- 你要题醒众人,叫他们顺服作官的,掌权的,遵他的命,豫备行各样的善事。
- 不要毁谤,不要争竞,总要和平,向众人大显温柔。
- 我们从前也是无知,悖逆,受迷惑,服事各样私欲和宴乐,常存恶毒(或作阴毒)嫉妒的心,是可恨的,又是彼此相恨。
- 但到了神我们救主的恩慈,和他向人所施的慈爱显明的时候,
- 他便救了我们,并不是因我们自己所行的义,乃是照他的怜悯,藉着重生的洗,和圣灵的更新。
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- Remind them to be subject to rulers, to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good deed,
- to malign no one, to be peaceable, gentle, showing every consideration for all men.
- For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.
- But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared,
- He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,
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