Knowing and obeying God’s Word   helps us walk worthy by protecting us from sin.

认识并顺服神的话，保护我们远离罪，帮助我们行走正直。

While we are discussing the importance of knowing right   doctrine before right duty, let’s see one way knowing the Bible helps us to   walk worthy: it protects us from sin. From time to time you might hear people   who have a fatalistic attitude toward sin saying, “I couldn’t help myself” or   “The Devil made me do it.” Such excuses are foolish for Christians to make   since God has given us the means to resist temptation.

在实施正确的行动前，我们讨论认识正确的教义的重要性时，让我们明白一条路，认识圣经帮助我们行走正直：它保护我们远离罪。时不时你可能会听见人们对罪的一种致命态度，他们说：“我是情不自禁”或者“是魔鬼让我干的。”这种借口对基督徒而言是很蠢的，因为神已经赐给我们各样方法去抵挡诱惑。

The psalmist said, “Thy word I have treasured in my heart, that I may not sin against Thee” (Ps. 119:11). Without knowledge, we are defenseless and vulnerable. Knowing God’s truth—by study and by application—enables us to say no to sin and yes to righteousness. Anyone who puts his faith in Jesus Christ but who does not keep God’s Word constantly at the forefront of his mind will find himself entrapped in sin again and again.

诗人大卫说：“我将你的话藏在心里，免得我得罪你”（诗119：11）。没有知识，我们就没有防御，易受攻击。通过学习和应用，认识神的真理，使我们能对罪说不，对义说是。任何一个人，如果他信奉耶稣基督，却没能时时在思想前沿持守神的话，必然会发现自己将一次又一次地陷在罪中。

Although we must know God’s Word to defend ourselves   against sin and to obey God’s will, there is a danger. Once we know His   truth, we are held accountable for what we know.

尽管我们必须认识神的话，以防范自己犯罪并顺服神的旨意，然而也有种危险，一旦我们认识神的真理，我们就要对我们所知道的负责。

Second   Peter 2:21 speaks of apostates, those who knew about Jesus Christ but   returned to their former life without ever committing themselves to Him: “It   would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than   having known it, to turn away from the holy commandment delivered to them.” James 4:17   says, “To one who knows the right thing to do, and does not do it, to him it   is sin.”

彼得后书2：21谈到背教的人，那些人已经认识耶稣基督却不曾委身于祂，倒转身返回他们从前的生活：“他们晓得义路，竟背弃了传给他们的圣命，倒不如不晓得为妙。”雅各书4：17又说：“人若知道行善，却不去行，这就是他的罪了。

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So not knowing is better than knowing and not obeying.   What’s best, of course, is knowing the Word and obeying it, because it is our   spiritual nourishment: “Like newborn babes, long for the pure milk of the   word, that by it you may grow in respect to salvation” (1 Peter   2:2). For a Christian, neglecting the Word is spiritual starvation.

因此，不知道比知道了却不遵行要好。最好的，当然是知道这道，并且遵行它，因神的道是我们灵性的喂养：“就要爱慕那纯净的灵奶，像才生的婴孩爱慕奶一样，叫你们因此渐长，以致得救”（彼得前书2：2）。对基督徒来说，轻忽神的道就是灵里的挨饿。

Ask forgiveness for times you have known the right thing   to do but have not done it.

为着有时你明知是善行却未能去做，请求神的赦免。

• Read about a young man who gave        in to temptation in Proverbs 7. Contrast him with Joseph in Genesis 39. What        was the difference between them?

• Think about how Psalm        119:9 relates to them, and to you.

• 阅读箴言7中，一个屈从于诱惑的年轻人的故事。将他与创世纪39中约瑟的故事对照。他们二人的不同是什么？

• 思想诗篇119：9与他们有何关联？与你有何关联？