コリント人への手紙第一 9
1 第五項 パウロ、生活上に自由を濫用せざりしことを説示す 我は自由の身ならずや、使徒ならずや、我主イエズス、キリストを見奉りしに非ずや、汝等が主に在るは、我業ならずや。
Am I not free? am I not an apostle? have I not seen Jesus our Lord? are not ye my work in [the] Lord?
2 我假令他の人に取りては使徒に非ずとするも、汝等には使徒なり、其は汝等は主に於て我使徒職の印章なればなり。
If I am not an apostle to others, yet at any rate I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in [the] Lord.
3 我に問ふ人々に對する我答弁は其なり。
My defence to those who examine me is this:
4 然て我等は飲食する権なきか、
Have we not a right to eat and to drink?
5 他の使徒等、主の兄弟等及びケファの如く、姉妹なる婦を携ふる権なきか、
have we not a right to take round a sister [as] wife, as also the other apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
6 又唯我一人とバルナバとのみ勞働せざる権なきか。
Or I alone and Barnabas, have we not a right not to work?
7 誰か自ら費用を弁じて軍に出づる者あらんや、誰か葡萄園を植ゑて其果を食せざる者あらんや、誰か群を牧して群の乳を飲まざる者あらんや。
Who ever carries on war at his own charges? who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? or who herds a flock and does not eat of the milk of the flock?
8 我豈人間の通例に由りてのみ斯る事を言はんや、律法も斯く云ふに非ずや。
Do I speak these things as a man, or does not the law also say these things?
9 即ちモイゼの律法に録して、「汝穀物を踏碾す牛の口を結ぶ事勿れ」、とあり、神は牛の為に慮り給へるか、
For in the law of Moses it is written, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that is treading out corn. Is God occupied about the oxen,
10 之を曰へるは實に我等の為なるか、然り我等の為に録されたるなり。蓋耕す者は希望を以て耕し、穀物を踏碾す者も其果を得るの希望を以てすべきなり。
or does he say [it] altogether for our sakes? For for our sakes it has been written, that the plougher should plough in hope, and he that treads out corn, in hope of partaking of [it].
11 汝等の中に霊的の物を蒔きたる我等なれば、汝等の肉的の物を刈取るとも、豈大事ならんや。
If we have sown to you spiritual things, [is it a] great [thing] if we shall reap your carnal things?
12 他の人汝等の上に其権を有するに、我等何を以てか一層然らざらんや。然れども我等は此権を利用せずして、聊もキリストの福音を妨げざらん為に、何事をも忍ぶなり。
If others partake of this right over you, should not rather we? But we have not used this right, but we bear all things, that we may put no hindrance in the way of the glad tidings of the Christ.
13 汝等知らずや、聖職を営む人々は[聖]殿の物を食し、又祭壇に事ふる人々は祭壇の分配に與る。
Do ye not know that they who labour [at] sacred things eat of the [offerings offered in the] temple; they that attend at the altar partake with the altar?
14 斯の如く、主も亦福音を宣ぶる人々が福音に由りて生活する事を定め給ひしなり。
So also the Lord has ordained to those that announce the glad tidings to live of the glad tidings.
15 我斯る事を一も利用せざりしに、而も之を書送るは、斯の如く為られんとには非ず、其は此名誉の點を人に奪はるるよりは、寧死するこそ我に取りて善ければなり。
But I have used none of these things. Now I have not written these things that it should be thus in my case; for [it were] good for me rather to die than that any one should make vain my boast.
16 蓋福音を宣ぶるも、之を以て名誉とするに非ず、我は其必要に迫れるなり。福音を宣傳へざらんは、我に取りて禍なればなり。
For if I announce the glad tidings, I have nothing to boast of; for a necessity is laid upon me; for it is woe to me if I should not announce the glad tidings.
17 即ち快く之を為せば報を得、心ならず之を為すも、其務は我に委ねられたるなり。
For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward; but if not of my own will, I am entrusted with an administration.
18 然らば我報は如何なるものぞ、其は福音を宣べて、人に費なく福音を得させ、福音に於る我権を利用せざる事是なり。
What is the reward then that I have? That in announcing the glad tidings I make the glad tidings costless [to others], so as not to have made use, as belonging to me, of my right in [announcing] the glad tidings.
19 蓋我は衆人に對して自由の身なれども、成るべく多くの人を儲けん為に、身を以て衆人の奴隷となせり。
For being free from all, I have made myself bondman to all, that I might gain the most [possible].
20 ユデア人を儲けん為には、ユデア人に對してユデア人の如くに成り、
And I became to the Jews as a Jew, in order that I might gain the Jews: to those under law, as under law, not being myself under law, in order that I might gain those under law:
21 律法の下に在る人々を儲けん為には、己律法の下に在ざれども、律法の下にある人々に對して律法の下に在が如くに成り、律法なき人々を儲けん為には、己は神の律法なきに非ずしてキリストの律法の下に在ども、律法なき人々に對して律法なき者の如くに成り、
to those without law, as without law, (not as without law to God, but as legitimately subject to Christ, ) in order that I might gain [those] without law.
22 弱き人々を儲けん為には、弱き者に對して弱き者と成り、如何にもして數人を救はん為には、衆人に對して如何なる者にも成れり。
I became to the weak, [as] weak, in order that I might gain the weak. To all I have become all things, in order that at all events I might save some.
23 我が如何なる事をも福音の為にするは、其分に與らんとてなり。
And I do all things for the sake of the glad tidings, that I may be fellow-partaker with them.
24 第六項 此理を應用して献身を勧む 汝等知らずや、競走の場を走る人は悉く走ると雖も、賞を受くるは一人のみ、汝等受け得べき様に走れ。
Know ye not that they who run in [the] race-course run all, but one receives the prize? Thus run in order that ye may obtain.
25 総て勝負を争ふ人は萬事を節へ慎む、而も彼等は朽つる冠を得んとするに、我等は朽ちざる冠を得んとす。
But every one that contends [for a prize] is temperate in all things: they then indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
26 故に我が走るは目的なきが如くには非ず、我が戰ふは空を撃つが如くには非ず、
I therefore thus run, as not uncertainly; so I combat, as not beating the air.
27 而も我わが體を打ちて之を奴隷たらしむ、是は他人を教へて自ら棄てられん事を懼るればなり。
But I buffet my body, and lead it captive, lest [after] having preached to others I should be myself rejected.
