Titus 1
1 Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s chosen ones and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,
神の僕またイエス・キリストの使徒パウロ――我が使徒となれるは、永遠の生命の望に基きて神の選民の信仰を堅うし、また彼らを敬虔にかなふ眞理を知る知識に至らしめん爲なり。
僞りなき神は、創世の前に、この生命を約束し給ひしが、 (aiōnios g166)
3 but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior,
時いたりて御言を宣教にて顯さんとし、その宣教を我らの救主たる神の命令をもて我に委ねたまへり。――
4 to Titus, my true child according to a common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.
われ書を同じ信仰によりて我が眞實の子たるテトスに贈る。願はくは父なる神および我らの救主キリスト・イエスより賜ふ恩惠と平安と、汝にあらんことを。
5 I left you in Crete for this reason, that you would set in order the things that were lacking and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you—
わが汝をクレテに遣し置きたる故は、汝をして缺けたる所を正し、且わが命ぜしごとく町々に長老を立てしめん爲なり。
6 if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.
長老は責むべき所なく、一人の女の夫にして、子女もまた放蕩をもて訴へらるる事なく、服從せぬことなき信者たるべきなり。
7 For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;
それ監督は神の家 司なれば、責むべき所なく、放縱ならず、輕々しく怒らず、酒を嗜まず、人を打たず、恥づべき利を取らず、
8 but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled,
反つて旅人を懇ろに待ひ、善を愛し、謹愼あり、正しく潔く節制にして、
9 holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.
教に適ふ信ずべき言を守る者たるべし。これ健全なる教をもて人を勸め、かつ言ひ逆ふ者を言ひ伏することを得んためなり。
10 For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,
服從せず、虚しき事をかたり、人の心を惑す者おほし、殊に割禮ある者のうちに多し。
11 whose mouths must be stopped: men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.
彼らの口を箝がしむべし、彼らは恥づべき利を得んために、教ふまじき事を教へて全家を覆へすなり。
12 One of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons.”
クレテ人の中なる或る預言者いふ『クレテ人は常に虚僞をいふ者、あしき獸、また懶惰の腹なり』
13 This testimony is true. For this cause, reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,
この證は眞なり。されば汝きびしく彼らを責めよ、
14 not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.
彼らがユダヤ人の昔話と眞理を棄てたる人の誡命とに心を寄することなく、信仰を健全にせん爲なり。
15 To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.
潔き人には凡ての物きよく、汚れたる人と不 信者とには一つとして潔き物なし、彼らは既に心も良心も汚れたり。
16 They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.
みづから神を知ると言ひあらはせど、其の行爲にては神を否む。彼らは憎むべきもの、服はぬ者、すべての善き業に就きて棄てられたる者なり。
