1 Peter 1
1 Peter, an Apostle of Jesus Christ: To God's own people scattered over the earth, who are living as foreigners in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Roman Asia, and Bithynia,
这封信来自耶稣基督的使徒彼得，写给已被上帝选择之人：那些散落流放在本都、加拉太、加帕多家、亚西亚和庇推尼的人。
2 chosen in accordance with the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, with a view to their obedience and to their being sprinkled with the blood of Jesus Christ. May more and more grace and peace be granted to you.
你们被父上帝以其智慧而选中，是灵让你们圣洁，这样你们就可以听从耶稣基督，被他的血撒过。愿你们拥有更多的恩典与平安！
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who in His great mercy has begotten us anew to an ever-living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
赞美上帝，我们主耶稣基督之父！通过他伟大的怜悯，我们得以重生；借着耶稣基督死而复生我们被赋予永生的希望。
4 to an inheritance imperishable, undefiled and unfading, which has been reserved in Heaven for you,
这传承是永恒的，永远不会朽坏或消失，会为你们在天堂中安全地保留着。
5 whom God in His power is guarding through faith for a salvation that even now stands ready for unveiling at the End of the Age.
通过你们对上帝的信任，上帝会用他的能力保护你们，直到救赎到来——那是已经准备好在末日显化的救赎。
6 Rejoice triumphantly in the prospect of this, even if now, for a short time, you are compelled to sorrow amid various trials.
因此，你们要为之欢喜。但你们现今经历各种考验的时候，或许暂时会感到难过。
7 The sorrow comes in order that the testing of your faith--being more precious than that of gold, which perishes and yet is proved by fire--may be found to result in praise and glory and honour at the re-appearing of Jesus Christ.
这些都证明了你们对上帝的信任是真实的，就像用火来证明是否真金，但即使是金子也可以被摧毁，你们的信比金子更有价值！通过这种方式，你们对上帝的信任就会获得认可，当耶稣基督出现时，你们会得到赞美、光荣和尊崇。
8 Him you love, though your eyes have never looked on Him. In Him, though at present you cannot see Him, you nevertheless trust, and triumph with a joy which is unspeakable and is crowned with glory,
你们虽然没有见过他，却爱他；现在虽然不能看见他，却信他。所以，你们充满了无法形容、美妙的幸福。
9 while you are securing as the outcome of your faith the salvation of your souls.
你们信他的奖励，就是将会得到拯救。
10 There were Prophets who earnestly inquired about that salvation, and closely searched into it--even those who spoke beforehand of the grace which was to come to you.
先知们说道为你们准备的恩典时，他们寻找和研究的也正是这样的救赎。
11 They were eager to know the time which the Spirit of Christ within them kept indicating, or the characteristics of that time, when they solemnly made known beforehand the sufferings that were to come upon Christ and the glories which would follow.
他们试图找出救赎将在何时以何种方式发生，因为他们中基督的灵，清楚讲述了基督将要遭受的苦难和获得的荣耀。
12 To them it was revealed that they were serving not themselves but you, when they foretold the very things which have now been openly declared to you by those who, having been taught by the Holy Spirit which had been sent from Heaven, brought you the Good News. Angels long to stoop and look into these things.
他们听到的解释是：他们这样做并非为了自己，而是为了你们。因为他们所讲的，你现在已经从那些通过上天派来的圣灵与你分享好消息的人那里学到了。就连天使也急于知道这一切！
13 Therefore gird up your minds and fix your hopes calmly and unfalteringly upon the boon that is soon to be yours, at the re-appearing of Jesus Christ.
你们的思想务必要准备好。保持头脑清醒。把希望完全寄托于你们在耶稣显化时将会获得的恩典。
14 And, since you delight in obedience, do not shape your lives by the cravings which used to dominate you in the time of your ignorance,
像那些按照他们吩咐去做的孩子一样生活。当你不知道何为更好，不要让那时候的罪恶欲望左右你们。
15 but--in imitation of the holy One who has called you--you also must be holy in all your habits of life.
现在你们做的每一件事都要是圣洁的，就像那召唤你的人就是圣洁的。
16 Because it stands written, "You are to be holy, because I am holy."
因为经书说：“你们要圣洁，因为我是圣洁的。”
17 And if you address as your Father Him who judges impartially in accordance with each man's actions, then spend in fear the time of your stay here on earth,
既然你们称他为父，意识到他会根据每个人的所作所为公正评判每个人，请认真对待你们在地球上的时间，尊重他。
18 knowing, as you do, that it was not with a ransom of perishable wealth, such as silver or gold, that you were set free from your frivolous habits of life which had been handed down to you from your forefathers,
你们已经知道，你们并没有摆脱从祖先那里继承的无意义生活方式，这些都是是没有持久价值的东西，比如金银。
19 but with the precious blood of Christ--as of an unblemished and spotless lamb.
你们因基督宝贵的血而获得自由，他就像一只没有瑕疵或缺陷的羔羊。
20 He was pre-destined indeed to this work, even before the creation of the world, but has been plainly manifested in these last days for the sake of you who, through Him,
基督是在创世之前被上帝所挑选，却会在这末世为你们的好而显化。
21 are faithful to God, who raised Him from among the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are resting upon God.
通过他，你们信那让基督死而复生并让他荣耀的上帝，这样你们就可以对上帝有信心，有希望。
22 Now that, through your obedience to the truth, you have purified your souls for cherishing sincere brotherly love, you must love another heartily and fervently.
既然你们已经按照真理奉献了自己，那就像真正的家人一样真诚地相爱。
23 For you have been begotten again by God's ever-living and enduring word from a germ not of perishable, but of imperishable life. (aiōn g165)
你已经重生了，不是必死的 “种子” 的产物，而是不死的种子，通过神的活的、永恒的话语 (aiōn g165)
24 "All mankind resemble the herbage, and all their beauty is like its flowers. The herbage dries up, and its flowers drop off;
因为：“所有人皆如草，他们的荣光如野花；草必枯干，花必凋谢，
