神的话语非仅知识，更是生命赐给人；非仅传递神的思想，更是使人得着神；非仅启示神的心意，更是带来生命主；非仅供给一些教训，更是供应主基督。
God's own Word must not be taken
Just as knowledge but as life,
Not alone God's thought conveying,
But Himself to us as life;
Not alone God's mind revealing,
But His Christ as life within,
Not alone the teaching giving,
But experience of Him.

我们若仅读其字句，神话不过是知识；但若用灵将其祷读，就是生命，真又实。所有字句、各种知识，只将死亡带给我；唯有灵里接受的话，供给生命使我活。
It is only knowledge to us
If we in the letter read,
But when reading in the spirit
It is truly life indeed.
All the knowledge in the letter
Only brings us into death,
But the Word in spirit taken
Gives to us the quickening breath.

只读圣经，而不触主，仅得虚空的知识；若在灵里摸着基督，就得生命的美食。只读字句，而不摸主，仅叫心思得供应；若用祷读接触基督，灵得丰盛的生命。
If we miss the Lord in Scripture,
It is just as knowledge vain;
But when Christ we touch within it,
Then His life we may obtain.
When we read, the Lord not touching,
'Tis but mental stimulus;
But when Christ we touch by reading,
It becometh life in us.

圣经所有各种知识，都须变化成生命；头脑所有各种领会，都须灵中再成形。对于圣经所有明白，都须生命的流通；对于字句所有认识，都须接受到灵中。
All the knowledge of the Scriptures
Into life must be transformed,
All the mental understanding
In the spirit must be formed;
All the Scriptural understanding
Must become the life received,
All the knowledge of the letters
In the spirit be conceived.

接触圣经为得知识，乃效夏娃之所为；撒但就是借着知识，引诱女祖去犯罪。若当生命接受圣经，就是来吃生命树；因此必须将主话语，接到灵里作食物。
Just to touch the Word for knowledge
Is to take the very way
By which Eve was lured by Satan
And by knowledge led astray;
But as life to take the Scripture
Is the tree of life to eat;
Thus the Word we must be taking
In the spirit as our meat.