今日读经

美名胜过大财

¹美名胜过大财；恩宠强如金银。A good name is more desirable than great riches; favor is better than silver and gold.

²富户穷人在世相遇，都为耶和华所造。The rich and the poor have this in common: The LORD is Maker of them all.

³通达人见祸藏躲；愚蒙人前往受害。The prudent see danger and take cover, but the simple keep going and suffer the consequences.

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⁴敬畏耶和华心存谦卑，就得富有、尊荣、生命为赏赐。The rewards of humility and the fear of the LORD are wealth and honor and life.

⁵乖僻人的路上有荆棘和网罗；保守自己生命的，必要远离。Thorns and snares lie on the path of the perverse; he who guards his soul stays far from them.

教养孩童

⁶教养孩童，使他走当行的道，就是到老他也不偏离。Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

富户与穷人

⁷富户管辖穷人；欠债的是债主的仆人。The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender.

⁸撒罪孽的，必收灾祸；他逞怒的杖也必废掉。He who sows injustice will reap disaster, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

⁹眼目慈善的，就必蒙福，因他将食物分给穷人。A generous man will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.

¹⁰赶出亵慢人，争端就消除；纷争和羞辱也必止息。Drive out the mocker, and conflict will depart; even quarreling and insults will cease.

¹¹喜爱清心的人因他嘴上的恩言，王必与他为友。He who loves a pure heart and gracious lips will have the king for a friend.

¹²耶和华的眼目眷顾聪明人，却倾败奸诈人的言语。The LORD’s eyes keep watch over knowledge, but He frustrates the words of the faithless.

¹³懒惰人说：外头有狮子；我在街上就必被杀。The slacker says, “There is a lion outside! I will be slain in the streets!”

¹⁴淫妇的口为深坑；耶和华所憎恶的，必陷在其中。The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; he who is under the wrath of the LORD will fall into it.

¹⁵愚蒙迷住孩童的心，用管教的杖可以远远赶除。Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

¹⁶欺压贫穷为要利己的，并送礼与富户的，都必缺乏。Oppressing the poor to enrich oneself or giving gifts to the rich will surely lead to poverty.

智慧人的言语

¹⁷你须侧耳听受智慧人的言语，留心领会我的知识。Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise—apply your mind to my knowledge—

¹⁸你若心中存记，嘴上咬定，这便为美。for it is pleasing when you keep them within you and they are constantly on your lips.

¹⁹我今日以此特特指教你，为要使你倚靠耶和华。So that your trust may be in the LORD, I instruct you today—yes, you.

²⁰谋略和知识的美事，我岂没有写给你吗？Have I not written for you thirty sayings about counsel and knowledge,

²¹要使你知道真言的实理，你好将真言回复那打发你来的人。to show you true and reliable words, that you may soundly answer those who sent you?

不可欺压穷人，不结交暴怒的人

²²贫穷人，你不可因他贫穷就抢夺他的物，也不可在城门口欺压困苦人；Do not rob a poor man because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate,

²³因耶和华必为他辨屈；抢夺他的，耶和华必夺取那人的命。for the LORD will take up their case and will plunder those who rob them.

²⁴好生气的人，不可与他结交；暴怒的人，不可与他来往；Do not make friends with an angry man, and do not associate with a hot-tempered man,

²⁵恐怕你效法他的行为，自己就陷在网罗里。or you may learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.

不要为欠债的作保

²⁶不要与人击掌，不要为欠债的作保。Do not be one who gives pledges, who puts up security for debts.

²⁷你若没有什么偿还，何必使人夺去你睡卧的床呢？If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?

不可挪移地界

²⁸你先祖所立的地界，你不可挪移。Do not move an ancient boundary stone which your fathers have placed.

²⁹你看见办事殷勤的人吗？他必站在君王面前，必不站在下贱人面前。Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will be stationed in the presence of kings; he will not stand before obscure men.

与官长坐席

¹你若与官长坐席，要留意在你面前的是谁。When you sit down to dine with a ruler, consider carefully what is set before you,

²你若是贪食的，就当拿刀放在喉咙上。and put a knife to your throat if you possess a great appetite.

³不可贪恋他的美食，因为是哄人的食物。Do not crave his delicacies, for that food is deceptive.

不要劳碌求富

⁴不要劳碌求富，休仗自己的聪明。Do not wear yourself out to get rich; be wise enough to restrain yourself.

⁵你岂要定睛在虚无的钱财上吗？因钱财必长翅膀，如鹰向天飞去。When you glance at wealth, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.

⁶不要吃恶眼人的饭，也不要贪他的美味；Do not eat the bread of a stingy man, and do not crave his delicacies;

⁷因为他心怎样思量，他为人就是怎样。他虽对你说，请吃，请喝，他的心却与你相背。for he is keeping track, inwardly counting the cost. “Eat and drink,” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

⁸你所吃的那点食物必吐出来；你所说的甘美言语也必落空。You will vomit up what little you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.

⁹你不要说话给愚昧人听，因他必藐视你智慧的言语。Do not speak to a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

不可侵入孤儿的田地

¹⁰不可挪移古时的地界，也不可侵入孤儿的田地；Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,

¹¹因他们的救赎主大有能力，他必向你为他们辨屈。for their Redeemer is strong; He will take up their case against you.

管教与智慧

¹²你要留心领受训诲，侧耳听从知识的言语。Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to words of knowledge.

¹³不可不管教孩童；你用杖打他，他必不至于死。Do not withhold discipline from a child; although you strike him with a rod, he will not die.

¹⁴你要用杖打他，就可以救他的灵魂免下阴间。Strike him with a rod, and you will deliver his soul from Sheol.

¹⁵我儿，你心若存智慧，我的心也甚欢喜。My son, if your heart is wise, my own heart will indeed rejoice.

¹⁶你的嘴若说正直话，我的心肠也必快乐。My inmost being will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.

不要嫉妒罪人

¹⁷你心中不要嫉妒罪人，只要终日敬畏耶和华；Do not let your heart envy sinners, but always continue in the fear of the LORD.

¹⁸因为至终必有善报，你的指望也不致断绝。For surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

¹⁹我儿，你当听，当存智慧，好在正道上引导你的心。Listen, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart on the right course.

²⁰好饮酒的，好吃肉的，不要与他们来往；Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat.

²¹因为好酒贪食的，必致贫穷；好睡觉的，必穿破烂衣服。For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.

²²你要听从生你的父亲；你母亲老了，也不可藐视她。Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

²³你当买真理；就是智慧、训诲，和聪明也都不可卖。Invest in truth and never sell it—in wisdom and instruction and understanding.

²⁴义人的父亲必大得快乐；人生智慧的儿子，必因他欢喜。The father of a righteous man will greatly rejoice, and he who fathers a wise son will delight in him.

²⁵你要使父母欢喜，使生你的快乐。May your father and mother be glad, and may she who gave you birth rejoice!

远离淫妇

²⁶我儿，要将你的心归我；你的眼目也要喜悦我的道路。My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes delight in my ways.

²⁷妓女是深坑；外女是窄阱。For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well.

²⁸她埋伏好像强盗；她使人中多有奸诈的。Like a robber she lies in wait and multiplies the faithless among men.

醉酒的祸患

²⁹谁有祸患？谁有忧愁？谁有争斗？谁有哀叹（或译：怨言）？谁无故受伤？谁眼目红赤？Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has needless wounds? Who has bloodshot eyes?

³⁰就是那流连饮酒、常去寻找调和酒的人。Those who linger over wine, who go to taste mixed drinks.

^31–32酒发红，在杯中闪烁，你不可观看，虽然下咽舒畅，终久是咬你如蛇，刺你如毒蛇。Do not gaze at wine while it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly. In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper.

³³你眼必看见异怪的事（或译：淫妇）；你心必发出乖谬的话。Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will utter perversities.

³⁴你必像躺在海中，或像卧在桅杆上。You will be like one sleeping on the high seas or lying on the top of a mast:

³⁵你必说：人打我，我却未受伤；人鞭打我，我竟不觉得。我几时清醒，我仍去寻酒。“They struck me, but I feel no pain! They beat me, but I did not know it! When can I wake up to search for another drink?”

马其顿众教会的榜样

¹弟兄们，我把　神赐给马其顿众教会的恩告诉你们，Now, brothers, we want you to know about the grace that God has given the churches of Macedonia.

²就是他们在患难中受大试炼的时候，仍有满足的快乐，在极穷之间还格外显出他们乐捐的厚恩。In the terrible ordeal they suffered, their abundant joy and deep poverty overflowed into rich generosity.

³我可以证明，他们是按着力量，而且也过了力量，自己甘心乐意地捐助，For I testify that they gave according to their ability and even beyond it. Of their own accord,

⁴再三地求我们，准他们在这供给圣徒的恩情上有分；they earnestly pleaded with us for the privilege of sharing in this service to the saints.

⁵并且他们所做的，不但照我们所想望的，更照　神的旨意先把自己献给主，又归附了我们。And not only did they do as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then to us, through the will of God.

在慈惠的事上也要满足

⁶因此我劝提多，既然在你们中间开办这慈惠的事，就当办成了。So we urged Titus to help complete your act of grace, just as he had started it.

⁷你们既然在信心、口才、知识、热心，和待我们的爱心上，都格外显出满足来，就当在这慈惠的事上也格外显出满足来。But just as you excel in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in complete earnestness, and in the love we inspired in you—see that you also excel in this grace of giving.

⁸我说这话，不是吩咐你们，乃是借着别人的热心试验你们爱心的实在。I am not giving a command, but I am testing the sincerity of your love through the earnestness of others.

基督为你们成了贫穷

⁹你们知道我们主耶稣基督的恩典：他本来富足，却为你们成了贫穷，叫你们因他的贫穷，可以成为富足。For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.

把开始的事办成

¹⁰我在这事上把我的意见告诉你们，是与你们有益；因为你们下手办这事，而且起此心意，已经有一年了，And this is my opinion about what is helpful for you in this matter: Last year you were the first not only to give, but even to have such a desire.

¹¹如今就当办成这事。既有愿做的心，也当照你们所有的去办成。Now finish the work, so that you may complete it with the same eager desire, according to your means.

¹²因为人若有愿做的心，必蒙悦纳，乃是照他所有的，并不是照他所无的。For if the eagerness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what he does not have.

要均平

¹³我原不是要别人轻省，你们受累，It is not our intention that others may be relieved while you are burdened, but that there may be equality.

¹⁴乃要均平，就是要你们的富余，现在可以补他们的不足，使他们的富余，将来也可以补你们的不足，这就均平了。At the present time, your surplus will meet their need, so that in turn their surplus will meet your need. This way there will be equality.

¹⁵如经上所记：多收的也没有余；少收的也没有缺。As it is written: “He who gathered much had no excess, and he who gathered little had no shortfall.”

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提多和一位弟兄

¹⁶多谢　神，感动提多的心，叫他待你们殷勤，像我一样。But thanks be to God, who put into the heart of Titus the same devotion I have for you.

¹⁷他固然是听了我的劝，但自己更是热心，情愿往你们那里去。For not only did he welcome our appeal, but he is eagerly coming to you of his own volition.

¹⁸我们还打发一位兄弟和他同去，这人在福音上得了众教会的称赞。Along with Titus we are sending the brother who is praised by all the churches for his work in the gospel.

¹⁹不但这样，他也被众教会挑选，和我们同行，把所托与我们的这捐赀送到了，可以荣耀主，又表明我们乐意的心。More than that, this brother was chosen by the churches to accompany us with the gracious offering we administer to honor the Lord Himself and to show our eagerness to help.

钱财经手要光明

²⁰这就免得有人因我们收的捐银很多，就挑我们的不是。We want to avoid any criticism of the way we administer this generous gift.

²¹我们留心行光明的事，不但在主面前，就在人面前也是这样。For we are taking great care to do what is right, not only in the eyes of the Lord, but also in the eyes of men.

又一位热心的弟兄

²²我们又打发一位兄弟同去；这人的热心，我们在许多事上屡次试验过。现在他因为深信你们，就更加热心了。And we are sending along with them our brother who has proven his earnestness to us many times and in many ways, and now even more so by his great confidence in you.

²³论到提多，他是我的同伴，一同为你们劳碌的。论到那两位兄弟，他们是众教会的使者，是基督的荣耀。As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker among you. As for our brothers, they are messengers of the churches, the glory of Christ.

²⁴所以，你们务要在众教会面前显明你们爱心的凭据，并我所夸奖你们的凭据。In full view of the churches, then, show these men the proof of your love and the reason for our boasting about you.