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1 イエス・キリストの使徒ペテロ、書をポント、ガラテヤ、カパドキヤ、アジヤ、ピテニヤに散りて宿れる者、
Peter, Apostle of Jesus Christ, to the newly-arrived elect of the dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
2 即ち父なる神の預じめ知り給ふところに隨ひて、御靈の潔により柔順ならんため、イエス・キリストの血の灑を受けんために選ばれたる者に贈る。願はくは恩惠と平安と汝らに増さんことを。
in accord with the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, with the obedience and the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: May grace and peace be multiplied for you.
3 讃むべきかな、我らの主イエス・キリストの父なる神、その大なる憐憫に隨ひ、イエス・キリストの死人の中より甦へり給へることに由り、我らを新に生れしめて生ける望を懷かせ、
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy has regenerated us into a living hope, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead:
4 汝らの爲に天に蓄へある、朽ちず汚れず萎まざる嗣業を繼がしめ給へり。
unto an incorruptible and undefiled and unfading inheritance, which is reserved for you in heaven.
5 汝らは終のときに顯れんとて備りたる救を得んために、信仰によりて神の力に護らるるなり。
By the power of God, you are guarded through faith for a salvation which is ready to be revealed in the end time.
6 この故に汝ら今しばしの程さまざまの試煉によりて憂へざるを得ずとも、なほ大に喜べり。
In this, you should exult, if now, for a brief time, it is necessary to be made sorrowful by various trials,
7 汝らの信仰の驗は、壞つる金の火にためさるるよりも貴くして、イエス・キリストの現れ給ふとき譽と光榮と尊貴とを得べきなり。
so that the testing of your faith, which is much more precious than gold tested by fire, may be found in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
8 汝らイエスを見しことなけれど之を愛し、今 見ざれども之を信じて、言ひがたく、かつ光榮ある喜悦をもて喜ぶ。
For though you have not seen him, you love him. In him also, though you do not see him, you now believe. And in believing, you shall exult with an inexpressible and glorious joy,
9 これ信仰の極、すなはち靈魂の救を受くるに因る。
returning with the goal of your faith, the salvation of souls.
10 汝らの受くべき恩惠を預言したる預言者たちは、この救につきて具に尋ね査べたり。
About this salvation, the prophets inquired and diligently searched, those who prophesied about the future grace in you,
11 即ち彼らは己が中に在すキリストの靈の、キリストの受くべき苦難および其の後の榮光を預じめ證して、何時のころ如何なる時を示し給ひしかを査べたり。
inquiring as to what type of condition was signified to them by the Spirit of Christ, when foretelling those sufferings that are in Christ, as well as the subsequent glories.
12 彼 等はその勤むるところ己のためにあらず、汝らの爲なることを默示によりて知れり。即ち天より遣され給へる聖 靈によりて福音を宣ぶる者どもの、汝らに傳へたる所にして、御使たちも之を懇ろに視んと欲するなり。
To them, it was revealed that they were ministering, not for themselves, but for you those things which have now been announced to you through those who have preached the Gospel to you, through the Holy Spirit, who was sent down from heaven to the One upon whom the Angels desire to gaze.
13 この故に、なんぢら心の腰に帶し、愼みてイエス・キリストの現れ給ふときに、與へられんとする恩惠を疑はずして望め。
For this reason, gird the waist of your mind, be sober, and hope perfectly in the grace that is offered to you in the revelation of Jesus Christ.
14 從順なる子 等の如くして、前の無知なりし時の慾に效はず、
Be like sons of obedience, not conforming to the desires of your former ignorance,
15 汝らを召し給ひし聖者に效ひて、自ら凡ての行状に潔かれ。
but in accord with him who has called you: the Holy One. And in every behavior, you yourself must be holy,
16 録して『われ聖なれば、汝らも聖なるべし』とあればなり。
for it is written: “You shall be holy, for I am Holy.”
17 また偏ることなく各人の業に隨ひて審きたまふ者を父と呼ばば、畏をもて世に寓る時を過せ。
And if you invoke as Father him who, without showing favoritism to persons, judges according to each one’s work, then act in fear during the time of your sojourning here.
18 なんぢらが先祖たちより傳はりたる虚しき行状より贖はれしは、銀や金のごとき朽つる物に由るにあらず、
For you know that it was not with corruptible gold or silver that you were redeemed away from your useless behavior in the traditions of your fathers,
19 瑕なく汚點なき羔羊の如きキリストの貴き血に由ることを知ればなり。
but it was with the precious blood of Christ, an immaculate and undefiled lamb,
20 彼は世の創の前より預じめ知られたまひしが、この末の世に現れ給へり。
foreknown, certainly, before the foundation of the world, and made manifest in these latter times for your sake.
21 これは彼を死人の中より甦へらせて之に榮光を與へ給ひし神を、彼によりて信ずる汝らの爲なり、この故に汝らの信仰と希望とは神に由れり。
Through him, you have been faithful to God, who raised him up from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope would be in God.
22 なんぢら眞理に從ふによりて靈魂をきよめ、僞りなく兄弟を愛するに至りたれば、心より熱く相 愛せよ。
So chastise your souls with the obedience of charity, in fraternal love, and love one another from a simple heart, attentively.
For you have been born again, not from corruptible seed, but from what is incorruptible, from the Word of God, living and remaining for all eternity. (aiōn g165)
24 『人はみな草のごとく、その光榮はみな草の花の如し、草は枯れ、花は落つ。
For all flesh is like the grass and all its glory is like the flower of the grass. The grass withers and its flower falls away.
