麥克謙一年通讀

Bear One Another's Burdens and Do Good

¹My friends, even if someone should be caught committing a sin, you who are spiritually minded should, in a gentle spirit, help them to recover themselves, taking care that you yourselves are not tempted.

²Bear one another’s burdens, and so carry out the Law of the Christ.

³If a person imagines themselves to be somebody, when they are really nobody, they deceive themselves.

⁴Let everyone test their own work, and then their cause for satisfaction will be in themselves and not in a comparison with their neighbor;

⁵for everyone must bear their own load.

⁶The person, however, who is being instructed in the message ought always to share their blessings with their teacher.

⁷Do not be deceived. God cannot be mocked. What a person sows that they will reap.

⁸For the person who sows the field of their earthly nature will from that earthly nature reap corruption; while the one who sows the field of the spirit will from that spirit reap eternal life.

⁹Let us never tire of doing right, for at the proper season we will reap our harvest, if we do not grow weary.

¹⁰Therefore, I say, as the opportunity occurs, let us treat everyone with kindness, and especially members of the household of the faith.

Boasting Only in the Cross of Christ

¹¹See in what large letters I am writing with my own hand.

¹²The people who are trying to compel you to be circumcised are the people who wish to appear to advantage in regard to outward observances. They do it only to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Jesus, the Christ

¹³Even these men who are circumcised do not themselves keep the Law; yet they want you to be circumcised, so that they may boast of your observance of the rite.

¹⁴But, for my part, may I never boast of anything except the cross of Jesus Christ, our Master, through whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

¹⁵For neither is circumcision nor the omission of it anything; but a new nature is everything.

¹⁶May all who rule their conduct by this principle find peace and mercy – they who are the Israel of God.

¹⁷For the future let no one trouble me; for I bear the marks of Jesus branded on my body.

¹⁸May the blessing of Jesus Christ, our Lord, rest on your souls, friends. Amen.

A Voice Urging Obedience at the Feast

¹Sing aloud to God our strength,

²Raise a song, sound the timbrel,

³On the new moon blow the horn,

⁴For this is a statute for Israel,

⁵a witness he set up in Joseph,

⁶“I removed from your shoulder the burden,

⁷At your call of distress I delivered you,

⁸“Listen, my people, to my warning,

⁹There must not be a strange god among you,

¹⁰I am the Lord your God

¹¹“But my people did not listen to my voice,

¹²So to their own hard hearts I left them,

¹³O that my people would listen,

¹⁴Soon would I humble their enemies,

¹⁵Those who hate the Lord would cringe before him

¹⁶But you would I feed with the richest wheat,

A Rebuke Against Unjust Judges

¹God has taken his stand

²“How long will you crookedly judge,

³Do right by the weak and the orphan,

⁴Rescue the weak and the needy,

⁵“They have neither knowledge nor insight,

⁶It was I who appointed you gods,

⁷Yet like mortals you will surely die,

⁸Arise, O God, judge the earth,