路加福音 14:28
- 31
"Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won't you first sit down and estimate the cost to see if you have enough money to complete it?
For if you lay the foundation and are not able to finish it, everyone who sees it will ridicule you,
saying, 'This person began to build and wasn't able to finish.'
"Or suppose a king is about to go to war against another king. Won't he first sit down and consider whether he is able with ten thousand men to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand?
你們那一個要蓋一座樓,不先坐下算計花費,能蓋成不能呢?
恐怕安了地基,不能成功,看見的人都笑話他,說:
『這個人開了工,卻不能完工。』
或是一個王出去和別的王打仗,豈不先坐下酌量,能用一萬兵去敵那領二萬兵來攻打他的嗎?
以弗所書 5:15
- 16
Be very careful, then, how you live-not as unwise but as wise,
making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil.
你們要謹慎行事,不要像愚昧人,當像智慧人。
要愛惜光陰,因為現今的世代邪惡。
箴言 14:15
- 16
The simple believe anything, but the prudent give thought to their steps.
The wise fear the Lord and shun evil, but a fool is hotheaded and yet feels secure.
愚蒙人是話都信;通達人步步謹慎。
智慧人懼怕,就遠離惡事;愚妄人卻狂傲自恃。
馬太福音 6:24
"No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
「一個人不能事奉兩個主;不是惡這個,愛那個,就是重這個,輕那個。你們不能又事奉神,又事奉瑪門(瑪門:財利的意思)。」
羅馬書 8:29
For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.
因為他預先所知道的人,就預先定下效法他兒子的模樣,使他兒子在許多弟兄中作長子。
以弗所書 3:20
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,
神能照著運行在我們心裡的大力充充足足的成就一切,超過我們所求所想的。
約翰一書 5:14
This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.
我們若照他的旨意求什麼,他就聽我們,這是我們向他所存坦然無懼的心。
腓立比書 3:13
- 14
Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,
I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
弟兄們,我不是以為自己已經得著了;我只有一件事,就是忘記背後,努力面前的,
向著標竿直跑,要得神在基督耶穌裡從上面召我來得的獎賞。
歌羅西書 3:1
Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
所以,你們若真與基督一同復活,就當求在上面的事;那裡有基督坐在神的右邊。
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