1 John 2
1 My children, I am writing to you to keep you from sinning. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father – Jesus Christ, the righteous.
わが若子よ、これらの事を書き贈るは、汝らが罪を犯さざらん爲なり。人もし罪を犯さば、我等のために父の前に助主あり、即ち義なるイエス・キリストなり。
2 He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but the sins of the whole world.
彼は我らの罪のために宥の供物たり、啻に我らの爲のみならず、また全世界の爲なり。
3 It is by keeping God’s commands that we can be sure we know him.
我らその誡命を守らば、之によりて彼を知ることを自ら悟る。
4 Whoever says ‘I know him,’ but does not keep his commands, is a liar. The truth has no place in them.
『われ彼を知る』と言ひて其の誡命を守らぬ者は僞 者にして眞理その衷になし。
5 But the person who keeps God’s word, in them the love of God has indeed reached its perfection. This is how we can be sure we are in him:
その御言を守る者は誠に神の愛、その衷に全うせらる。之によりて我ら彼に在ることを悟る。
6 whoever claims to live in him should live just as Jesus did.
彼に居ると言ふ者は、彼の歩み給ひしごとく自ら歩むべきなり。
7 Dear friends, it is no new command that I am writing to you, but an old command, which you have had from the beginning. That old command is the message you have already heard.
愛する者よ、わが汝らに書き贈るは、新しき誡命にあらず、汝らが初より有てる舊き誡命なり。この舊き誡命は汝らが聞きし所の言なり。
8 Yet, in a way, it is a new command that I am writing to you – which is shown true in Christ’s life and in yours – for the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.
然れど我が汝らに書き贈るところは、また新しき誡命にして、主にも汝らにも眞なり、その故は眞の光すでに照りて、暗黒はややに過ぎ去ればなり。
9 The person who says that they are in the light, and yet hates others, is still in the darkness.
光に在りと言ひて其の兄弟を憎むものは、今もなほ暗黒にあるなり。
10 The person who loves others is always in the light, and there is nothing within them to cause them to stumble.
その兄弟を愛する者は、光に居りて顛躓その衷になし。
11 The person who hates is in the dark. They stumble along in the darkness; they do not know where they are going because the darkness blinds them.
その兄弟を憎む者は暗黒にあり、暗きうちを歩みて己が往くところを知らず、これ暗黒はその眼を矇したればなり。
12 Little children, I am writing to you because your sins have been forgiven for Christ’s sake.
若子よ、我この書を汝らに贈るは、なんぢら主の御名によりて罪を赦されたるに因る。
13 Parents, I am writing to you because you have come to know him who has been from the beginning. Young people, I am writing to you because you have conquered the evil one. Children, I write to you because you have come to know the Father.
父たちよ、我この書を汝らに贈るは、汝ら太初より在す者を知りたるに因る。若き者よ、我この書を汝らに贈るは、なんぢら惡しき者に勝ちたるに因る。子供よ、我この書を汝らに贈りたるは、汝ら御父を知りたるに因る。
14 Parents, I write to you because you have learned to know him who has been from the beginning. Young people, I write to you because you are strong, and God’s message is always in your hearts, and you have conquered the evil one.
父たちよ、我この書を汝らに贈りたるは、汝ら太初より在す者を知りたるに因る。若き者よ、我この書を汝らに贈りたるは、汝ら強くかつ神の言その衷に留り、また惡しき者に勝ちたるに因る。
15 Do not love the world or what the world can offer. When anyone loves the world, there is no love for the Father in them.
なんぢら世をも世にある物をも愛すな。人もし世を愛せば、御父を愛する愛その衷になし。
16 For all that the world can offer – the desires for physical pleasure, the enticements to the eye, the arrogance of wealth – belongs, not to the Father, but to the world.
おほよそ世にあるもの、即ち肉の慾、眼の慾、所有の誇などは、御父より出づるにあらず、世より出づるなり。
17 And the world, and all that it gratifies, is passing away, but they who do God’s will remain for ever. (aiōn g165)
世と世の慾とは過ぎ往く、されど神の御意をおこなふ者は永遠に在るなり。 (aiōn g165)
18 My children, it is the last hour. You were told that an antichrist was coming; and many antichrists have already arisen. This is why we know that this is the last hour.
子供よ、今は末の時なり、汝らが非キリスト來らんと聞きしごとく、今や非キリスト多く起れり、之によりて我等その末の時なるを知る。
19 These people come from our ranks, but they were never truly part of us – if they had been then they would have stayed with us. They left so it would be clear that none of them really belonged to us.
彼らは我等より出でゆきたれど、固より我等のものに非ざりき。我らの屬ならば、我らと共に留りしならん。されどその出でゆきしは、皆われらの屬ならぬことの顯れん爲なり。
20 You, however, have been annointed by the Holy One. You all know the truth.
汝らは聖なる者より油を注がれたれば、凡ての事を知る。
21 I am not writing to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and because no lie can come from the truth.
我この書を汝らに贈るは、汝ら眞理を知らぬ故にあらず、眞理を知り、かつ凡ての虚僞の眞理より出でぬことを知るに因る。
22 Who is a liar, if not the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? That person is the antichrist – one who rejects the Father and the Son.
僞 者は誰なるか、イエスのキリストなるを否む者にあらずや。御父と御子とを否む者は非キリストなり。
23 No one who rejects the Son has the Father; to acknowledge the Son is to have the Father also.
凡そ御子を否む者は御父をも有たず、御子を言ひあらはす者は御父をも有つなり。
24 As for you, you must let what you have heard from the beginning continue to live in you. If what you heard from the beginning dwells in you, you will remain both in the Son and the Father.
初より聞きし所を汝らの衷に居らしめよ。初より聞きしところ汝らの衷に居らば、汝らも御子と御父とに居らん。
我らに約し給ひし約束は是なり、即ち永遠の生命なり。 (aiōnios g166)
26 In writing this to you, I have in mind those who are trying to mislead you.
汝らを惑す者どもに就きて我これらの事を書き贈る。
27 As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains with you. You do not need anyone to teach you. His anointing teaches you about everything. What it teaches you is true, it is not a lie. Do what it has taught you: abide in him.
なんぢらの衷には、主より注がれたる油とどまる故に、人の汝らに物を教ふる要なし。此の油は汝らに凡ての事を教へ、かつ眞にして虚僞なし、汝 等はその教へしごとく主に居るなり。
28 Yes, my children, remain in him, so that when he appears our confidence doesn’t fail us, and we are not ashamed to meet him at his coming.
されば若子よ、主に居れ。これ主の現れ給ふときに臆することなく、其の來り給ふときに恥づることなからん爲なり。
29 Since you know he is righteous, you realise that everyone who does what is right is his child.
なんぢら主を正しと知らば、凡て正義をおこなふ者の主より生れたることを知らん。
