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1 イエス・キリストの召使い，またヤコブの兄弟であるユダから，父なる神によって聖別されており，イエス・キリストのために守られている，召された者たちへ。
To those who, having received the call, have been loved by God the Father and protected by Jesus Christ, From Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and the brother of James.
2 あわれみと平和と愛があなた方に増し加えられますように。
May mercy, peace, and love be yours in ever increasing measure.
3 愛する者たちよ，わたしたちの共通の救いについてあなた方に書き送ろうと切望していましたが，かつて聖徒たちに伝えられた信仰のために真剣に戦うよう勧めるため，あなた方に書き送る必要が生じました。
Dear friends, while I was making every effort to write to you about our common salvation, I felt that I must write to you at once to encourage you to fight in defence of the faith that has once for all been entrusted to the keeping of Christ’s people.
4 というのは，ひそかに忍び込んできたある者たち，それも以下に述べるような裁きを受けるとずっと前から書かれていた者たち，また不信心な者たち，わたしたちの神の恵みをみだらな楽しみに変え，わたしたちの唯一の主人，神，また主であるイエス・キリストを否認している者たちがいるからです。
For there have crept in among you certain godless people, whose sentence has long since been pronounced, and who make the mercy of God an excuse for profligacy, and disown our only lord and master, Jesus Christ.
5 あなた方がすでに知っていることですが，わたしは次のことをあなた方に思い出させたいと思っています。それは，主が，民をエジプトの地から救い出し，のちに信じなかった者たちを滅ぼされたということです。
Now I want to remind you – but you already know it all – that, though the Lord delivered the people from Egypt, yet he afterwards destroyed those who refused to believe in him;
and that even those angels, who did not keep to their appointed spheres, but left their proper homes, have been kept by him for the judgment of the great day in everlasting chains and black darkness. (aïdios g126)
Like Sodom and Gomorrah and the towns near them, which gave themselves up to fornication, and fell into unnatural vice, these angels now stand out as a warning, undergoing, as they are, punishment in eternal fire. (aiōnios g166)
8 それなのに，あの夢を見ている者たちも同じように，肉を汚し，権威をさげすみ，天にいる者たちを中傷しています。
Yet in the same way these people, too, cherishing vain dreams, pollute our human nature, reject control, and malign the celestial beings.
9 しかし，み使いのかしらミカエルは，悪魔と言い争い，モーセの体について論じ合っていた時，ののしって裁きをもたらすことはあえてせず，「主があなたをとがめてくださるように！」と言いました。
Yet even Michael, the archangel, when, in his dispute with the devil, he was arguing about the body of Moses, did not venture to charge him with maligning, but said merely “The Lord rebuke you!”
10 しかし，これらの者たちは自分が知ってもいない事柄について悪く言います。彼らは，理性のない動物と同じく生まれつき理解している事柄において，自分をだめにしています。
But these people malign whatever they do not understand; while they use such things as they know by instinct (like the animals that have no reason) for their own corruption.
11 彼らは災いです！ 彼らはカインの道を行き，報酬のためにバラムの迷いに突き進み，コラの反抗によって滅びたからです。
Alas for them! They walk in the steps of Cain; led astray by Balaam’s love of gain, they plunge into sin, and meet their ruin through rebellion like Korah.
12 これらの者たちは，あなた方と一緒に食事をするとはいえ，あなた方の親ぼくの食事における隠れた岩礁であり，恐れもなく自らを養う羊飼い，風に吹きまわされる水のない雲，実を結ばずに二度死んで根こそぎにされた秋の木，
These are the people who are blots on your “love-feasts,” when they feast together and provide without scruple for themselves alone. They are clouds without rain, driven before the winds; they are leafless trees without a vestige of fruit, dead through and through, torn up by the roots;
they are wild sea waves, foaming with their own shame; they are “wandering stars,” for which the blackest darkness has been reserved for ever. (aiōn g165)
14 これらの者たちについては，アダムから七代目のエノクも預言してこう言いました。「見よ，主はご自分の幾万もの聖なる者たちを率いて来られた。
To these people, as to others, Enoch, the seventh in descent from Adam, declared – “See! The Lord has come with his hosts of holy ones around him,
15 すべての者に裁きを執行するため，そして，すべての不信心な者を，彼らが不信心な仕方で行なったあらゆる不信心な業について，また不信心な罪人たちがご自分に対して語ったあらゆるひどい言葉について，有罪を宣告するためだ」。
to execute judgment on all people, and to convict all godless people of all their godless acts, which in their ungodliness they have committed, and of all the harsh words which they have spoken against him, godless sinners that they are!”
16 これらの者たちは，つぶやく者また不平を言う者であり，自分の欲望のままに歩んでおり（そして彼らの口は横柄な事柄を語ります），利益のために人にへつらって見せています。
These people are always murmuring, and complaining of their lot; they follow where their passions lead them; they have arrogant words on their lips; and they flatter others for the sake of what they can get from them.
17 しかし，愛する者たちよ，あなた方は，わたしたちの主イエス・キリストの使徒たちによって前もって語られていた言葉を思い出しなさい。
But you should, dear friends, recall what was foretold by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
18 彼らはあなた方にこう言いました。「終わりの時には，自分自身の不信心な欲望のままに歩む，あざける者たちが現われるだろう」。
how they used to say to you – “As time draws to an end, there will be scoffers, who will be led by their godless passions.”
19 これらの者たちは分裂を引き起こす者であり，肉欲的で，霊を持っていません。
These are the people – animal and unspiritual – who cause divisions.
20 しかし，愛する者たちよ，あなた方は，自分の極めて聖なる信仰の上に自らを築き上げ，聖霊のうちにあって祈り続けなさい。
But you must, dear friends, build up your characters on the foundation of your most holy faith, pray under the guidance of the Holy Spirit,
and keep within the love of God, while waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, to bring you to eternal life. (aiōnios g166)
22 相違を作り出す人たちを哀れみ，
To some show pity, because they are in doubt. “Drag them out of the fire,” and save them.
23 肉によって汚された衣さえ憎みつつ，恐れをもって彼らを火の中からつかみ出して救いなさい。
To others show pity, but with caution, hating the clothing polluted by their touch.
24 それでは，つまずきから彼らを守り，あなた方を欠点のない者として大きな喜びのうちにご自分の栄光のみ前に立たせることがおできになる方，
To him who is able to guard you from falling, and to bring you into his glorious presence, blameless and rejoicing –
