Hebrews 12
1 We [know about] many people like that [who showed they trusted in God]. They are like a crowd of spectators [who are cheering for us inside a stadium] [MET]. Knowing that, we must put away all the things that hinder us, [as a runner puts aside everything that would hinder him because they are heavy] [MET]. Especially we must put away sinful actions that [hinder us, as a runner] sets aside clothes he does not need, clothes that would entangle him [MET]. Let us [wholeheartedly strive to achieve what God has planned for us, as someone] in a race wholeheartedly runs the course that is before him [MET].
以，我們既有如此眾多如雲的證人，圍繞著我們，就該下卸下所有的累贅和糾纏人的罪過，以堅忍的心，跑那擺在我們眼前的賽程，
2 And let us [keep our minds on] Jesus, [as a runner] keeps his eyes on [the goal] [MET]. Jesus is the one we should imitate in the way he perfectly trusted [God. When he died on] the cross he endured it as he suffered greatly [MTY], instead of [thinking about the things he would] rejoice about [later]. He disregarded being disgraced by [dying that way]. He is now sitting at the place of highest honor [MTY] at the throne [where God rules].
雙目注視著信德的創始者耶穌：衪為那擺在衪面前的歡樂，輕淩辱，忍受了十字架，而今坐在天主寶座的右邊。
3 [Jesus] patiently endured it when sinful people acted so hostilely against him. Try to act the way he did, so that you do not give up [trusting] God or become discouraged.
你們常要想，衪所以忍受罪人對衪這樣的叛逆，是怕你們灰心喪志。
4 While you have struggled against [being tempted to] sin, you have not yet bled [and died because of resisting evil, as Jesus did].
你們與罪惡爭鬥，還沒有抵抗到流血的地步。
5 Do not forget [RHQ] these words [that Solomon spoke to his son, that are the same as God] would exhort you as his children: My child, pay attention [LIT] when the Lord is disciplining you, and do not be discouraged when the Lord punishes you [DOU],
你們竟全忘了天主勸你們，好像勸子女的話說：『我兒，不要輕視上主的懲戒，也不要厭惡衪的譴責，
6 because it is everyone whom he loves whom the Lord disciplines, and he punishes everyone whom he accepts as his child.
因為上主懲戒衪所愛的，鞭打衪所接管的每個兒子。』
7 It is in order that God may discipline you that he requires you to endure the disagreeable things [that happen to you]. [When God disciplines you] he is treating you as a father treats his children. All fathers [RHQ] discipline their children [LIT].
為接受懲戒，應該堅忍，因為天主對待你們，就如對待子女；那有兒子，做父親的不懲戒他呢﹖
8 So, if you have not experienced God disciplining you just like he disciplines all his other children, you are [not true children of God] [MET]. [You are like] illegitimate children; [no father disciplines them].
如果你們缺少眾人所共受的懲戒，你們就是私生子，而不是兒子。
9 Furthermore, our natural fathers disciplined us [when we were young], and we respected them for doing that. So we should certainly more readily accept God our spiritual Father disciplining us, with the result that we live eternally [RHQ]!
再者，我們肉身的父親懲戒我們時，我們尚且表示敬畏；何況靈性的父親，我們不是更該服從，以得生活嗎﹖
10 Our natural fathers disciplined us for a short time in a way that they considered right, [but it wasn’t always right], but God always disciplines us [in a right way], to help us. He does it so that we may be holy as he is.
其實肉身的父親只是在短暫的時日內，照他們的心意來施行懲戒，但是天主卻是為了我們的好處，為叫我們分沾衪的聖善。
11 During the time that God is disciplining us, that does not seem to be something about which we should rejoice. Instead, it is something that pains us. But later it causes those who have learned from it to be peaceful and to [live] righteously.
固然各種懲戒，在當時似乎不是樂事，而是苦事；可是以後卻給那些受訓練的人，結出義德的和平果實。
12 So, [instead of acting as though you were spiritually exhausted], renew yourselves [MET] spiritually.
為此，你們應該伸直痿弱的手和麻木的膝；
13 Go straight forward [in your Christian life] [MET], in order that believers who are uncertain about their faith [will imitate you] and not ([leave God’s way/] useless [to God]) [MET]. Instead, they will be spiritually restored [MET] as an injured and useless limb is restored.
你們的腳應履行正直的路，叫瘸子不要偏離正道，反叫他能得痊愈。
14 Try to live peacefully with all people. Seek to be holy, since no one will see the Lord if he is not holy.
你們應設法與眾人和平相處，盡力追求聖德，若無聖德，誰也見不到主；
15 Beware that none of you stops [trusting in] God, [who has done kind things for us that we did not deserve] (OR, Beware that you have never [experienced] God kindly [saving you]). Be on guard lest any of you [act in an evil way towards others], because your doing that will [grow like] [MET] a root [grows into a big plant], and the result [of your] doing that will be that many believers will sin and become unacceptable to God.
又應該慬慎，免得有人疏忽天主的恩寵免得苦根子長出來，而累及你們，使許多人因此蒙受玷污。
16 Do not let anyone be immoral, or be irreligious as Esau was. He exchanged the rights he had as a firstborn son for only one meal.
誰也不要成為淫亂和褻聖者，如同厄撒烏一樣，他為了一餐飯，竟出賣了自己長氶的身份。
17 You know that after he did that, he wanted to receive [what his father would promise to give him if] he blessed him. But [his father] was unable [to change what he had already done]. And Esau found no way to change things, even though he sought tearfully to do that.
你們知道，後來他縱然願意承受祝福，也遭到了拒絕；雖流淚苦求，但沒有得到翻悔的餘地。
18 In coming [to God] you have not [experienced things like what the Israeli people experienced] at [Sinai] Mountain. [They] approached [a mountain that God told them they] should not touch. [They approached] a blazing fire, and it was gloomy and dark [DOU], and there was a hurricane/cyclone.
你們原來並不是走近了那可觸摸的山，那裏有烈火、濃雲、黑暗、暴風、
19 They heard a trumpet sounding and they heard [God] speak. The result was that those who heard it pleaded for God not to speak to them like that again.
號垌的響聲以及說話的聲音，當時那些聽見的人，都懇求天主不要再給他們說話，
20 When [God] commanded them saying, “If [a person or] even an animal touches this mountain, [you] must [kill him/it by] throwing stones at him/it,” they were terrified.
因為他們承擔不起所吩咐的事：『即使是一隻走獸觸摸了這山，也應用石頭砸死；』
21 Truly, because Moses was terrified after seeing what happened [on the mountain], he said, “I am trembling because I am very afraid!”
並且所顯現的是這麼可怕，連梅瑟也說：『我很是恐慌戰憟。』
22 Instead, [it is as though] you have come to [the presence of God in heaven] [MET]. [That is like what your ancestors did when they came to worship] God on Zion Hill, in Jerusalem, in the city of God who is all-powerful. You have come (OR, you are coming) to where there are countless angels, who are rejoicing as they have gathered together.
然而你們卻接近了熙雍山的永生天主的城，天上的耶路撒冷，接近了千萬天使的盛會，
23 You have joined all the believers [who have privileges like] firstborn sons, whose names [God] has written down in heaven. You have come to God, who will judge everyone. You have come to where the spirits of God’s people are, people who lived righteously [before they died], and who now have been made perfect [in heaven].
和那些已被登錄在天上的首生者的集會，接近了審判眾人的天主，接近了已獲得成全的義人的靈魂，
24 You have come to Jesus, who arranged a new covenant [between us and God]. You have accepted [what he accomplished when] his blood flowed [when he died on the cross. His doing that made it possible for God to forgive us]. That is better than the blood of Abel, [who just] wanted revenge because his brother Cain murdered him.
接近了新約的中保耶穌，以及衪所灑的血：這血比亞伯爾的血說說的更好。
25 Beware that you do not refuse to listen to [God] who is speaking to you. The Israeli people did not escape [God punishing them] when [Moses] (OR, [God]) warned them here on earth. So we shall surely not escape [God punishing us] if we reject him when he warns us from heaven! [RHQ]
你們要慬慎，不要拒絕說話的那位，如果從前那些拒絕聽衪在地上宣佈啟示的人，不能逃避懲罰，何況我們這些背棄由天上說話的那位呢﹖
26 The earth shook [PRS] then when he spoke [MTY] [at Sinai Mountain]. But now he has promised, “I will shake the earth again, one more time, but I will shake heaven too.”
從前衪的聲音搖動了下地，如今衪卻應許說：『還有一次，我不但動搖下地，而且也動搖下天。』
27 The words “again, one more time” indicate that things [on earth] will be shaken {that [he] will shake things [on earth]}, meaning that he will set aside all that [he] has created, in order that the things [in heaven] that cannot be shaken {that nothing can shake} may remain forever.
這『還有一次』一句，是指明那些被動搖的事物，因為受造的，必起變化，好叫那些不可動搖的事物得以常存。
28 So, let us thank God that we are becoming members of a kingdom that nothing can shake. Let us worship/serve God in a way that pleases him by being greatly in awe [DOU] before him.
為此，我們既然蒙受一個不可動搖的國度，就應該感恩，藉此懷著虔忱和敬畏之情，事奉天主，叫衪喜悅，
29 Remember that the God we [worship/serve] is like a fire that burns up everything [that is impure] [MET]!
因為我們的天主實是吞滅的烈火。
