テサロニケ人への手紙第一 2
1 第一項 テサロニケに於るパウロの布教 兄弟等よ、我が汝等の中に入りし事の空しからざりしは、汝等自ら之を知れり。
For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you was not in vain,
2 即ち汝等の知れる如く、我等は曾てフィリッピに於て苦められ、辱を受けたりしも、我神に信頼し奉りて、種々の争の中に、敢て神の福音を汝等に宣べたるなり。
but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell you the Good News of God in much conflict.
3 蓋我等の勧は迷にも穢にも欺にもよる事なく、
For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.
4 人の心を迎へんとするが如くにせず、我等の心を認め給ふ神の御旨に適はんとて、神より認められて福音を托せられ奉りし儘に語る。
But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak; not as pleasing people, but God, who tests our hearts.
5 又我等が諂諛の言を曾て用いし事なきは汝等の知れる所にして、之を口實として貪りし事なきは神の證し給ふ所なり。
For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed (God is witness),
6 又我等は人に、即ち汝等にも他人にも、名誉を求めず、
nor seeking glory from people (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.
7 キリストの使徒として汝等に重んぜらるるを得たれども、汝等の中にては子兒の如くに成りて、恰も、乳母が其子兒を愛育する如くなりき。
But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.
8 斯く汝等を戀慕ひて汝等は我至愛の者と成りたれば、我等は神の福音のみならず、生命をも汝等に與へんことを切に望み居れり。
Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.
9 蓋兄弟等よ、汝等は我等の勞苦を記憶せり、汝等の一人をも煩はさざらん為に、我等は晝夜勞働して、汝等の中に神の福音を宣傳へたり。
For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.
10 我等が如何に聖にして且正しく且咎なく、信じたる汝等に對したるかは、汝等も之を證し、神も亦之を證し給ふ所、
You are witnesses with God, how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.
11 又我が如何に父の子等に於る如く、汝等の各に對ひて、
As you know, as a father with his own children,
12 其御國と光榮とに汝等を召し給へる神に相應しく歩まんことを勧め、且奨励し、且希ひしかは、汝等の知る所なり。
we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you to lead a life worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.
13 故に又汝等が、神の御言を我等に聞きし時、之を以て人の言と為ず、事實然あるが如く、信じたる汝等の中に働き給ふ神の御言として受けし事を、絶えず神に感謝し奉るなり。
For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as a human word, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.
14 蓋兄弟等よ、汝等はユデアに於てキリスト、イエズスに在る神の諸教會の例に從へる者と成れり、其は彼等がユデア人より受けし如き苦を、汝等も同邦人より受けたればなり。
For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Judeans;
15 ユデア人は主イエズスをも預言者等をも殺し、又我等を迫害したるに、尚神の御意に適はず、衆人に敵對し、
who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and did not please God, and are hostile to all people;
16 我等が異邦人に救を得させんとて語る事を拒み、斯の如くにして常に己が罪を満たす、然れど神の御怒は彼等の上に及びて其極に至れり。
forbidding us to speak to those who are not Jewish that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.
17 第二項 パウロがテサロニケを離れし以後の事實 兄弟等よ、我等は外見上暫時汝等を離れしも、心は離れず、一層早く汝等の顔を見ん事を切望せり。
But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short season, in presence, not in heart, tried even harder to see your face with great desire,
18 即ち我等は汝等に至らんとし、特に我パウロは一度も二度も然したれど、サタンは我等を妨げたり。
because we wanted to come to you—indeed, I, Paul, once and again—but Satan hindered us.
19 蓋我等の希望、或は喜、或は誇るべき冠は何ぞ、我主イエズス、キリストの降臨の時、御前に於て汝等も其なるに非ずや、
For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Is it not even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?
20 其は汝等は實に我等の光榮にして且喜なればなり。
For you are our glory and our joy.
