今日读经

开垦荒地，心里受割礼

³耶和华对犹大和耶路撒冷人如此说：要开垦你们的荒地，不要撒种在荆棘中。For this is what the LORD says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: “Break up your unplowed ground, and do not sow among the thorns.

⁴犹大人和耶路撒冷的居民哪，你们当自行割礼，归耶和华，将心里的污秽除掉；恐怕我的忿怒因你们的恶行发作，如火着起，甚至无人能以熄灭！Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and remove the foreskins of your hearts, O men of Judah and people of Jerusalem. Otherwise, My wrath will break out like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it, because of your evil deeds.”

吹角：灾祸从北方来

⁵你们当传扬在犹大，宣告在耶路撒冷说：你们当在国中吹角，高声呼叫说：你们当聚集！我们好进入坚固城！Announce in Judah, proclaim in Jerusalem, and say: “Blow the ram’s horn throughout the land. Cry aloud and say, ‘Assemble yourselves and let us flee to the fortified cities.’

⁶应当向锡安竖立大旗。要逃避，不要迟延，因我必使灾祸与大毁灭从北方来到。Raise a signal flag toward Zion. Seek refuge! Do not delay! For I am bringing disaster from the north, and terrible destruction.

⁷有狮子从密林中上来，是毁坏列国的。它已经动身出离本处，要使你的地荒凉，使你的城邑变为荒场无人居住。A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to lay waste your land. Your cities will be reduced to ruins and lie uninhabited.

⁸因此，你们当腰束麻布，大声哀号，因为耶和华的烈怒没有向我们转消。So put on sackcloth, mourn and wail, for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned away from us.”

⁹耶和华说：“到那时，君王和首领的心都要消灭；祭司都要惊奇，先知都要诧异。”“In that day,” declares the LORD, “the king and officials will lose their courage. The priests will tremble in fear, and the prophets will be astounded.”

¹⁰我说：“哀哉！主耶和华啊，你真是大大地欺哄这百姓和耶路撒冷，说：‘你们必得平安’。其实刀剑害及性命了。”Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD, how completely You have deceived this people and Jerusalem by saying, ‘You will have peace,’ while a sword is at our throats.”

¹¹那时，必有话对这百姓和耶路撒冷说：“有一阵热风从旷野净光的高处向我的众民（原文是民女）刮来，不是为簸扬，也不是为扬净。At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A searing wind from the barren heights in the desert blows toward the daughter of My people, but not to winnow or to sift;

¹²必有一阵更大的风从这些地方为我刮来；现在我又必发出判语，攻击他们。”a wind too strong for that comes from Me. Now I also pronounce judgments against them.”

¹³看哪，仇敌必如云上来；他的战车如旋风，他的马匹比鹰更快。我们有祸了！我们败落了！Behold, he advances like the clouds, his chariots like the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we are ruined!

¹⁴耶路撒冷啊，你当洗去心中的恶，使你可以得救。恶念存在你心里要到几时呢？Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts within you?

¹⁵有声音从但传扬，从以法莲山报祸患。For a voice resounds from Dan, proclaiming disaster from the hills of Ephraim.

¹⁶你们当传给列国，报告攻击耶路撒冷的事说：有探望的人从远方来到，向犹大的城邑大声呐喊。Warn the nations now! Proclaim to Jerusalem: “A besieging army comes from a distant land; they raise their voices against the cities of Judah.

¹⁷他们周围攻击耶路撒冷，好像看守田园的，因为她背叛了我。这是耶和华说的。They surround her like men guarding a field, because she has rebelled against Me,” declares the LORD.

¹⁸你的行动，你的作为，招惹这事；这是你罪恶的结果，实在是苦，是害及你心了！“Your ways and deeds have brought this upon you. This is your punishment; how bitter it is, because it pierces to the heart!”

我的肺腑啊

¹⁹我的肺腑啊，我的肺腑啊，我心疼痛！我心在我里面烦躁不安。我不能静默不言，因为我已经听见角声和打仗的喊声。My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh, the pain in my chest! My heart pounds within me; I cannot be silent. For I have heard the sound of the horn, the alarm of battle.

²⁰毁坏的信息连络不绝，因为全地荒废。我的帐棚忽然毁坏；我的幔子顷刻破裂。Disaster after disaster is proclaimed, for the whole land is laid waste. My tents are destroyed in an instant, my curtains in a moment.

²¹我看见大旗，听见角声，要到几时呢？How long must I see the signal flag and hear the sound of the horn?

²²耶和华说：我的百姓愚顽，不认识我；他们是愚昧无知的儿女，有智慧行恶，没有知识行善。“For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they know not how to do good.”

地是空虚混沌

²³先知说：我观看地，不料，地是空虚混沌；我观看天，天也无光。I looked at the earth, and it was formless and void; I looked to the heavens, and they had no light.

²⁴我观看大山，不料，尽都震动，小山也都摇来摇去。I looked at the mountains, and behold, they were quaking; all the hills were swaying.

²⁵我观看，不料，无人；空中的飞鸟也都躲避。I looked, and no man was left; all the birds of the air had fled.

²⁶我观看，不料，肥田变为荒地；一切城邑在耶和华面前，因他的烈怒都被拆毁。I looked, and the fruitful land was a desert. All its cities were torn down before the LORD, before His fierce anger.

²⁷耶和华如此说：全地必然荒凉，我却不毁灭净尽。For this is what the LORD says: “The whole land will be desolate, but I will not finish its destruction.

²⁸因此，地要悲哀，在上的天也必黑暗；因为我言已出，我意已定，必不后悔，也不转意不做。Therefore the earth will mourn and the heavens above will grow dark. I have spoken, I have planned, and I will not relent or turn back.”

各城被撇下，打扮也是枉然

²⁹各城的人因马兵和弓箭手的响声就都逃跑，进入密林，爬上磐石；各城被撇下，无人住在其中。Every city flees at the sound of the horseman and archer. They enter the thickets and climb among the rocks. Every city is abandoned; no inhabitant is left.

³⁰你凄凉的时候要怎样行呢？你虽穿上朱红衣服，佩戴黄金装饰，用颜料修饰眼目，这样标致是枉然的！恋爱你的藐视你，并且寻索你的性命。And you, O devastated one, what will you do, though you dress yourself in scarlet, though you adorn yourself with gold jewelry, though you enlarge your eyes with paint? You adorn yourself in vain; your lovers despise you; they want to take your life.

³¹我听见有声音，仿佛妇人产难的声音，好像生头胎疼痛的声音，是锡安女子（就是指民的意思）的声音；她喘着气、挓挲手，说：我有祸了！在杀人的跟前，我的心发昏了。For I hear a cry like a woman in labor, a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child—the cry of the Daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands to say, “Woe is me, for my soul faints before the murderers!”

找不到一个行公义的人

¹你们当在耶路撒冷的街上跑来跑去，在宽阔处寻找，看看有一人行公义求诚实没有？若有，我就赦免这城。“Go up and down the streets of Jerusalem. Look now and take note; search her squares. If you can find a single person, anyone who acts justly, anyone who seeks the truth, then I will forgive the city.

²其中的人虽然指着永生的耶和华起誓，所起的誓实在是假的。Although they say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives,’ they are swearing falsely.”

³耶和华啊，你的眼目不是看顾诚实吗？你击打他们，他们却不伤恸；你毁灭他们，他们仍不受惩治。他们使脸刚硬过于磐石，不肯回头。O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.

⁴我说：这些人实在是贫穷的，是愚昧的，因为不晓得耶和华的作为和他们　神的法则。Then I said, “They are only the poor; they have played the fool, for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.

⁵我要去见尊大的人，对他们说话，因为他们晓得耶和华的作为和他们　神的法则。哪知，这些人齐心将轭折断，挣开绳索。I will go to the powerful and speak to them. Surely they know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.” But they too, with one accord, had broken the yoke and torn off the chains.

⁶因此，林中的狮子必害死他们；晚上（或译：野地）的豺狼必灭绝他们；豹子要在城外窥伺他们。凡出城的必被撕碎；因为他们的罪过极多，背道的事也加增了。Therefore a lion from the forest will strike them down, a wolf from the desert will ravage them. A leopard will lie in wait near their cities, and everyone who ventures out will be torn to pieces. For their rebellious acts are many, and their unfaithful deeds are numerous.

⁷我怎能赦免你呢？你的儿女离弃我，又指着那不是神的起誓。我使他们饱足，他们就行奸淫，成群地聚集在娼妓家里。“Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery and assembled at the houses of prostitutes.

⁸他们像喂饱的马到处乱跑，各向他邻舍的妻发嘶声。They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing after his neighbor’s wife.

⁹耶和华说：我岂不因这些事讨罪呢？岂不报复这样的国民呢？Should I not punish them for these things?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?

葡萄园要被毁，百姓不认耶和华

¹⁰你们要上她葡萄园的墙施行毁坏，但不可毁坏净尽，只可除掉她的枝子，因为不属耶和华。Go up through her vineyards and ravage them, but do not finish them off. Strip off her branches, for they do not belong to the LORD.

¹¹原来以色列家和犹大家大行诡诈攻击我。这是耶和华说的。For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have been utterly unfaithful to Me,” declares the LORD.

¹²他们不认耶和华，说：这并不是他，灾祸必不临到我们；刀剑和饥荒，我们也看不见。They have lied about the LORD and said: “He will not do anything; harm will not come to us; we will not see sword or famine.

¹³先知的话必成为风；道也不在他们里面。这灾必临到他们身上。The prophets are but wind, for the word is not in them. So let their own predictions befall them.”

从远方来的强国

¹⁴所以耶和华—万军之　神如此说：因为百姓说这话，我必使我的话在你口中为火，使他们为柴；这火便将他们烧灭。Therefore this is what the LORD God of Hosts says: “Because you have spoken this word, I will make My words a fire in your mouth and this people the wood it consumes.

¹⁵耶和华说：以色列家啊，我必使一国的民从远方来攻击你，是强盛的国，是从古而有的国。他们的言语你不晓得，他们的话你不明白。Behold, I am bringing a distant nation against you, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD. “It is an established nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know and whose speech you do not understand.

¹⁶他们的箭袋是敞开的坟墓；他们都是勇士。Their quivers are like open graves; they are all mighty men.

¹⁷他们必吃尽你的庄稼和你的粮食，是你儿女该吃的；必吃尽你的牛羊，吃尽你的葡萄和无花果；又必用刀毁坏你所倚靠的坚固城。They will devour your harvest and food; they will consume your sons and daughters; they will eat up your flocks and herds; they will feed on your vines and fig trees. With the sword they will destroy the fortified cities in which you trust.”

¹⁸耶和华说：“就是到那时，我也不将你们毁灭净尽。“Yet even in those days,” declares the LORD, “I will not make a full end of you.

¹⁹百姓若说：‘耶和华—我们的　神为什么向我们行这一切事呢？’你就对他们说：‘你们怎样离弃耶和华（原文是我），在你们的地上事奉外邦神，也必照样在不属你们的地上事奉外邦人。’”And when the people ask, ‘For what offense has the LORD our God done all these things to us?’ You are to tell them, ‘Just as you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so will you serve foreigners in a land that is not your own.’”

用沙为海定界限的神

²⁰当传扬在雅各家，报告在犹大说：Declare this in the house of Jacob and proclaim it in Judah:

²¹愚昧无知的百姓啊，你们有眼不看，有耳不听，现在当听这话。“Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.

²²耶和华说：你们怎么不惧怕我呢？我以永远的定例，用沙为海的界限，水不得越过。因此，你们在我面前还不战兢吗？波浪虽然翻腾，却不能逾越；虽然匉訇，却不能过去。Do you not fear Me?” declares the LORD. “Do you not tremble before Me, the One who set the sand as the boundary for the sea, an enduring barrier it cannot cross? The waves surge, but they cannot prevail. They roar but cannot cross it.

²³但这百姓有背叛忤逆的心；他们叛我而去，But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts. They have turned aside and gone away.

²⁴心内也不说：我们应当敬畏耶和华—我们的　神；他按时赐雨，就是秋雨春雨，又为我们定收割的节令，永存不废。They have not said in their hearts, ‘Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives the rains, both autumn and spring, in season, who keeps for us the appointed weeks of harvest.’

²⁵你们的罪孽使这些事转离你们；你们的罪恶使你们不能得福。Your iniquities have diverted these from you; your sins have deprived you of My bounty.

民中的恶人像捕鸟的

²⁶因为在我民中有恶人。他们埋伏窥探，好像捕鸟的人；他们设立圈套陷害人。For among My people are wicked men; they watch like fowlers lying in wait; they set a trap to catch men.

²⁷笼内怎样满了雀鸟，他们的房中也照样充满诡诈；所以他们得成为大，而且富足。Like cages full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become powerful and rich.

²⁸他们肥胖光润，作恶过甚，不为人伸冤！就是不为孤儿伸冤，不使他亨通，也不为穷人辨屈。They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the needy.

²⁹耶和华说：我岂不因这些事讨罪呢？岂不报复这样的国民呢？Should I not punish them for these things?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?

³⁰国中有可惊骇、可憎恶的事：A horrible and shocking thing has happened in the land.

³¹就是先知说假预言，祭司借他们把持权柄；我的百姓也喜爱这些事，到了结局你们怎样行呢？The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it so, but what will you do in the end?

耶路撒冷被围

¹便雅悯人哪，你们要逃出耶路撒冷，在提哥亚吹角，在伯·哈基琳立号旗；因为有灾祸与大毁灭从北方张望。“Run for cover, O sons of Benjamin; flee from Jerusalem! Sound the ram’s horn in Tekoa; send up a signal over Beth-haccherem, for disaster looms from the north, even great destruction.

²那秀美娇嫩的锡安女子（就是指民的意思），我必剪除。Though she is beautiful and delicate, I will destroy the Daughter of Zion.

³牧人必引他们的羊群到她那里，在她周围支搭帐棚，各在自己所占之地使羊吃草。Shepherds and their flocks will come against her; they will pitch their tents all around her, each tending his own portion:

⁴你们要准备攻击她。起来吧，我们可以趁午时上去。哀哉！日已渐斜，晚影拖长了。‘Prepare for battle against her; rise up, let us attack at noon. Woe to us, for the daylight is fading; the evening shadows grow long.

⁵起来吧，我们夜间上去，毁坏她的宫殿。Rise up, let us attack by night and destroy her fortresses!’”

⁶因为万军之耶和华如此说：你们要砍伐树木，筑垒攻打耶路撒冷。这就是那该罚的城，其中尽是欺压。For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Cut down the trees and raise a siege ramp against Jerusalem. This city must be punished; there is nothing but oppression in her midst.

⁷井怎样涌出水来，这城也照样涌出恶来；在其间常听见有强暴毁灭的事，病患损伤也常在我面前。As a well gushes its water, so she pours out her evil. Violence and destruction resound in her; sickness and wounds are ever before Me.

⁸耶路撒冷啊，你当受教，免得我心与你生疏，免得我使你荒凉，成为无人居住之地。Be forewarned, O Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you; I will make you a desolation, a land without inhabitant.”

⁹万军之耶和华曾如此说：敌人必掳尽以色列剩下的民，如同摘净葡萄一样。你要像摘葡萄的人摘了又摘，回手放在筐子里。This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Glean the remnant of Israel as thoroughly as a vine. Pass your hand once more like a grape gatherer over the branches.”

¹⁰现在我可以向谁说话作见证，使他们听呢？他们的耳朵未受割礼，不能听见。看哪，耶和华的话他们以为羞辱，不以为喜悦。To whom can I give this warning? Who will listen to me? Look, their ears are closed, so they cannot hear. See, the word of the LORD has become offensive to them; they find no pleasure in it.

¹¹因此我被耶和华的忿怒充满，难以含忍。我要倾在街中的孩童和聚会的少年人身上，连夫带妻，并年老的与日子满足的都必被擒拿。But I am full of the LORD’s wrath; I am tired of holding it back. “Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the young men gathered together. For both husband and wife will be captured, the old and the very old alike.

¹²他们的房屋、田地，和妻子都必转归别人；我要伸手攻击这地的居民。这是耶和华说的。Their houses will be turned over to others, their fields and wives as well, for I will stretch out My hand against the inhabitants of the land,” declares the LORD.

平安了！其实没有平安

¹³因为他们从最小的到至大的都一味地贪婪，从先知到祭司都行事虚谎。“For from the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit.

¹⁴他们轻轻忽忽地医治我百姓的损伤，说：平安了！平安了！其实没有平安。They dress the wound of My people with very little care, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace at all.

¹⁵他们行可憎的事知道惭愧吗？不然，他们毫不惭愧，也不知羞耻。因此，他们必在仆倒的人中仆倒；我向他们讨罪的时候，他们必致跌倒。这是耶和华说的。Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse,” says the LORD.

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访问古道

¹⁶耶和华如此说：你们当站在路上察看，访问古道，哪是善道，便行在其间；这样，你们心里必得安息。他们却说：我们不行在其间。This is what the LORD says: “Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths: ‘Where is the good way?’ Then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it!’

¹⁷我设立守望的人照管你们，说：要听角声。他们却说：我们不听。I appointed watchmen over you and said, ‘Listen for the sound of the ram’s horn.’ But they answered, ‘We will not listen!’

¹⁸列国啊，因此你们当听！会众啊，要知道他们必遭遇的事。Therefore hear, O nations, and learn, O congregations, what will happen to them.

¹⁹地啊，当听！我必使灾祸临到这百姓，就是他们意念所结的果子；因为他们不听从我的言语，至于我的训诲（或译：律法），他们也厌弃了。Hear, O earth! I am bringing disaster on this people, the fruit of their own schemes, because they have paid no attention to My word and have rejected My instruction.

²⁰从示巴出的乳香，从远方出的菖蒲（或译：甘蔗）奉来给我有何益呢？你们的燔祭不蒙悦纳；你们的平安祭，我也不喜悦。What use to Me is frankincense from Sheba or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable; your sacrifices do not please Me.”

²¹所以耶和华如此说：我要将绊脚石放在这百姓前面。父亲和儿子要一同跌在其上；邻舍与朋友也都灭亡。Therefore this is what the LORD says: “I will lay stumbling blocks before this people; fathers and sons alike will be staggered; friends and neighbors will perish.”

北方来的残忍大国

²²耶和华如此说：看哪，有一种民从北方而来，并有一大国被激动，从地极来到。This is what the LORD says: “Behold, an army is coming from the land of the north; a great nation is stirred up from the ends of the earth.

²³他们拿弓和枪，性情残忍，不施怜悯；他们的声音像海浪匉訇。锡安城（原文是女子）啊，他们骑马都摆队伍，如上战场的人要攻击你。They grasp the bow and spear; they are cruel and merciless. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride upon horses, lined up like men in formation against you, O Daughter of Zion.”

²⁴我们听见他们的风声，手就发软；痛苦将我们抓住，疼痛仿佛产难的妇人。We have heard the report; our hands hang limp. Anguish has gripped us, pain like that of a woman in labor.

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²⁵你们不要往田野去，也不要行在路上，因四围有仇敌的刀剑和惊吓。Do not go out to the fields; do not walk the road. For the enemy has a sword; terror is on every side.

²⁶我民（原文是民女）哪，应当腰束麻布，滚在灰中。你要悲伤，如丧独生子痛痛哭号，因为灭命的要忽然临到我们。O daughter of my people, dress yourselves in sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn with bitter wailing, as you would for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.

²⁷我使你在我民中为高台（或译：试验人的），为保障，使你知道试验他们的行动。“I have appointed you to examine My people like ore, so you may know and try their ways.

²⁸他们都是极悖逆的，往来谗谤人。他们是铜是铁，都行坏事。All are hardened rebels, walking around as slanderers. They are bronze and iron; all of them are corrupt.

²⁹风箱吹火，铅被烧毁；他们炼而又炼，终是徒然；因为恶劣的还未除掉。The bellows blow fiercely, blasting away the lead with fire. The refining proceeds in vain, for the wicked are not purged.

³⁰人必称他们为被弃的银渣，因为耶和华已经弃掉他们。They are called rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them.”

主的日子还没有到

¹弟兄们，论到我们主耶稣基督降临和我们到他那里聚集，Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to Him, we ask you, brothers,

²我劝你们：无论有灵、有言语、有冒我名的书信，说主的日子现在（现在：或译就）到了，不要轻易动心，也不要惊慌。not to be easily disconcerted or alarmed by any spirit or message or letter seeming to be from us, alleging that the Day of the Lord has already come.

大罪人要先显露

³人不拘用什么法子，你们总不要被他诱惑；因为那日子以前，必有离道反教的事，并有那大罪人，就是沉沦之子，显露出来。Let no one deceive you in any way, for it will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness—the son of destruction—is revealed.

⁴他是抵挡主，高抬自己，超过一切称为神的和一切受人敬拜的，甚至坐在　神的殿里，自称是　神。He will oppose and exalt himself above every so-called god or object of worship. So he will seat himself in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.

⁵我还在你们那里的时候，曾把这些事告诉你们，你们不记得吗？Do you not remember that I told you these things while I was still with you?

那拦阻的

⁶现在你们也知道，那拦阻他的是什么，是叫他到了的时候才可以显露。And you know what is now restraining him, so that he may be revealed at the proper time.

⁷因为那不法的隐意已经发动，只是现在有一个拦阻的，等到那拦阻的被除去，For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work, but the one who now restrains it will continue until he is taken out of the way.

主要废掉不法的人

⁸那时这不法的人必显露出来。主耶稣要用口中的气灭绝他，用降临的荣光废掉他。And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will slay with the breath of His mouth and annihilate by the majesty of His arrival.

⁹这不法的人来，是照撒但的运动，行各样的异能、神迹，和一切虚假的奇事，The coming of the lawless one will be accompanied by the working of Satan, with every kind of power, sign, and false wonder,

¹⁰并且在那沉沦的人身上行各样出于不义的诡诈；因他们不领受爱真理的心，使他们得救。and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them.

¹¹故此，　神就给他们一个生发错误的心，叫他们信从虚谎，For this reason God will send them a powerful delusion so that they believe the lie,

¹²使一切不信真理、倒喜爱不义的人都被定罪。in order that judgment may come upon all who have disbelieved the truth and delighted in wickedness.

神拣选你们得救

¹³主所爱的弟兄们哪，我们本该常为你们感谢　神；因为他从起初拣选了你们，叫你们因信真道，又被圣灵感动，成为圣洁，能以得救。But we should always thank God for you, brothers who are loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning to be saved by the sanctification of the Spirit and by faith in the truth.

¹⁴神借我们所传的福音召你们到这地步，好得着我们主耶稣基督的荣光。To this He called you through our gospel, so that you may share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

站立得稳，坚守教训

¹⁵所以，弟兄们，你们要站立得稳，凡所领受的教训，不拘是我们口传的，是信上写的，都要坚守。Therefore, brothers, stand firm and cling to the traditions we taught you, whether by speech or by letter.

¹⁶但愿我们主耶稣基督和那爱我们、开恩将永远的安慰并美好的盼望赐给我们的父　神，Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who by grace has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope,

¹⁷安慰你们的心，并且在一切善行善言上坚固你们。encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good word and deed.

请为我们祷告

¹弟兄们，我还有话说：请你们为我们祷告，好叫主的道理快快行开，得着荣耀，正如在你们中间一样，Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may spread quickly and be held in honor, just as it was with you.

²也叫我们脱离无理之恶人的手；因为人不都是有信心。And pray that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men; for not everyone holds to the faith.

主是信实的

³但主是信实的，要坚固你们，保护你们脱离那恶者（或译：脱离凶恶）。But the Lord is faithful, and He will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one.

⁴我们靠主深信，你们现在是遵行我们所吩咐的，后来也必要遵行。And we have confidence in the Lord that you are doing and will continue to do what we command.

⁵愿主引导你们的心，叫你们爱　神，并学基督的忍耐！May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love and Christ’s perseverance.