Paul realized that to gain Christ and be found in Him always results in knowing Him, in enjoying and experiencing Him.
保罗领悟,赢得基督并且给人看出他是在祂里面,结果总是认识祂,享受并经历祂。Paul wanted to be captain but we cut the ground from under his feet by saying that Henry was the best player on the team.
保罗想当队长,但我们先发制人,说亨利才是最好的队员。On Christmas eve, when Paul came out of his office, a street urchin was looking around the shining new car, admiring it.
在圣诞前夜,当保罗从他的办公室走出来时,一个街头顽童正围着他的新车打转地看,非常羡慕。This young woman artist earned several thousand pounds a year, but Paul's mother only made several hundreds, and she was again dissatisfied.
这位年轻的女艺术家一年挣几千英镑,但保罗的母亲只挣了几百英镑,她又不满足了。It shows up in almost every one of these places where Paul or Peter or James talks about change, personal change.
但每逢保罗、彼得、或雅各在谈到“个人生命的改变”时,这个单词几乎都会出现。them or at least putting them out of the membership of the church for a stated period until they repented.
它可能表示保罗要将他们逐出教会,或至少在某段期间停止他们的会友资格,直至他们悔改。There were at least three occasions on which Paul had seen Christ. On the road to Damascus, in Corinth and in Jerusalem.
保罗至少在三个地方见过基督,分别是在大马色的路上、在哥林多和耶路撒冷。Paul rebuked the Corinthians, not for partaking of the communion in an unworthy state but for partaking of it in an unworthy manner.
保罗劝诫哥林多人,不是说他们不配参与圣餐礼,而是说他们的态度配不上圣餐。Paul closes the letter by speaking God's blessing of underserved love in Christ for Timothy and all those with him in Ephesus.
保罗提到神在基督里对提摩太和所有与他同在以弗所之人的爱---人不配得的爱,并以此结束他的书信。