For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

因为神不是预定我们受刑，乃是预定我们藉着我们主耶稣基督得救。

因为上帝不是预定我们受惩罚，而是预定我们藉着我们的主耶稣基督得救。

因为神不是预定我们受惩罚，而是预定我们藉着我们的主耶稣基督得救。

因为上帝不是预定我们受惩罚，而是预定我们靠着主耶稣基督得救。

因为神不是定意要我们受刑罚（“刑罚”原文作“忿怒”），而是要我们藉着我们的主耶稣基督得着救恩。

因为神不是预定我们到震怒里面，而是预定我们藉着我们的主耶稣基督获得救恩。

因為神不是預定我們受刑，乃是預定我們藉着我們主耶穌基督得救。

因為上帝不是預定我們受懲罰，而是預定我們藉着我們的主耶穌基督得救。

因為神不是預定我們受懲罰，而是預定我們藉着我們的主耶穌基督得救。

因為上帝不是預定我們受懲罰，而是預定我們靠著主耶穌基督得救。

因為神不是定意要我們受刑罰（“刑罰”原文作“忿怒”），而是要我們藉著我們的主耶穌基督得著救恩。

因為上帝並不是派定我們去受他的義怒的，乃是派定我們、藉着我們的主耶穌基督、得拯救以為業的。

因為神不是預定我們到震怒裡面，而是預定我們藉著我們的主耶穌基督獲得救恩。

上帝預定我儕、非致於怒、乃由我主耶穌基督而得救、

蓋上帝簡我、不獲譴怒、賴吾主耶穌基督得救、

蓋天主非預定我儕遭怒、乃預定我儕賴主耶穌基督而得救、

蓋天主之恩召、非欲吾人嬰其震怒、乃欲吾人因吾主耶穌基督而沾溉救恩。

For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

God didn’t choose us to receive his anger. He chose us to receive salvation because of what our Lord Jesus Christ has done.

For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

For God chose to save us through our Lord Jesus Christ, not to pour out his anger on us.

For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

For God appointed us not unto wrath, but unto the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

For God did not destine us for wrath but for gaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, that is, Jesus who rescues us from the wrath to come.

What then? What Israel is seeking, it has not obtained, but those who were chosen obtained it, and the rest were hardened;

to occupy this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.”

so that no one would be disturbed by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that we have been destined for this.

even though I was previously a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent aggressor. Yet I was shown mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief;

When the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord; and all who had been appointed to eternal life believed.

for though the twins were not yet born and had not done anything good or bad, so that God’s purpose according to His choice would stand, not because of works but because of Him who calls,it was said to her,“ The older will serve the younger.”Just as it is written:“ Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated.”What shall we say then? There is no injustice with God, is there? Far from it!For He says to Moses,“ I will have mercy on whomever I have mercy, and I will show compassion to whomever I show compassion.”So then, it does not depend on the person who wants it nor the one who runs, but on God who has mercy.For the Scripture says to Pharaoh,“ For this very reason I raised you up, in order to demonstrate My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed throughout the earth.”So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He hardens whom He desires.You will say to me then,“ Why does He still find fault? For who has resisted His will?”On the contrary, who are you, you foolish person, who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder,“ Why did you make me like this,” will it?Or does the potter not have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one object for honorable use, and another for common use?What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with great patience objects of wrath prepared for destruction?And He did so to make known the riches of His glory upon objects of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory,

For this reason I endure all things for the sake of those who are chosen, so that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus and with it eternal glory.

“ For it is written in the book of Psalms:‘ May his residence be made desolate, And may there be none living in it’; and,‘ May another take his office.’

Yet for this reason I found mercy, so that in me as the foremost sinner Jesus Christ might demonstrate His perfect patience as an example for those who would believe in Him for eternal life.

for you once were not a people, but now you are the people of God; you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

But indeed, for this reason I have allowed you to remain, in order to show you My power and in order to proclaim My name throughout the earth.

‘ This is what the Lord God says:“ It will come about on that day, that thoughts will come into your mind and you will devise an evil plan,and you will say,‘ I will go up against the land of unwalled villages. I will go against those who are at rest, who live securely, all of them living without walls and having no bars or gates,to capture spoils and to seize plunder, to turn your hand against the ruins that are now inhabited, and against the people who are gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who live at the center of the world.’Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish with all its villages will say to you,‘ Have you come to capture spoils? Have you assembled your contingent to seize plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to capture great spoils?’ ” ’“ Therefore prophesy, son of man, and say to Gog,‘ This is what the Lord God says:“ On that day when My people Israel are living securely, will you not know it?You will come from your place out of the remote parts of the north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding horses, a large assembly and a mighty army;and you will come up against My people Israel like a cloud to cover the land. It shall come about in the last days that I will bring you against My land, so that the nations may know Me when I show Myself holy through you before their eyes, Gog.”‘ This is what the Lord God says:“ Are you the one of whom I spoke in former days through My servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days for many years that I would bring you against them?

The Lord has made everything for its own purpose, Even the wicked for the day of evil.

The Son of Man is going away just as it is written about Him; but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been good for that man if he had not been born.”

Simon Peter, a bond servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have received a faith of the same kind as ours, by the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:

For just as you once were disobedient to God, but now have been shown mercy because of their disobedience,

and,“ A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense”; for they stumble because they are disobedient to the word, and to this they were also appointed.

For certain people have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into indecent behavior and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

and in their greed they will exploit you with false words; their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

Nevertheless, the firm foundation of God stands, having this seal:“ The Lord knows those who are His;” and,“ Everyone who names the name of the Lord is to keep away from wickedness.”Now in a large house there are not only gold and silver implements, but also implements of wood and of earthenware, and some are for honor while others are for dishonor.

But we should always give thanks to God for you, brothers and sisters beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth.It was for this He called you through our gospel, that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.