讀經Scripture Reading 马太福音 MATTHEW 6:25-34 6:25 所以我告诉你们：不要为生命忧虑吃什么，喝什么；为身体忧虑穿什么。生命不胜于饮食吗？身体不胜于衣裳吗？ Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?

6:26 你们看那天上的飞鸟， 也不种，也不收，也不积蓄在仓里，你们的天父尚且养活它。你们不比飞鸟贵重得多吗？ Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 6:27 你们哪一个能用思虑使寿数多加一刻呢？ Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?

6:28 何必为衣裳忧虑呢？你想，野地里的百合花怎么长起来？它也不劳苦，也不纺线。 And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 6:29 然而我告诉你们：就是所罗门极荣华的时候，他所穿戴的还不如这花一朵呢 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.

6:30 你们这小信的人哪！野地里的草今天还在，明天就丢在炉里，神还给它这样的装饰，何况你们呢？ If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 6:31 所以，不要忧虑说：吃什么？喝什么？穿什么？ So do not worry, saying, what shall we eat? Or what shall we drink? Or what shall we wear?

6:32 这都是外邦人所求的。你们需用的一切东西，你们的天父是知道的。 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 6:33 你们要先求他的国和他的义，这些东西都要加给你们了。 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

6:34 所以，不要为明天忧虑，因为明天自有明天的忧虑；一天的难处一天当就够了。 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

萊城華人基督教會 Lexington Chinese Christian Church 主後2011年1月2日主日崇拜 Sunday Service January 2, 2011 講題Message:圣经中的一些“首先” “Some ‘Firsts’ From The Bible For The First Sunday Of The Year” 講員Speaker:Dr. Hamilton

路加福音LUKE9:59-61 59又对一个人说：跟从我来！那人说：主，容我先回去埋葬我的父亲。60耶稣说：任凭死人埋葬他们的死人，你只管去传扬神国的道。61又有一人说：主，我要跟从你，但容我先去辞别我家里的人。 “He (Jesus) said to another man, ‘Follow me.’ But the man replied, ‘Lord, FIRST let me go and bury my father,’…Still another said, ‘I will follow you, but FIRST let me go back and say good-by to my family.’

约翰福音JOHN8:7 启示录Revelation2:4 他们还是不住地问他，耶稣就直起腰来，对他们说：你们中间谁没有罪的，睡就可以先拿石头打她。 “If any one of you is without sin, let him be the FIRST to throw a stone at her.” 启示录Revelation2:4 然而，有一件事我要责备你，就是你吧起初的爱心离弃了。 “Yet I hold this against you; You have forsaken your FIRST love”

马太福音MATTHEW5:23-24 所以，你在祭坛上献礼物的时候，若想起弟兄向你怀怨，就把礼物留在坛前，先去同弟兄和好，然后来献礼物。 , “Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there in front of the altar. FIRST go and be reconciled to your brother; then come and offer your gift.”

马太福音MATTHEW6:33 约翰福音JOHN1:41-42 你们要先求他的国和他的义，这些东西都要加给你们了。 “But seek FIRST God’s kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.” 约翰福音JOHN1:41-42 他先找着自己的哥哥西门，对他说：我们遇见弥赛亚了！于是领他出去见耶稣。 “The FIRST thing Andrew did was to find his brother Simon and tell him, ‘We have found the Messiah’…And he brought him to Jesus….”

罗马书ROMANS1:8 第一，我靠着耶稣基督，为你们众人感谢我的神，因你们的信德传遍了天下。 “FIRST, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being reported all over the world.” 约翰一书1 JOHN4:19 我们爱，因为神先爱我们。 We love because he FIRST loved us.”

哥林多前书1 Cor.15:3-4 我当日所领受又传给你们的，第一，就是基督照圣经所说，为我们的罪死了，而且埋葬了，又照圣经所说，第三天复活了 “For what I received I passed on to you as of FIRST importance that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures.”

哥林多后书 2 Cor. 8:5 并且他们所做的，不但照我们所想望的，更照神的旨意，先把自己献给主，又归附了我们。 ”And they did not do as we expected, but they gave themselves FIRST to the Lord, and then to us….”