2 Peter 1
1 To those to whom, through the justice of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ, there has been granted faith equally privileged with our own, from Simon Peter, a servant and an Apostle of Jesus Christ.
这封信函来自耶稣基督的仆人和使徒西门·彼得，写给与我们一样，对我们的上帝和救主耶稣基督有着无价信任、真正是良善正义之人。
2 May blessing and peace be yours in ever-increasing measure, as you advance in the knowledge of God and of Jesus, our Lord.
你们在上帝和我们的主耶稣的知识中成长过程中，愿你们获得更多恩典和平安。
3 For his divine power has given us everything that is needful for a life of piety, as we advance in the knowledge of him who called us by a glorious manifestation of his goodness.
通过他的神圣力量，我们已获得重要的一切，过上以上帝为中心的生活。这是因为认识他，他以自己的荣耀和善良召唤我们。 通过这种方式，他为我们提供了神奇而无价的承诺。
4 For it was through this that he gave us what we prize as the greatest of his promises, that through them you might participate in the divine nature, now that you have fled from the corruption in the world, resulting from human passions.
通过这些承诺，你可以分享这神圣的天性，摆脱这个世界邪恶欲望所产生的腐朽。
5 Yes, and for this very reason do your best to supplement your faith by goodness, goodness by knowledge,
正是因为这缘故，要尽你所能！你的善行加上你对上帝和信；你的知识加上你的善行；
6 knowledge by self-control, self-control by endurance, endurance by piety,
你的自控能力加上你的知识；你的自控能力加上耐心；你的耐心加上敬畏；
7 piety by brotherly affection, and brotherly affection by love.
你的敬畏会带来对信徒的爱；对信徒的爱，会带来爱。
8 For, when these virtues are yours, in increasing measure, they prevent your being indifferent to, or destitute of, a fuller knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
你越多地具备这样的品质，那么在认识我们的主耶稣基督时，他们就更不容易变得没有效果和毫无效率。
9 Surely the man who has not these virtues is shortsighted even to blindness, and has chosen to forget that he has been purified from his sins of the past!
因为没有这些品质的人，往往都目光短浅或非常盲目。他们忘记自己已经从过去的罪孽中被洗净。
10 Therefore, Brothers, do your best to put God’s Call and Selection of you beyond all doubt; for, if you do this, you will never fall.
所以兄弟姐妹们，要更坚定地让自己真正“被召唤和被挑选。”你这样做就永远不会坠落。
11 For thus you will be given a triumphant admission into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. (aiōnios g166)
你将受到热烈欢迎，进入我们主和救世主耶稣基督的永恒国度。 (aiōnios g166)
12 I shall, therefore, always be ready to remind you of all this, even though you know it and are firmly established in the Truth that you now hold.
所以我总是提醒你们这些事情，即使你们已经了然并且坚持你所拥有的真理。
13 But I think it my duty, as long as I live in this ‘tent,’ to rouse you by awakening memories of the past;
但我仍然认为，趁我在世之时，通过提醒你们来鼓励你们，这是个好主意。
14 for I know that the time for this ‘tent’ of mine to be put away is soon coming, as our Lord Jesus Christ himself assured me.
我知道，我离开今生之日已经不远——我们的主耶稣基督已向我表明这一点。
15 So I will do my best to enable you, at any time after my departure, to call these truths to mind.
我会尽其所能，在我离开之后，你们还能时常回忆起这些事。
16 For we were not following cleverly devised stories when we told you of the Coming in power of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we had been eye-witnesses of his majesty.
当我们对你们说：我们主耶稣基督的大能即将到来，我们所说的并非虚构的神话，我们曾亲眼目睹他的威严。
17 For he received honour and glory from God the Father, when from the Glory of the Divine Majesty there were borne to his ears words such as these — ‘This is my Son, my Beloved, in whom I delight.’
如果听到那庄严荣耀的声音说：“这是我的爱子，是真正令我喜悦的”，就代表从天父上帝那里获得威严荣耀。
18 These were the words that we heard, borne to our ears from Heaven, when we were with him on that Sacred Mountain.
当我们在圣山与他一起时，亲耳听到从天上传来的这个声音。
19 And still stronger is the assurance that we have in the teaching of the Prophets; to which you will do well to pay attention (as if it were a lamp shining in a gloomy place), until the Day dawns and the Morning Star rises in your hearts.
我们还有先知的确凿之语，绝对值得信赖，关注它一定会让你受益。它就像一盏灯，照亮黑暗之地，直到天亮；就像晨星，它的光照亮你的思想。
20 But first be assured of this: — There is no prophetic teaching found in Scripture that can be interpreted by man’s unaided reason;
最重要的是，你应该意识到，圣经中的任何预言都不能由个人的一时兴起来解释，
21 for no prophetic teaching ever came in the old days at the mere wish of man, but men, moved by the Holy Spirit, spoke direct from God.
因为预言并非起源于人类，而是先知在圣灵的感应下，代表上帝说话。
