PERSEVERANCE; STEADFASTNESS ｜ 恒忍与坚立

ENPERSEVERANCE; STANDFASTNESS; STEADFASTNESS. Assured by God's pledges, and demanded of the believer—a practical theme of great breadth, of the deepest interest and moment. Assurance in many forms: 1 Sam. 2:9. He will keep the feet of His saints. Ps. 16:8. I shall not be moved. Ps. 57:2. God that performeth all things for me. Ps. 73:23, 24. Thou hast holden me by my right hand; Thou shalt guide me with Thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. Ps. 121:7. The Lord shall preserve thy soul. Ps. 138:8. The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me. Isa. 27:3. I the Lord do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day. John 10:28, 29. Neither shall any man pluck them out of My hand. . . . No man is able to pluck them out of My Father's hand. Rom. 8:1, 2, 28-39. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus. 1 Cor. 10:13. God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able. Phil. 1:6. He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. 2 Tim. 1:12. He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that day. 2 Tim. 2:19. Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure. Heb. 12:2. Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. 1 Pet. 1:5. Kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation. 1 Pet. 5:10. The God of all grace . . . make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you. Rom. 14:4. God is able to make him stand. Jude 24. Now unto Him that is able to keep you from falling.

BSBJohn 10:28, 29 28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand. 29 My Father who has given them to Me is greater than all. No one can snatch them out of My Father’s hand.

中恒忍；坚立；坚定不移。这是神以自己的应许所保证、也向信徒所要求的——一个幅员极广、意味最深、分量最重的实践主题。神多方的保证：撒母耳记上 2:9 —— 他必保护圣民的脚步。诗篇 16:8 —— 我便不至摇动。57:2 —— 就是向我成全诸事的神。73:23-24 —— 你搀着我的右手。你要以你的训言引导我，以后必接我到荣耀里。121:7 —— 他要保护你的性命。138:8 —— 耶和华必成全关乎我的事。以赛亚书 27:3 —— 我耶和华是看守葡萄园的，我必时刻浇灌，昼夜看守，免得有人损害。约翰福音 10:28-29 —— 谁也不能从我手里把他们夺去……谁也不能从我父手里把他们夺去。罗马书 8:1-2, 28-39 —— 如今，那些在基督耶稣里的就不定罪了。哥林多前书 10:13 —— 神是信实的，必不叫你们受试探过于所能受的。腓立比书 1:6 —— 那在你们心里动了善工的，必成全这工，直到耶稣基督的日子。提摩太后书 1:12 —— 也深信他能保全我所交付他的，直到那日。2:19 —— 然而神坚固的根基立住了。希伯来书 12:2 —— 仰望为我们信心创始成终的耶稣。彼得前书 1:5 —— 你们这因信蒙神能力保守的人，必能得着所预备……的救恩。5:10 —— 那赐诸般恩典的神……必要亲自成全你们，坚固你们，赐力量给你们。罗马书 14:4 —— 因为主能使他站住。犹大书 24 —— 那能保守你们不失脚……的。

EN1 Cor. 1:8. Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Cor. 1:10. Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that He will yet deliver us. Eph. 1:13, 14. In whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance. Phil. 3:12. I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. 1 Thes. 3:13. To the end He may stablish your hearts unblamable in holiness before God. 2 Thes. 3:3. But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil. 1 John 2:27. The anointing which ye have received of Him abideth in you. 1 John 3:9. Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for His seed remaineth in him. Ps. 119:117. Hold Thou me up, and I shall be safe. Luke 22:32. But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not.

BSBPhilippians 1:6 being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

中哥林多前书 1:8 —— 他也必坚固你们到底，叫你们在我们主耶稣基督的日子无可责备。哥林多后书 1:10 —— 他曾救我们脱离那极大的死亡，现在仍要救我们，并且我们指望他将来还要救我们。以弗所书 1:13-14 —— 你们既听见真理的道……也信了基督，既然信他，就受了所应许的圣灵为印记。这圣灵是我们得基业的凭据。腓立比书 3:12 —— 我乃是竭力追求，或者可以得着基督耶稣所以得着我的（原文作所以捉住我的）。帖撒罗尼迦前书 3:13 —— 好使你们……心里坚固，成为圣洁，无可责备。帖撒罗尼迦后书 3:3 —— 但主是信实的，要坚固你们，保护你们脱离那恶者。约翰一书 2:27 —— 你们从主所受的恩膏常存在你们心里。3:9 —— 凡从神生的，就不犯罪，因神的道（原文作种）存在他心里。诗篇 119:117 —— 求你扶持我，我便安稳。路加福音 22:32 —— 但我已经为你祈求，叫你不至于失了信心。

ENSteadfastness demanded of the believer: 1 Cor. 15:58. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. 1 Cor. 16:13. Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong. 2 Cor. 1:24. For by faith ye stand. Gal. 5:1. Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free. Eph. 4:14. That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine. Eph. 6:10-13. Be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. . . . That ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Phil. 1:27. That ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel. Phil. 4:1. So stand fast in the Lord. Phil. 2:12, 13. Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling: for it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure. Col. 1:23. If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled. 1 Thes. 3:8. For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord. 2 Thes. 2:15. Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught. 1 Pet. 5:8, 9. Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: whom resist steadfast in the faith. 2 Pet. 1:4-11. Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the Divine nature. . . . Give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall. (The Epistle to the Hebrews is a continuous plea for steadfastness and perseverance—notably chapters 3, 4, 6, 10-13.)

BSB1 Corinthians 15:58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast and immovable. Always excel in the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.

中对信徒所要求的坚定不移：哥林多前书 15:58 —— 所以，我亲爱的弟兄们，你们务要坚固，不可摇动，常常竭力多做主工，因为知道你们的劳苦在主里面不是徒然的。16:13 —— 你们务要儆醒，在真道上站立得稳，要作大丈夫，要刚强。哥林多后书 1:24 —— 你们是凭信才站立得住。加拉太书 5:1 —— 基督释放了我们，叫我们得以自由，所以要站立得稳。以弗所书 4:14 —— 使我们不再作小孩子，中了人的诡计……就随从各样的异端（原文作被一切异教之风摇动飘来飘去）。6:10-13 —— 你们要靠着主，倚赖他的大能大力作刚强的人。要穿戴神所赐的全副军装，就能抵挡魔鬼的诡计……好在磨难的日子抵挡仇敌，并且成就了一切，还能站立得住。腓立比书 1:27 —— 叫我……可以听见你们的景况，知道你们同有一个心志，站立得稳，为所信的福音齐心努力。4:1 —— 你们应当靠主站立得稳。2:12-13 —— 就当恐惧战兢做成你们得救的工夫。因为你们立志行事，都是神在你们心里运行，为要成就他的美意。歌罗西书 1:23 —— 只要你们在所信的道上恒心，根基稳固，坚定不移。帖撒罗尼迦前书 3:8 —— 你们若靠主站立得稳，我们就活了。帖撒罗尼迦后书 2:15 —— 所以弟兄们，你们要站立得稳，凡所领受的教训……都要坚守。彼得前书 5:8-9 —— 务要谨守、儆醒；因为你们的仇敌魔鬼，如同吼叫的狮子，遍地游行，寻找可吞吃的人。你们要用坚固的信心抵挡他。彼得后书 1:4-11 —— 因此他已将又宝贵又极大的应许赐给我们，叫我们……得与神的性情有分……应当殷勤，使你们所蒙的恩召和拣选坚定不移；你们若行这几样，就永不失脚。（希伯来书通篇是一场恒忍与坚立的持续劝勉——尤见于第 3、4、6、10-13 章。）

ENThe New Testament exhortations to steadfastness and endurance to the end find abundant illustration in all the better men and women of Old Testament history—alike in the times of the Patriarchs, of the Exodus and Wanderings, of the Judges, Kings and Prophets. A main and vital purpose of the detailed personal histories is to inculcate the lesson needed by all in all time: that the only fulfilled and compensated life is that which holds on unwaveringly in the way of obedience and trust, of humility and truth, of submission to Divine ordering, and of unswerving fidelity in all appointed service, unto the end of the testing period. God's part and man's part in this momentous matter find still further exposition under Agency, Divine and Human. Both themes—Agency and Perseverance—are based upon the same facts of demanded human action and assured Divine co-operation. [We hold out because Christ holds us. It is not our grip on Him that counts, but His grip on us. "We stand by faith," but it is in Him: He is able "exceeding abundantly" to make us stand; and we go on in Him, and grow in Him. Christ also fights through His people, subdues kingdoms and works righteousness thus: their words, echo of His, sweep the world, causing empires of wrong to totter and fall. In Christ the Christian is always mightier than even his most extravagantly sanguine thought: his deeds beat his hopes, because, beyond his sight, Christ puts the pith of efficiency into those deeds. Always "above all" that the believer "asks or thinks" is Christ able.]

BSBEphesians 3:20 Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us,

中新约中关于坚定不移、忍耐到底的劝勉，在旧约历史中一切较好的男女身上都得着丰富的例证——无论在列祖时代、出埃及与旷野飘流时代，还是士师、列王与先知时代。那些详尽的个人生平记事，其一个主要而攸关的目的，正是要把一条历世历代人人都需要的功课刻进人心：唯一得着成全、得着补偿的人生，是那种在顺服与信靠之路上、在谦卑与真诚之路上、在顺从神安排之路上、在一切所派服事上毫不动摇的忠信之路上，一直坚持到受试期终了的人生。在这攸关重大的事上，神的份与人的份如何，另见主题词条：神人协作（004）中更详的阐释。这两个主题——协作与恒忍——都建立在同一组事实之上：所要求的人的行动，与所保证的神的同工。〔我们能坚持住，是因为基督抓住我们。要紧的不是我们抓他的那一把力气，而是他抓我们的那一把力气。『我们凭信站立』，但那是在他里面站立：他能『充充足足地』使我们站住；我们也在他里面往前走、在他里面长大。基督也借着他的子民争战：他这样制伏敌国、施行公义；他们的话语——是他话语的回声——扫荡世界，使不义的帝国摇撼倾覆。在基督里，基督徒总是比他自己最夸张乐观的想象更有力：他的作为超过他的期望，因为在他视线之外，基督把成事的精髓放进了那些作为里。基督的能力，总是『超过』信徒所『求所想』的。〕