Therefore, since we know the fear of the Lord, we try to persuade people. What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your consciences.

我们既知道主是可畏的，所以劝人。但我们在神面前是显明的，盼望在你们的良心里也是显明的。

既然我们知道主是可畏的，就劝导人；但是上帝是认识我们的，我盼望你们的良心也认识我们。

既然我们知道主是可畏的，就劝导人；但是神是认识我们的，我盼望你们的良心也认识我们。

我们知道主是当受敬畏的，所以劝人归信祂。我们的内心如何，上帝知道，我盼望你们的良心也知道。

我们既然知道主是可畏的，就劝勉众人。我们在神面前是显明的，我盼望在你们的良心里也是显明的。

既然如此，我们因为知道敬畏主，就劝导人。我们在神面前是显明的，但我希望在你们的良心里，也是显明的。

我們既知道主是可畏的，所以勸人。但我們在神面前是顯明的，盼望在你們的良心裏也是顯明的。

既然我們知道主是可畏的，就勸導人；但是上帝是認識我們的，我盼望你們的良心也認識我們。

既然我們知道主是可畏的，就勸導人；但是神是認識我們的，我盼望你們的良心也認識我們。

我們知道主當受敬畏，所以勸人歸信祂。我們的內心如何，上帝知道，我盼望你們的良心也知道。

我們既然知道主是可畏的，就勸勉眾人。我們在神面前是顯明的，我盼望在你們的良心裡也是顯明的。

所以我們既曉得主是可畏懼的，便勸人相信。我們在上帝面前顯然無隱；我盼望在你們的良知裏也顯然無隱。

既然如此，我們因為知道敬畏主，就勸導人。我們在神面前是顯明的，但我希望在你們的良心裡，也是顯明的。

我知主之可畏而勸人、我已顯於上帝、亦望顯於爾心、

我知主可畏而勸人、我行事顯明於上帝前、亦望顯明於爾心、

我既知主可畏、則勸勉人、惟我顯明於主前、亦望顯明於爾心、

吾人既知畏之、不敢不勉人以善。吾人之肺腑、悉在天主洞察之中；深信爾等亦必能心領吾人之丹忱也。

Since, then, we know what it is to fear the Lord, we try to persuade others. What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your conscience.

We know what it means to have respect for the Lord. So we try to help other people to understand it. What we are is plain to God. I hope it is also plain to your way of thinking.

Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade others. But what we are is known to God, and I hope it is known also to your conscience.

Because we understand our fearful responsibility to the Lord, we work hard to persuade others. God knows we are sincere, and I hope you know this, too.

Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade people, but we are well known to God; and I hope that we are also well known in your consciences.

Knowing, therefore, the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are well known to God, and I also trust are well known in your consciences.

Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are made manifest unto God; and I hope that we are made manifest also in your consciences.

Therefore, because we know the fear of the Lord, we seek to persuade people. We are completely open before God, and I hope we are completely open to your consciences as well.

Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.

Therefore, because we know the fear of the Lord, we try to persuade people, but we are well known to God, and I hope we are well known to your consciences too.

Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God, and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.

save others by snatching them from the fire; have mercy on others but with fear, hating even the garment defiled by the flesh.

It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but must be gentle to everyone, able to teach, and patient,instructing his opponents with gentleness. Perhaps God will grant them repentance leading them to the knowledge of the truth.Then they may come to their senses and escape the trap of the devil, who has taken them captive to do his will.

“ This man,” they said,“ is persuading people to worship God in ways contrary to the law.”

And anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.

For disaster from God terrifies me, and because of his majesty I could not do these things.

Indeed, this is our boast: The testimony of our conscience is that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you, with godly sincerity and purity, not by human wisdom but by God’s grace.For we are writing nothing to you other than what you can read and also understand. I hope you will understand completely—just as you have partially understood us— that we are your reason for pride, just as you also are ours in the day of our Lord Jesus.

“ But he told him,‘ If they don’t listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be persuaded if someone rises from the dead.’”

For our exhortation didn’t come from error or impurity or an intent to deceive.Instead, just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please people, but rather God, who examines our hearts.For we never used flattering speech, as you know, or had greedy motives— God is our witness—and we didn’t seek glory from people, either from you or from others.Although we could have been a burden as Christ’s apostles, instead we were gentle among you, as a nurse nurtures her own children.We cared so much for you that we were pleased to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own lives, because you had become dear to us.For you remember our labor and hardship, brothers and sisters. Working night and day so that we would not burden any of you, we preached God’s gospel to you.You are witnesses, and so is God, of how devoutly, righteously, and blamelessly we conducted ourselves with you believers.As you know, like a father with his own children,we encouraged, comforted, and implored each one of you to walk worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.

For the king knows about these matters, and I can speak boldly to him. For I am convinced that none of these things has escaped his notice, since this was not done in a corner.

For I am not conscious of anything against myself, but I am not justified by this. It is the Lord who judges me.So don’t judge anything prematurely, before the Lord comes, who will both bring to light what is hidden in darkness and reveal the intentions of the hearts. And then praise will come to each one from God.

When they came to him, he said to them,“ You know, from the first day I set foot in Asia, how I was with you the whole time,serving the Lord with all humility, with tears, and during the trials that came to me through the plots of the Jews.You know that I did not avoid proclaiming to you anything that was profitable or from teaching you publicly and from house to house.I testified to both Jews and Greeks about repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus.“ And now I am on my way to Jerusalem, compelled by the Spirit, not knowing what I will encounter there,except that in every town the Holy Spirit warns me that chains and afflictions are waiting for me.But I consider my life of no value to myself; my purpose is to finish my course and the ministry I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of God’s grace.“ And now I know that none of you, among whom I went about preaching the kingdom, will ever see me again.Therefore I declare to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all of you,because I did not avoid declaring to you the whole plan of God.

He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath and tried to persuade both Jews and Greeks.

Working together with him, we also appeal to you,“ Don’t receive the grace of God in vain.”

Surely the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks their poison. God’s terrors are arrayed against me.

“ And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

Who can withstand his indignation? Who can endure his burning anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; even rocks are shattered before him.

But I will show you the one to fear: Fear him who has authority to throw people into hell after death. Yes, I say to you, this is the one to fear!

Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, since God is making his appeal through us. We plead on Christ’s behalf,“ Be reconciled to God.”

We proclaim him, warning and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone mature in Christ.I labor for this, striving with his strength that works powerfully in me.

After the synagogue had been dismissed, many of the Jews and devout converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas, who were speaking with them and urging them to continue in the grace of God.

Therefore, since we have this ministry because we were shown mercy, we do not give up.Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful things, not acting deceitfully or distorting the word of God, but commending ourselves before God to everyone’s conscience by an open display of the truth.

“ And if your hand causes you to fall away, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life maimed than to have two hands and go to hell, the unquenchable fire.

You see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but in almost all of Asia, this man Paul has persuaded and misled a considerable number of people by saying that gods made by hand are not gods.

From my youth, I have been suffering and near death. I suffer your horrors; I am desperate.Your wrath sweeps over me; your terrors destroy me.

Who understands the power of your anger? Your wrath matches the fear that is due you.

Terrors frighten him on every side and harass him at every step.

How suddenly they become a desolation! They come to an end, swept away by terrors.

For am I now trying to persuade people, or God? Or am I striving to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.

When they set out, a terror from God came over the cities around them, and they did not pursue Jacob’s sons.

Don’t fear those who kill the body but are not able to kill the soul; rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling seizes the ungodly:“ Who among us can dwell with a consuming fire? Who among us can dwell with ever-burning flames?”

For we do not market the word of God for profit like so many. On the contrary, we speak with sincerity in Christ, as from God and before God.

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of me and the gospel will save it.For what does it benefit someone to gain the whole world and yet lose his life?What can anyone give in exchange for his life?For whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”

After arranging a day with him, many came to him at his lodging. From dawn to dusk he expounded and testified about the kingdom of God. He tried to persuade them about Jesus from both the Law of Moses and the Prophets.

And you— you are to be feared. When you are angry, who can stand before you?