我们知道一切受造之物，一同叹息劳苦，直到如今。
For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
论到祭偶像之物，我们晓得我们都有知识。但知识是叫人自高自大，惟有爱心能造就人。
Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.
若有人以为自己知道什么，按他所当知道的，他仍是不知道。
And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
我说这话，不是吩咐你们，乃是藉着别人的热心，试验你们爱心的实在。
I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.
如今就当办成这事。既有愿作的心，也当照你们所有的去办成。
Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have.
我们又打发一位兄弟同去。这人的热心，我们在许多事上，屡次试验过，现在他因为深信你们，就更加热心了。
And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have oftentimes proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, upon the great confidence which I have in you.
论到提多，他是我的同伴，一同为你们劳碌的。论到那两位兄弟，他们是教会的使者，是基督的荣耀。
Whether any do enquire of Titus, he is my partner and fellowhelper concerning you: or our brethren be enquired of, they are the messengers of the churches, and the glory of Christ.
如今耶稣所得的职任是更美的，正如他作更美之约的中保。这约原是凭更美之应许立的。
But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
所以主指责他的百姓说，（或作所以主指前约的缺欠说）日子将到，我要与以色列家，和犹大家，另立新约。
For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
不像我拉着他们祖宗的手，领他们出埃及的时候，与他们所立的约。因为他们不恒心守我的约，我也不理他们。这是主说的。
Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.