我的弟兄们，你们落在百般试炼中，都要以为大喜乐；

My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;

弟兄们，你们记念我们的辛苦劳碌，昼夜作工，传　神的福音给你们，免得叫你们一人受累。

For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

有人以为我是凭着血气行事，我也以为必须用勇敢待这等人；求你们不要叫我在你们那里的时候，有这样的勇敢。

But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.

如此看来，　神要怜悯谁，就怜悯谁；要叫谁刚硬，就叫谁刚硬。

Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.

因为这百姓油蒙了心，耳朵发沉，眼睛闭着；恐怕眼睛看见，耳朵听见，心里明白，回转过来，我就医治他们。’

For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.