1 Corinthians 7
1 Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.
第三項 婚姻及び童貞の身分 汝等が我に書贈りし事に就きては、男の女に触れざるは善き事なり。
2 But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
然れど私通を免れん為には各妻あるべく、女も各夫あるべく、
3 Let the husband give his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife her husband.
夫は妻に負債を果し、妻も亦夫に然すべきなり。
4 The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
妻は其身の権利を有せずして夫之を有すると共に、夫も亦其身の権利を有せずして妻之を有す。
5 Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
相拒む事勿れ、唯祈に從事せんとて合意の上暫く之を罷むるも、再び共に其事に復るべし、是汝等が色情に就きてサタンに誘はれざらん為なり。
6 But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.
然て我が斯く云へるは、命令に非ずして許可なり。
7 Yet I wish that all men were like me. However, each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.
蓋我が望む所は、汝等皆我が如くならん事なりと雖も、人各固有の賜を神に得て、一人は此の如く一人は彼の如し。
8 But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.
然れば婚姻を為さざる人及び寡婦に向ひて我は言ふ、其儘に而も我が如くにして居らんは、彼等に取りて善き事なり。
9 But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn with passion.
然れど若自ら制する事能はずば、宜しく婚姻すべし、婚姻するは[胸の]燃ゆるに優ればなり。
10 But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband
婚姻に由りて結ばれたる人々には、妻は夫に別るる事勿れと命ず。是我に非ずして主の命じ給ふ所なり。
11 (but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.
若別るる事あらば其儘にして嫁がず、或は夫に和合すべし、夫も亦妻を離縁すべからず。
12 But to the rest I—not the Lord—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.
其他の人々には我謂はん、是は主の曰ふに非ず、若兄弟に不信者なる妻を有てる者あらんに、其妻彼と同居する事を承諾せば、之を離別する事勿れ。
13 The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband.
若又信者たる婦、不信者なる夫を有てる事あらんに、夫之と同居する事を承諾せば、夫を離去るべからず。
14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.
蓋不信者なる夫は（信徒たる）妻によりて聖とせられ、不信者なる妻も（信徒たる）夫によりて聖とせられたるなり。然らざれば汝等の子等は潔からざるべしと雖も、今彼等は聖たるなり。
15 Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.
不信者若自ら去らば去るに任せよ、其は斯る時に當りて、兄弟或は姉妹は奴隷たるべきに非ず、神は平和に我等を召し給へるなり。
16 For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?
蓋妻よ、汝争でか能く夫を救ふべきや否やを知らん、又夫よ、汝争でか能く妻を救ふべきや否やを知らん。
17 Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.
唯主が面々に分配し給ひし儘に、神が面々を召し給ひし儘に歩むべし、凡ての教會に於て我が教ふる所斯の如し。
18 Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.
人割禮ありて召されたらんか、割禮を匿む事勿れ、人割禮なくして召されたらんか、割禮を受くる事勿れ、
19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but what matters is keeping God’s commandments.
効あるは割禮に非ず、又無割禮に非ず、神の掟を守る事是なり。
20 Let each man stay in that calling in which he was called.
各我が召されし時の身分に止るべし。
21 Were you called being a bondservant? Don’t let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.
汝奴隷にして召されたらんか、之を思ひ煩ふ事勿れ、假令自由の身となる事を得るも、一層利用せよ。
22 For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord’s free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ’s bondservant.
蓋奴隷にして主に召されたる者は主に於ては自由の身となりし者、同じく自由の身にして召されたる者はキリストの奴隷たるなり。
23 You were bought with a price. Don’t become bondservants of men.
汝等は價を以て買はれたり、人の奴隷となる事勿れ。
24 Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition he was called, stay in that condition with God.
兄弟等よ、各召されたる儘に、神に在りて之に止るべし。
25 Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.
童貞女に就きては、我主の命を受けざれども、主より慈悲を蒙りたる者として、忠實ならん為に意見を與へんとす。
26 Therefore I think that because of the distress that is on us, it’s good for a man to remain as he is.
然れば目前の困難の為には我之を善しと思ふ。其は其儘なるは人に取りて善ければなり。
27 Are you bound to a wife? Don’t seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don’t seek a wife.
汝妻に繋がれたるか、釈かるる事を求むる勿れ、妻に絆されざるか、妻を求むる事勿れ。
28 But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.
假令汝妻を娶るも罪とならず、童貞女嫁するも亦罪とならず、但斯る人は肉身上困難を受けん、我は汝等の之に遇ふことを惜む。
29 But I say this, brothers: the time is short. From now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;
兄弟等よ、我が言へるは是なり、時は縮まりぬ、然れば妻を有てる人も有たざるが如く、
30 and those who weep, as though they didn’t weep; and those who rejoice, as though they didn’t rejoice; and those who buy, as though they didn’t possess;
泣く人は泣かざるが如く、喜ぶ人は喜ばざるが如く、買ふ人は持たざるが如く、
31 and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.
此世を利用する人は利用せざるが如くになるべき外なし、其は此世の態は過行くものなればなり。
32 But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;
斯て我汝等の思ひ煩はざらんことを望む。妻なき人は、如何にして主を喜ばしめんかと、主の事を思ひ煩ふに、
33 but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.
妻と共に居る人は、如何にして妻を喜ばしめんかと、世の事を思ひ煩ひて心分るるなり。
34 There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world—how she may please her husband.
婚姻せざる女と童貞女とは、身心共に聖ならん為に主の事を思ひ、婚姻したる女は、如何にして夫を喜ばしめんかと、世の事を思ふなり。
35 This I say for your own benefit, not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction.
抑我が之を言へるは、汝等に益あらんが為にして、汝等を罠に懸けんとするに非ず、寧汝等をして貞潔に進ましめ、餘念なく主に奉侍する事を得しめん為なり。
36 But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn’t sin. Let them marry.
人ありて若我女の童貞女の年過ぎたるを辱しとし、然せざるを得ずと思はば、其望む所を行へ、女婚姻するも罪を犯すには非ず。
37 But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no urgency, but has power over his own will, and has determined in his own heart to keep his own virgin, does well.
然れど人ありて、心に堅く決する所あり、必要にも迫られず、我意の儘に事を行ふ権力ありて、心の中に女を童貞女にして保つを善しと定めたらん時に、然するは善き事なり。
38 So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who doesn’t give her in marriage does better.
然れば己が童貞女に婚姻を結ばしむる人も善き事を為し、結ばしめざる人も更に善き事を為すなり。
39 A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord.
婦は夫の活ける間は繋がるれども、夫永眠すれば自由なり、宜しく望の人に嫁ぐべし、唯主に於て為すべきのみ。
40 But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgment, and I think that I also have God’s Spirit.
然れど我が意見に從ひて若其儘に止らば、福は一層なるべし、我も神の霊を有し奉る思ふなり。
