テサロニケ人への手紙第一 4
1 第一項 道徳に関する勧告 然て兄弟等よ、我等は主イエズスに由りて汝等に求め且希ふ、如何に歩まば神の御意に適ふべきかは、汝等が曾て我等より聞きたる所なれば、其如くに歩みて益進まん事を。
Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
2 其は主イエズスを以て、如何なる教訓を我が汝等に與へしかは、汝等之を知ればなり。
For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.
3 蓋神の御旨は汝等の聖たらん事に在り、即ち汝等自ら私通を禁じ、
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
4 各神を知らざる異邦人の如く情慾の望に任せずして、
That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
5 其器を神聖に且尊く有つ事を知り、
Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
6 又誰も此事に就きて兄弟を欺かず且害せざるに在り、主は是等一切の事に報い給へばなり、我等が既に豫め汝等に語り且證したるが如し。
That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
7 蓋神が我等を召し給ひしは、不潔の為に非ずして、聖たらしめん為なり。
For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
8 故に是等の事を軽んずる人は、人を軽んずるに非ず、我等の身に其聖霊をも賜ひたる神を軽んじ奉るなり。
He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.
9 兄弟的愛に就きては、我等が汝等に書遣るを要せず、其は汝等自ら曾て相愛する事を神より學びたればなり。
But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
10 蓋マケドニア一般に凡ての兄弟に對して、汝等既に之を為せり。然れど兄弟等よ、我等は汝等が益豊にして、
And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more;
11 汝等に命ぜし如く、努めて、沈着きて己が業を営み、手業を為し、又外の人々に對して正しく歩み、人の何物をも望まざらん事を願ふなり。
And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
12 第二項 キリスト再臨に関する教訓 兄弟等よ、永眠せる人々に就きては、汝等が希望なき他の人々の如く歎かざらん為に、汝等の知らざるを好まず、
That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.
13 蓋我等若イエズスの死し給ひ且復活し給ひしことを信ぜば、又神が永眠せし人々をイエズスに於て之と共に携へ給はん[ことを信ずべきなり]。
But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
14 即ち我等、主の御言に由りて汝等に告ぐ、主の再臨の時に生殘る我等は、永眠せし人々に先つ事なかるべし。
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
15 蓋号令、大天使の聲、神の喇叭を合圖に、主自ら天より降り給ひ、キリストに在る死者先復活すべし、
For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
16 次に生殘る我等は、彼等と共に雲に取挙げられて空中にキリストを迎へ、斯て何時も主と共に在るべし。
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17 然れば汝等是等の言を以て相慰めよ。
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
