コリント人への手紙第一 6

1 汝 等のうち互に事あるとき、之を聖徒の前に訴へずして、正しからぬ者の前に訴ふることを敢へてする者あらんや。

Can it be that, when one of you has a dispute with another, he dares to have his case tried before the heathen, instead of before Christ’s People?

2 汝ら知らぬか、聖徒は世を審くべき者なるを。世もし汝らに審かれんには、汝ら最 小き事を審くに足らぬ者ならんや。

Do not you know that Christ’s People will try the world? And if the world is to be tried by you, are you unfit to try the most trivial cases?

3 なんぢら知らぬか、我らは御使を審くべき者なるを、ましてこの世の事をや。

Do not you know that we are to try angels — to say nothing of the affairs of this life?

4 然るに汝ら審くべき此の世の事のあるとき、教會にて輕しむる所の者を審判の座に坐らしむるか。

Why, then, if you have cases relating to the affairs of this life, do you set to try them men who carry no weight with the Church? To your shame I ask it.

5 わが斯く言ふは汝らを辱しめんとてなり。汝 等のうちに兄弟の間のことを審き得る智きもの一人だになく、

Can it be that there is not one man among you wise enough to decide between two of his Brothers?

6 兄弟は兄弟を、而も不 信者の前に訴ふるか。

Must Brother go to law with Brother, and that, too, before unbelievers?

7 互に相 訴ふるは既に當しく汝らの失態なり。何 故むしろ不義を受けぬか、何 故むしろ欺かれぬか。

To begin with, it is undoubtedly a loss to you to have lawsuits with one another. Why not rather let yourselves be wronged? Why not rather let yourselves be cheated?

8 然るに汝ら不義をなし、詐欺をなし、兄弟にも之を爲す。

Instead of this, you wrong and cheat others yourselves — yes, even your Brothers!

9 汝ら知らぬか、正しからぬ者の神の國を嗣ぐことなきを。自ら欺くな、淫行のもの、偶像を拜むもの、姦淫をなすもの、男娼となるもの、男色を行ふ者、

Do not you know that wrong-doers will have no share in God’s Kingdom? Do not be deceived. No one who is immoral, or an idolater, or an adulterer, or licentious, or a sodomite,

10 盜するもの、貪欲のもの、酒に醉ふもの、罵るもの、奪ふ者などは、みな神の國を嗣ぐことなきなり。

or a thief, or covetous, or a drunkard, or abusive, or grasping, will have any share in God’s Kingdom.

11 汝 等のうち曩には斯くのごとき者ありしかど、主イエス・キリストの名により、我らの神の御靈によりて、己を洗ひかつ潔められ、かつ義とせらるることを得たり。

Such some of you used to be; but you washed yourselves clean. You became Christ’s People! you were pronounced righteous through the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and through the Spirit of our God!

12 一切のもの我に可からざるなし、然れど一切のもの益あるにあらず。一切のもの我に可からざるなし、されど我は何 物にも支配せられず、

Everything is allowable for me! Yes, but everything is not profitable. Everything is allowable for me! Yes, but for my part, I will not let myself be enslaved by anything.

13 食物は腹のため、腹は食物のためなり。されど神は之をも彼をも亡し給はん。身は淫行をなさん爲にあらず、主の爲なり、主はまた身の爲なり。

Food exists for the stomach, and the stomach for food; but God will put an end to both the one and the other. The body, however, exists, not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

14 神は既に主を甦へらせ給へり、又その能力をもて我等をも甦へらせ給はん。

and, as God has raised the Lord, so he will raise up us also by the exercise of his power.

15 汝らの身はキリストの肢體なるを知らぬか、然らばキリストの肢體をとりて遊女の肢體となすべきか、決して然すべからず。

Do not you know that your bodies are Christ’s members? Am I, then, to take the members that belong to the Christ and make them the members of a prostitute? Heaven forbid!

16 遊女につく者は彼と一つ體となることを知らぬか『二人のもの一體となるべし』と言ひ給へり。

Or do not you know that a man who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body (for ‘the two,’ it is said, ‘will become one’);

17 主につく者は之と一つ靈となるなり。

while a man who is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit?

18 淫行を避けよ。人のをかす罪はみな身の外にあり、されど淫行をなす者は己が身を犯すなり。

Shun all immorality. Every other sin that men commit is something outside the body; but an immoral man sins against his own body.

19 汝らの身は、その内にある神より受けたる聖 靈の宮にして、汝らは己の者にあらざるを知らぬか。

Again, do not you know that your body is a shrine of the Holy Spirit that is within you – the Spirit which you have from God?

20 汝らは價をもて買はれたる者なり、然らばその身をもて神の榮光を顯せ。

Moreover, you are not your own masters; you were bought, and the price was paid. Therefore, honour God in your bodies.