哥林多前書 7
1 論到你們信上所寫的事，我認為男人不親近女人倒好。
With reference to the subjects about which you wrote to me: It is good for a man to remain single.
2 可是為了避免淫亂，男人當各有自己的妻子女人當各有自己的丈夫。
But, owing to the prevalence of immorality, I advise every man to have his own wife, and every woman her husband.
3 丈夫對妻子該盡他應盡的義務，妻子對丈夫也如此。
A husband should give his wife her due, and a wife her husband.
4 妻子對自己的身體沒有主權，而是丈夫有；同樣丈夫對自己的身體也沒有主權，而是妻子有。
It is not the wife, but the husband, who exercises power over her body; and so, too, it is not the husband, but the wife, who exercises power over his body.
5 你們切不要彼此虧負，除非兩相情願，暫時分房，為專務祈禱；但事後仍要歸到一處，免得撒殫因你們不能節制，而誘惑你們。
Do not deprive each other of what is due – unless it is only for a time and by mutual consent, so that your minds may be free for prayer until you again live as man and wife – otherwise Satan might take advantage of your want of self-control and tempt you.
6 我說這話，原是出於寬容，並不是出於命令。
I say this, however, as a concession, not as a command.
7 我本來願意眾人都如同我一樣，可是，每人都有他各自得自天主的恩寵：有人這樣，有人那樣。
I should wish everyone to be just what I am myself. But everyone has his own gift from God – one in one way, and one in another.
8 我對那些尚未結婚的人，特別對寡婦說：如果她們能止於現狀，像我一樣，為她們倒好。
My advice, then, to those who are not married, and to widows, is this: It would be good for them to remain as I am myself.
9 但若她們節制不住，就讓她們婚嫁，因為與其慾火中燒，倒不如結婚為妙。
But, if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to be consumed with passion.
10 至於那些已經結婚的，我命令──其實不是我，而是主命令：妻子不可丈夫；
To those who are married my direction is – yet it is not mine, but the Master’s – that a woman is not to leave her husband
11 若是離開了，就應該持身不嫁，或是仍與丈夫和好；丈夫也不可離棄妻子。
(If she has done so, she should remain as she is, or else be reconciled to her husband) and also that a man is not to divorce his wife.
12 對其餘的人，是我說，而不是主說：倘若某弟兄有不信主的妻子，妻子也同意與他同居，就不應該離棄她；
To all others I say – I, not the Master – If a follower of the Lord is married to a woman, who is an unbeliever but willing to live with him, he should not divorce her;
13 倘若某婦人有不信主的丈夫，丈夫也同意與她同居，就不應該離棄丈夫，
and a woman who is married to a man, who is an unbeliever but willing to live with her, should not divorce her husband.
14 因為不信主的丈夫因妻子而成了聖潔的，不信主的妻子也因口1而成了聖潔的；不然你們的兒女就是不潔的，其實他們卻是聖潔的。
For, through his wife, the husband who is an unbeliever has become associated with Christ’s people; and the wife who is an unbeliever has become associated with Christ’s people through the Lord’s follower whom she has married. Otherwise your children would be “defiled,” but, as it is, they belong to Christ’s people.
15 但若不信主的一方要離去，就由他離去；在這種情形之下，兄弟或姐妹不必受拘束，天主召叫了我們原是為平安。
However, if the unbeliever wishes to be separated, let them be so. Under such circumstances neither is bound; God has called you to live in peace.
16 因為妳這為妻子的，怎麼知道妳能救丈夫呢？或者，你這為丈夫的，怎麼知道你能救妻子呢？
How can you tell, wife, whether you may not save your husband? And how can you tell, husband, whether you may not save your wife?
17 此外，主怎麼分給了各人，天主怎樣召選了各人，各人就該怎樣生活下去：這原是我在各教會內所訓示的。
In any case, a person should continue to live in the condition which the Lord has allotted to them, and in which they were when God called them. This is the rule that I lay down in every church.
18 有人受割損後蒙召的嗎？他就不該掩割損的記號；有人是未受割損蒙召的嗎？他就不該受割損。
Was a man already circumcised when he was called? Then he should not efface his circumcision. Has a man been called when uncircumcised? Then he should not be circumcised.
19 受割損算不得什麼，不受割損也算不得什麼，只該遵持天主的誡命。
Circumcision is nothing; the want of it is nothing; but to keep the commands of God is everything.
20 各人在什麼身份上蒙召，就該安於這身份。
Let everyone remain in that condition of life in which they were when the call came to them.
21 你是作奴隸蒙召的嗎？你不要介意，而且既使你們能成為自由人，你也寧要守住你原有的身份，
Were you a slave when you were called? Do not let that trouble you. No, even if you are able to gain your freedom, still do your best.
22 因為作奴隸而在主內蒙召，就是主所釋放的人；同樣，那有自由而蒙召的人，就是基督的奴隸。
For the person who was a slave when they were called to the master’s service is the Master’s freedman; so, too, the person who was free when called is Christ’s slave.
23 你們是用高價買來的，切不要做人的奴隸。
You were bought, and the price was paid. Do not let yourselves become slaves to people.
24 弟兄們，各人在什麼身份上蒙召，就在天主前安於這身份罷!
Friends, let everyone remain in the condition in which they were when they were called, in close communion with God.
25 詮到童身的人，我沒有主的命令，只就我蒙主的仁慈，作為一個忠信的人，說出我的意見：
With regard to unmarried women, I have no command from the Master to give you, but I tell you my opinion, and the Master in his mercy has made me worthy to be trusted.
26 為了現時的急難，依我看來，為人這倒好。
I think, then, that, in view of the time of suffering that has now come upon us, what I have already said is best – that a man should remain as he is.
27 你有妻子的束縳嗎？不要尋求解脫；你沒有妻子的束縳嗎？不要尋求妻屋。
Are you married to a wife? Then do not seek to be separated. Are you separated from a wife? Then do not seek for a wife.
28 但是你若娶妻，你並沒有犯罪，童女若出嫁，也沒有犯罪；不過這等人要遭受肉身上的痛苦。
Still, if you should marry, that is not wrong; nor, if a young woman marries, is that wrong. But those who marry will have much trouble to bear, and my wish is to spare you.
29 弟兄們，我給你們說：時間是很短促的，今後有妻子的，要像沒有一樣；
What I mean, friends, is this – the time is short. Meanwhile, let those who have wives live as if they had none,
30 哭泣的，要像不哭泣的一樣；歡樂的，要像不歡樂的；購買的，要像一無所得的；
those who are weeping as if not weeping, those who are rejoicing as if not rejoicing, those who buy as if not possessing,
31 享用這世界的，要像不享用的，因為這世界的局面正在逝去。
and those who use the good things of the world as using them sparingly; for this world as we see it is passing away.
32 我願你們無所掛慮：沒有妻子的，所掛慮的是主的事，想怎樣悅樂主；
I want you to be free from anxiety. The unmarried man is anxious about the Master’s cause, desiring to please him;
33 娶了妻子的，所掛慮的是怎樣悅樂妻子：這樣他的心就分散了。
while the married man is anxious about worldly matters, desiring to please his wife;
34 沒有丈夫的婦女和童女，所掛慮的是主的事，一心使身心聖潔；至於已出嫁的，所掛慮的是世俗的事，想怎樣悅樂丈夫。
and so his interests are divided. Again, the unmarried woman, whether she is old or young, is anxious about the Master’s cause, striving to be pure both in body and in spirit, while the married woman is anxious about worldly matters, desiring to please her husband.
35 我所這話，是為你們的益處，並不是要設下圈奪陷害你們，而只為叫你們更齊全，得以不斷地專心事主。
I say this for your own benefit, not with any intention of putting a halter round your necks, but in order to secure for the Master seemly and constant devotion, free from all distraction.
36 若有人以為對自己的童女待的不合宜，怕她過了韶華年齡，而事又在必行，他就可以隨意辦理，讓她們成新，不算犯罪。
If, however, a father thinks that he is not acting fairly by his unmarried daughter, when she is past her youth, and if under these circumstances her marriage ought to take place, he should act as he thinks right. He is doing nothing wrong – let the marriage take place.
37 但是誰若心意堅定，沒有不得已的事，而又能隨自己的意願處置，這樣心裏決定了要保存自己的童女，的確做的好；
On the other hand, a father, who has definitely made up his mind, and is under no compulsion, but is free to carry out his own wishes, and who has come to the decision, in his own mind, to keep his unmarried daughter at home will be doing right.
38 所以誰若嫁叫自己的童女出嫁，作得好；誰若不叫她出嫁，作得更好。
In short, the one who consents to his daughter’s marriage is doing right, and yet the other will be doing better.
39 丈夫活著的時候，妻子是被束縳的；但如果丈夫死了，她便自由了，可以隨意嫁人，只要是在主內的人。
A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives; but, if the husband should pass to his rest, the widow is free to marry anyone she wishes, provided he is a believer.
40 可是按我的意見，如果她仍能這樣守下去，她更為有福：我想我也有天主的聖神。
Yet she will be happier if she remains as she is – in my opinion, for I think that I also have the Spirit of God.
