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 not free? Am I not an apostle? Jesus our Lord, have I not seen? 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, unto others, I am not an apostle, certainly at least, unto you, I am; for, the seal of my apostleship, ye, are in the Lord.
3 我に問ふ人々に對する我答弁は其なり。
My defence, unto them who are examining 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 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 wife, —as even the rest of the 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 have, only I and Barnabas, not a right to forbear working?
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 serveth as a soldier, at his own charges, at any time? Who planteth a vineyard, —and, the fruit thereof, doth not eat? [Or] who shepherdeth a flock, —and, of the milk of the flock, doth not eat?
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。
Is it, after the manner of men, that these things I am saying? Or doth not, even the law, the same things, say?
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 an ox when it is treading out the corn: —Is it, for the oxen, God is caring?
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, for our sakes altogether, is he saying it? For our sakes, it was written; because, he that ploweth, ought, to plow, in hope, —and, he that thresheth, [to thresh] in hope of partaking.
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, unto you, the things of the Spirit have sown, is it a great matter, if, we, of you, the things of the flesh shall reap?
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, of this right, over you, are partaking, [should] not rather, we? nevertheless, we used not this right; but, all [such] things, do we conceal, —lest we should cause any hindrance unto the glad message 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。
Know ye not that, they who labour in the holy rites, do eat the provisions out of the holy place? They who at the altar wait, do, with the altar, share?
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。
Thus, also, hath the Lord, appointed—that, they who the glad message tell, should, of the glad-message, live.
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。
I, however, have not used any of these things; and have not written these things, in order that, so it should be done, in my case; for it were, good for me, rather to die than——my boast, shall, no man, make void!
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 be telling the glad-message, it is, with me, no matter of boasting; for, necessity, upon me, lieth, —for it is, Woe to me, if I should not be telling the glad-message;
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, by choice, this thing I am doing, I have, a reward; but, if not by choice, with a stewardship, have I been entrusted!
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, then, is my reward? that, in telling the glad-message, free of cost, I should put the glad-message, —to the end I should not use to the full my right in the glad-message.
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, though free from all, unto all, myself, I enslaved, —that, the larger number, I might win:
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、
Therefore became I, to the Jews, as, a Jew, —that, Jews, I might win; to them who were under law, as, under law, not being, myself, under law, —that, them who were under law, I might win;
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 them who were without law, as, without law, —not being without law to God, but lawfully subject to Christ, —that I might win them who were 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, unto the weak, weak, —that, the weak, I might win; —to all men, have I become all things, that, by all means, some, I might save.
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。
But, all things, am I doing, for the sake of the glad-message, that a joint-partaker thereof, I may become.
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, in a racecourse, run, all, indeed, run, —but, one, receiveth the prize? So, be running, that ye may lay hold.
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 man who striveth in the games, in all things, useth self-control; —they, indeed, then, that a corruptible crown, they may receive; 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, so, am running, as, not uncertainly, so, am boxing, as not thrashing 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 am beating my body under, and leading it captive, lest, by any means, —unto others, having proclaimed, [the contest], I myself, should be rejected.
