テモテへの手紙第一 6
1 おほよそ軛の下にありて奴隷たる者は、おのれの主人を全く尊ぶべき者とすべし。これ神の名と教との譏られざらん爲なり。
Whoever are servants under the yoke, let them consider their masters to be worthy of every honor, lest the name and doctrine of the Lord be blasphemed.
2 信者たる主人を有てる者は、その兄弟なるに因りて之を輕んぜず、反つて彌 増々これに事ふべし。その益を受くる主人は信者にして愛せらるる者なればなり。汝これらの事を教へかつ勧めよ。
But those who have believing masters, let them not despise them because they are brothers, but rather serve them all the more because they are believing and beloved, participants of the same service. Teach and exhort these things.
3 もし異なる教を傳へて、健全なる言すなはち我らの主イエス・キリストの言と、敬虔にかなふ教とを肯はぬ者あらば、
If anyone teaches otherwise, and does not consent to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to that doctrine which is in accord with piety,
4 その人は傲慢にして何をも知らず、ただ議論と言爭とにのみ耽るなり、之によりて嫉妬・爭鬪・惡しき念おこり、
then he is arrogant, knowing nothing, yet languishing amid the questions and quarrels of words. From these arise envy, contention, blasphemy, evil suspicions:
5 また心 腐りて眞理をはなれ、敬虔を利 益の道とおもふ者の爭論おこるなり。
the conflicts of men who have been corrupted in mind and deprived of truth, who consider profit to be piety.
6 されど足ることを知りて敬虔を守る者は、大なる利 益を得るなり。
But piety with sufficiency is great gain.
7 我らは何をも携へて世に來らず、また何をも携へて世を去ること能はざればなり。
For we brought nothing into this world, and there is no doubt that we can take nothing away.
8 ただ衣食あらば足れりとせん。
But, having nourishment and some kind of covering, we should be content with these.
9 されど富まんと欲する者は、誘惑と羂、また人を滅亡と沈淪とに溺らす愚にして害ある各樣の慾に陷るなり。
For those who want to become rich fall into temptation and into the snare of the devil and into many useless and harmful desires, which submerge men in destruction and in perdition.
10 それ金を愛するは諸般の惡しき事の根なり、ある人々これを慕ひて信仰より迷ひ、さまざまの痛をもて自ら己を刺しとほせり。
For desire is the root of all evils. Some persons, hungering in this way, have strayed from the faith and have entangled themselves in many sorrows.
11 神の人よ、なんぢは此 等のことを避けて、義と敬虔と信仰と愛と忍耐と柔和とを追ひ求め、
But you, O man of God, flee from these things, and truly pursue justice, piety, faith, charity, patience, meekness.
Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you have been called, and make a good profession of faith in the sight of many witnesses. (aiōnios g166)
13 われ凡ての物を生かしたまふ神のまへ、及びポンテオ・ピラトに向ひて善き言明をなし給ひしキリスト・イエスの前にて汝に命ず。
I charge you, in the sight of God, who enlivens all things, and in the sight of Christ Jesus, who gave the testimony of a good profession under Pontius Pilate,
14 汝われらの主イエス・キリストの現れたまふ時まで汚點なく責むべき所なく、誡命を守れ。
to observe the commandment, immaculately, irreproachably, unto the return of our Lord Jesus Christ.
15 時いたらば幸福なる唯一の君主、もろもろの王の王、もろもろの主の主、これを顯し給はん。
For at the proper time, he shall reveal the blessed and only Power, the King of kings and the Lord of lords,
who alone holds immortality, and who inhabits the inaccessible light, whom no man has seen, nor even is able to see, to whom is honor and everlasting dominion. Amen. (aiōnios g166)
Instruct the wealthy of this age not to have a superior attitude, nor to hope in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, who offers us everything in abundance to enjoy, (aiōn g165)
18 善をおこなひ、善き業に富み、惜みなく施し、分け與ふることを喜び、
and to do good, to become rich in good works, to donate readily, to share,
19 かくて己のために善き基を蓄へ、未來の備をなして眞の生命を捉ふることを爲よと。
to gather for themselves the treasure of a good foundation for the future, so that they may obtain true life.
20 テモテよ、なんぢ委ねられたる事を守り、妄なる虚しき物語、また僞りて知識と稱ふる反對論を避けよ。
O Timothy, guard what has been deposited with you, avoiding the voice of profane novelties and of opposing ideas, which are falsely called knowledge.
21 ある人々この知識を裝ひて信仰より外れたり。願はくは御惠なんじと偕に在らんことを。
Certain persons, promising these things, have perished from the faith. May grace be with you. Amen.
