1 Thessalonians 4
1 Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Yeshua, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.
第一項 道徳に関する勧告 然て兄弟等よ、我等は主イエズスに由りて汝等に求め且希ふ、如何に歩まば神の御意に適ふべきかは、汝等が曾て我等より聞きたる所なれば、其如くに歩みて益進まん事を。
2 For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Yeshua.
其は主イエズスを以て、如何なる教訓を我が汝等に與へしかは、汝等之を知ればなり。
3 For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,
蓋神の御旨は汝等の聖たらん事に在り、即ち汝等自ら私通を禁じ、
4 that each one of you know how to control his own body in sanctification and honour,
各神を知らざる異邦人の如く情慾の望に任せずして、
5 not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God,
其器を神聖に且尊く有つ事を知り、
6 that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.
又誰も此事に就きて兄弟を欺かず且害せざるに在り、主は是等一切の事に報い給へばなり、我等が既に豫め汝等に語り且證したるが如し。
7 For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.
蓋神が我等を召し給ひしは、不潔の為に非ずして、聖たらしめん為なり。
8 Therefore he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.
故に是等の事を軽んずる人は、人を軽んずるに非ず、我等の身に其聖霊をも賜ひたる神を軽んじ奉るなり。
9 But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,
兄弟的愛に就きては、我等が汝等に書遣るを要せず、其は汝等自ら曾て相愛する事を神より學びたればなり。
10 for indeed you do it towards all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more;
蓋マケドニア一般に凡ての兄弟に對して、汝等既に之を為せり。然れど兄弟等よ、我等は汝等が益豊にして、
11 and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you,
汝等に命ぜし如く、努めて、沈着きて己が業を営み、手業を為し、又外の人々に對して正しく歩み、人の何物をも望まざらん事を願ふなり。
12 that you may walk properly towards those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.
第二項 キリスト再臨に関する教訓 兄弟等よ、永眠せる人々に就きては、汝等が希望なき他の人々の如く歎かざらん為に、汝等の知らざるを好まず、
13 But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.
蓋我等若イエズスの死し給ひ且復活し給ひしことを信ぜば、又神が永眠せし人々をイエズスに於て之と共に携へ給はん[ことを信ずべきなり]。
14 For if we believe that Yeshua died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Yeshua.
即ち我等、主の御言に由りて汝等に告ぐ、主の再臨の時に生殘る我等は、永眠せし人々に先つ事なかるべし。
15 For this we tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep.
蓋号令、大天使の聲、神の喇叭を合圖に、主自ら天より降り給ひ、キリストに在る死者先復活すべし、
16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with God’s shofar. The dead in Messiah will rise first,
次に生殘る我等は、彼等と共に雲に取挙げられて空中にキリストを迎へ、斯て何時も主と共に在るべし。
17 then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.
然れば汝等是等の言を以て相慰めよ。
18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.
