歌羅西書 3:21
Fathers, do not embitter your children, or they will become discouraged.
你們作父親的,不要惹兒女的氣,恐怕他們失了志氣。
加拉太書 5:19
- 21
The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery;
idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions
and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
情慾的事都是顯而易見的,就如姦淫、污穢、邪蕩、
拜偶像、邪術、仇恨、爭競、忌恨、惱怒、結黨、分爭、異端、
嫉妒(有古卷加:兇殺二字)、醉酒、荒宴等類。我從前告訴你們,現在又告訴你們,行這樣事的人必不能承受神的國。
雅各書 4:1
- 17
What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires that battle within you?
You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God.
When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us ?
But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: "God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble."
Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom.
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
Brothers and sisters, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against a brother or sister or judges them speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it.
There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you-who are you to judge your neighbor?
Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money."
Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that."
As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil.
If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn't do it, it is sin for them.
你們中間的爭戰鬥毆是從那裡來的呢?不是從你們百體中戰鬥之私慾來的嗎?
你們貪戀,還是得不著;你們殺害嫉妒,又鬥毆爭戰,也不能得。你們得不著,是因為你們不求。
你們求也得不著,是因為你們妄求,要浪費在你們的宴樂中。
你們這些淫亂的人(原文作淫婦)哪,豈不知與世俗為友就是與神為敵嗎?所以凡想要與世俗為友的,就是與神為敵了。
你們想經上所說是徒然的嗎?神所賜、住在我們裡面的靈,是戀愛至於嫉妒嗎?
但他賜更多的恩典,所以經上說:神阻擋驕傲的人,賜恩給謙卑的人。
故此你們要順服神。務要抵擋魔鬼,魔鬼就必離開你們逃跑了。
你們親近神,神就必親近你們。有罪的人哪,要潔淨你們的手!心懷二意的人哪,要清潔你們的心!
你們要愁苦、悲哀、哭泣,將喜笑變作悲哀,歡樂變作愁悶。
務要在主面前自卑,主就必叫你們升高。
弟兄們,你們不可彼此批評。人若批評弟兄,論斷弟兄,就是批評律法,論斷律法。你若論斷律法,就不是遵行律法,乃是判斷人的。
設立律法和判斷人的,只有一位,就是那能救人也能滅人的。你是誰,竟敢論斷別人呢?
嗐!你們有話說:「今天明天我們要往某城裡去,在那裡住一年,作買賣得利。」
其實明天如何,你們還不知道。你們的生命是什麼呢?你們原來是一片雲霧,出現少時就不見了。
你們只當說:「主若願意,我們就可以活著,也可以做這事,或做那事。」
現今你們竟以張狂誇口;凡這樣誇口都是惡的。
人若知道行善,卻不去行,這就是他的罪了。
哥林多前書 6:19
- 20
Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;
you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.
豈不知你們的身子就是聖靈的殿嗎?這聖靈是從神而來,住在你們裡頭的;並且你們不是自己的人;
因為你們是重價買來的。所以,要在你們的身子上榮耀神。
以弗所書 6:4
Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.
你們作父親的,不要惹兒女的氣,只要照著主的教訓和警戒養育他們。
士師記 16:1
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One day Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute. He went in to spend the night with her.
The people of Gaza were told, "Samson is here!" So they surrounded the place and lay in wait for him all night at the city gate. They made no move during the night, saying, "At dawn we'll kill him."
But Samson lay there only until the middle of the night. Then he got up and took hold of the doors of the city gate, together with the two posts, and tore them loose, bar and all. He lifted them to his shoulders and carried them to the top of the hill that faces Hebron.
Some time later, he fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek whose name was Delilah.
The rulers of the Philistines went to her and said, "See if you can lure him into showing you the secret of his great strength and how we can overpower him so we may tie him up and subdue him. Each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver."
So Delilah said to Samson, "Tell me the secret of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued."
Samson answered her, "If anyone ties me with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, I'll become as weak as any other man."
Then the rulers of the Philistines brought her seven fresh bowstrings that had not been dried, and she tied him with them.
With men hidden in the room, she called to him, "Samson, the Philistines are upon you!" But he snapped the bowstrings as easily as a piece of string snaps when it comes close to a flame. So the secret of his strength was not discovered.
Then Delilah said to Samson, "You have made a fool of me; you lied to me. Come now, tell me how you can be tied."
He said, "If anyone ties me securely with new ropes that have never been used, I'll become as weak as any other man."
So Delilah took new ropes and tied him with them. Then, with men hidden in the room, she called to him, "Samson, the Philistines are upon you!" But he snapped the ropes off his arms as if they were threads.
Delilah then said to Samson, "All this time you have been making a fool of me and lying to me. Tell me how you can be tied." He replied, "If you weave the seven braids of my head into the fabric on the loom and tighten it with the pin, I'll become as weak as any other man." So while he was sleeping, Delilah took the seven braids of his head, wove them into the fabric
and tightened it with the pin. Again she called to him, "Samson, the Philistines are upon you!" He awoke from his sleep and pulled up the pin and the loom, with the fabric.
Then she said to him, "How can you say, 'I love you,' when you won't confide in me? This is the third time you have made a fool of me and haven't told me the secret of your great strength."
With such nagging she prodded him day after day until he was sick to death of it.
So he told her everything. "No razor has ever been used on my head," he said, "because I have been a Nazirite dedicated to God from my mother's womb. If my head were shaved, my strength would leave me, and I would become as weak as any other man."
When Delilah saw that he had told her everything, she sent word to the rulers of the Philistines, "Come back once more; he has told me everything." So the rulers of the Philistines returned with the silver in their hands.
After putting him to sleep on her lap, she called for someone to shave off the seven braids of his hair, and so began to subdue him. And his strength left him.
Then she called, "Samson, the Philistines are upon you!" He awoke from his sleep and thought, "I'll go out as before and shake myself free." But he did not know that the Lord had left him.
Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes and took him down to Gaza. Binding him with bronze shackles, they set him to grinding grain in the prison.
But the hair on his head began to grow again after it had been shaved.
Now the rulers of the Philistines assembled to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god and to celebrate, saying, "Our god has delivered Samson, our enemy, into our hands."
When the people saw him, they praised their god, saying, "Our god has delivered our enemy into our hands, the one who laid waste our land and multiplied our slain."
While they were in high spirits, they shouted, "Bring out Samson to entertain us." So they called Samson out of the prison, and he performed for them. When they stood him among the pillars,
Samson said to the servant who held his hand, "Put me where I can feel the pillars that support the temple, so that I may lean against them."
Now the temple was crowded with men and women; all the rulers of the Philistines were there, and on the roof were about three thousand men and women watching Samson perform.
Then Samson prayed to the Lord, "Sovereign Lord, remember me. Please, God, strengthen me just once more, and let me with one blow get revenge on the Philistines for my two eyes."
Then Samson reached toward the two central pillars on which the temple stood. Bracing himself against them, his right hand on the one and his left hand on the other,
Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines!" Then he pushed with all his might, and down came the temple on the rulers and all the people in it. Thus he killed many more when he died than while he lived.
Then his brothers and his father's whole family went down to get him. They brought him back and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father. He had led Israel twenty years.
參孫到了迦薩,在那裡看見一個妓女,就與他親近。
有人告訴迦薩人說:「參孫到這裡來了!」他們就把他團團圍住,終夜在城門悄悄埋伏,說:「等到天亮我們便殺他。」
參孫睡到半夜,起來,將城門的門扇、門框、門閂,一齊拆下來,扛在肩上,扛到希伯崙前的山頂上。
後來,參孫在梭烈谷喜愛一個婦人,名叫大利拉。
非利士人的首領上去見那婦人,對他說:「求你誆哄參孫,探探他因何有這麼大的力氣,我們用何法能勝他,捆綁剋制他。我們就每人給你一千一百舍客勒銀子。」
大利拉對參孫說:「求你告訴我,你因何有這麼大的力氣,當用何法捆綁剋制你。」
參孫回答說:「人若用七條未乾的青繩子捆綁我,我就軟弱像別人一樣。」
於是非利士人的首領拿了七條未乾的青繩子來,交給婦人,他就用繩子捆綁參孫。
有人預先埋伏在婦人的內室裡。婦人說:「參孫哪,非利士人拿你來了!」參孫就掙斷繩子,如掙斷經火的麻線一般。這樣,他力氣的根由人還是不知道。
大利拉對參孫說:「你欺哄我,向我說謊言。現在求你告訴我當用何法捆綁你。」
參孫回答說:「人若用沒有使過的新繩捆綁我,我就軟弱像別人一樣。」
大利拉就用新繩捆綁他,對他說:「參孫哪,非利士人拿你來了!」有人預先埋伏在內室裡。參孫將臂上的繩掙斷了,如掙斷一條線一樣。
大利拉對參孫說:「你到如今還是欺哄我,向我說謊言。求你告訴我,當用何法捆綁你。」參孫回答說:「你若將我頭上的七條髮綹,與緯線同織就可以了。」
於是大利拉將他的髮綹與緯線同織,用橛子釘住,對他說:「參孫哪,非利士人拿你來了!」參孫從睡中醒來,將機上的橛子和緯線一齊都拔出來了。
大利拉對參孫說:「你既不與我同心,怎麼說你愛我呢?你這三次欺哄我,沒有告訴我,你因何有這麼大的力氣。」
大利拉天天用話催逼他,甚至他心裡煩悶要死。
參孫就把心中所藏的都告訴了他,對他說:「向來人沒有用剃頭刀剃我的頭,因為我自出母胎就歸神作拿細耳人;若剃了我的頭髮,我的力氣就離開我,我便軟弱像別人一樣。」
大利拉見他把心中所藏的都告訴了他,就打發人到非利士人的首領那裡,對他們說:「他已經把心中所藏的都告訴了我,請你們再上來一次。」於是非利士人的首領手裡拿著銀子,上到婦人那裡。
大利拉使參孫枕著他的膝睡覺,叫了一個人來剃除他頭上的七條髮綹。於是大利拉剋制他,他的力氣就離開他了。
大利拉說:「參孫哪,非利士人拿你來了!」參孫從睡中醒來,心裡說:「我要像前幾次出去活動身體」;他卻不知道耶和華已經離開他了。
非利士人將他拿住,剜了他的眼睛,帶他下到迦薩,用銅鍊拘索他;他就在監裡推磨。
然而他的頭髮被剃之後,又漸漸長起來了。
非利士人的首領聚集,要給他們的神大袞獻大祭,並且歡樂,因為他們說:「我們的神將我們的仇敵參孫交在我們手中了。」
眾人看見參孫,就讚美他們的神說:「我們的神將毀壞我們地、殺害我們許多人的仇敵交在我們手中了。」
他們正宴樂的時候,就說:「叫參孫來,在我們面前戲耍戲耍。」於是將參孫從監裡提出來,他就在眾人面前戲耍。他們使他站在兩柱中間。
參孫向拉他手的童子說:「求你讓我摸著托房的柱子,我要靠一靠。」
那時房內充滿男女,非利士人的眾首領也都在那裡。房的平頂上約有三千男女觀看參孫戲耍。
參孫求告耶和華說:「主耶和華啊,求你眷念我。神啊,求你賜我這一次的力量,使我在非利士人身上報那剜我雙眼的仇。」
參孫就抱住托房的那兩根柱子:左手抱一根,右手抱一根,
說:「我情願與非利士人同死!」就盡力屈身,房子倒塌,壓住首領和房內的眾人。這樣,參孫死時所殺的人比活著所殺的還多。
參孫的弟兄和他父的全家都下去取他的屍首,抬上來葬在瑣拉和以實陶中間,在他父瑪挪亞的墳墓裡。參孫作以色列的士師二十年。
箴言 22:10
Drive out the mocker, and out goes strife; quarrels and insults are ended.
趕出褻慢人,爭端就消除;分爭和羞辱也必止息。
雅各書 5:16
Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.
所以你們要彼此認罪,互相代求,使你們可以得醫治。義人祈禱所發的力量是大有功效的。