希伯来书 12
1 我们既有这许多的见证人，如同云彩围着我们，就当放下各样的重担，脱去容易缠累我们的罪，存心忍耐，奔那摆在我们前头的路程，
Therefore let us also, who have all these witnesses surrounding us like clouds, cast from us all encumbrances, and sin, which is always prepared for us; and let us run with patience the race that is appointed for us.
2 仰望为我们信心创始成终的耶稣。他因那摆在前面的喜乐，就轻看羞辱，忍受了十字架的苦难，便坐在 神宝座的右边。
And let us look on Jesus, who hath become the commencement and the completion of our faith; who, on account of the joy there was for him, endured the cross, and surrendered himself to opprobrium; and is seated on the right hand of the throne of God.
3 那忍受罪人这样顶撞的，你们要思想，免得疲倦灰心。
Behold, therefore, how much he suffered from sinners, from them who are adversaries of their own soul, that ye may not be discouraged, nor your soul become remiss.
4 你们与罪恶相争，还没有抵挡到流血的地步。
Ye have not yet come unto blood, in the contest against sin.
5 你们又忘了那劝你们如同劝儿子的话，说： 我儿，你不可轻看主的管教， 被他责备的时候也不可灰心；
And ye have forgotten the monition, which saith to you, as to children, My son, disregard not the chastening of the Lord; nor let thy soul faint, when thou art rebuked by him.
6 因为主所爱的，他必管教， 又鞭打凡所收纳的儿子。
For, whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth; and he scourgeth those sons, for whom he hath kind regards.
7 你们所忍受的，是 神管教你们，待你们如同待儿子。焉有儿子不被父亲管教的呢？
Therefore endure ye the chastisement; because God is dealing with you as with sons. For what son is there, whom his father chasteneth not?
8 管教原是众子所共受的。你们若不受管教，就是私子，不是儿子了。
But if ye are without that chastisement, with which every one is chastened, ye are become strangers and not sons.
9 再者，我们曾有生身的父管教我们，我们尚且敬重他，何况万灵的父，我们岂不更当顺服他得生吗？
And if our fathers of the flesh chastened us, and we revered them, how much more ought we to be submissive to our spiritual fathers, and live?
10 生身的父都是暂随己意管教我们；惟有万灵的父管教我们，是要我们得益处，使我们在他的圣洁上有分。
For they chastened us for a short time, according to their pleasure; but God, for our advantage, that we may become partakers of his holiness.
11 凡管教的事，当时不觉得快乐，反觉得愁苦；后来却为那经练过的人结出平安的果子，就是义。
Now all chastisement, in the time of it, is not accounted a matter of joy, but of grief: yet, afterwards, it yieldeth the fruits of peace and righteousness to them who are exercised by it.
12 所以，你们要把下垂的手、发酸的腿挺起来；
Wherefore, strengthen ye your relaxed hands, and your tottering knees:
13 也要为自己的脚，把道路修直了，使瘸子不致歪脚，反得痊愈。
and make straight paths for your feet, that the limb which is lame may not be wrenched, but may be healed.
14 你们要追求与众人和睦，并要追求圣洁；非圣洁没有人能见主。
Follow after peace with every man; and after holiness, without which a man will not see our Lord.
15 又要谨慎，恐怕有人失了 神的恩；恐怕有毒根生出来扰乱你们，因此叫众人沾染污秽；
And be careful, lest any be found among you destitute of the grace of God; or lest some root of bitterness shoot forth germs, and trouble you; and thereby many be defiled:
16 恐怕有淫乱的，有贪恋世俗如以扫的，他因一点食物把自己长子的名分卖了。
or lest any one be found among you a fornicator; or a heedless one like Esau, who for one mess of food, sold his primogeniture.
17 后来想要承受父所祝的福，竟被弃绝，虽然号哭切求，却得不着门路使他父亲的心意回转。这是你们知道的。
For ye know that, afterwards when he wished to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for he found not a place for repentance, although he sought it with tears.
18 你们原不是来到那能摸的山；此山有火焰、密云、黑暗、暴风、
For ye have not come to the fire that burned, and the tangible mount; nor to the darkness and obscurity and tempest;
19 角声与说话的声音。那些听见这声音的，都求不要再向他们说话；
nor to the sound of the trumpet, and the voice of words, which they who heard, entreated that it might no more be spoken to them;
20 因为他们当不起所命他们的话，说：“靠近这山的，即便是走兽，也要用石头打死。”
for they could not endure what was commanded. And even a beast, if it approached the mountain, was to be stoned.
21 所见的极其可怕，甚至摩西说：“我甚是恐惧战兢。”
And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I fear and tremble.
22 你们乃是来到锡安山，永生 神的城邑，就是天上的耶路撒冷。那里有千万的天使，
But ye have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the Jerusalem that is in heaven; and to the assemblies of myriads of angels;
23 有名录在天上诸长子之会所共聚的总会，有审判众人的 神和被成全之义人的灵魂，
and to the church of the first-born, who are enrolled in heaven and to God the judge of all; and to the spirits of the just, who are perfected;
24 并新约的中保耶稣，以及所洒的血；这血所说的比亚伯的血所说的更美。
and to Jesus, the Mediator of the new covenant; and to the sprinkling, of his blood, which speaketh better than that of Abel.
25 你们总要谨慎，不可弃绝那向你们说话的。因为，那些弃绝在地上警戒他们的尚且不能逃罪，何况我们违背那从天上警戒我们的呢？
Beware, therefore, lest ye refuse to hear him who speaketh with you. For if they escaped not, who refused to hear him who spake with them on the earth, how much more shall we not, if we refuse to hear him who speaketh with us from heaven?
26 当时他的声音震动了地，但如今他应许说：“再一次我不单要震动地，还要震动天。”
Whose voice then shook the earth; but now he hath promised, and said, yet again once more, I will shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
27 这再一次的话，是指明被震动的，就是受造之物都要挪去，使那不被震动的常存。
And this his expression, Once more, indicateth the mutation of the things that are shaken, because they are fabricated; that the things which will not be shaken, may remain.
28 所以我们既得了不能震动的国，就当感恩，照 神所喜悦的，用虔诚、敬畏的心事奉 神。
Since, therefore, we have received a kingdom that is unshaken, let us grasp the grace whereby we may serve and please God, with reverence and fear.
29 因为我们的 神乃是烈火。
For our God is a consuming fire.
