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使徒行傳 1

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1 提阿非羅阿,我已經作了前書,論到耶穌開頭一切所行所教訓的,

2 直到他藉著聖靈吩咐所揀選的使徒,以後被接上升的日子為止。

3 他受害之後,用許多的憑據將自己活活的顯給使徒看,四十天之久向他們顯現,講說神國的事。

4 耶穌和他們聚集的時候,囑咐他們說:不要離開耶路撒冷,要等候父所應許的,就是你們見我說過的。

5 約翰是用水施洗,但不多幾日,你們要受聖靈的洗。

6 他們聚集的時候,耶穌說:主阿,你復興以色列國就在這時候麼?

7 耶穌對他們說:父憑著自己的權柄所定的時候、日期,不是你們可以知道的。

8 但聖靈降臨在你們身上,你們就必得著能力,並要在耶路撒冷、猶太全地,和撒瑪利亞,直到地極,作我的見證。

9 說了這話,他們正看的時候,他就被取上升,有一朵雲彩把他接去,便看不見他了。

10 當他往上去,他們定睛望的時候,忽然有兩個人身穿白衣,站在旁邊,說:

11 加利利人哪,你們為甚麼站著望呢?這離開你們被接升的耶穌,你們見他怎樣往上去,他還要怎樣

12 有一座山,名叫橄欖山,離耶路撒冷不遠,約有安息日可走的路程。當下,門徒從那裡回耶路撒冷去,

13 進了城,就上了所住的一間樓房;在那裡有彼得、約翰、雅各、安得烈、腓力、多馬、巴多羅買、馬太、亞勒腓的兒子雅各、奮銳黨的西門,和雅各的兒子(或作:兄弟)猶大。

14 這些人同著幾個婦人和耶穌的母親馬利亞,並耶穌的弟兄,都同心合意的恆切禱告。

15 那時,有許多人聚會,約有一百二十名,彼得就在弟兄中間站起來,說:

16 弟兄們!聖靈藉大衛的口,在聖經上預言領人捉拿耶穌的猶大,這話是必須應驗的。

17 他本來列在我們數中,並且在使徒的職任上得了一分。

18 這人用他作惡的工價買了一塊田,以後身子仆倒,肚腹崩裂,腸子都流出來。

19 住在耶路撒冷的眾人都知道這事,所以按著他們那裡的話給那塊田起名叫亞革大馬,就是血田的意思。

20 因為詩篇上著,說:願他的住處變為荒場,無人在內居住;又說:願別人得他的職分。

21 所以,主耶穌在我們中間始終出入的時候,

22 就是從約翰施洗起,直到主離開我們被接上升的日子為止,必須從那常與我們作伴的人中立一位與我們同作耶穌復活的見證。

23 於是選舉兩個人,就是那叫作巴撒巴,又稱呼猶士都的約瑟,和馬提亞。

24 眾人就禱告說:主阿,你知道萬人的心,求你從這兩個人中,指明你所揀選的是誰,叫他得這使徒的位分。這位分猶大已經丟棄,往自己的地方去了。

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26 於是眾人為他們搖籤,搖出馬提亞來;他就和十一個使徒同列。

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Scriptural Confirmations #67

  
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67. 3. That from good works that may glorify God in the day of visitation (1 Peter 2:12).

Charity is described in various ways (1 Peter 3:8, 9, 11).

Charity covers a multitude of sins (1 Peter 4:8).

Whoso shall keep His Word and His commands, in him is the love of God; hereby we know that we are in Him (1 John 2:4-6).

He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and he that hateth his brother is in darkness (1 John 2:9-11).

Similar is the case of him who loves the world (verses 15, 16).

Whosoever doeth not justice, and loveth not his brother is not of God (1 John 3:10-11, 14-15).

Let us not love in word and tongue, but in deed and in truth (1 John 3:18).

Let us love one another, for love is of God, for God is love, etc. (1 John 4:7-9).

No one hath seen God at any time. If we love another, God abideth in us (1 John 4:12).

If any one say I love God, but hateth his brother, he is a liar, for he who loves God loves his brother also (1 John 4:19-21).

Everyone that loveth Him that begat him loveth Him that is born from Him (1 John 5:1, 2).

By this we know that we love the sons of God, when we keep the commandments of God; and he loves God (1 John 5:2-3).

This is love, that we walk according to His commandments (2 John 1:6; 1 John 5:2).

He that doeth good is of God: he that doeth evil hath not seen God (3 John 1:11).

If God so loved us, we ought to love one another (1 John 4:11).

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