< 哥林多後書 13 >

1 這是我第三次要到你們那裏去。「憑兩三個人的口作見證，句句都要定準。」
This [is] the third [time] I am coming to you: By the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.
2 我從前說過，如今不在你們那裏又說，正如我第二次見你們的時候所說的一樣，就是對那犯了罪的和其餘的人說：「我若再來，必不寬容。」
I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them who heretofore have sinned, and to all others, that, if I come again, I will not spare;
3 你們既然尋求基督在我裏面說話的憑據，我必不寬容。因為，基督在你們身上不是軟弱的，在你們裏面是有大能的。
Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, who toward you is not weak, but is mighty in you.
4 他因軟弱被釘在十字架上，卻因上帝的大能仍然活着。我們也是這樣同他軟弱，但因上帝向你們所顯的大能，也必與他同活。
For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God towards you.
5 你們總要自己省察有信心沒有，也要自己試驗。豈不知你們若不是可棄絕的，就有耶穌基督在你們心裏嗎？
Examine yourselves, whether ye are in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye are reprobates?
6 我卻盼望你們曉得，我們不是可棄絕的人。
But I trust that ye will know that we are not reprobates.
7 我們求上帝，叫你們一件惡事都不做；這不是要顯明我們是蒙悅納的，是要你們行事端正，任憑人看我們是被棄絕的吧！
Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we should be as reprobates.
8 我們凡事不能敵擋真理，只能扶助真理。
For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
9 即便我們軟弱，你們剛強，我們也歡喜；並且我們所求的，就是你們作完全人。
For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, [even] your perfection.
10 所以，我不在你們那裏的時候，把這話寫給你們，好叫我見你們的時候，不用照主所給我的權柄嚴厲地待你們。這權柄原是為造就人，並不是為敗壞人。
Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.
11 還有末了的話：願弟兄們都喜樂。要作完全人；要受安慰；要同心合意；要彼此和睦。如此，仁愛和平的上帝必常與你們同在。
Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.
12 你們親嘴問安，彼此務要聖潔。
Greet one another with a holy kiss.
13 眾聖徒都問你們安。
All the saints salute you.
14 願主耶穌基督的恩惠、上帝的慈愛、聖靈的感動常與你們眾人同在！
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, [be] with you all. Amen.

< 哥林多後書 13 >