ヨハネの手紙第一 4
1 至愛なる者よ、汝等凡ての霊を信ぜずして、霊の神よりのものなりや否やを試みよ、其は多くの偽預言者世に出でたればなり。
Dear friends, do not trust every inspiration, but test each inspiration, to see whether it proceeds from God; because many false Prophets have gone out into the world.
2 神の霊は斯を以て知るべし、即ち肉身に於て來り給ひしイエズス、キリストを宣言する霊は、総て神よりのものなり。
This is the way by which to know the inspiration of God — All inspiration that acknowledges Jesus Christ as come in our human nature is from God;
3 又イエズスを宣言せざる霊は、総て神よりのものに非ず、是非キリストの霊なり。汝等曾て彼の來るを聞きしが、彼今已に世に居るなり。
while all inspiration that does not acknowledge Jesus is not inspiration from God. It is the inspiration of the Anti-Christ; you have heard that it was to come, and it is now already in the world.
4 小子よ、汝等は神よりのものにして、彼偽預言者に勝てり、是汝等に在せるものは、世に在るものより優り給へばなり。
You, my Children, come from God, and you have successfully resisted such men as these, because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
5 彼等は世よりのものなれば世に從ひて語り、而して世は彼等に聴く。
Those men belong to the world; and therefore they speak as the world speaks, and the world listens to them.
6 我等は神よりのものなり、神を識り奉る人は我等に聴き、神よりならざる人は我等に聴かず。我等は是を以て眞理の霊と誤謬の霊とを識る。
We come from God. He who knows God listens to us; the man who does not come from God does not listen to us. By that we may know the true inspiration from the false.
7 第一款 愛の起源、好果及び徴。 第三項 神は愛にて在せば我等は愛を有せざるべからず。 至愛なる者よ、我等は相愛すべし、是愛は神より出で又総て愛する人は神より生れて神を識り奉る者なればなり。
Dear friends, let us love one another, because Love comes from God; and every one who loves has received the new Life from God and knows God.
8 愛せざる人は神を識り奉らず、蓋神は愛にて在す。
He who does not love has not learned to know God; for God is Love.
9 神の愛の我等に於て顕れしは、神が我等をして是によりて活きしめん為に、其御獨子を世に遣はし給ひしを以てなり。
The love of God was revealed to us by his sending his only Son into the world, that we might find Life through him.
10 愛とは斯なり、即ち我等が先に神を愛し奉りしに非ずして、神御自ら先に我等を愛し給ひ、我等の罪の為に御子を贖として遣はし給ひしなり。
His love is seen in this — not in our having loved God, but in his loving us and sending his Son to be an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
11 至愛なる者よ、神の我等を愛し給ひし事斯の如くなれば、我等も亦相愛すべきなり。
Dear friends, since God loved us thus, we, surely, ought to love one another.
12 誰も曾て神を見奉りし事なし、我等にして相愛せば、神我等の衷に止り給ひて、之を愛し奉る愛は我等に於て完全なり。
No human eyes have ever seen God, yet, if we love one another, God remains in union with us, and his love attains its perfection in us.
13 我等が神に止り奉る事と神が我等に止り給ふ事とを知るは、神が其霊を我等に賜ひしによりてなり。
We know that we remain in union with him, and he with us, by this — by his having given us some measure of his Spirit.
14 父が御子を世の救主として遣はし給ひし事は、我等目撃して之を證す。
Moreover, our eyes have seen — and we are testifying to the fact — that the Father has sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
15 凡そイエズスが神の御子にて在すことを宣言する者は、神之に止り給ふ、彼も亦神に止り奉る、
Whoever acknowledges that Jesus Christ is the Son of God — God remains in union with that man, and he with God.
16 神の我等に對して有し給へる愛は、我等こそ之を知り、且信じたる者なれ。神は愛にて在す、而して愛に止る者は神に止り奉り、神も亦之に止り給ふ。
And, moreover, we have learned to know, and have accepted as a fact, the love which God has for us. God is Love; and he who lives in love lives in God, and God in him.
17 愛が我等に於て完全なるは、我等が審判の日に憚る所なからん為なり、其は我等は此世に於て主に似奉ればなり。
It is through this that love has attained its perfection in us, so that we may have confidence on the Day of Judgment, because what Christ is that we also are in this world.
18 愛には懼れなし、懼れは苦罰を含むが故に、完全なる愛は懼を除く、懼るる者は愛に完全ならざる者なり。
There is no fear in love. No! Love, when perfect, drives out fear, for fear implies punishment, and the man who feels fear has not attained to perfect love.
19 然れば我等神を愛し奉るべし、神先我等を愛し給ひたればなり。
We love, because God first loved us.
20 人ありて、我神を愛し奉ると言ひつつ己が兄弟を憎まば、これ虚言者なり、蓋目に見ゆる兄弟を愛せざる者争でか見え給はざる神を愛し奉ることを得べき。
If a man says ‘I love God,’ and yet hates his Brother, he is a liar; for the man who does not love his Brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.
21 且神を愛し奉る人は己が兄弟をも愛すべしとは、是我等が神より賜はれる掟なり。
Indeed, we have this Command from God — ‘He who loves God must also love his Brother.’
