希伯來書 12
1 以，我們既有如此眾多如雲的證人，圍繞著我們，就該下卸下所有的累贅和糾纏人的罪過，以堅忍的心，跑那擺在我們眼前的賽程，
Therefore, surrounded as we are by such a vast cloud of witnesses, let us fling aside every encumbrance and the sin that so readily entangles our feet. And let us run with patient endurance the race that lies before us,
2 雙目注視著信德的創始者耶穌：衪為那擺在衪面前的歡樂，輕淩辱，忍受了十字架，而今坐在天主寶座的右邊。
simply fixing our gaze upon Jesus, our Prince Leader in the faith, who will also award us the prize. He, for the sake of the joy which lay before Him, patiently endured the cross, looking with contempt upon its shame, and afterwards seated Himself-- where He still sits--at the right hand of the throne of God.
3 你們常要想，衪所以忍受罪人對衪這樣的叛逆，是怕你們灰心喪志。
Therefore, if you would escape becoming weary and faint-hearted, compare your own sufferings with those of Him who endured such hostility directed against Him by sinners.
4 你們與罪惡爭鬥，還沒有抵抗到流血的地步。
In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted so as to endanger your lives;
5 你們竟全忘了天主勸你們，好像勸子女的話說：『我兒，不要輕視上主的懲戒，也不要厭惡衪的譴責，
and you have quite forgotten the encouraging words which are addressed to you as sons, and which say, "My son, do not think lightly of the Lord's discipline, and do not faint when He corrects you;
6 因為上主懲戒衪所愛的，鞭打衪所接管的每個兒子。』
for those whom the Lord loves He disciplines: and He scourges every son whom He acknowledges."
7 為接受懲戒，應該堅忍，因為天主對待你們，就如對待子女；那有兒子，做父親的不懲戒他呢﹖
The sufferings that you are enduring are for your discipline. God is dealing with you as sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?
8 如果你們缺少眾人所共受的懲戒，你們就是私生子，而不是兒子。
And if you are left without discipline, of which every true son has had a share, that shows that you are bastards, and not true sons.
9 再者，我們肉身的父親懲戒我們時，我們尚且表示敬畏；何況靈性的父親，我們不是更該服從，以得生活嗎﹖
Besides this, our earthly fathers used to discipline us and we treated them with respect, and shall we not be still more submissive to the Father of our spirits, and live?
10 其實肉身的父親只是在短暫的時日內，照他們的心意來施行懲戒，但是天主卻是為了我們的好處，為叫我們分沾衪的聖善。
It is true that they disciplined us for a few years according as they thought fit; but He does it for our certain good, in order that we may become sharers in His own holy character.
11 固然各種懲戒，在當時似乎不是樂事，而是苦事；可是以後卻給那些受訓練的人，結出義德的和平果實。
Now, at the time, discipline seems to be a matter not for joy, but for grief; yet it afterwards yields to those who have passed through its training a result full of peace--namely, righteousness.
12 為此，你們應該伸直痿弱的手和麻木的膝；
Therefore strengthen the drooping hands and paralysed knees,
13 你們的腳應履行正直的路，叫瘸子不要偏離正道，反叫他能得痊愈。
and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put entirely out of joint
14 你們應設法與眾人和平相處，盡力追求聖德，若無聖德，誰也見不到主；
but may rather be restored. Persistently strive for peace with all men, and for that growth in holiness apart from which no one will see the Lord.
15 又應該慬慎，免得有人疏忽天主的恩寵免得苦根子長出來，而累及你們，使許多人因此蒙受玷污。
Be carefully on your guard lest there be any one who falls back from the grace of God; lest any root bearing bitter fruit spring up and cause trouble among you, and through it the whole brotherhood be defiled;
16 誰也不要成為淫亂和褻聖者，如同厄撒烏一樣，他為了一餐飯，竟出賣了自己長氶的身份。
lest there be a fornicator, or an ungodly person like Esau, who, in return for a single meal, parted with the birthright which belonged to him.
17 你們知道，後來他縱然願意承受祝福，也遭到了拒絕；雖流淚苦求，但沒有得到翻悔的餘地。
For you know that even afterwards, when he wished to secure the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no opportunity for undoing what he had done, though he sought the blessing earnestly with tears.
18 你們原來並不是走近了那可觸摸的山，那裏有烈火、濃雲、黑暗、暴風、
For you have not come to a material object all ablaze with fire, and to gloom and darkness and storm and trumpet-blast and the sound of words--
19 號垌的響聲以及說話的聲音，當時那些聽見的人，都懇求天主不要再給他們說話，
a sound of such a kind that those who heard it entreated that no more should be added.
20 因為他們承擔不起所吩咐的事：『即使是一隻走獸觸摸了這山，也應用石頭砸死；』
For they could not endure the order which had been given, "Even a wild beast, if it touches the mountain, shall be stoned to death;"
21 並且所顯現的是這麼可怕，連梅瑟也說：『我很是恐慌戰憟。』
and so terrible was the scene that Moses said, "I tremble with fear."
22 然而你們卻接近了熙雍山的永生天主的城，天上的耶路撒冷，接近了千萬天使的盛會，
On the contrary you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the ever-living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to countless hosts of angels,
23 和那些已被登錄在天上的首生者的集會，接近了審判眾人的天主，接近了已獲得成全的義人的靈魂，
to the great festal gathering and Church of the first-born, whose names are recorded in Heaven, and to a Judge who is God of all, and to the spirits of righteous men made perfect,
24 接近了新約的中保耶穌，以及衪所灑的血：這血比亞伯爾的血說說的更好。
and to Jesus the negotiator of a new Covenant, and to the sprinkled blood which speaks in more gracious tones than that of Abel.
25 你們要慬慎，不要拒絕說話的那位，如果從前那些拒絕聽衪在地上宣佈啟示的人，不能逃避懲罰，何況我們這些背棄由天上說話的那位呢﹖
Be careful not to refuse to listen to Him who is speaking to you. For if they of old did not escape unpunished when they refused to listen to him who spoke on earth, much less shall we escape who turn a deaf ear to Him who now speaks from Heaven.
26 從前衪的聲音搖動了下地，如今衪卻應許說：『還有一次，我不但動搖下地，而且也動搖下天。』
His voice then shook the earth, but now we have His promise, "Yet again I will, once for all, cause not only the earth to tremble, but Heaven also."
27 這『還有一次』一句，是指明那些被動搖的事物，因為受造的，必起變化，好叫那些不可動搖的事物得以常存。
Here the words "Yet again, once for all" denote the removal of the things which can be shaken--created things--in order that the things which cannot be shaken may remain.
28 為此，我們既然蒙受一個不可動搖的國度，就應該感恩，藉此懷著虔忱和敬畏之情，事奉天主，叫衪喜悅，
Therefore, receiving, as we now do, a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us cherish thankfulness so that we may ever offer to God an acceptable service, with godly reverence and awe.
29 因為我們的天主實是吞滅的烈火。
For our God is also a consuming fire.
