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Merely reading the Bible is no use at all without we study it thoroughly, and hunt it through, as it were, for some great truth.
D.L. Moody

Sanctification is a gift just as justification is (a double grace, or duplex gratia, as Calvin called it). Both are the gift of God, ours by virtue of union with Christ. Both are found in Christ alone. Both are necessary for salvation – justification being the root and sanctification being the fruit. As is often said: faith alone justifies, but the faith that justifies is never alone. So we must never separate justification and sanctification. The former can’t help but produce the latter, and the latter must flow from the former. And yet we should not be afraid to talk about justification in a different way than we talk about sanctification. One calls us to rest; the other to fight. One reckons us righteous; the other makes us righteous. One allows for no increase or degrees; the other expects progress and growth. One is a declaration of God about us, the other a work of God in us.
Kevin DeYoung

Bible – chinese – 新标点和合本 约伯记 12

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约伯回答说:
你们真是子民哪,
你们死亡,智慧也就灭没了。
但我也有聪明,与你们一样,
并非不及你们。
你们所说的,谁不知道呢?
我这求告 神、蒙他应允的人
竟成了朋友所讥笑的;
公义完全人竟受了人的讥笑。
安逸的人心里藐视灾祸;
这灾祸常常等待滑脚的人。
强盗的帐棚兴旺,
惹 神的人稳固,
 神多将财物送到他们手中。
 
你且问走兽,走兽必指教你;
又问空中的飞鸟,飞鸟必告诉你;
或与地说话,地必指教你;
海中的鱼也必向你说明。
看这一切,
谁不知道是耶和华的手做成的呢?
10 凡活物的生命和人类的气息都在他手中。
11 耳朵岂不试验言语,
正如上膛尝食物吗?
12 年老的有智慧;
寿高的有知识。
 
13 在 神有智慧和能力;
他有谋略和知识。
14 他拆毁的,就不能再建造;
他捆住人,便不得开释。
15 他把水留住,水便枯干;
他再发出水来,水就翻地。
16 在他有能力和智慧,
被诱惑的与诱惑人的都是属他。
17 他把谋士剥衣掳去,
又使审判官变成愚人。
18 他放松君王的绑,
又用带子捆他们的腰。
19 他把祭司剥衣掳去,
又使有能的人倾败。
20 他废去忠信人的讲论,
又夺去老人的聪明。
21 他使君王蒙羞被辱,
放松有力之人的腰带。
22 他将深奥的事从黑暗中彰显,
使死荫显为光明。
23 他使邦国兴旺而又毁灭;
他使邦国开广而又掳去。
24 他将地上民中首领的聪明夺去,
使他们在荒废无路之地漂流;
25 他们无光,在黑暗中摸索,
又使他们东倒西歪,像醉酒的人一样。