe its ways and become wise.

⁷螞蟻沒有元帥，沒有官長，沒有君王，Without a commander, without an overseer or ruler,

⁸尚且在夏天預備食物，在收割時聚斂糧食。it prepares its provisions in summer; it gathers its food at harvest.

⁹懶惰人哪，你要睡到幾時呢？你何時睡醒呢？How long will you lie there, O slacker? When will you get up from your sleep?

¹⁰再睡片時，打盹片時，抱著手躺臥片時，A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,

¹¹你的貧窮就必如強盜速來，你的缺乏彷彿拿兵器的人來到。and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and need like a bandit.

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無賴的惡徒

¹²無賴的惡徒，行動就用乖僻的口，A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth,

¹³用眼傳神，用腳示意，用指點劃，winking his eyes, speaking with his feet, and pointing with his fingers.

¹⁴心中乖僻，常設惡謀，布散紛爭。With deceit in his heart he devises evil; he continually sows discord.

¹⁵所以，災難必忽然臨到他身；他必頃刻敗壞，無法可治。Therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in an instant he will be shattered beyond recovery.

耶和華所恨惡的七樣

¹⁶耶和華所恨惡的有六樣，連他心所憎惡的共有七樣：There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to Him:

¹⁷就是高傲的眼，撒謊的舌，流無辜人血的手，haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

¹⁸圖謀惡計的心，飛跑行惡的腳，a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that run swiftly to evil,

¹⁹吐謊言的假見證，並弟兄中布散紛爭的人。a false witness who gives false testimony, and one who stirs up discord among brothers.

謹守父母的教訓

²⁰我兒，要謹守你父親的誡命；不可離棄你母親的法則（或譯：指教），My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.

²¹要常繫在你心上，掛在你項上。Bind them always upon your heart; tie them around your neck.

²²你行走，它必引導你；你躺臥，它必保守你；你睡醒，它必與你談論。When you walk, they will guide you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; when you awake, they will speak to you.

²³因為誡命是燈，法則（或譯：指教）是光，訓誨的責備是生命的道，For this commandment is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way to life,

遠離惡婦

²⁴能保你遠離惡婦，遠離外女諂媚的舌頭。to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.

²⁵你心中不要戀慕她的美色，也不要被她眼皮勾引。Do not lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.

²⁶因為，妓女能使人只剩一塊餅；淫婦獵取人寶貴的生命。For the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.

²⁷人若懷裡搋火，衣服豈能不燒呢？Can a man embrace fire and his clothes not be burned?

²⁸人若在火炭上走，腳豈能不燙呢？Can a man walk on hot coals without scorching his feet?

²⁹親近鄰舍之妻的，也是如此；凡挨近她的，不免受罰。So is he who sleeps with another man’s wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.

賊偷竊還能賠償

³⁰賊因飢餓偷竊充飢，人不藐視他，Men do not despise the thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger.

³¹若被找著，他必賠還七倍，必將家中所有的盡都償還。Yet if caught, he must pay sevenfold; he must give up all the wealth of his house.

³²與婦人行淫的，便是無知；行這事的，必喪掉生命。He who commits adultery lacks judgment; whoever does so destroys himself.

³³他必受傷損，必被凌辱；他的羞恥不得塗抹。Wounds and dishonor will befall him, and his reproach will never be wiped away.

³⁴因為人的嫉恨成了烈怒，報仇的時候決不留情。For jealousy enrages a husband, and he will show no mercy in the day of vengeance.

³⁵甚麼贖價，他都不顧；你雖送許多禮物，他也不肯干休。He will not be appeased by any ransom, or persuaded by lavish gifts.

將我的命令存記在心

¹我兒，你要遵守我的言語，將我的命令存記在心。My son, keep my words and treasure my commandments within you.

²遵守我的命令就得存活；保守我的法則（或譯：指教），好像保守眼中的瞳人，Keep my commandments and live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.

³繫在你指頭上，刻在你心版上。Tie them to your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.

⁴對智慧說：你是我的姊妹，稱呼聰明為你的親人，Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call understanding your kinsman,

⁵她就保你遠離淫婦，遠離說諂媚話的外女。that they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with seductive words.

無知的少年人

⁶我曾在我房屋的窗戶內，從我窗欞之間往外觀看：For at the window of my house I looked through the lattice.

⁷見愚蒙人內，少年人中，分明有一個無知的少年人，I saw among the simple, I noticed among the youths, a young man lacking judgment,

⁸從街上經過，走近淫婦的巷口，直往通她家的路去，crossing the street near her corner, strolling down the road to her house,

⁹在黃昏，或晚上，或半夜，或黑暗之中。at twilight, as the day was fading into the dark of the night.

妓女打扮的婦人

¹⁰看哪，有一個婦人來迎接他，是妓女的打扮，有詭詐的心思。Then a woman came out to meet him, with the attire of a harlot and cunning of heart.

¹¹這婦人喧嚷，不守約束，在家裡停不住腳，She is loud and defiant; her feet do not remain at home.

¹²有時在街市上，有時在寬闊處，或在各巷口蹲伏，Now in the street, now in the squares, she lurks at every corner.

¹³拉住那少年人，與他親嘴，臉無羞恥對他說：She seizes him and kisses him; she brazenly says to him:

¹⁴平安祭在我這裡，今日才還了我所許的願。“I have made my peace offerings; today I have paid my vows.

¹⁵因此，我出來迎接你，懇切求見你的面，恰巧遇見了你。So I came out to meet you; I sought you, and I have found you.

¹⁶我已經用繡花毯子和埃及線織的花紋布鋪了我的床。I have decked my bed with coverings, with colored linen from Egypt.

¹⁷我又用沒藥、沉香、桂皮薰了我的榻。I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, with aloes, and with cinnamon.

¹⁸你來，我們可以飽享愛情，直到早晨；我們可以彼此親愛歡樂。Come, let us take our fill of love till morning. Let us delight in loving caresses!

¹⁹因為我丈夫不在家，出門行遠路；For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey.

²⁰他手拿銀囊，必到月望才回家。He took with him a bag of money and will not return till the moon is full.”

像牛往宰殺之地

²¹淫婦用許多巧言誘他隨從，用諂媚的嘴逼他同行。With her great persuasion she entices him; with her flattering lips she lures him.

²²少年人立刻跟隨她，好像牛往宰殺之地；又像愚昧人帶鎖鍊去受刑罰，He follows her on impulse, like an ox going to the slaughter, like a deer bounding into a trap,

²³直等箭穿他的肝；如同雀鳥急入網羅，卻不知是自喪己命。until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird darting into a snare—not knowing it will cost him his life.

不要偏向她的道

²⁴眾子啊，現在要聽從我，留心聽我口中的話。Now, my sons, listen to me, and attend to the words of my mouth.

²⁵你的心不可偏向淫婦的道，不要入她的迷途。Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths.

²⁶因為，被她傷害仆倒的不少；被她殺戮的而且甚多。For she has brought many down to death; her slain are many in number.

²⁷她的家是在陰間之路，下到死亡之宮。Her house is the road to Sheol, descending to the chambers of death.

若死人不復活

²⁹不然，那些為死人受洗的，將來怎樣呢？若死人總不復活，因何為他們受洗呢？If these things are not so, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized for them?

³⁰我們又因何時刻冒險呢？And why do we endanger ourselves every hour?

³¹弟兄們，我在我主基督耶穌裡，指著你們所誇的口極力地說，我是天天冒死。I face death every day, brothers, as surely as I boast about you in Christ Jesus our Lord.

³²我若當日像尋常人，在以弗所同野獸戰鬥，那於我有甚麼益處呢？若死人不復活，我們就吃吃喝喝吧！因為明天要死了。If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus for human motives, what did I gain? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

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濫交是敗壞善行

³³你們不要自欺；濫交是敗壞善行。Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.”

³⁴你們要醒悟為善，不要犯罪，因為有人不認識　神。我說這話是要叫你們羞愧。Sober up as you ought, and stop sinning; for some of you are ignorant of God. I say this to your shame.

死人怎樣復活

³⁵或有人問：「死人怎樣復活，帶著甚麼身體來呢？」But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?”

³⁶無知的人哪，你所種的，若不死就不能生。You fool! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.

³⁷並且你所種的不是那將來的形體，不過是子粒，即如麥子，或是別樣的穀。And what you sow is not the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or something else.

³⁸但　神隨自己的意思給他一個形體，並叫各等子粒各有自己的形體。But God gives it a body as He has designed, and to each kind of seed He gives its own body.

³⁹凡肉體各有不同：人是一樣，獸又是一樣，鳥又是一樣，魚又是一樣。Not all flesh is the same: Men have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another, and fish another.

⁴⁰有天上的形體，也有地上的形體；但天上形體的榮光是一樣，地上形體的榮光又是一樣。There are also heavenly bodies and earthly bodies. But the splendor of the heavenly bodies is of one degree, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is of another.

⁴¹日有日的榮光，月有月的榮光，星有星的榮光；這星和那星的榮光也有分別。The sun has one degree of splendor, the moon another, and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor.

種的必朽壞，復活的不朽壞

⁴²死人復活也是這樣：所種的是必朽壞的，復活的是不朽壞的；So will it be with the resurrection of the dead: What is sown is perishable; it is raised imperishable.

⁴³所種的是羞辱的，復活的是榮耀的；所種的是軟弱的，復活的是強壯的；It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.

⁴⁴所種的是血氣的身體，復活的是靈性的身體。若有血氣的身體，也必有靈性的身體。It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.

首先的亞當與末後的亞當

⁴⁵經上也是這樣記著說：「首先的人亞當成了有靈（靈：或譯血氣）的活人」；末後的亞當成了叫人活的靈。So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam a life-giving spirit.

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⁴⁶但屬靈的不在先，屬血氣的在先，以後才有屬靈的。The spiritual, however, was not first, but the natural, and then the spiritual.

⁴⁷頭一個人是出於地，乃屬土；第二個人是出於天。The first man was of the dust of the earth, the second man from heaven.

⁴⁸那屬土的怎樣，凡屬土的也就怎樣；屬天的怎樣，凡屬天的也就怎樣。As was the earthly man, so also are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven.

⁴⁹我們既有屬土的形狀，將來也必有屬天的形狀。And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so also shall we bear the likeness of the heavenly man.

我們都要改變

⁵⁰弟兄們，我告訴你們說，血肉之體不能承受　神的國，必朽壞的不能承受不朽壞的。Now I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.

⁵¹我如今把一件奧祕的事告訴你們：我們不是都要睡覺，乃是都要改變，Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—

⁵²就在一霎時，眨眼之間，號筒末次吹響的時候。因號筒要響，死人要復活成為不朽壞的，我們也要改變。in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

⁵³這必朽壞的總要變成（變成：原文是穿；下同）不朽壞的，這必死的總要變成不死的。For the perishable must be clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.

死被得勝吞滅

⁵⁴這必朽壞的既變成不朽壞的，這必死的既變成不死的，那時經上所記「死被得勝吞滅」的話就應驗了。When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come to pass: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”

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⁵⁵死啊！你得勝的權勢在哪裡？死啊！你的毒鉤在哪裡？“Where, O Death, is your victory? Where, O Death, is your sting?”

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⁵⁶死的毒鉤就是罪，罪的權勢就是律法。The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

⁵⁷感謝　神，使我們藉著我們的主耶穌基督得勝。But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!

務要堅固，不可搖動

⁵⁸所以，我親愛的弟兄們，你們務要堅固，不可搖動，常常竭力多做主工；因為知道，你們的勞苦在主裡面不是徒然的。Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast and immovable. Always excel in the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.