Hebrews 12
1 We [know about] many people like that [who showed they trusted in God]. They are like a crowd of spectators [who are cheering for us inside a stadium] [MET]. Knowing that, we must put away all the things that hinder us, [as a runner puts aside everything that would hinder him because they are heavy] [MET]. Especially we must put away sinful actions that [hinder us, as a runner] sets aside clothes he does not need, clothes that would entangle him [MET]. Let us [wholeheartedly strive to achieve what God has planned for us, as someone] in a race wholeheartedly runs the course that is before him [MET].
第三款 既往の教訓を信者の現状に應用す 然れば我等も、斯く夥しき證人の雲に圍まれたれば、一切の荷と纏へる罪とを卸して、
2 And let us [keep our minds on] Jesus, [as a runner] keeps his eyes on [the goal] [MET]. Jesus is the one we should imitate in the way he perfectly trusted [God. When he died on] the cross he endured it as he suffered greatly [MTY], instead of [thinking about the things he would] rejoice about [later]. He disregarded being disgraced by [dying that way]. He is now sitting at the place of highest honor [MTY] at the throne [where God rules].
我等の信仰の指導者に在し完成者に在すイエズスに鑑みつつ、忍耐を以て我等に備はれる勝負に走るべし。即ちイエズスは曾て、己に備はれる喜に代へて、辱を厭はず、十字架を忍び給ひ、而して神の玉座の右に坐し給ふ。
3 [Jesus] patiently endured it when sinful people acted so hostilely against him. Try to act the way he did, so that you do not give up [trusting] God or become discouraged.
汝等倦みて己が心の弱らざらん為に、己に對する惡人のさしも甚しかりし反抗を忍び給ひし者を回想せよ。
4 While you have struggled against [being tempted to] sin, you have not yet bled [and died because of resisting evil, as Jesus did].
蓋汝等の罪に對ひて戰ふに、未だ血を流す程に抵抗せし事なし。
5 Do not forget [RHQ] these words [that Solomon spoke to his son, that are the same as God] would exhort you as his children: My child, pay attention [LIT] when the Lord is disciplining you, and do not be discouraged when the Lord punishes you [DOU],
汝等は又、子に於るが如くに告げらるる勧を忘れたり。曰く、「我子よ、主の懲を疎畧にすることなく、之に懲らされ奉る時倦む事勿れ、
6 because it is everyone whom he loves whom the Lord disciplines, and he punishes everyone whom he accepts as his child.
主は其寵み給ふ人を懲らし、総て子として受け給ふ者を鞭ち給へばなり」と。
7 It is in order that God may discipline you that he requires you to endure the disagreeable things [that happen to you]. [When God disciplines you] he is treating you as a father treats his children. All fathers [RHQ] discipline their children [LIT].
汝等懲を忍べ、神の汝等に對し給ふは、恰も子等に於るが如し。誰か父に懲らされざる子あらん、
8 So, if you have not experienced God disciplining you just like he disciplines all his other children, you are [not true children of God] [MET]. [You are like] illegitimate children; [no father disciplines them].
汝等若凡ての人の受くる懲の外に在らば、是私生児にして正子に非ざるべし。
9 Furthermore, our natural fathers disciplined us [when we were young], and we respected them for doing that. So we should certainly more readily accept God our spiritual Father disciplining us, with the result that we live eternally [RHQ]!
且我等は肉身の父に懲らされて、尚之を尊敬しつつありしものを、况や霊の父には歸服して生命を得べきに非ずや。
10 Our natural fathers disciplined us for a short time in a way that they considered right, [but it wasn’t always right], but God always disciplines us [in a right way], to help us. He does it so that we may be holy as he is.
肉身の父等は、少き日數の間に心の儘に我等を懲らしたるに、霊の父の懲らし給ふは、己が聖徳を蒙らしめて我等を益し給はん為なり。
11 During the time that God is disciplining us, that does not seem to be something about which we should rejoice. Instead, it is something that pains us. But later it causes those who have learned from it to be peaceful and to [live] righteously.
総て懲は其當時に在りては、喜ばしく見えず、悲しきが如くなれども、後には之を以て鍛錬せられたる人に、義の平穏なる果を結ぶものなり。
12 So, [instead of acting as though you were spiritually exhausted], renew yourselves [MET] spiritually.
然れば汝等、萎えたる手、弱りたる膝を立てよ、
13 Go straight forward [in your Christian life] [MET], in order that believers who are uncertain about their faith [will imitate you] and not ([leave God’s way/] useless [to God]) [MET]. Instead, they will be spiritually restored [MET] as an injured and useless limb is restored.
誰も足萎えて踏外す事なく、寧醫されん為に己の足踏を直くせよ。
14 Try to live peacefully with all people. Seek to be holy, since no one will see the Lord if he is not holy.
汝等凡ての人と和合し、聖徳を追求せよ、之なくては誰も主を見奉る事を得じ。
15 Beware that none of you stops [trusting in] God, [who has done kind things for us that we did not deserve] (OR, Beware that you have never [experienced] God kindly [saving you]). Be on guard lest any of you [act in an evil way towards others], because your doing that will [grow like] [MET] a root [grows into a big plant], and the result [of your] doing that will be that many believers will sin and become unacceptable to God.
汝等注意して、一人も恩寵より退く事なく、如何なる苦き根にもあれ、生出でて妨を為し、多くの人を汚すことなからしめ、
16 Do not let anyone be immoral, or be irreligious as Esau was. He exchanged the rights he had as a firstborn son for only one meal.
一人たりとも、食物の為に長子権を売りしエザウの如く、私通者不敬者と成る事なからしめよ。
17 You know that after he did that, he wanted to receive [what his father would promise to give him if] he blessed him. But [his father] was unable [to change what he had already done]. And Esau found no way to change things, even though he sought tearfully to do that.
蓋彼が、後に祝福を継がん事を望みしも退けられ、涙を以て回復を求めたれど其餘地を得ざりしは、汝等の知るべき所なり。
18 In coming [to God] you have not [experienced things like what the Israeli people experienced] at [Sinai] Mountain. [They] approached [a mountain that God told them they] should not touch. [They approached] a blazing fire, and it was gloomy and dark [DOU], and there was a hurricane/cyclone.
汝等の近づけるは、触れ得べき山、燃ゆる火、黒雲、暗黒、暴風、
19 They heard a trumpet sounding and they heard [God] speak. The result was that those who heard it pleaded for God not to speak to them like that again.
溂叭の音、又言の聲には非ず。彼聲を聞きし人々は、言の己に語られざらん事を願へり。
20 When [God] commanded them saying, “If [a person or] even an animal touches this mountain, [you] must [kill him/it by] throwing stones at him/it,” they were terrified.
蓋獣すらも、山に触れなば石を擲たるべしと命ぜられたるを忍び得ず、
21 Truly, because Moses was terrified after seeing what happened [on the mountain], he said, “I am trembling because I am very afraid!”
見ゆる物甚だ恐ろしくして、モイゼも、我恐怖慄けり、と言へり。
22 Instead, [it is as though] you have come to [the presence of God in heaven] [MET]. [That is like what your ancestors did when they came to worship] God on Zion Hill, in Jerusalem, in the city of God who is all-powerful. You have come (OR, you are coming) to where there are countless angels, who are rejoicing as they have gathered together.
然るに汝等の近づきたるは、シヨンの山と、活き給へる神の都なる天のエルザレムと、億萬の天使の喜ばしき集會と、
23 You have joined all the believers [who have privileges like] firstborn sons, whose names [God] has written down in heaven. You have come to God, who will judge everyone. You have come to where the spirits of God’s people are, people who lived righteously [before they died], and who now have been made perfect [in heaven].
天に其名を記されたる長子等の教會と、萬民の審判者に在す神と、全うせられし義人等の霊と、
24 You have come to Jesus, who arranged a new covenant [between us and God]. You have accepted [what he accomplished when] his blood flowed [when he died on the cross. His doing that made it possible for God to forgive us]. That is better than the blood of Abel, [who just] wanted revenge because his brother Cain murdered him.
新約の仲介者に在すイエズスと、アベルの血に優りて能く言ふ血の沃がるる事と是なり。
25 Beware that you do not refuse to listen to [God] who is speaking to you. The Israeli people did not escape [God punishing them] when [Moses] (OR, [God]) warned them here on earth. So we shall surely not escape [God punishing us] if we reject him when he warns us from heaven! [RHQ]
汝等慎みて、言ひ給ふを否むこと勿れ。蓋彼等は地上に言ひ給へるを否みて迯れざりしなれば、况て天より言ひ給ふを退くる我等の迯るべけんや。
26 The earth shook [PRS] then when he spoke [MTY] [at Sinai Mountain]. But now he has promised, “I will shake the earth again, one more time, but I will shake heaven too.”
彼時は其聲地を動かしたりしに、今は約して曰はく、「我唯に地をのみならず天をも尚一度動かさん」と。
27 The words “again, one more time” indicate that things [on earth] will be shaken {that [he] will shake things [on earth]}, meaning that he will set aside all that [he] has created, in order that the things [in heaven] that cannot be shaken {that nothing can shake} may remain forever.
斯の如く「尚一度」と曰へるは、震動せざる事物の永存せん為に、震動せし事物の、造られたるものとして廃るべきを示し給ふなり。
28 So, let us thank God that we are becoming members of a kingdom that nothing can shake. Let us worship/serve God in a way that pleases him by being greatly in awe [DOU] before him.
然れば震動せざる國を受けたるが故に、我等は感謝し奉りて、御意に適ふ様、恐れ畏みて神に事へ奉るべし。
29 Remember that the God we [worship/serve] is like a fire that burns up everything [that is impure] [MET]!
是我等の神は焼盡す火にて在せばなり。
