哥林多後書 1
1 因天主的旨意，做基督耶穌宗徒的保祿和弟茂德弟兄，致書於格林多天主的教會和在全阿哈雅的眾位聖徒：
Paul, apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and brother Timothy, to the church of God that is in Corinth, together with all the saints throughout Achaia:
2 願恩寵及平安由我們的父天主，和耶穌基督賜給你們!
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and Sovereign Jesus Christ.
3 願我們的主耶穌基督的天主和父，仁慈的父和施與各種安慰的天主受讚揚，
All praise to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and God of all encouragement,
4 是衪在我們各種磨難中，常安慰我們，為使我們能以自己由天主所親受安慰，去安慰那些在各種因難中的人。
who encourages us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to encourage those who are in whatever affliction, by means of the encouragement with which we ourselves are encouraged by God.
5 因為基督所受的苦難，加於我們身上的越多，我們藉著基督，得所的安慰也越多。
Because just as the sufferings of the Christ flow over into us, so also our encouraging overflows, through Christ.
6 我們如果受磨難，那是為叫你們受安慰與得救；我們如果受安慰，那也是為叫你們受安慰；這安慰足以能使你們堅忍那我們所受的同樣苦難。
Now then, if we are afflicted, it is for the sake of your encouragement and deliverance, that are effective for enduring the same sufferings that we also are suffering
7 為此，我們對你們所懷的希望是不移的，因為我們知道：你們怎樣分受了痛苦，他要怎樣同享安慰。
(yes, our hope concerning you is steadfast); if we are encouraged, it also is for the sake of your encouragement and deliverance, since we know that you will share in the encouragement just as you do in the sufferings.
8 弟兄們，我們深願你們知道，我們在亞細亞所的磨難：我們受到了非人力所能忍受的重壓，甚至連活的希望也沒有了；
And so, brothers, we do not want you to be in ignorance concerning the affliction that came upon us in Asia: we were under extreme pressure, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life.
9 而且我們自己也認為必死無疑，這是為叫我們不要倚靠自己，而倚靠只那使死人復活的天主。
Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, so that we not place confidence in ourselves, but in the God who raises the dead;
10 衪由這麼多的死亡危險中救了我們，而令仍在施救，我們切薶將來還要施救，
He did deliver us from that deadly peril, and still delivers; in whom we trust that He will keep on delivering,
11 只要你們以祈禱協助我們；這樣因有許多人為我們求得恩賜，好使將來也有許多人替我們感恩。
you also adding your cooperation in prayer, on our behalf; that thanks may be given by many persons for the gift bestowed on us by means of many, on your behalf.
12 我們認為光榮的事，就是有我們的良心作證：我們處世是本著由天主而來的直爽與真誠，並不是本著本性的智慧，而是本著天主的恩寵；對於你們尤其如此，
Now this is our boast: the testimony of our conscience that we have conducted ourselves in the world with openness and godly sincerity, not by fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and especially toward you.
13 因為我們給你們所寫的，無非是你們所能郎誦，所能瞭解的。我盻望你們能完全瞭解我們，
For we do not write you any other things than what you can read and understand; and I do hope that you will keep on understanding to the end
14 就如你們對我們已有了幾分瞭解，好在我們的主耶穌的日子上，我們是你們的誇耀，而你們也是我們的誇耀。
(as indeed some of you have acknowledged) that we are your boast, just as you are ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus.
15 懷著這種信念，我原先有意到你們那裏去，為使你們獲得第二次的恩惠，
It was in this confidence that I was planning to come by you first,
16 並經過你們那裏到馬其頓，再由馬其頓回到你們那裏，然後由你們送我往猶太去。
and by you to proceed into Macedonia, and to come back to you from Macedonia (that you might benefit twice), and then to be sent by you on my way to Judea.
17 那麼，我懷著這種意思，難道是我行事輕浮嗎﹖或者我定主意，是隨感情定的，以致在我內有「是」而又「非「嗎﹖
Now then, when I was deciding this, I was not acting frivolously, was I? Or the things I decide, do I decide according to the flesh, so that with me there would be both “Yes, yes” and “No, no”?
18 天主是忠實的，我們對你們所說火話，並不是「是」而又「非」的，
As God is faithful, our word to you was not “Yes” and “No”,
19 因為藉我們，既藉我和息耳瓦諾同弟茂德，在你們中間所宣講的天主子耶穌基督，並不是「是」而又「非」的，在衪內只有一個「是」
because the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was proclaimed among you by us—by me and Silvanus and Timothy—was not “Yes” and “No”. In fact, with Him it has always been “Yes”,
20 因為天主的一切恩許，在衪內都成了「是」，為此也藉著衪，我們才答應「阿們」，使光榮藉我們歸於天主。
because all the promises of God in Him are “Yes”; indeed, in Him they are “Amen”, that there be glory to God through us.
21 那堅固我們和你們在基督內的，並給我們傳油的，就是天主；
Now He who establishes us together with you into Christ, and who anointed us, is God,
22 衪在我們身上蓋了印，並在我們心裡賜下聖神作為抵押。
who also sealed us and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.
23 我指著我的性命呼號天主作證：我沒有再到格林多去，是為了顧惜你們。
For my part, I call on God as witness, upon my soul, that it was to spare you that I have not yet returned to Corinth.
24 這並不是說：在信仰方面我們願管制你們，而是說：我們願作你們喜樂的合作者，因為你們在信仰上已站穩了。
(Not that we have control over your faith, but we work with you for your joy, for it is by faith that you stand firm.)
