若望一书-1 John

圣经-新约(天主教思高圣经)

不认识圣经,就是不认识基督,不认识基督,就是不认识基督所建立的天主教会。

 

新约·若望一书

共5章:

 

第一章(10)

序言 
1:1 论到那从起初就有的生命的圣言,就是我们听见过,我们亲眼看见过,瞻仰过,以及我们亲手摸过的生命的圣言--
1:2 这生命已显示出来,我们看见了,也为他作证,且把这原与父同在,且已显示给我们的永远的生命,传报给你们--
1:3 我们将所见所闻的传报给你们,为使你们也同我们相通;原来我们是同父和他的子耶稣基督相通的。
1:4 我们给你们写这些事,是为叫我们的喜乐得以圆满。

天主是光

人应在光中往来 
1:5 我们由他所听见,而传报给你们的,就是这个信息:天主是光,在他内没有一点黑暗。
1:6 如果我们说我们与他相通,但仍在黑暗中行走,我们就是说谎,不履行真理。
1:7 但如果我们在光中行走,如同他在光中一样,我们就彼此相通,他圣子耶稣的血就会洗净我们的各种罪过。
1:8 如果我们说我们没有罪过,就是欺骗自己,真理也不在我们内。
1:9 但若我们明认我们的罪过,天主既是忠信正义的,必赦免我们的罪过,并洗净我们的各种不义。
1:10 如果我们说我们没有犯过罪,我们就是拿他当说谎者,他的话就不在我们内。

 

 

第二章(29)

耶稣为人做了赎罪祭 
2:1 我的孩子们,我给你们写这些事,是为叫你们不犯罪;但是,谁若犯了罪,我们在父那里有正义的耶稣基督作护慰者。
2:2 他自己就是赎罪祭,赎我们的罪过,不但赎我们的,而且也赎全世界的罪过。

遵守爱德的命令 
2:3 如果我们遵守他的命令,由此便知道我们认识他。
2:4 那说「我认识他,」而不遵守他命令的,是撒谎的人,在他内没有真理。
2:5 但是,谁若遵守他的话,天主的爱在他内才得以圆满;由此我们也知道,我们是在他内。
2:6 那说自己住在他内的,就应当照那一位所行的去行。
2:7 可爱的诸位,我给你们写的,不是一条新命令,而是你们从起初领受的旧命令:这旧命令就是你们所听的道理。
2:8 另一方面说,我给你们写的也是一条新命令--就是在他和你们身上成为事实的--因为黑暗正在消逝,真光已在照耀。
2:9 谁说自己在光中,而恼恨自己的弟兄,他至今仍是在黑暗中。
2:10 凡爱自己弟兄的,就是存留在光中,对于他就没有任何绊脚石;
2:11 但是恼恨自己弟兄的,就是在黑暗中,且在黑暗中行走,不知道自己往那里去,因为黑暗弄瞎了他的眼睛。

远离世俗 
2:12 孩子们,我给你们写说:因他的名字,你们的罪已获得赦免。
2:13 父老们,我给你们写说:你们已认识了从起初就有的那一位。青年们,我给你们写说:你们已得胜了那恶者。
2:14 小孩子们,我给你们写过:你们已认识了父。父老们,我给你们写过:你们已认识了从起初就有的那一位。青年们,我给你们写过:你们是强壮的,天主的话存留在你们内,你们也得胜了那恶者。
2:15 你们不要爱世界,也不要爱世界上的事;谁若爱世界,天父的爱就不在他内。
2:16 原来世界上的一切:肉身的贪欲,眼目的贪欲,以及人生的骄奢,都不是出于父,而是出于世界。
2:17 这世界和它的贪欲都要过去;但那履行天主旨意的,却永远存在。

提防假基督 
2:18 小孩子们,现在是最末的时期了!就如你们听说过假基督要来,如今已经出了许多假基督,由此我们就知道现在是最末的时期了。
2:19 他们是出于我们中的,但不是属于我们的,因为,如果是属于我们的,必存留在我们中;但这是为显示他们都不是属于我们。
2:20 至于你们,你们由圣者领受了傅油,并且你们都晓得。
2:21 我给你们写信,不是你们不明白真理,而是因为你们明白真理,并明白各种谎言不是出于真理。
2:22 谁是撒谎的呢?岂不是那否认耶稣为默西亚的吗?那否认父和子的,这人便是假基督。
2:23 凡否认子的,也否认父;那明认子的,也有父。
2:24 至于你们,应把从起初所听见的,存留在你们内;如果你们从起初所听见的,存留在你们内,你们必存留在子和父内。
2:25 这就是他给我们所预许的恩惠:即永远的生命。
2:26 这些就是我关于迷惑你们的人,给你们所写的。
2:27 至于你们,你们由他所领受的傅油,常存在你们内,你们就不需要谁教训你们,而是有他的傅油教训你们一切。这傅油是真实的,决不虚假,所以这傅油怎样教训你们,你们就怎样存留在他内。
2:28 现在,孩子们,你们常存在他内罢!为的是当他显现时,我们可以放心大胆,在他来临时,不至于在他面前蒙羞。
2:29 你们既然知道他是正义的,就该知道凡履行正义的,都是由他而生的。

 

 

天主是父

第三章(24)

天父的子女应相似天父 
3:1 请看父赐给我们何等的爱情,使我们得称为天主的子女,而且我们也真是如此。世界所以不认识我们,是因为不认识父。
3:2 可爱的诸位,现在我们是天主的子女,但我们将来如何,还没有显明;可是我们知道:一显明了,我们必要相似他,因为我们要看见他实在怎样。
3:3 所以,凡对他怀着这希望的,必圣洁自己,就如那一位是圣洁的一样。
3:4 凡是犯罪的,也就是作违法的事,因为罪过就是违法。
3:5 你们也知道,那一位曾显示出来,是为除免罪过,在他身上并没有罪过。
3:6 凡存在他内的,就不犯罪过;凡犯罪过的,是没有看见过他,也没有认识过他。
3:7 孩子们,万不要让人迷惑你们!那行正义的,就是正义的人,正如那一位是正义的一样。
3:8 那犯罪的,是属于魔鬼,因为魔鬼从起初就犯罪:天主子所以显现出来,是为消灭魔鬼的作为。
3:9 凡由天主生的,就不犯罪过,因为天主的种子存留在他内,他不能犯罪,因为他是由天主生的。
3:10 天主的子女和魔鬼的子女在这事上可以认出:就是凡不行正义的和不爱自己弟兄的,就不是出于天主。

爱人的命令 
3:11 原来你们从起初所听的训令就是:我们应彼此相爱;
3:12 不可像那属于恶者和杀害自己兄弟的加音。加音究竟为什么杀了他?因为他自己的行为是邪恶的,而他兄弟的行为是正义的。
3:13 弟兄们,如果世界恼恨你们,不必惊奇。
3:14 我们知道,我们已出死入生了,因为我们爱弟兄们;那不爱的,就存在死亡内。
3:15 凡恼恨自己弟兄的,便是杀人的;你们也知道:凡杀人的,便没有永远的生命存在他内。
3:16 我们所以认识了爱,因为那一位为我们舍弃了自己的生命,我们也应当为弟兄们舍弃生命。
3:17 谁若有今世的财物,看见自己的弟兄有急难,却对他关闭自己怜悯的心肠,天主的爱怎能存在他内?
3:18 孩子们,我们爱,不可只用言语,也不可只用口舌,而要用行动和事实。
3:19 在这一点上我们可以认出,我们是出于真理的,并且在他面前可以安心;
3:20 纵然我们的心责备我们,我们还可以安心,因为天主比我们的心大,他原知道一切。
3:21 可爱的诸位,假使我们的心不责备我们,在天主前便可放心大胆;
3:22 那么我们无论求什么,必由他获得,因为我们遵守了他的命令,行了他所喜悦的事。
3:23 他的命令就是叫我们信他的子耶稣基督的名字,并按照他给我们所出的命令,彼此相爱。
3:24 那遵守他命令的,就住在他内,天主也住在这人内。我们所以知道他住在我们内,是借他赐给我们的圣神。

 

 

第四章(21)

真理的神和欺诈的神 
4:1 可爱的诸位,不要凡神就信,但要考验那些神是否出于天主,因为有许多假先知来到了世界上。
4:2 你们凭此可认出天主的神:凡明认耶稣为默西亚,且在肉身内降世的神,便是出于天主;
4:3 凡否认耶稣的神,就不是出于天主,而是属于假基督的;你们已听说过他要来,现今他已在世界上了。
4:4 孩子们,你们出于天主,且已得胜了他们,因为那在你们内的,比那在世界上的更大。
4:5 他们属于世界,因此讲论属于世界的事,而世界就听从他们。
4:6 我们却是出于天主的;那认识天主的,必听从我们;那不出于天主的,便不听从我们:由此我们可以认出真理的神和欺诈的神来。

天主是爱

以爱还爱 
4:7 可爱的诸位,我们应该彼此相爱,因为爱是出于天主;凡有爱的,都是生于天主,也认识天主;
4:8 那不爱的,也不认识天主,因为天主是爱。
4:9 天主对我们的爱在这事上已显出来:就是天主把自己的独生子,打发到世界上来,好使我们借着他得到生命。
4:10 爱就在于此:不是我们爱了天主,而是他爱了我们,且打发自己的儿子,为我们做赎罪祭。
4:11 可爱的诸位,既然天主这样爱了我们,我们也应该彼此相爱。
4:12 从来没有人瞻仰过天主;如果我们彼此相爱,天主就存留在我们内,他的爱在我们内才是圆满的。
4:13 我们所以知道我们存留在他内,他存留在我们内,就是由于他赐给了我们的圣神。
4:14 至于我们,我们却曾瞻仰过,并且作证:父打发了子来作世界的救主。
4:15 谁若明认耶稣是天主子,天主就存在他内,他也存在天主内。
4:16 我们认识了,且相信了天主对我们所怀的爱。天主是爱,那存留在爱内的,就存留在天主内,天主也存留在他内。
4:17 我们内的爱得以圆满,即在于此:就是我们可在审判的日子放心大胆,因为那一位怎样,我们在这世界上也怎样。
4:18 在爱内没有恐惧,反之,圆满的爱把恐惧驱逐于外,因为恐惧内含着惩罚;那恐惧的,在爱内还没有圆满。
4:19 我们应该爱,因为天主先爱了我们。
4:20 假使有人说:我爱天主,但他却恼恨自己的弟兄,便是撒谎的;因为那不爱自己所看见的弟兄的,就不能爱自己所看不见的天主。
4:21 我们从他蒙受了这命令:那爱天主的,也该爱自己的弟兄。

 

 

第五章(21)

信德是得胜世界的力量和得永生的根基 
5:1 凡信耶稣为默西亚的,是由天主所生的;凡爱生他之父的,也必爱那由他所生的。
5:2 几时我们爱天主,又遵行他的诫命,由此知道我们真爱天主的子女。
5:3 原来爱天主,就是遵行他的诫命,而他的诫命并不沉重,
5:4 因为凡是由天主所生的,必得胜世界;得胜世界的胜利武器,就是我们的信德。
5:5 谁是得胜世界的呢?不是那信耶稣为天主子的人吗?
5:6 这位就是经过水及血而来的耶稣基督,他不但以水,而且也是以水及血而来的;并且有圣神作证,因为圣神是真理。
5:7 原来作证的有三个:
5:8 就是圣神,水及血,而这三个是一致的。
5:9 人的证据,我们既然接受,但天主的证据更大,因为天主的证据就是他为自己的子作证。
5:10 那信天主子的,在自己内就怀有这证据;那不信天主的,就是以天主为撒谎者,因为他不信天主为自己的子所作的证。
5:11 这证据就是天主将永远的生命赐给了我们,而这生命是在自己的子内。
5:12 那有子的,就有生命;那没有天主子的,就没有生命。

结论 信友的崇高地位 
5:13 我给你们这些信天主子名字的人,写了这些事,是为叫你们知道:你们已获有永远的生命。
5:14 我们对天主所怀的依恃之心就是:如果我们按他的旨意求什么,他必俯听我们。
5:15 我们既然知道:我们不拘向他祈求什么,他会俯听我们,我们也知道向他所祈求的,必要得到。
5:16 谁若看见自己的弟兄犯了不至于死的罪,就应当祈求,天主必赏赐他生命:这是为那些犯不至于死的罪人而说的;然而有的罪却是至于死的罪,为这样的罪,我不说要人祈求。
5:17 任何的不义都是罪过,但也有不至于死的罪过。
5:18 我们知道:凡由天主生的,就不犯罪过;而且由天主生的那一位必保全他,那恶者不能侵犯他。
5:19 我们知道我们属于天主,而全世界却屈服于恶者。
5:20 我们也知道天主子来了,赐给了我们理智,叫我们认识那真实者;我们确实是在那真实者内,即在他的子耶稣基督内,他即是真实的天主和永远的生命。
5:21 孩子们,你们要谨慎,远避偶像!

 

BOOK ENDS. Seraphim, April 2009.

JB 1 JOHN Chapter 1

 

THE FIRST LETTER OF JOHN

 

INTRODUCTION

 

The incarnate Word

1:1 Something which has existed since the beginning, that we have heard, and we have seen with our own eyes; that we have watched and touched with our hands: the Word, who is life-this is our subject.

1:2 That life was made visible: we saw it and we are giving our testimony, telling you of the eternal life which was with the Father and has been made visible to us.

1:3 What we have seen and heard we are telling you so that you too may be in union with us, as we are in union with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.

1:4 We are writing this to you to make our own joy complete.

 

  1. WALK IN THE LIGHT

1:5 This is what we have heard from him, and the message that we are announcing to you: God is light; there is no darkness in him at all.

1:6 If we say that we are in union with God[*a] while we are living in darkness, we are lying because we are not living the truth.

1:7 But if we live our lives in the light, as he is in the light, we are in union with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.

 

First condition: break with sin

1:8 If we say we have no sin in us; we are deceiving ourselves and refusing to admit the truth;

1:9 but if we acknowledge our sins, then God who is faithful and just will forgive our sins and purify us from everything that is wrong.

1:10 To say that we have never sinned is to call God a liar and to show that his word is not in us.

 

JB 1 JOHN Chapter 2

 

2:1 I am writing this, my children, to stop you sinning; but if anyone should sin, we have our advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, who is just;

2:2 he is the sacrifice that takes our sins away, and not only ours, but the whole world’s.

 

Second condition: keep the commandments, especially the law of love

2:3 We can be sure that we know God only by keeping his commandments.

2:4 Anyone who says, ‘I know him’, and does not keep his commandments, is a liar, refusing to admit the truth.

2:5 But when anyone does obey what he has said, God’s love comes to perfection in him. We can be sure that we are in God

2:6 only when the one who claims to be living in him is living the same kind of life as Christ lived.

2:7 My dear people, this is not a new commandment that I am writing to tell you, but an old commandment that you were given from the beginning, the original commandment which was the message brought to you.

2:8 Yet in another way, what I am writing to you, and what is being carried out in your lives as it was in his, is a new commandment; because the night is over and the real light is already shining.

2:9 Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates his brother is still in the dark.

2:10 But anyone who loves his brother is living in the light and need not be afraid of stumbling;

2:11 unlike the man who hates his brother and is in the darkness, not knowing where he is going, because it is too dark to see.

 

Third condition: detachment from the world

2:12 I am writing to you, my own children, whose sins have already been forgiven through his name;

2:13 I am writing to you, fathers, who have come to know the one who has existed since the beginning; I am writing to you, young men, who have already overcome the Evil One;

2:14 I have written to you, children, because you already know the Father; I have written to you, fathers, because you have come to know the one who has existed since the beginning; I have written to you, young men, because you are strong and God’s word has made its home in you, and you have overcome the Evil One.

2:15 You must not love this passing world or anything that is in the world. The love of the Father cannot be in any man who loves the world,

2:16 because nothing the world has to offer-the sensual body, the lustful eye, pride in possessions-could ever come from the Father but only from the world;

2:17 and the world, with all it craves for, is coming to an end; but anyone who does the will of God remains for ever.

 

Fourth condition: be on guard against the enemies of Christ

2:18 Children, these are the last days; you were told that an Antichrist must come, and now several antichrists have already appeared; we know from this that these are the last days.

2:19 Those rivals of Christ came out of our own number, but they had never really belonged; if they had belonged, they would have stayed with us; but they left us, to prove that not one of them ever belonged to us.

2:20 But you have been anointed by the Holy One, and have all received the knowledge.

2:21 It is not because you do not know the truth that I am writing to you but rather because you know it already and know that no lie can come from the truth.

2:22 The man who denies that Jesus is the Christ-he is the liar, he is Antichrist; and he is denying the Father as well as the Son,

2:23 because no one who has the Father can deny the Son, and to acknowledge the Son is to have the Father as well.

2:24 Keep alive in yourselves what you were taught in the beginning: as long as what you were taught in the beginning is alive in you, you will live in the Son and in the Father;

2:25 and what is promised to you by his own promise is eternal life.

2:26 This is all that I am writing to you about the people who are trying to lead you astray.

2:27 But you have not lost the anointing that he gave you, and you do not need anyone to teach you; the anointing he gave teaches you everything; you are anointed with truth, not with a lie, and as it has taught you, so you must stay in him.

2:28 Live in Christ, then, my children, so that if he appears, we may have full confidence, and not turn from him in shame at his coming.

2:29 You know that God is righteous – then you must recognise that everyone whose life is righteous has been begotten by him.

 

JB 1 JOHN Chapter 3

 

  1. LIVE AS GOD’S CHILDREN

3:1 Think of the love that the Father has lavished on us, by letting us be called God’s children; and that is what we are. Because the world refused to acknowledge him, therefore it does not acknowledge us.

3:2 My dear people, we are already the children of God but what we are to be in the future has not yet been revealed; all we know is, that when it is revealed we shall be like him because we shall see him as he really is.

 

First condition: break with sin

3:3 Surely everyone who entertains this hope must purify himself, must try to be as pure as Christ.

3:4 Anyone who sins at all breaks the law, because to sin is to break the law.

3:5 Now you know that he appeared in order to abolish sin, and that in him there is no sin;

3:6 anyone who lives in God does not sin, and anyone who sins has never seen him or known him.

3:7 My children, do not let anyone lead you astray: to live a holy life is to be holy just as he is holy;

3:8 to lead a sinful life is to belong to the devil, since the devil was a sinner from the beginning. It was to undo all that the devil has done that the Son of God appeared.

3:9 No one who has been begotten by God sins; because God’s seed remains inside him, he cannot sin when he has been begotten by God.

 

Second condition: keep the commandments, especially the law of love

3:10 In this way we distinguish the children of God from the children of the devil: anybody not living a holy life and not loving his brother is no child of God’s.

3:11 This is the message as you heard it from the beginning: that we are to love one another;

3:12 not to be like Cain, who belonged to the Evil One and cut his brother’s throat; cut his brother’s throat simply for this reason, that his own life was evil and his brother lived a good life.

3:13 You must not be surprised, brothers, when the world hates you;

3:14 we have passed out of death and into life, and of this we can be sure because we love our brothers.

3:15 If you refuse to love, you must remain dead; to hate your brother is to be a murderer, and murderers, as you know, do not have eternal life in them.

3:16 This has taught us love – that he gave up his life for us; and we, too, ought to give up our lives for our brothers.

3:17 If a man who was rich enough in this world’s goods saw that one of his brothers was in need, but closed his heart to him, how could the love of God be living in him?

3:18 My children, our love is not to be just words or mere talk, but something real and active;

3:19 only by this can we be certain that we are children of the truth and be able to quieten our conscience in his presence,

3:20 whatever accusations it may raise against us, because God is greater than our conscience and he knows everything.

3:21 My dear people, if we cannot be condemned by our own conscience, we need not be afraid in God’s presence,

3:22 and whatever we ask him, we shall receive, because we keep his commandments and live the kind of life that he wants.

3:23 His commandments are these: that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and that we love one another as he told us to.

3:24 Whoever keeps his commandments lives in God and God lives in him. We know that he lives in us by the Spirit that he has given us.

 

JB 1 JOHN Chapter 4

 

Third condition: be on guard against the enemies of Christ and against the world

4:1 It is not every spirit, my dear people, that you can trust; test them, to see if they come from God, there are many false prophets, now, in the world.

4:2 You can tell the spirits that come from God by this: every spirit which acknowledges that Jesus the Christ has come in the flesh is from God;

4:3 but any spirit which will not say this of Jesus is not from God, but is the spirit of Antichrist, whose coming you were warned about. Well, now he is here, in the world.

4:4 Children, you have already overcome these false prophets, because you are from God and you have in you one who is greater than anyone in this world;

4:5 as for them, they are of the world, and so they speak the language of the world and the world listens to them.

4:6 But we are children of God, and those who know God listen to us; those who are not of God refuse to listen to us. This is how we can tell the spirit of truth from the spirit of falsehood.

 

III. LOVE AND FAITH

 

Love

4:7 My dear people, let us love one another since love comes from God and everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God.

4:8 Anyone who fails to love can never have known God, because God is love.

4:9 God’s love for us was revealed when God sent into the world his only Son so that we could have life through him;

4:10 this is the love I mean: not our love for God, but God’s love for us when he sent his Son to be the sacrifice that takes our sins away.

4:11 My dear people, since God has loved us so much, we too should love one another.

4:12 No one has ever seen God; but as long as we love one another God will live in us and his love will be complete in us.

4:13 We can know that we are living in him and he is living in us because he lets us share his Spirit.

4:14 We ourselves saw and we testify that the Father sent his Son as saviour of the world.

4:15 If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him, and he in God.

4:16 We ourselves have known and put our faith in God’s love towards ourselves. God is love and anyone who lives in love lives in God, and God lives in him.

4:17 Love will come to its perfection in us when we can face the day of Judgement without fear; because even in this world we have become as he is.

4:18 In love there can be no fear, but fear is driven out by perfect love: because to fear is to expect punishment, and anyone who is afraid is still imperfect in love.

4:19 We are to love, then, because he loved us first.

4:20 Anyone who says, ‘I love God’, and hates his brother, is a liar, since a man who does not love the brother that he can see cannot love God, whom he has never seen.

4:21 So this is the commandment that he has given us, that anyone who loves God must also love his brother.

 

JB 1 JOHN Chapter 5

 

5:1 Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been begotten by God; and whoever loves the Father that begot him loves the child whom he begets.

5:2 We can be sure that we love God’s children if we love God himself and do what he has commanded us;

5:3 this is what loving God is-keeping his commandments;

5:4 and his commandments are not difficult, because anyone who has been begotten by God has already overcome the world; this is the victory over the world-our faith.

 

Faith

5:5 Who can overcome the world? Only the man who believes that Jesus is the Son of God:

5:6 Jesus Christ who came by water and blood[*a], not with water only, but with water and blood; with the Spirit as another witness-since the Spirit is the truth-

5:7 so that there are three witnesses,

5:8 the Spirit, the water and the blood, and all three of them agree.

5:9 We accept the testimony of human witnesses, but God’s testimony is much greater, and this is God’s testimony, given as evidence for his Son.

5:10 Everybody who believes in the Son of God has this testimony inside him; and anyone who will not believe God is making God out to be a liar, because he has not trusted the testimony God has given about his Son.

5:11 This is the testimony: God has given us eternal life and this life is in his Son;

5:12 anyone who has the Son has life, anyone who does not have the Son does not have life.

 

Conclusion

5:13 I have written all this to you so that you who believe in the name of the Son of God may be sure that you have eternal life.

 

ENDING

 

Prayer for sinners

5:14 We are quite confident that if we ask him for anything, and it is in accordance with his will, he will hear us;

5:15 and, knowing that whatever we may ask, he hears us, we know that we have already been granted what we asked of him.

5:16 If anybody sees his brother commit a sin that is not a deadly sin, he has only to pray, and God will give life to the sinner – not those who commit a deadly sin; for there is a sin that is death, and I will not say that you must pray about that.

5:17 Every kind of wrong-doing is sin, but not all sin is deadly.

 

Summary of the letter

5:18 We know that anyone who has been begotten by God does not sin, because the begotten Son of God protects him, and the Evil One does not touch him.

5:19 We know that we belong to God, but the whole world lies in the power of the Evil One.

5:20 We know, too, that the Son of God has come, and has given us the power to know the true God. We are in the true God, as we are in his Son, Jesus Christ. This is the true God, this is eternal life.

5:21 Children, be on your guard against false gods.

 

END OF JB 1 JOHN [5 Chapters].

 

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