コリント人への手紙第一 4
1 第四項 パウロ自己の弁解 然れば人は宜しく、我等をキリストの僕、神の奥義の分配者と思ふべし。
Let a man, so, be reckoning of us, as officers of Christ, and stewards of sacred secrets of God.
2 然て分配者に要求する所は其忠實なる事なれど、
Here, furthermore, it is sought in stewards, that, faithful, one be found.
3 我は汝等により、或は人の裁判によりて是非せらるることを、聊も意と為ず、又自ら是非する事をも為ざるなり。
With me, however, it counteth for the very smallest thing, that, by you, I should be examined, or by a human day. Nay! I am not even examining myself,
4 蓋良心に何の咎むる事はなけれども、之に由りて義とせらるるには非ず、我を是非し給ふ者は主なり。
For, of nothing, to myself, am I conscious: nevertheless, not hereby, am I declared righteous, but, he that doth examine me, is the Lord.
5 然れば汝等主の來り給ふ迄は、時に先ちて是非すること勿れ、主は暗夜の隠れたる所をを照らし、心の謀を發き給ふべし、其時面々に神より誉を得ん。
So then, not before the fitting time, be judging anything, —until the Lord shall come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and, then, the praise shall come to each one, from God.
6 兄弟等よ、我が是等の事を、我とアポルロとに引當てて云ひしは、是汝等の為、即ち我等の例を以て、録されたる以外に、一人を揚げ一人を蔑げて誇らざらん事を汝等に學ばしめん為なり。
But, these things, brethren, have I transferred unto myself and Apollos, for your sakes, that, in us, ye might learn [the lesson] —Not beyond the things that are written…! that ye do not puff yourselves up, individually, for this one against that.
7 蓋汝を差別する者は誰ぞや、汝の有てる物にして、貰はざりし物は何かある、貰ひしならば、何ぞ貰はざりしが如くに誇るや。
For who maketh thee to differ? and what hast thou which thou didst not receive? But, if thou didst even receive it, why dost thou boast, as though thou hadst not received it?
8 汝等既に飽足れり、既に富めり、我等を措きて王となれり。然り汝等王たれかし、然らば我等も汝等と共に王たるを得ん。
Already, ye have become full, already, ye are become rich, —apart from us, ye are become kings! And I would indeed ye had become kings, that, we also, with you, might have together become kings!
9 蓋我想ふに、神は使徒たる我等を、後の者、死に定まりたる者として見せ給へり。即ち我等は全世界、天使等にも人間にも観物とせられたるなり。
For I think that, God, hath set forth, us the apostles, to be last of all, as men devoted to death, —in that, a spectacle, have we been made, unto the world, —both unto messengers and unto men.
10 我等はキリストの為に愚者なるに、汝等はキリストに於て智者なり、我等は弱くして汝等は強く、汝等は尊くして我等は卑し。
We, are foolish for Christ’s sake, but, ye, prudent in Christ; we are weak, but, ye, mighty; ye, all-glorious, but, we, dishonoured.
11 今の時に至る迄も、我等は飢ゑ、又渇き、又素肌なり、又頬を打たれ、又定まれる住所なく、
Until the present hour, we both hunger and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and are wanderers,
12 又手業を営みて勞し、詛はれては祝し、迫害せられては忍び、
And toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless, being persecuted, we hold on,
13 罵られては祈り、今に至る迄も世の芥、衆人の捨物の如くになれり。
Being defamed, we beseech: as the sweepings of the world have we become, the offscouring of all—until even now.
14 我が斯く書記せるは、汝等を辱めんとには非ず、唯我至愛なる子として誡むるのみ。
Not, to shame you, write I these things; but, as my beloved children, I admonish you.
15 蓋汝等キリストに於て、師は一萬ありとも父は數多からず、其は福音を以て汝等をキリスト、イエズスに生みたるは我なればなり。
For, though myriads of tutors ye should have in Christ, yet not many fathers; for, in Christ Jesus, through means of the joyful message, I, begat you.
16 故に我汝等に希ふ、（我がキリストに倣へる如く）汝等も我に倣へ。
I beseech you, therefore, —become imitators of me.
17 我は之が為に、主に於て忠實なる我至愛の子チモテオを汝等に遣はしたるが、彼はキリスト、イエズスに於る我道、即ち至る處の各教會に我が教ふる所を、汝等に思出さしめん。
For this cause, sent I unto you, Timothy, —who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who shall put, you, in mind of my ways which are in Christ [Jesus], even as, everywhere, in every assembly, I teach.
18 或人々は我汝等に至らずとて誇れども、
But, as though I were not coming unto you, some are puffed up!
19 主の思召ならば、我は速に汝等に至り、誇れる人々の言を措きて其實力を知らんとす。
Howbeit, I will come quickly unto you, —if, the Lord, please, —and will get to know—not the speech of them who are puffed up, but, the power;
20 是神の國は言にあるに非ずして實力にあればなり。
For, not in speech, is the kingdom of God, but, in power.
21 汝等は敦をか望める、我が鞭を以て汝等に至らん事か、将愛と温和の心とを以て至らん事か。
What will ye? that, with a rod, I should come unto you? or, with love, and a spirit of meekness?
