1 Thessalonians 2
1 For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you was not in vain,
兄弟よ、我らの汝らに到りしことの空しからざりしは、汝ら自ら知る。
2 but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell you the gospel of God in much conflict.
前に我らは汝らの知るごとく、ピリピにて苦難と侮辱とを受けたれど、我らの神に頼りて大なる紛爭のうちに、憚らず神の福音を汝らに語れり。
3 For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.
我らの勸は、迷より出でず、汚穢より出でず、詭計を用ひず、
4 But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak; not as pleasing people, but God, who tests our hearts.
神に嘉せられて福音を委ねられたる者なれば、人を喜ばせんとせず、我らの心を鑒たまふ神を喜ばせ奉つらんとして語るなり。
5 For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed (God is witness),
我らは汝らの知るごとく何時にても諂諛の言を用ひず、事によせて慳貪をなさず（神これを證し給ふ）
6 nor seeking glory from people (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Messiah.
キリストの使徒として重んぜらるべき者なれども、汝らにも他の者にも人よりは譽を求めず、
7 But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.
汝らの中にありて優しきこと、母の己が子を育てやしなふ如くなりき。
8 Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.
かく我らは汝らを戀ひ慕ひ、なんぢらは我らの愛する者となりたれば、啻に神の福音のみならず、我らの生命をも與へんと願へり。
9 For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.
兄弟よ、なんぢらは我らの勞と苦難とを記憶す、われらは汝らの中の一人をも累はすまじとて、夜晝 工をなし、勞しつつ福音を宣傳へたり。
10 You are witnesses with God, how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.
また信じたる汝 等にむかひて、如何に潔く正しく責むべき所なく行ひしかは、汝らも證し神も證し給ふなり。
11 As you know, as a father with his own children,
汝らは知る、我らが父のその子に對するごとく各人に對し、
12 we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you to lead a life worthy of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.
御國と榮光とに招きたまふ神の心に適ひて歩むべきことを勸め、また勵まし、また諭したるを。
13 For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as a human word, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.
かくてなほ我ら神に感謝して巳まざるは、汝らが神の言を我らより聞きし時、これを人の言とせず、神の言として受けし事なり。これは誠に神の言にして、汝ら信ずる者のうちに働くなり。
14 For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judea in Messiah Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Judeans;
兄弟よ、汝らはユダヤに於けるキリスト・イエスにある神の教會に效ふ者となれり、彼らのユダヤ人に苦しめられたる如く、汝らも己が國人に苦しめられたるなり。
15 who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and did not please God, and are hostile to all people;
ユダヤ人は主イエスをも預言者をも殺し、我らを追ひ出し、
16 forbidding us to speak to those who are not Jewish that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.
我らが異邦人に語りて救を得させんとするを拒み、神を悦ばせず、かつ萬民に逆ひ、かくして常に己が罪を充すなり。而して神の怒はかれらに臨みてその極に至れり。
17 But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short season, in presence, not in heart, tried even harder to see your face with great desire,
兄弟よ、われら心は離れねど、顏にて暫時なんぢらと離れ居れば、汝らの顏を見んことを愈々 切に願ひて、
18 because we wanted to come to you—indeed, I, Paul, once and again—but Satan hindered us.
（我パウロは一度ならず再度までも）なんぢらに到らんと爲たれど、サタンに妨げられたり。
19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Is it not even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?
我らの主イエスの來り給ふとき、御前における我らの希望、また喜悦、また誇の冠冕は誰ぞ、汝らならずや。
20 For you are our glory and our joy.
實に汝らは我らの光榮、我らの喜悦なり。
