| 羅馬書 |
Romans |
| 1我再問：莫非天主擯棄了自己的人民嗎？斷然不是！我自己就是個以色列人，出於亞巴郎的後裔，本雅明支派。 |
1 I ask, then, has God rejected his people? Of course not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. |
| 2天主並沒有擯棄他所預選的人民。難道你們不知道聖經在《厄里亞篇》上說了什麼，他怎樣向天主抱怨以色列？ |
2God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the scripture says about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel? |
| 3「上主呀！他們殺了你的先知，毀壞了你的祭壇，只剩下了我一個，他們還在謀害我的性命。」 |
3"Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have torn down your altars, and I alone am left, and they are seeking my life." |
| 4然而神諭告訴了他什麼？「我為我自己留下了七千人，他們沒有向巴耳屈過膝。」 |
4But what is God's response to him? "I have left for myself seven thousand men who have not knelt to Baal." |
| 5同樣，現在也留下了一些殘餘，即天主以恩寵所選拔的人。 |
5So also at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace. |
| 6既然是出於恩寵，就不是出於作為，不然，恩寵就不算為恩寵了。 |
6But if by grace, it is no longer because of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace. |
| 7那麼還說什麼呢？以色列全體所尋求的，沒有得到，只有那些蒙選的人得到了；其餘的都頑梗不化了。 |
7What then? What Israel was seeking it did not attain, but the elect attained it; the rest were hardened, |
| 8正如所記載的：「天主賦與了他們沉睡的神，有眼看不見，有耳聽不見，直到今日，仍是如此。」 |
8as it is written: "God gave them a spirit of deep sleep, eyes that should not see and ears that should not hear, down to this very day." |
| 9達味也說過：「願他們的筵席成為他們的陷阱、羅網、絆腳石和應得的報應。 |
9And David says: "Let their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them; |
| 10願他們的眼睛昏迷，不得看見。願你使他們的脊背常常彎曲。」 |
10let their eyes grow dim so that they may not see, and keep their backs bent forever." |
| 11那麼我再問：他們失足，是要他們永久跌倒嗎？絕對不是！而是藉着他們的過犯，使救恩臨到外邦人，為剌激他們發憤。 |
11 Hence I ask, did they stumble so as to fall? Of course not! But through their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make them jealous. |
| 12如果因他們的過犯，世界得以致富，因他們的墮落，外邦人得以致富；他們全體歸正，更將怎樣呢？ |
12Now if their transgression is enrichment for the world, and if their diminished number is enrichment for the Gentiles, how much more their full number. |
| 13我對你們外邦人說：我既然是外邦人的宗徒，我必要光榮我的職務； |
13Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I glory in my ministry |
| 14這樣，或許可激動我的同胞發憤，因而能拯救他們幾個人。 |
14in order to make my race jealous and thus save some of them. |
| 15如果因他們被遺棄，世界與天主和好了；那麼，他們如果蒙收納，豈不是死而復生嗎？ |
15For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead? |
| 16如果所獻的初熟的麥麵是聖的，全麵團也成為聖的；如果樹根是聖的，樹枝也是聖的。 |
16 If the firstfruits are holy, so is the whole batch of dough; and if the root is holy, so are the branches. |
| 17假如有幾條橄欖樹枝被折下來，而你這枝野橄欖樹枝被接上去，同沾橄欖樹根的肥脂， |
17But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in their place and have come to share in the rich root of the olive tree, |
| 18就不可向舊樹枝自誇。如果你想自誇，就該想不是你托着樹根，而是樹根托着你。 |
18do not boast against the branches. If you do boast, consider that you do not support the root; the root supports you. |
| 19或者你要說：樹枝被折下來，正是為叫我接上去。 |
19Indeed you will say, "Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in." |
| 20不錯，他們因了不信而被折下來，你要因着信，纔站得住。你決不可心高氣傲，反應恐懼， |
20That is so. They were broken off because of unbelief, but you are there because of faith. So do not become haughty, but stand in awe. |
| 21因為天主既然沒有憐惜了那些原有的樹枝，將來也許不憐惜你。 |
21For if God did not spare the natural branches, (perhaps) he will not spare you either. |
| 22可見天主又慈善又嚴厲：天主對於跌倒了的人是嚴厲的，對於你卻是慈善的，只要你存留在他的慈善上；不然你也必要被砍去。 |
22See, then, the kindness and severity of God: severity toward those who fell, but God's kindness to you, provided you remain in his kindness; otherwise you too will be cut off. |
| 23至於他們，如果他們不固執於無信之中，必會再被接上去，因為天主有能力重新把他們接上去。 |
23And they also, if they do not remain in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. |
| 24其實，如果你這由本生的野橄欖樹上被砍下來的，逆着性被接在好橄欖樹上，何況他們那些原生的樹枝，豈不更容易接在自己原來的橄欖樹上麼？ |
24For if you were cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated one, how much more will they who belong to it by nature be grafted back into their own olive tree. |
| 25弟兄們！免得你們自作聰明，我不願意你們不知道這項奧秘的事，就是只有一部分是執迷不悟的，直到外邦人全數進入天國為 止： |
25 I do not want you to be unaware of this mystery, brothers, so that you will not become wise (in) your own estimation: a hardening has come upon Israel in part, until the full number of the Gentiles comes in, |
| 26那時，全以色列也必獲救，正如經上所載：「拯救者必要來自熙雍，從雅各伯中消除不敬之罪； |
26and thus all Israel will be saved, as it is written: "The deliverer will come out of Zion, he will turn away godlessness from Jacob; |
| 27這是我與他們所定立的盟約：那時我要赦免他們的罪惡。」 |
27and this is my covenant with them when I take away their sins." |
| 28照福音來說，他們由於你們的緣故，成了天主的仇人；但照召選來說，由於他們祖先的緣故，他們仍是可愛的， |
28In respect to the gospel, they are enemies on your account; but in respect to election, they are beloved because of the patriarchs. |
| 29因為天主的恩賜和召選是決不會撤回的。 |
29For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable. |
| 30就如你們以前背叛了天主，如今卻因了他們的背叛而蒙受了憐 憫； |
30 Just as you once disobeyed God but have now received mercy because of their disobedience, |
| 31同樣，因了你們所受的憐憫；他們如今背叛，這是為叫他們今後也蒙受憐憫， |
31so they have now disobeyed in order that, by virtue of the mercy shown to you, they too may (now) receive mercy. |
| 32因為天主把眾人都禁錮在背叛之中，是為要憐憫眾人。 |
32For God delivered all to disobedience, that he might have mercy upon all. |
| 33啊，天主的富饒、上智和知識，是多麼高深！他的決斷是多麼不可測量！他的道路是多麼不可探察！ |
33 Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How inscrutable are his judgments and how unsearchable his ways! |
| 34有誰曾知道上主的心意？或者，有誰曾當過他的顧問？ |
34"For who has known the mind of the Lord or who has been his counselor?" |
| 35或者，有誰曾先施恩於他，而望他還報呢？ |
35 "Or who has given him anything that he may be repaid?" |
| 36因為萬物都出於他，依賴他，而歸於他。願光榮歸於他至於永世！阿們。 |
36For from him and through him and for him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen. |
