Hebrews 12
1 Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, having put off every weight, and the closely besetting sin, may we run the contest that is set before us through endurance,
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，
2 looking to the Author and Perfecter of the faith—Jesus, who, for the joy set before Him, endured a cross, having despised shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God;
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。
3 for again consider Him who endured such contradiction from the sinners to Himself, that you may not be wearied in your souls—being faint.
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。
4 You did not yet resist to blood—striving with sin;
你們與罪惡爭鬥，還沒有抵抗到流血的地步。
5 and you have forgotten the exhortation that speaks fully to you as to sons, “My son, do not despise [the] discipline of [the] LORD, nor be faint, being reproved by Him,
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，
6 for whom the LORD loves He disciplines, and He scourges every son whom He receives”;
因為上主懲戒衪所愛的，鞭打衪所接管的每個兒子。』
7 if you endure discipline, God bears Himself to you as to sons, for who is a son whom a father does not discipline?
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﹖
8 And if you are apart from discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are bastards, and not sons.
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。
9 Then, indeed, we have had fathers of our flesh, correctors, and we respected [them]; will we not much rather be subject to the Father of the spirits, and live?
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﹖
10 For they, indeed, for a few days, according to what seemed good to them, were disciplining, but He for profit, to be partakers of His separation;
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。
11 and all discipline for the present, indeed, does not seem to be of joy, but of sorrow, yet afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those exercised through it.
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。
12 For this reason, lift up the hanging-down hands and the loosened knees;
為此，你們應該伸直痿弱的手和麻木的膝；
13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that which is lame may not be turned aside, but rather be healed;
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。
14 pursue peace with all, and the separation, apart from which no one will see the LORD,
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；
15 observing lest anyone be failing of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up may give trouble, and through this many may be defiled;
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。
16 lest anyone be a fornicator, or a profane person, as Esau, who in exchange for one morsel of food sold his birthright,
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。
17 for you know that also afterward, wishing to inherit the blessing, he was disapproved of, for he did not find a place of conversion, though having sought it with tears.
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。
18 For you did not come near to the mountain touched and scorched with fire, and to blackness, and darkness, and storm,
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、
19 and a sound of a trumpet, and a voice of sayings, which those having heard begged that a word might not be added to them,
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，
20 for they were not bearing that which is commanded, “And if a beast may touch the mountain, it will be stoned, or shot through with an arrow,”
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；』
21 and (so terrible was the sight), Moses said, “I am exceedingly fearful, and trembling.”
並且所顯現的是這麼可怕，連梅瑟也說：『我很是恐慌戰憟。』
22 But you came to Mount Zion, and to [the] city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of messengers,
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，
23 to the assembly-place and Assembly of the Firstborn registered in Heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to spirits of righteous men made perfect,
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，
24 and to a mediator of a new covenant—Jesus, and to blood of sprinkling, speaking better things than that of Abel!
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。
25 Watch out lest you refuse Him who is speaking, for if those did not escape who refused him who was divinely speaking on earth—much less we who turn away from Him who [speaks] from Heaven,
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﹖
26 whose voice shook the earth then, and now He has promised, saying, “Yet once [more]—I shake not only the earth, but also Heaven”;
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。』
27 and this, “Yet once [more],” makes evident the removal of the things shaken, as of things having been made, that the things not shaken may remain;
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。
28 for this reason, receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, may we have grace, through which we may serve God well-pleasingly, with reverence and fear,
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，
29 for our God [is] also a consuming fire.
因為我們的天主實是吞滅的烈火。
