新約 -- 哥林多前書(1 Corinthians) -- 第13章
13:1 我若能說萬人的方言,并天使的話語卻沒有愛,我就成了嗚的鑼,響的鈸一般。
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
13:2 我若有先知講道之能,也明白各樣的奧秘,各樣的知識。而且有全備的信,叫我能夠移山,卻沒有愛,我就算不得什么。
And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
13:3 我若將所有的周濟窮人,又舍己身叫人焚燒,卻沒有愛,仍然與我無益。
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
13:4 愛是恒久忍耐,又有恩慈。愛是不嫉妒。愛是不自夸。不張狂。
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
13:5 不作害羞的事。不求自己的益處。不輕易發(fā)怒。不計算人的惡。
Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
13:6 不喜歡不義。只喜歡真理。
Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
13:7 凡事包容。凡事相信。凡事盼望。凡事忍耐。
Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
13:8 愛是永不止息。先知講道之能,終必歸于無有。說方言之能,終必停止,知識也終必歸于無有。
Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
13:9 我們現(xiàn)在所知道的有限,先知所講的也有限。
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
13:10 等那完全的來到,這有限的必歸于無有了。
But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
13:11 我作孩子的時候,話語像孩子,心思像孩子,意念像孩子。既成了人,就把孩子的事丟棄了。
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
13:12 我們如今彷佛對著鏡子觀看,饃糊不清。(饃糊不清原文作如同謎)到那時,到那時,就要面對面了。我如今所知道的有限。到那時就全知道,如同主知道我一樣。
For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
13:13 如今常存的有信,有望,有愛,這三樣,其中最大的是愛。
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
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