“ Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has been pleased to give you the kingdom.

你们这小群，不要惧怕，因为你们的父乐意把国赐给你们。

你们这小群，不要惧怕，因为你们的父乐意把国赐给你们。

你们这小群，不要惧怕，因为你们的父乐意把国赐给你们。

“你们这一小群人啊，不要怕！因为你们的天父乐意把祂的国赐给你们。

你们这小群，不要怕，因为你们的父乐意把国赐给你们。

你们这一小群哪，不要怕，因为你们的父乐意把国度赐给你们。

你們這小羣，不要懼怕，因為你們的父樂意把國賜給你們。

你們這小羣，不要懼怕，因為你們的父樂意把國賜給你們。

你們這小羣，不要懼怕，因為你們的父樂意把國賜給你們。

「你們這一小群人啊，不要怕！因為你們的天父樂意把祂的國賜給你們。

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小羣哪，別怕了；因為你們的父樂意將國賜給你們。

你們這一小群哪，不要怕，因為你們的父樂意把國度賜給你們。

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群小子勿懼、天父喜悅、將以國賜爾、

二三子勿懼、爾父喜悅以國賜爾、

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“ Little flock, do not be afraid. Your Father has been pleased to give you the kingdom.

“ Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

“ So don’t be afraid, little flock. For it gives your Father great happiness to give you the Kingdom.

Don’t be afraid, little flock, because your Father delights to give you the kingdom.

Do not be afraid, little flock, because your Father has chosen to give you the kingdom.

“ Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

Don’t be afraid, little flock, because your Father delights to give you the kingdom.

Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

“ Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father is well pleased to give you the kingdom.

Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.

Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe,

and has made us to be a kingdom and priests to serve his God and Father— to him be glory and power for ever and ever! Amen.

for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.

“ Then the King will say to those on his right,‘ Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world.

At that time Jesus, full of joy through the Holy Spirit, said,“ I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this is what you were pleased to do.

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you,who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.

But Jesus immediately said to them:“ Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.”

and you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

“ I myself said,“‘ How gladly would I treat you like my children and give you a pleasant land, the most beautiful inheritance of any nation.’ I thought you would call me‘ Father’ and not turn away from following me.

With this in mind, we constantly pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling, and that by his power he may bring to fruition your every desire for goodness and your every deed prompted by faith.

At that time Jesus said,“ I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.Yes, Father, for this is what you were pleased to do.“ All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all— how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?

He tends his flock like a shepherd: He gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart; he gently leads those that have young.

Listen, my dear brothers and sisters: Has not God chosen those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom he promised those who love him?

but you do not believe because you are not my sheep.My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand.My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand.I and the Father are one.”

All this is evidence that God’s judgment is right, and as a result you will be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering.

he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will—to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves.In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s gracethat he lavished on us. With all wisdom and understanding,he made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ,

There will be no more night. They will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, for the Lord God will give them light. And they will reign for ever and ever.

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Jesus said,“ My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jewish leaders. But now my kingdom is from another place.”

Do not be afraid, you worm Jacob, little Israel, do not fear, for I myself will help you,” declares the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

When they had finished eating, Jesus said to Simon Peter,“ Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?”“ Yes, Lord,” he said,“ you know that I love you.” Jesus said,“ Feed my lambs.”Again Jesus said,“ Simon son of John, do you love me?” He answered,“ Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.” Jesus said,“ Take care of my sheep.”The third time he said to him,“ Simon son of John, do you love me?” Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him the third time,“ Do you love me?” He said,“ Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you.” Jesus said,“ Feed my sheep.

“ Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.

Tell me, you whom I love, where you graze your flock and where you rest your sheep at midday. Why should I be like a veiled woman beside the flocks of your friends?If you do not know, most beautiful of women, follow the tracks of the sheep and graze your young goats by the tents of the shepherds.

“ What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off?And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety- nine that did not wander off.In the same way your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should perish.

We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

“ So the last will be first, and the first will be last.”