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1 斯の如く、妻たる者も亦己が夫に服すべし、是夫が、假令御言を信ぜざるも、妻の行状によりて無言の裏に、
In like manner, ye wives, [be] in subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives;
2 汝等の畏敬に在る操の行状を鑑みて儲けられん為なり。
beholding your chaste behavior [coupled] with fear.
3 其飾は表面の縮らし髪、金の飾環、身に着けたる衣服に在らずして、
Whose [adorning] let it not be the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on apparel;
4 心の中に隠れたる人、即ち貞淑、謹慎なる精神の變らざるに在るべし、是こそは神の御前に價高きものなれ。
but [let it be] the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible [apparel] of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
5 蓋古代の聖女等も神を希望し奉りて、己が夫に服しつつ斯の如く身を飾りたりしが、
For after this manner aforetime the holy women also, who hoped in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:
6 其如くサラは[其夫]アブラハムを主と呼びて之に從ひ居たり。汝等は彼が女として善を為し、何の變動をも懼れざるなり。
as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose children ye now are, if ye do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.
7 夫たる者よ、同じく知識に從ひて同居し、婦を我よりも弱き器として、而も相共に生命の恩寵を嗣ぐ者として、之を尊重し、汝等の祈を妨げられざる様にせよ。
Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell with [your wives] according to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.
8 第二項 信徒一般に對する教訓。 終に[言はん]、汝等皆心を同じうして相勞り、兄弟を愛し、慈悲謙遜にして、
Finally, [be] ye all likeminded, compassionate, loving as brethren, tenderhearted, humbleminded:
9 惡を以て惡に報いず、罵を以て罵に報いず、却て祝福せよ。是世嗣として祝福を得ん為之に召されたる汝等なればなり。
not rendering evil for evil, or reviling for reviling; but contrariwise blessing; for hereunto were ye called, that ye should inherit a blessing.
10 蓋生命を愛して佳日を見んと欲する人は、其舌をして惡を避けしめ、其唇偽を語らず、
For, He that would love life, And see good days, Let him refrain his tongue from evil, And his lips that they speak no guile:
11 惡に遠ざかりて善を為し、平和を求めて之を追ふべきなり。
And let him turn away from evil, and do good; Let him seek peace, and pursue it.
12 是主の御目は義人等の上を顧み、御耳は彼等の祈に傾き、御顔は惡を為す人々に怒り給へばなり。
For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, And his ears unto their supplication: But the face of the Lord is upon them that do evil.
13 抑汝等若善に熱心ならば、誰か汝等に害を為すべき。
And who is he that will harm you, if ye be zealous of that which is good?
14 又假令義の為に苦しめらるるも福なり、人々の威を懼れず、心を騒がさず、
But even if ye should suffer for righteousness’ sake, blessed [are ye]: and fear not their fear, neither be troubled;
15 心の中に主キリストを聖なるものとせよ。常に汝等に在る所の希望の所以に就きて、問ふ人毎に満足を與ふる準備あれよ、
but sanctify in your hearts Christ as Lord: [being] ready always to give answer to every man that asketh you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, yet with meekness and fear:
16 但善き良心を有して柔和と畏敬とを以て答弁せよ。是キリストに於る汝等の善き振舞を讒言する人々の、其譏る所に就きて自ら耻ぢん為なり。
having a good conscience; that, wherein ye are spoken against, they may be put to shame who revile your good manner of life in Christ.
17 蓋神の思召ならば善を為して苦しむは惡を為して苦しむに優れり。
For it is better, if the will of God should so will, that ye suffer for well-doing than for evil-doing.
18 即ちキリストも一度我等の罪の為に、即ち義人として不義者の為に死し給ひしが、是我等を神に献げ給はん為にして、肉にては殺され給ひしかど、霊にては活かされ給ひ、
Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
19 其霊は獄に在りし霊に至りて救を宣傳へ給へり。
in which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison,
20 是等の者は、昔ノエの時代に神の忍耐の待ちをりしに、方舟の造らるる間服せざりし者なりしが、此方舟に於て水より救はれし者僅に八人なりき。
that aforetime were disobedient, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water:
21 之に前表せられたる洗禮こそ今汝等をも救へるなれ。是肉身の穢を去る故に非ずして、イエズス、キリストの御復活によりて善き良心が神に為し奉る約束の故なり。
which also after a true likeness doth now save you, [even] baptism, not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the interrogation of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ;
22 彼は（我等に永遠の生命を得しめん為に、死を亡ぼして）天に往き給ひ神の御右に在して天使、権勢、能力は之に服せしめられたるなり。
who is on the right hand of God, having gone into heaven; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.
