Colossians 2
1 For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;
我なんぢら及びラオデキヤに居る人々、その他すべて我が肉體の顏をまだ見ぬ人のために、如何に苦心するかを汝らの知らんことを欲す。
2 that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Messiah,
かく苦心するは、彼らが心 慰められ、愛をもて相 列り、全き穎悟の凡ての富を得て、神の奧義なるキリストを知らん爲なり。
3 in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden.
キリストには知慧と知識との凡ての寶 藏れあり。
4 Now I say this so that no one will deceive you with persuasive words.
我これを言ふは、巧なる言をもて人の汝らを欺くこと勿らん爲なり。
5 For though I am absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Messiah.
われ肉體にては汝らと離れ居れど、靈にては汝らと偕に居りて喜び、また汝らの秩序あるとキリストに對する信仰の堅きとを見るなり。
6 As therefore you received Messiah Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,
汝らキリスト・イエスを主として受けたるにより、其のごとく彼に在りて歩め。
7 rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.
また彼に根ざしてその上に建てられ、かつ教へられし如く信仰を堅くし、溢るるばかり感謝せよ。
8 Be careful not to allow anyone to captivate you through an empty and deceptive philosophy, according to human tradition, according to the elementary principles of the world, and not according to Messiah.
なんぢら心すべし、恐らくはキリストに從はずして人の言傳と世の小學とに從ひ、人を惑す虚しき哲學をもて汝らを奪ひ去る者あらん。
9 For in him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form,
それ神の滿ち足れる徳はことごとく形體をなしてキリストに宿れり。
10 and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power;
汝らは彼に在りて滿ち足れるなり。彼は凡ての政治と權威との首なり。
11 in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Messiah;
汝らまた彼に在りて手をもてせざる割禮を受けたり、即ち肉の體を脱ぎ去るものにして、キリストの割禮なり。
12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.
汝らバプテスマを受けしとき、彼とともに葬られ、又かれを死人の中より甦へらせ給ひし神の活動を信ずるによりて、彼と共に甦へらせられたり。
13 You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,
汝ら前には諸般の咎と肉の割禮なきとに因りて死にたる者なりしが、神は汝らを彼と共に生かし、我らの凡ての咎を赦し、
14 wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us; and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;
かつ我らを責むる規の證書、すなはち我らに逆ふ證書を塗抹し、これを中間より取り去りて十字架につけ、
15 having disarmed the rulers and authorities, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
政治と權威とを褫ぎて之を公然に示し、十字架によりて凱旋し給へり。
16 Therefore do not let anyone judge you about food and drink, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,
然れば汝ら食物あるひは飮物につき、祭あるいは月朔あるいは安息 日の事につきて、誰にも審かるな。
17 which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Messiah's.
此 等はみな來らんとする者の影にして、其の本體はキリストに屬けり。
18 Let no one rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshipping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
殊更に謙遜をよそほひ御使を拜する者に、汝らの褒美を奪はるな。かかる者は見し所のものに基き、肉の念に隨ひて徒らに誇り、
19 and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God's growth.
首に屬くことをせざるなり。全體は、この首によりて節々 維々に助けられ、相 聯り、神の育にて生長するなり。
20 If you died with Messiah from the elementary principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,
汝 等もしキリストと共に死にて此の世の小學を離れしならば、何ぞなほ世に生ける者のごとく人の誡命と教とに循ひて
21 "Do not handle, nor taste, nor touch"
『捫るな、味ふな、觸るな』と云ふ規の下に在るか。
22 (all of which perish with use), according to human commandments and teachings?
（此 等はみな用ふれば盡くる物なり）
23 Which things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, and humility, and severity to the body; but are not of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.
これらの誡命は、みづから定めたる禮拜と謙遜と身を惜まぬ事とによりて知慧あるごとく見ゆれど、實は肉 慾の放縱を防ぐ力なし。
