1 Corinthians 4
1 So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants and stewards of God’s mysteries.
人よろしく我らをキリストの役者また神の奧義を掌どる家 司のごとく思ふべし。
2 Here, moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.
さて家 司に求むべきは忠實ならん事なり。
3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by a human court. Yes, I don’t even judge my own self.
我は汝らに審かれ、或は人の審判によりて審かるることを最 小き事とし、また自らも己を審かず。
4 For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.
我みづから責むべき所あるを覺えねど、之に由りて義とせらるる事なければなり。我を審きたまふ者は主なり。
5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.
然れば主の來り給ふまでは時に先だちて審判すな。主は暗にある隱れたる事を明かにし、心の謀計をあらはし給はん。その時おのおの神より其の譽を得べし。
6 Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.
兄弟よ、われ汝 等のために此 等のことを我とアポロとの上に當てて言へり。これ汝らが『録されたる所を踰ゆまじき』を我らの事によりて學び、この人をあげ、かの人を貶して誇らざらん爲なり。
7 For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?
汝をして人と異ならしむる者は誰ぞ、なんぢの有てる物に何か受けぬ物あるか。もし受けしならば、何ぞ受けぬごとく誇るか。
8 You are already filled. You have already become rich. You have come to reign without us. Yes, and I wish that you did reign, that we also might reign with you!
なんぢら既に飽き、既に富めり、我らを差措きて王となれり。われ實に汝らが王たらんことを願ふ、われらも共に王たることを得んが爲なり。
9 For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.
我おもふ、神は使徒たる我らを死に定められし者のごとく、後の者として見せ給へり。實に我らは宇宙のもの、即ち御使にも、衆人にも、觀物にせられたるなり。
10 We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.
我らはキリストのために愚なる者となり、汝らはキリストに在りて慧き者となれり。我等は弱く汝らは強し、汝らは尊く我らは卑し。
11 Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.
今の時にいたるまで我らは飢ゑ、渇き、また裸となり、また打たれ、定れる住家なく、
12 We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.
手づから働きて勞し、罵らるるときは祝し、責めらるるときは忍び、
13 Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.
譏らるるときは勸をなせり。我らは今に至るまで世の塵芥のごとく、萬の物の垢のごとくせられたり。
14 I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
わが斯く書すは汝らを辱しめんとにあらず、我が愛する子として訓戒せんためなり。
15 For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, you don’t have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.
汝 等にはキリストに於ける守役 一萬ありとも、父は多くあることなし。そはキリスト・イエスに在りて福音により汝らを生みたるは、我なればなり。
16 I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.
この故に汝らに勸む、我に效ふ者とならんことを。
17 Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.
之がために主にありて忠實なる我が愛子テモテを汝らに遣せり。彼は我がキリストにありて行ふところ、即ち常に各地の教會に教ふる所を、汝らに思ひ出さしむべし。
18 Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.
わが汝らに到ること無しとして誇る者あり。
19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is willing. And I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.
されど主の御意ならば速かに汝 等にいたり、誇る者の言にはあらで、その能力を知らんとす。
20 For God’s Kingdom is not in word, but in power.
神の國は言にあらず、能力にあればなり。
21 What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?
汝ら何を欲するか、われ笞をもて到らんか、愛と柔和の心とをもて到らんか。
