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1 耶穌基督的使徒彼得寫信給那分散在本都、加拉太、加帕多家、亞西亞、庇推尼寄居的,

2 就是照父神的先見被揀選,藉著聖靈得成聖潔,以致順服耶穌基督,又蒙他血所灑的人。願恩惠、平安多多的加給你們。

3 願頌讚歸與我們主耶穌基督的父神!他曾照自己的大憐憫,藉耶穌基督從死裡復活,重生了我們,叫我們有活潑的盼望,

4 可以得著不能朽壞、不能玷污、不能衰殘、為你們存留在上的基業。

5 你們這因信蒙神能力保守的人,必能得著所預備、到末世要顯現的救恩。

6 因此,你們是大有喜樂;但如今,在百般的試煉中暫時憂愁,

7 叫你們的信心既被試驗,就比那被火試驗仍然能壞的金子更顯寶貴,可以在耶穌基督顯現的時候得著稱讚、榮耀、尊貴。

8 你們雖然沒有見過他,卻是愛他;如今雖不得看見,卻因信他就有說不出來、滿有榮光的大喜樂;

9 並且得著你們信心的果效,就是靈魂的救恩。

10 論到這救恩,那預先說你們要得恩典的眾先知早已詳細的尋求考察,

11 就是考察在他們心裡基督的靈,預先證明基督受苦難,後來得榮耀,是指著甚麼時候,並怎樣的時候。

12 他們得了啟示,知道他們所傳講(原文是服事)的一切事,不是為自己,乃是為你們。那靠著從上差來的聖靈傳福音給你們的人,現在將這些事報給你們;天使也願意詳細察看這些事。

13 所以要約束你們的心,(原文是束上你們心中的腰),謹慎自守,專心盼望耶穌基督顯現的時候所帶來給你們的恩。

14 你們既作順命的兒女,就不要效法從前蒙昧無知的時候那放縱私慾的樣子。

15 那召你們的既是聖潔,你們在一切所行的事上也要聖潔。

16 因為經上記著說:「你們要聖潔,因為我是聖潔的。」

17 你們既稱那不偏待人、按各人行為審判人的主為父,就當存敬畏的心度你們在世寄居的日子,

18 知道你們得贖,脫去你們祖宗所傳流虛妄的行為,不是憑著能壞的金銀等物,

19 乃是憑著基督的寶血,如同無瑕疵、無玷污的羔羊之血。

20 基督在創世以前是預先被神知道的,卻在這末世才為你們顯現。

21 你們也因著他,信那叫他從死裡復活、又給他榮耀的神,叫你們的信心和盼望都在於神。

22 你們既因順從真理,潔淨了自己的心,以致愛弟兄沒有虛假,就當從心裡(從心裡:有古卷是從清潔的心)彼此切實相愛。

23 你們蒙了重生,不是由於能壞的種子,乃是由於不能壞的種子,是藉著神活潑常存的道。

24 因為凡有血氣的,盡都如草;他的美榮都像草上的花。草必枯乾,花必凋謝;

25 惟有主的道是永存的。所傳給你們的福音就是這道。

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Scriptural Confirmations #72

  
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72. THE LAST JUDGMENT.

See also Consummation and Redemption.

1. (Luke 17:22-33.)

Impenitent heart, thou treasurest up unto thyself anger against the day of anger and revelation of the just judgment of God, who will render to every man according to his deeds: to those who by patience in good works [He will give] eternal life: and affliction and anguish to everyone that doeth evil, both Jew and Greek: for as many as have sinned without the law shall perish without the law, and as many as have sinned under the law shall be judged by the law (Romans 2:5-10, 12).

In the day when God shall judge the hidden things of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel, through Jesus Christ (Romans 2:16).

God hath appointed a day in which He will judge the world in justice (Acts of the Apostles 17:31).

We shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ, wherefore everyone of us shall give an account of himself to God (Romans 14:10, 12).

Do not judge anything before the time, until the Lord come, who will throw light on the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts, and each one shall have praise of God (1 Corinthians 4:5).

The saints shall judge the world, and they shall judge the angels also (1 Corinthians 6:2-3).

We must all be made manifest before the judgment seat of Christ, that everyone may receive the things [done] in the body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or evil (2 Corinthians 5:10).

Whatsoever good thing any man doeth, that shall he receive from the Lord, whether he be bond or free (Ephesians 6:8).

God who judges according to the work of each one (1 Peter 1:17).

That the world will perish by fire (2 Peter 3:7, 10). See Consummation.

The Lord cometh with ten thousands of saints to do judgment upon all the impious (Jude 1:14-15).

Of the Last Judgment (Revelation 6:13-17). See Consummation.

The time of judging the dead (Revelation 11:18).

Adore God, for the hour of His judgment is come (Revelation 14:7).

Of the Last Judgment. That they are judged according to their works, and are cast into the lake of fire and brimstone (Revelation 20:10-15).

He will raise up the good in the last day (John 6:39-40, 44, 54), because before that the heaven of Christians was not in order (John 12:48).

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Foundation for their permission to use this translation.