Hebrews 12
1 Therefore, surrounded as we are by such a vast cloud of witnesses, let us fling aside every encumbrance and the sin that so readily entangles our feet. And let us run with patient endurance the race that lies before us,
正因如此，既然我们身边有这么多人证明了他们对上帝的信任，让我们摆脱一切阻碍我们的东西，让我们摆脱诱惑的罪恶，让我们继续在眼前的道路上奔跑。
2 simply fixing our gaze upon Jesus, our Prince Leader in the faith, who will also award us the prize. He, for the sake of the joy which lay before Him, patiently endured the cross, looking with contempt upon its shame, and afterwards seated Himself-- where He still sits--at the right hand of the throne of God.
我们应该继续仰望耶稣，他开始并完成了我们对上帝之信。因着他面前的喜乐，耶稣不顾耻辱背负十字架，最终坐在上帝宝座的右边。
3 Therefore, if you would escape becoming weary and faint-hearted, compare your own sufferings with those of Him who endured such hostility directed against Him by sinners.
这位忍受罪人那样顶撞的耶稣，你们要仔细思想，免得疲倦灰心。
4 In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted so as to endanger your lives;
你们与罪恶斗争，还没有对抗到流血的地步；
5 and you have quite forgotten the encouraging words which are addressed to you as sons, and which say, "My son, do not think lightly of the Lord's discipline, and do not faint when He corrects you;
你们可曾忘记上帝好像劝自己孩子的话，说：“我的孩子！不可轻看主的管教，受责备的时候也不要灰心；
6 for those whom the Lord loves He disciplines: and He scourges every son whom He acknowledges."
因为主只管教爱的人，会惩罚他的每一个儿子。”
7 The sufferings that you are enduring are for your discipline. God is dealing with you as sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?
受到上帝的管教时要有耐心，因为他把你当作他的孩子。哪个孩子没有经历过父亲的管教？
8 And if you are left without discipline, of which every true son has had a share, that shows that you are bastards, and not true sons.
作儿子的都受过管教。如果你们没有受管教，就是私生子，不是儿子了。
9 Besides this, our earthly fathers used to discipline us and we treated them with respect, and shall we not be still more submissive to the Father of our spirits, and live?
因为如果我们尊重管教我们的人间父亲，不是更应该接受那引领至生命的灵之父管教吗？
10 It is true that they disciplined us for a few years according as they thought fit; but He does it for our certain good, in order that we may become sharers in His own holy character.
他们按自己认为合适的方式管教我们一段时间，但上帝这样做是为了我们的利益，让我们可以分享他的圣洁品格。
11 Now, at the time, discipline seems to be a matter not for joy, but for grief; yet it afterwards yields to those who have passed through its training a result full of peace--namely, righteousness.
被管教时，所有的纪律似乎都就很痛苦，而不值得高兴。但后来，这些管教让那些经历之人产生平安，这样他们就可以做善事和正确的事。
12 Therefore strengthen the drooping hands and paralysed knees,
所以，把下垂的手和发软的膝盖挺直起来；
13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put entirely out of joint
要把你们的道路修直，让瘸子不会扭脚，而是得到复原。
14 but may rather be restored. Persistently strive for peace with all men, and for that growth in holiness apart from which no one will see the Lord.
你们要竭力寻求与众人和睦，并且要竭力追求圣洁。如果没有圣洁，谁也不能见主。
15 Be carefully on your guard lest there be any one who falls back from the grace of God; lest any root bearing bitter fruit spring up and cause trouble among you, and through it the whole brotherhood be defiled;
你们要小心，免得有人失去了上帝的恩典；免得苦之因长起来缠绕你们，污染众人；
16 lest there be a fornicator, or an ungodly person like Esau, who, in return for a single meal, parted with the birthright which belonged to him.
确保没有人像以扫那样淫乱或不信教，为了一顿饭卖掉了与生俱来的权利。
17 For you know that even afterwards, when he wished to secure the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no opportunity for undoing what he had done, though he sought the blessing earnestly with tears.
你们记得，后来以扫想要承受祝福，却被拒绝了；他虽然带着眼泪寻求，还是无法改变他所做的。
18 For you have not come to a material object all ablaze with fire, and to gloom and darkness and storm and trumpet-blast and the sound of words--
你们还未来到那座可以触摸的、实在的山。那里有烈火、密云、幽暗、暴风、
19 a sound of such a kind that those who heard it entreated that no more should be added.
号筒的响声和说话的声音；那些听见这声音的人，都请求上帝不要再向他们多说话；
20 For they could not endure the order which had been given, "Even a wild beast, if it touches the mountain, shall be stoned to death;"
因为他们承受不起那命令：“即使走兽挨近这山，也要用石头把它打死。”
21 and so terrible was the scene that Moses said, "I tremble with fear."
当时显出的景象是那么可怕，连摩西都说：“我非常恐惧战兢。”
22 On the contrary you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the ever-living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to countless hosts of angels,
但你们却来到锡安山和永恒上帝的城，就是天上的耶路撒冷；在那里有千万的天使聚集，
23 to the great festal gathering and Church of the first-born, whose names are recorded in Heaven, and to a Judge who is God of all, and to the spirits of righteous men made perfect,
你来到了名字登记在天堂的长子教会，来到了审判所有人的上帝面前，以及那些有着完整生命的良善之人面前。
24 and to Jesus the negotiator of a new Covenant, and to the sprinkled blood which speaks in more gracious tones than that of Abel.
你已经来到建立新约定关系的中间人耶稣面前，还有他所洒的血。这血的意义比亚伯的血更大。
25 Be careful not to refuse to listen to Him who is speaking to you. For if they of old did not escape unpunished when they refused to listen to him who spoke on earth, much less shall we escape who turn a deaf ear to Him who now speaks from Heaven.
不要拒绝那说话之人。如果他们因在人间拒绝上帝而无法逃走，可以肯定的是，如果我们背离从天上警告我们的神，我们也逃不掉！
26 His voice then shook the earth, but now we have His promise, "Yet again I will, once for all, cause not only the earth to tremble, but Heaven also."
当时上帝的声音震动了大地；现在他承诺说：“我要再一次震动地，还要震动天。”
27 Here the words "Yet again, once for all" denote the removal of the things which can be shaken--created things--in order that the things which cannot be shaken may remain.
“再一次”表明那些被震动的一切，就会向被造之物一样被清除，让那些不被震动的一切可以留存，
28 Therefore, receiving, as we now do, a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us cherish thankfulness so that we may ever offer to God an acceptable service, with godly reverence and awe.
因此，我们既然获得了不能震动的国，就应该感恩，按照让上帝喜悦的方式，用虔诚敬畏的心事奉他；
29 For our God is also a consuming fire.
因为我们的上帝就是毁灭的烈火。
