彼得前書 1
1 耶穌基督的宗徒伯多祿致書給散居在本都、迦拉達、卡帕多細雅、亞細亞和彼提尼雅作旅客的選民：
Peter, an Apostle of Jesus Christ: To God's own people scattered over the earth, who are living as foreigners in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Roman Asia, and Bithynia,
2 你們被召選，是照天主的預定；受聖神祝聖，是為服事耶穌基督，和分沾他寶血洗淨之恩。願恩寵和平安豐富地賜予你們！
chosen in accordance with the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, with a view to their obedience and to their being sprinkled with the blood of Jesus Christ. May more and more grace and peace be granted to you.
3 願我們的主耶穌基督的天主和父受讚美！他因自己的大仁慈，藉耶穌基督由死者中的復活，重生了我們，為獲得那充滿生命的希望，
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who in His great mercy has begotten us anew to an ever-living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
4 為獲得那為你們已存留在天上的不壞、無瑕、不朽的產業，
to an inheritance imperishable, undefiled and unfading, which has been reserved in Heaven for you,
5 因為你們原是為天主的能力所保護，為使你們藉著信德，而獲得那已準備好，在最後時期出現的救恩。
whom God in His power is guarding through faith for a salvation that even now stands ready for unveiling at the End of the Age.
6 為此，你們要歡躍，雖然如今你們暫時還該在各種試探中受苦，
Rejoice triumphantly in the prospect of this, even if now, for a short time, you are compelled to sorrow amid various trials.
7 這是為使你們的信德，得以精煉，比經過火煉而仍易消失的黃金，更有價值，好在耶穌基督顯現時，堪受稱讚、光榮和尊敬。
The sorrow comes in order that the testing of your faith--being more precious than that of gold, which perishes and yet is proved by fire--may be found to result in praise and glory and honour at the re-appearing of Jesus Christ.
8 你們雖然沒有見過他，卻愛慕他；雖然你們如今仍看不見他，還是相信他；並且以不可言傳，和充滿光榮的喜樂而歡躍，
Him you love, though your eyes have never looked on Him. In Him, though at present you cannot see Him, you nevertheless trust, and triumph with a joy which is unspeakable and is crowned with glory,
9 因為你們已把握住信仰的效果：靈魂的救恩。
while you are securing as the outcome of your faith the salvation of your souls.
10 關於這救恩，那些預言了你們要得恩寵的先知們，也曾經尋求過，考究過，
There were Prophets who earnestly inquired about that salvation, and closely searched into it--even those who spoke beforehand of the grace which was to come to you.
11 就是考究那在他們內的基督的聖神，預言那要臨於基督的苦難，和以後的光榮時，指的是什麼時期，或怎樣的光景。
They were eager to know the time which the Spirit of Christ within them kept indicating, or the characteristics of that time, when they solemnly made known beforehand the sufferings that were to come upon Christ and the glories which would follow.
12 這一切給他們啟示出來，並不是為他們自己，而是為給你們服務；這一切，如今藉著給你們宣傳福音的人，依賴由天上派遣來的聖神，傳報給你們；對於這一切奧蹟，連眾天使也都切望窺探。
To them it was revealed that they were serving not themselves but you, when they foretold the very things which have now been openly declared to you by those who, having been taught by the Holy Spirit which had been sent from Heaven, brought you the Good News. Angels long to stoop and look into these things.
13 為此，你們要束上腰，謹守心神；要清醒，要全心希望在耶穌基督顯現時，給你們帶來的恩寵；
Therefore gird up your minds and fix your hopes calmly and unfalteringly upon the boon that is soon to be yours, at the re-appearing of Jesus Christ.
14 要做順命的子女，不要符合你們昔日在無知中生活的慾望，
And, since you delight in obedience, do not shape your lives by the cravings which used to dominate you in the time of your ignorance,
15 但要像那召叫你們的聖者一樣，在一切生活上是聖的，
but--in imitation of the holy One who has called you--you also must be holy in all your habits of life.
16 因為經上記載：『你們應是聖的，因為我是聖的。』
Because it stands written, "You are to be holy, because I am holy."
17 你們既稱呼那不看情面，而只按每人的作為行審判者為父，就該懷著敬畏，度過你們這旅居的時期。
And if you address as your Father Him who judges impartially in accordance with each man's actions, then spend in fear the time of your stay here on earth,
18 該知道：你們不是用能朽壞的金銀等物，由你們祖傳的虛妄生活中被贖出來的，
knowing, as you do, that it was not with a ransom of perishable wealth, such as silver or gold, that you were set free from your frivolous habits of life which had been handed down to you from your forefathers,
19 而是用寶血，即無玷無瑕的羔羊基督的寶血。
but with the precious blood of Christ--as of an unblemished and spotless lamb.
20 他固然是在創世以前就被預定了的，但在最末的時期為了你們纔出現，
He was pre-destined indeed to this work, even before the creation of the world, but has been plainly manifested in these last days for the sake of you who, through Him,
21 為使你們因著他，而相信那使他由死者中復活，並賜給他光榮的天主：這樣你們的信德和望德，都同歸於天主。
are faithful to God, who raised Him from among the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are resting upon God.
22 你們既因服從真理，而潔淨了你們的心靈，獲得了真實無偽的弟兄之愛，就該以赤誠的心，熱切相愛，
Now that, through your obedience to the truth, you have purified your souls for cherishing sincere brotherly love, you must love another heartily and fervently.
For you have been begotten again by God's ever-living and enduring word from a germ not of perishable, but of imperishable life. (aiōn g165)
24 因為『凡有血肉的都似草，他的一切美麗都似草上的花：草枯萎了，花也就凋謝了；
"All mankind resemble the herbage, and all their beauty is like its flowers. The herbage dries up, and its flowers drop off;
