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論巴比倫的默示

¹亞摩斯的兒子以賽亞得默示，論巴比倫。This is the burden against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz received:

²應當在淨光的山豎立大旗，向群眾揚聲招手，使他們進入貴冑的門。Raise a banner on a barren hilltop; call aloud to them. Wave your hand, that they may enter the gates of the nobles.

³我吩咐我所挑出來的人；我招呼我的勇士─就是那矜誇高傲之輩，為要成就我怒中所定的。I have commanded My sanctified ones; I have even summoned My warriors to execute My wrath and exult in My triumph.

⁴山間有多人的聲音，好像是大國人民。有許多國的民聚集鬨嚷的聲音；這是萬軍之耶和華點齊軍隊，預備打仗。Listen, a tumult on the mountains, like that of a great multitude! Listen, an uproar among the kingdoms, like nations gathered together! The LORD of Hosts is mobilizing an army for war.

⁵他們從遠方來，從天邊來，就是耶和華並他惱恨的兵器要毀滅這全地。They are coming from faraway lands, from the ends of the heavens—the LORD and the weapons of His wrath—to destroy the whole country.

耶和華的日子臨近

⁶你們要哀號，因為耶和華的日子臨近了！這日來到，好像毀滅從全能者來到。Wail, for the Day of the LORD is near; it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

⁷所以，人手都必軟弱；人心都必消化。Therefore all hands will fall limp, and every man’s heart will melt.

⁸他們必驚惶悲痛；愁苦必將他們抓住。他們疼痛，好像產難的婦人一樣，彼此驚奇相看，臉如火焰。Terror, pain, and anguish will seize them; they will writhe like a woman in labor. They will look at one another, their faces flushed with fear.

⁹耶和華的日子臨到，必有殘忍、忿恨、烈怒，使這地荒涼，從其中除滅罪人。Behold, the Day of the LORD is coming—cruel, with fury and burning anger—to make the earth a desolation and to destroy the sinners within it.

¹⁰天上的眾星群宿都不發光；日頭一出就變黑暗；月亮也不放光。For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light. The rising sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light.

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¹¹我必因邪惡刑罰世界，因罪孽刑罰惡人，使驕傲人的狂妄止息，制伏強暴人的狂傲。I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity. I will end the haughtiness of the arrogant and lay low the pride of the ruthless.

¹²我必使人比精金還少，使人比俄斐純金更少。I will make man scarcer than pure gold, and mankind rarer than the gold of Ophir.

¹³我─萬軍之耶和華在忿恨中發烈怒的日子，必使天震動，使地搖撼，離其本位。Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken from its place at the wrath of the LORD of Hosts on the day of His burning anger.

¹⁴人必像被追趕的鹿，像無人收聚的羊，各歸回本族，各逃到本土。Like a hunted gazelle, like a sheep without a shepherd, each will return to his own people, each will flee to his native land.

¹⁵凡被仇敵追上的必被刺死；凡被捉住的必被刀殺。Whoever is caught will be stabbed, and whoever is captured will die by the sword.

¹⁶他們的嬰孩必在他們眼前摔碎；他們的房屋必被搶奪；他們的妻子必被玷污。Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be ravished.

米底亞人攻擊巴比倫

¹⁷我必激動米底亞人來攻擊他們。米底亞人不注重銀子，也不喜愛金子。Behold, I will stir up against them the Medes, who have no regard for silver and no desire for gold.

¹⁸他們必用弓擊碎少年人，不憐憫婦人所生的，眼也不顧惜孩子。Their bows will dash young men to pieces; they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb; they will not look with pity on the children.

¹⁹巴比倫素來為列國的榮耀，為迦勒底人所矜誇的華美，必像　神所傾覆的所多瑪、蛾摩拉一樣。And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah.

²⁰其內必永無人煙，世世代代無人居住。阿拉伯人也不在那裡支搭帳棚；牧羊的人也不使羊群臥在那裡。She will never be inhabited or settled from generation to generation; no nomad will pitch his tent there, no shepherd will rest his flock there.

²¹只有曠野的走獸臥在那裡；咆哮的獸滿了房屋。鴕鳥住在那裡；野山羊在那裡跳舞。But desert creatures will lie down there, and howling creatures will fill her houses. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will leap about.

²²豺狼必在它宮中呼號；野狗必在它華美殿內吼叫。巴比倫受罰的時候臨近；它的日子必不長久。Hyenas will howl in her fortresses and jackals in her luxurious palaces. Babylon’s time is at hand, and her days will not be prolonged.

耶和華要憐恤雅各

¹耶和華要憐恤雅各，必再揀選以色列，將他們安置在本地。寄居的必與他們聯合，緊貼雅各家。For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob; once again He will choose Israel and settle them in their own land. The foreigner will join them and unite with the house of Jacob.

²外邦人必將他們帶回本土；以色列家必在耶和華的地上得外邦人為僕婢，也要擄掠先前擄掠他們的，轄制先前欺壓他們的。The nations will escort Israel and bring it to its homeland. Then the house of Israel will possess the nations as menservants and maidservants in the LORD’s land. They will make captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors.

嘲諷巴比倫王的詩歌

³當耶和華使你脫離愁苦、煩惱，並人勉強你做的苦工，得享安息的日子，On the day that the LORD gives you rest from your pain and torment, and from the hard labor into which you were forced,

⁴你必題這詩歌論巴比倫王說：欺壓人的何竟息滅？強暴的何竟止息？you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and how his fury has ended!

⁵耶和華折斷了惡人的杖，轄制人的圭，The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers.

⁶就是在忿怒中連連攻擊眾民的，在怒氣中轄制列國，行逼迫無人阻止的。It struck the peoples in anger with unceasing blows; it subdued the nations in rage with relentless persecution.

⁷現在全地得安息，享平靜；人皆發聲歡呼。All the earth is at peace and at rest; they break out in song.

⁸松樹和黎巴嫩的香柏樹都因你歡樂，說：自從你仆倒，再無人上來砍伐我們。Even the cypresses and cedars of Lebanon exult over you: “Since you have been laid low, no woodcutter comes against us.”

⁹你下到陰間，陰間就因你震動來迎接你，又因你驚動在世曾為首領的陰魂，並使那曾為列國君王的，都離位站起。Sheol beneath is eager to meet you upon your arrival. It stirs the spirits of the dead to greet you—all the rulers of the earth. It makes all the kings of the nations rise from their thrones.

¹⁰他們都要發言對你說：你也變為軟弱像我們一樣嗎？你也成了我們的樣子嗎？They will all respond to you, saying, “You too have become weak, as we are; you have become like us!”

¹¹你的威勢和你琴瑟的聲音都下到陰間。你下鋪的是蟲，上蓋的是蛆。Your pomp has been brought down to Sheol, along with the music of your harps. Maggots are your bed and worms your blanket.

明亮之星何竟從天墜落

¹²明亮之星，早晨之子啊，你何竟從天墜落？你這攻敗列國的何竟被砍倒在地上？How you have fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of nations.

¹³你心裡曾說：我要升到天上；我要高舉我的寶座在　神眾星以上；我要坐在聚會的山上，在北方的極處。You said in your heart: “I will ascend to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God. I will sit on the mount of assembly, in the far reaches of the north.

¹⁴我要升到高雲之上；我要與至上者同等。I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.”

¹⁵然而，你必墜落陰間，到坑中極深之處。But you will be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit.

¹⁶凡看見你的都要定睛看你，留意看你，說：使大地戰抖，使列國震動，Those who see you will stare; they will ponder your fate: “Is this the man who shook the earth and made the kingdoms tremble,

¹⁷使世界如同荒野，使城邑傾覆，不釋放被擄的人歸家，是這個人嗎？who turned the world into a desert and destroyed its cities, who refused to let the captives return to their homes?”

¹⁸列國的君王俱各在自己陰宅的榮耀中安睡。All the kings of the nations lie in state, each in his own tomb.

¹⁹惟獨你被拋棄，不得入你的墳墓，好像可憎的枝子，以被殺的人為衣，就是被刀刺透，墜落坑中石頭那裡的；你又像被踐踏的屍首一樣。But you are cast out of your grave like a rejected branch, covered by those slain with the sword, and dumped into a rocky pit like a carcass trampled underfoot.

²⁰你不得與君王同葬；因為你敗壞你的國，殺戮你的民。惡人後裔的名，必永不提說。You will not join them in burial, since you have destroyed your land and slaughtered your own people. The offspring of the wicked will never again be mentioned.

²¹先人既有罪孽，就要預備殺戮他的子孫，免得他們興起來，得了遍地，在世上修滿城邑。Prepare a place to slaughter his sons for the iniquities of their forefathers. They will never rise up to possess a land or cover the earth with their cities.

²²萬軍之耶和華說：我必興起攻擊他們，將巴比倫的名號和所餘剩的人，連子帶孫一併剪除。這是耶和華說的。“I will rise up against them,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will cut off from Babylon her name and her remnant, her offspring and her posterity,” declares the LORD.

²³我必使巴比倫為箭豬所得，又變為水池；我要用滅亡的掃帚掃淨它。這是萬軍之耶和華說的。“I will make her a place for owls and for swamplands; I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction,” declares the LORD of Hosts.

神必打折亞述

²⁴萬軍之耶和華起誓說：我怎樣思想，必照樣成就；我怎樣定意，必照樣成立，The LORD of Hosts has sworn: “Surely, as I have planned, so will it be; as I have purposed, so will it stand.

²⁵就是在我地上打折亞述人，在我山上將他踐踏。他加的軛必離開以色列人；他加的重擔必離開他們的肩頭。I will break Assyria in My land; I will trample him on My mountain. His yoke will be taken off My people, and his burden removed from their shoulders.”

²⁶這是向全地所定的旨意；這是向萬國所伸出的手。This is the plan devised for the whole earth, and this is the hand stretched out over all the nations.

²⁷萬軍之耶和華既然定意，誰能廢棄呢？他的手已經伸出，誰能轉回呢？The LORD of Hosts has purposed, and who can thwart Him? His hand is outstretched, so who can turn it back?

論非利士

²⁸亞哈斯王崩的那年，就有以下的默示：In the year that King Ahaz died, this burden was received:

²⁹非利士全地啊，不要因擊打你的杖折斷就喜樂。因為從蛇的根必生出毒蛇；牠所生的是火焰的飛龍。Do not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken. For a viper will spring from the root of the snake, and a flying serpent from its egg.

³⁰貧寒人的長子必有所食；窮乏人必安然躺臥。我必以饑荒治死你的根；你所餘剩的人必被殺戮。Then the firstborn of the poor will find pasture, and the needy will lie down in safety, but I will kill your root by famine, and your remnant will be slain.

³¹門哪，應當哀號！城啊，應當呼喊！非利士全地啊，你都消化了！因為有煙從北方出來，他行伍中並無亂隊的。Wail, O gate! Cry out, O city! Melt away, all you Philistines! For a cloud of smoke comes from the north, and there are no stragglers in its ranks.

³²可怎樣回答外邦（或指非利士）的使者呢？必說：耶和華建立了錫安；他百姓中的困苦人必投奔在其中。What answer will be given to the envoys of that nation? “The LORD has founded Zion, where His afflicted people will find refuge.”

論摩押的默示

¹論摩押的默示：一夜之間，摩押的亞珥變為荒廢，歸於無有；一夜之間，摩押的基珥變為荒廢，歸於無有。This is the burden against Moab: Ar in Moab is ruined, destroyed in a night! Kir in Moab is devastated, destroyed in a night!

²他們上巴益，又往底本，到高處去哭泣。摩押人因尼波和米底巴哀號，各人頭上光禿，鬍鬚剃淨。Dibon goes up to its temple to weep at its high places. Moab wails over Nebo, as well as over Medeba. Every head is shaved, every beard is cut off.

³他們在街市上都腰束麻布，在房頂上和寬闊處俱各哀號，眼淚汪汪。In its streets they wear sackcloth; on the rooftops and in the public squares they all wail, falling down weeping.

⁴希實本和以利亞利悲哀的聲音達到雅雜，所以摩押帶兵器的高聲喊嚷，人心戰兢。Heshbon and Elealeh cry out; their voices are heard as far as Jahaz. Therefore the soldiers of Moab cry out; their souls tremble within.

⁵我心為摩押悲哀；他的貴冑（或譯：逃民）逃到瑣珥，到伊基拉‧施利施亞。他們上魯希坡，隨走隨哭；在何羅念的路上，因毀滅舉起哀聲。My heart cries out over Moab; her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, as far as Eglath-shelishiyah. With weeping they ascend the slope of Luhith; they lament their destruction on the road to Horonaim.

⁶因為寧林的水成為乾涸，青草枯乾，嫩草滅沒，青綠之物，一無所有。The waters of Nimrim are dried up, and the grass is withered; the vegetation is gone, and the greenery is no more.

⁷因此，摩押人所得的財物和所積蓄的都要運過柳樹河。So they carry their wealth and belongings over the Brook of the Willows.

⁸哀聲遍聞摩押的四境；哀號的聲音達到以基蓮；哀號的聲音達到比珥‧以琳。For their outcry echoes to the border of Moab. Their wailing reaches Eglaim; it is heard in Beer-elim.

⁹底們的水充滿了血；我還要加增底們的災難，叫獅子來追上摩押逃脫的民和那地上所餘剩的人。The waters of Dimon are full of blood, but I will bring more upon Dimon—a lion upon the fugitives of Moab and upon the remnant of the land.

摩押逃民向錫安求庇護

¹你們當將羊羔奉給那地掌權的，從西拉往曠野，送到錫安城（原文是女子）的山。Send the tribute lambs to the ruler of the land, from Sela in the desert to the mount of Daughter Zion.

²摩押的居民（原文是女子）在亞嫩渡口，必像遊飛的鳥，如拆窩的雛。Like fluttering birds pushed out of the nest, so are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon:

³求你獻謀略，行公平，使你的影子在午間如黑夜，隱藏被趕散的人，不可顯露逃民。“Give us counsel; render a decision. Shelter us at noonday with shade as dark as night. Hide the refugees; do not betray the one who flees.

⁴求你容我這被趕散的人和你同居。至於摩押，求你作他的隱密處，脫離滅命者的面。勒索人的歸於無有，毀滅的事止息了，欺壓人的從國中除滅了，Let my fugitives stay with you; be a refuge for Moab from the destroyer.” When the oppressor has gone, destruction has ceased, and the oppressors have vanished from the land,

⁵必有寶座因慈愛堅立；必有一位誠誠實實坐在其上，在大衛帳幕中施行審判，尋求公平，速行公義。in loving devotion a throne will be established in the tent of David. A judge seeking justice and hastening righteousness will sit on it in faithfulness.

摩押的驕傲與哀哭

⁶我們聽說摩押人驕傲，是極其驕傲；聽說他狂妄、驕傲、忿怒；他誇大的話是虛空的。We have heard of Moab’s pomposity, his exceeding pride and conceit, his overflowing arrogance. But his boasting is empty.

⁷因此，摩押人必為摩押哀號；人人都要哀號。你們摩押人要為吉珥‧哈列設的葡萄餅哀歎，極其憂傷。Therefore let Moab wail; let them wail together for Moab. Moan for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth, you who are utterly stricken.

⁸因為希實本的田地和西比瑪的葡萄樹都衰殘了。列國的君主折斷其上美好的枝子；這枝子長到雅謝延到曠野，嫩枝向外探出，直探過鹽海。For the fields of Heshbon have withered, along with the grapevines of Sibmah. The rulers of the nations have trampled its choicest vines, which had reached as far as Jazer and spread toward the desert. Their shoots had spread out and passed over the sea.

⁹因此，我要為西比瑪的葡萄樹哀哭，與雅謝人哀哭一樣。希實本、以利亞利啊，我要以眼淚澆灌你；因為有交戰吶喊的聲音臨到你夏天的果子，並你收割的莊稼。So I weep with Jazer for the vines of Sibmah; I drench Heshbon and Elealeh with my tears. Triumphant shouts have fallen silent over your summer fruit and your harvest.

¹⁰從肥美的田中奪去了歡喜快樂；在葡萄園裡必無歌唱，也無歡呼的聲音。踹酒的在酒醡中不得踹出酒來；我使他歡呼的聲音止息。Joy and gladness are removed from the orchard; no one sings or shouts in the vineyards. No one tramples the grapes in the winepresses; I have put an end to the cheering.

¹¹因此，我心腹為摩押哀鳴如琴；我心腸為吉珥‧哈列設也是如此。Therefore my heart laments for Moab like a harp, my inmost being for Kir-heres.

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¹²摩押人朝見的時候，在高處疲乏，又到他聖所祈禱，也不蒙應允。When Moab appears on the high place, when he wearies himself and enters his sanctuary to pray, it will do him no good.

三年之內必被藐視

¹³這是耶和華從前論摩押的話。This is the message that the LORD spoke earlier concerning Moab.

¹⁴但現在耶和華說：「三年之內，照雇工的年數，摩押的榮耀與他的群眾必被藐視，餘剩的人甚少無幾。」And now the LORD says, “In three years, as a hired worker counts the years, Moab’s splendor will become an object of contempt, with all her many people. And those who are left will be few and feeble.”

不要再像外邦人

¹⁷所以我說，且在主裡確實地說，你們行事不要再像外邦人存虛妄的心行事。So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.

¹⁸他們心地昏昧，與　神所賜的生命隔絕了，都因自己無知，心裡剛硬；They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.

¹⁹良心既然喪盡，就放縱私慾，貪行種種的污穢。Having lost all sense of shame, they have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity, with a craving for more.

²⁰你們學了基督，卻不是這樣。But this is not the way you came to know Christ.

²¹如果你們聽過他的道，領了他的教，學了他的真理，Surely you heard of Him and were taught in Him—in keeping with the truth that is in Jesus—

脫去舊人，穿上新人

²²就要脫去你們從前行為上的舊人，這舊人是因私慾的迷惑漸漸變壞的；to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;

²³又要將你們的心志改換一新，to be renewed in the spirit of your minds;

²⁴並且穿上新人；這新人是照著　神的形像造的，有真理的仁義和聖潔。and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

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新人的言語和行為

²⁵所以，你們要棄絕謊言，各人與鄰舍說實話，因為我們是互相為肢體。Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one another.

²⁶生氣卻不要犯罪；不可含怒到日落，“Be angry, yet do not sin.” Do not let the sun set upon your anger,

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²⁷也不可給魔鬼留地步。and do not give the devil a foothold.

²⁸從前偷竊的，不要再偷；總要勞力，親手做正經事，就可有餘分給那缺少的人。He who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing good with his own hands, that he may have something to share with the one in need.

²⁹污穢的言語一句不可出口，只要隨事說造就人的好話，叫聽見的人得益處。Let no unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building up the one in need and bringing grace to those who listen.

³⁰不要叫　神的聖靈擔憂；你們原是受了他的印記，等候得贖的日子來到。And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

³¹一切苦毒、惱恨、忿怒、嚷鬧、毀謗，並一切的惡毒（或譯：陰毒），都當從你們中間除掉；Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, outcry and slander, along with every form of malice.

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³²並要以恩慈相待，存憐憫的心，彼此饒恕，正如　神在基督裡饒恕了你們一樣。Be kind and tenderhearted to one another, forgiving each other just as in Christ God forgave you.

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效法神，憑愛心行事

¹所以，你們該效法　神，好像蒙慈愛的兒女一樣。Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children,

²也要憑愛心行事，正如基督愛我們，為我們捨了自己，當作馨香的供物和祭物，獻與　神。and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.

連提都不可的事

³至於淫亂並一切污穢，或是貪婪，在你們中間連提都不可，方合聖徒的體統。But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed.

⁴淫詞、妄語，和戲笑的話都不相宜；總要說感謝的話。Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk, or crude joking, which are out of character, but rather thanksgiving.

⁵因為你們確實地知道，無論是淫亂的，是污穢的，是有貪心的，在基督和　神的國裡都是無分的。有貪心的，就與拜偶像的一樣。For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

⁶不要被人虛浮的話欺哄；因這些事，　神的忿怒必臨到那悖逆之子。Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.

⁷所以，你們不要與他們同夥。Therefore do not be partakers with them.

行事像光明的子女

⁸從前你們是暗昧的，但如今在主裡面是光明的，行事為人就當像光明的子女。For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

⁹光明所結的果子就是一切良善、公義、誠實。for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth.

¹⁰總要察驗何為主所喜悅的事。Test and prove what pleases the Lord.

¹¹那暗昧無益的事，不要與人同行，倒要責備行這事的人；Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.

¹²因為他們暗中所行的，就是提起來也是可恥的。For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.

¹³凡事受了責備，就被光顯明出來，因為一切能顯明的就是光。But everything exposed by the light becomes visible, for everything that is illuminated becomes a light itself.

¹⁴所以主說：你這睡著的人當醒過來，從死裡復活！基督就要光照你了。So it is said: “Wake up, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

要愛惜光陰

¹⁵你們要謹慎行事，不要像愚昧人，當像智慧人。Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,

¹⁶要愛惜光陰，因為現今的世代邪惡。redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

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¹⁷不要作糊塗人，要明白主的旨意如何。Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.

要被聖靈充滿

¹⁸不要醉酒，酒能使人放蕩；乃要被聖靈充滿。Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.

¹⁹當用詩章、頌詞、靈歌彼此對說，口唱心和地讚美主。Speak to one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your hearts to the Lord,

²⁰凡事要奉我們主耶穌基督的名常常感謝父　神。always giving thanks to God the Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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²¹又當存敬畏基督的心，彼此順服。Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.