That is why many of you are weak and sick and some have even died.

因此，在你们中间有好些软弱的与患病的，死的也不少。

因此，在你们中间有好些软弱的与患病的，长眠了的也不少。

因此，在你们中间有好些软弱的与患病的，长眠了的也不少。

正因如此，你们当中有许多人身体软弱，疾病缠身，死亡的也不少。

因此，你们中间有许多人是软弱的，患病的，而且死了（“死了”直译作“睡了”）的也不少。

为此，你们中间有很多人是软弱的、患病的，甚至有许多人睡着了。

因此，在你們中間有好些軟弱的與患病的，死的也不少。

因此，在你們中間有好些軟弱的與患病的，長眠了的也不少。

因此，在你們中間有好些軟弱的與患病的，長眠了的也不少。

正因如此，你們當中有許多人身體軟弱，疾病纏身，死亡的也不少。

因此，你們中間有許多人是軟弱的，患病的，而且死了（“死了”直譯作“睡了”）的也不少。

故此你們中間有許多軟弱的、患病的；長眠了的也有好些。

為此，你們中間有很多人是軟弱的、患病的，甚至有許多人睡著了。

故爾中弱者病者多、寢者亦不少、

故爾曹患病衰弱、甚而至死者多矣、

是故爾中多有弱者病者、死者亦眾、

爾中弱者病者既多、死者亦復不少、坐是故耳。

That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep.

That is why many of you are weak and sick. That is why a number of you have died.

That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died.

This is why many are sick and ill among you, and many have fallen asleep.

For this reason many among you are weak and sick, and a number are asleep.

For this reason many are weak and sick among you, and many sleep.

For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.

This is why many are sick and ill among you, and many have fallen asleep.

For this cause many[ are] weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.

That is why many of you are weak and sick, and quite a few are dead.

For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.

I correct and discipline everyone I love. So be diligent and turn from your indifference.

For since we believe that Jesus died and was raised to life again, we also believe that when Jesus returns, God will bring back with him the believers who have died.

But the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,“ Because you did not trust me enough to demonstrate my holiness to the people of Israel, you will not lead them into the land I am giving them!”

Yet when we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned along with the world.

He said,“ If you will listen carefully to the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in his sight, obeying his commands and keeping all his decrees, then I will not make you suffer any of the diseases I sent on the Egyptians; for I am the Lord who heals you.”

“ The time has come for Aaron to join his ancestors in death. He will not enter the land I am giving the people of Israel, because the two of you rebelled against my instructions concerning the water at Meribah.

But before they satisfied their craving, while the meat was yet in their mouths,the anger of God rose against them, and he killed their strongest men. He struck down the finest of Israel’s young men.

This is not a reference to David, for after David had done the will of God in his own generation, he died and was buried with his ancestors, and his body decayed.

O Lord, don’t rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your rage!Your arrows have struck deep, and your blows are crushing me.Because of your anger, my whole body is sick; my health is broken because of my sins.My guilt overwhelms me— it is a burden too heavy to bear.My wounds fester and stink because of my foolish sins.I am bent over and racked with pain. All day long I walk around filled with grief.A raging fever burns within me, and my health is broken.I am exhausted and completely crushed. My groans come from an anguished heart.

if they do not obey my decrees and fail to keep my commands,then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their disobedience with beating.But I will never stop loving him nor fail to keep my promise to him.No, I will not break my covenant; I will not take back a single word I said.

So the Lord sent poisonous snakes among the people, and many were bitten and died.Then the people came to Moses and cried out,“ We have sinned by speaking against the Lord and against you. Pray that the Lord will take away the snakes.” So Moses prayed for the people.Then the Lord told him,“ Make a replica of a poisonous snake and attach it to a pole. All who are bitten will live if they simply look at it!”So Moses made a snake out of bronze and attached it to a pole. Then anyone who was bitten by a snake could look at the bronze snake and be healed!

But let me reveal to you a wonderful secret. We will not all die, but we will all be transformed!

He cried out to the man of God from Judah,“ This is what the Lord says: You have defied the word of the Lord and have disobeyed the command the Lord your God gave you.You came back to this place and ate and drank where he told you not to eat or drink. Because of this, your body will not be buried in the grave of your ancestors.”After the man of God had finished eating and drinking, the old prophet saddled his own donkey for him,and the man of God started off again. But as he was traveling along, a lion came out and killed him. His body lay there on the road, with the donkey and the lion standing beside it.

“ From among all the families on the earth, I have been intimate with you alone. That is why I must punish you for all your sins.”

Nevertheless, because you have shown utter contempt for the word of the Lord by doing this, your child will die.”After Nathan returned to his home, the Lord sent a deadly illness to the child of David and Uriah’s wife.David begged God to spare the child. He went without food and lay all night on the bare ground.The elders of his household pleaded with him to get up and eat with them, but he refused.Then on the seventh day the child died. David’s advisers were afraid to tell him.“ He wouldn’t listen to reason while the child was ill,” they said.“ What drastic thing will he do when we tell him the child is dead?”

And have you forgotten the encouraging words God spoke to you as his children? He said,“ My child, don’t make light of the Lord’s discipline, and don’t give up when he corrects you.For the Lord disciplines those he loves, and he punishes each one he accepts as his child.”As you endure this divine discipline, remember that God is treating you as his own children. Who ever heard of a child who is never disciplined by its father?If God doesn’t discipline you as he does all of his children, it means that you are illegitimate and are not really his children at all.Since we respected our earthly fathers who disciplined us, shouldn’t we submit even more to the discipline of the Father of our spirits, and live forever?For our earthly fathers disciplined us for a few years, doing the best they knew how. But God’s discipline is always good for us, so that we might share in his holiness.No discipline is enjoyable while it is happening— it’s painful! But afterward there will be a peaceful harvest of right living for those who are trained in this way.