Colossians 1
1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy my brother, —
神の思召によりてイエズス、キリストの使徒たるパウロ、及び兄弟チモテオ、
2 Unto the holy and faithful brethren in Christ that are, in Colosse, favour unto you, and peace, from our God and Father.
コロサイに於てキリスト（イエズス）に在る聖徒、及び忠信なる兄弟等に[書簡を贈る]。
3 We are giving thanks unto God, the Father of our Lord Jesus [Christ], always, for you, offering prayer, —
願はくは我父にて在す神、及び主イエズス、キリストより、汝等に恩寵と平安とを賜はらん事を。
4 Having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love which ye have unto all the saints, —
第一款 コロサイ人の為に感謝し祈祷す 第一編 教理の部 第一項 キリスト及び其事業 我等キリスト、イエズスに於る汝等の信仰と凡ての聖徒に對する愛情とを聞きて、常に汝等の為に祈りて、我主イエズス、キリストの父にて在す神に感謝し奉る。
5 Because of the hope that is lying by for you in the heavens, of which ye heard before, in the word of the truth of the glad-message,
是天に於て汝等の為に備へられ、曾て汝等が福音の眞理の言の中に聞きし希望の故なり。
6 When it presented itself unto you; even as, in all the world also, it is bearing fruit and growing, even as also among you, from the day when ye heard, and came personally to know the favour of God in truth,
汝等に至れる福音は、果を世界に結びて傳播しつつある事、猶汝等が眞理に從ひて神の恩寵を聞き且識りし日より汝等の中に於て在りしが如し。
7 Even as ye learned [it] from Epaphras, our beloved fellow-servant, who is faithful in our behalf, as a minister of the Christ,
汝等之を至愛なる我等の同輩エパフラより學びたるが、彼は汝等の為にキリスト、イエズスの忠信なる役者にして、
8 Who also hath made evident unto us your love in spirit.
[聖]霊によれる汝等の愛情を我等に告げたり。
9 For this cause, we also, from the day when we heard [of you], cease not, in your behalf, praying and asking—that ye may be filled unto the personal knowledge of his will, in all spiritual wisdom and discernment,
故に我等も亦之を聞きし其日より、汝等の為に祈りて止まず、以て汝等が[聖]霊によれる凡ての智恵と悟とによりて、神の御旨を知る[の知識]に満たされん事を求め奉る。
10 So as to walk worthily of the Lord, unto all pleasing, in every good work, bearing fruit, and growing in the personal knowledge of God,
是汝等が主に相應しく歩み、萬事につけて御意に合ひ、凡ての善業に於て果を結び、神[を識る]の知識を増し、
11 With all power, being empowered, according to the grasp of his glory, unto all endurance and long-suffering with joy,
其光榮ある全能に從ひて凡ての力を加へられ、喜を以て凡ての事に辛抱し堪忍し、
12 Giving thanks unto the Father that hath made you sufficient for your share in the inheritance of the saints in the light,
神にて在す父に感謝し奉ることを得ん為なり。其は忝くも我等を以て、聖徒等と共に榮光を蒙るに足るべき者と為し給ひ、
13 Who hath rescued us out of the authority of the darkness, and translated [us] into the kingdom of the Son of his love;
暗黒の権威より救出して最愛なる御子の國に移し給ひ、
14 In whom, we have our redemption—the remission of our sins, —
我等其御子に在りて、御血を以て贖はれ、罪の赦しを得ればなり。
15 Who, is an image of the unseen God, Firstborn of all creation, —
第二款 キリスト及び其事業は広大にして無比なり 御子は即ち見え給はざる神の御姿にして、一切の被造物に先だちて生れ給ひし者なり。
16 Because, in him, were created all things in the heavens and upon the earth, the things seen and the things unseen, whether thrones or lordships or principalities or authorities, —they all, through him and for him, have been created,
蓋萬物は彼に於て造られ、天にも地にも見ゆるもの、見えざるもの、或は玉座、或は主権、或は権勢、或は能力、皆彼を以て且彼の為に造られ、
17 And, he, is before all, and, they all, in him, hold together;
御自らは萬物に先だちて在し、萬物は彼の為に存す。
18 And, he, is the head of the body, the assembly, Who is the beginning, Firstborn from among the dead, in order that, he, might become, in all things, himself, pre-eminent; —
彼は又其體なる教會の頭にて在す、蓋原因に在して其死者の中より先んじて生れ給ひしは、萬事に於て自ら先んずる者と成り給はん為なり、
19 Because, in him, was all the fullness well pleased to dwell,
其は充満せる徳を全く彼に宿らしめ、
20 And, through him, fully to reconcile all things unto him, making peace through the blood of his cross, —[through him]—whether the things upon the earth or the things in the heavens;
彼を以て萬物を己と和睦せしめ、其十字架の血を以て地に在るものをも天に在るものをも和合せしむる事の、御意に適ひたればなり。
21 And, you, who at one time were estranged and enemies in your mind in your wicked works, yet, now, hath he fully reconciled,
汝等も曾て惡業によりて神に遠ざかり、心より其仇となりしを、
22 In his body of flesh, through means of his death, to present you holy and blameless and unaccusable before him, —
神は今御子の肉體に於て其死によりて己と和睦せしめ、聖にして汚なく罪なき者たらしめ、以て御前に供へんとし給へり。
23 If, at least, ye are abiding still in the faith, founded and firm, and not to be moved away from the hope of the glad-message which ye have heard, which hath been proclaimed in all creation which is under heaven, —of which, I Paul, have become minister.
汝等若確乎として信仰に基き、福音に於る希望より動かされずば、當に然あるべし。此福音は、汝等之を聞き、普く天下一切の人に宣べられしが、我パウロは其役者と為られたるなり。
24 Now, am I rejoicing in the sufferings on your behalf, and am filling up the things that lack of the tribulations of the Christ, in my flesh, in behalf of his body, which is the assembly,
我今汝等の為に苦むを喜ぶ、又キリストの御苦の缺けたる所を、御體なる教會の為に我が肉體に於て補ふなり。
25 Of which, I, have become minister—according to the administration of God which hath been given unto me to you-ward, to fill up the word of God,
我が教會の役者と為られたるは、汝等の為に神より賜はりたる務に由れり、是神の御言、即ち世々代々に隠れ來りて、
26 The sacred secret which had been hidden away from the ages and from the generations, but, now, hath been made manifest unto his saints— (aiōn g165)
今や其聖徒等に顕れたる奥義を、具に傳へん為なり。 (aiōn g165)
27 Unto whom God hath been pleased to make known what is the glorious wealth of this sacred secret among the nations, which is Christ in you, the hope of the glory, —
此奥義とは光榮の希望にして、汝等に在すキリスト是なり、此奥義の異邦人に及ぼしたる光榮の富の如何を知らしむるは神の御意なり。
28 Whom we are declaring, admonishing every man, and teaching every man, in all wisdom, in order that we may present every man complete in Christ;
我等は之を宣べ傳へ、凡ての知識に從ひて、凡ての人を誡め凡ての人に教ふ、是凡ての人をしてキリスト、イエズスに於て完全にならしめんが為なり。
29 Unto which I am even toiling, contending according to his energy which is energising itself in me with power.
我が現に勞苦して、我に於て強く働ける彼の勢力に應じて戰ひつつあるは是が為なり。
