テモテへの手紙第一 6
1 総て軛の下に在る奴隷は、其主人を全く尊ぶべきものと思ふべし、是主の御名と教との罵られざらん為なり。
All who are in the position of slaves should regard their masters as deserving of the greatest respect, so that the Name of God, and our Teaching, may not be maligned.
2 信徒たる主人を有てる者は、兄弟なりとて之を軽んずべからず、却て慈善を共にせる者が信徒にして己之に愛せらるるにより、一層善く事ふべし。是等の事を教へ且勧めよ。
Those who have Christian masters should not think less of them because they are their Brothers, but on the contrary they should serve them all the better, because those who are to benefit by their good work are dear to them as their fellow Christians.
3 第三項 結末の教訓 人ありて、若異なる事を教へ、我主イエズス、キリストの健全なる談話と敬虔に適へる教とに服せずば、
Any one who teaches otherwise, and refuses his assent to sound instruction — the instruction of our Lord Jesus Christ — and to the teaching of religion,
4 是何事をも識らずして自ら驕り、病的に議論と言争とを好む者なり、是より起るは嫉妬、口論、侮辱、邪推、
is puffed up with conceit, not really knowing anything, but having a morbid craving for discussions and arguments. Such things only give rise to envy, quarrelling, recriminations, base suspicions,
5 又精神腐敗し眞理缺乏して、敬虔を利益の道なりと思ふ人々の争等なり。
and incessant wrangling on the part of these corrupt-minded people who have lost all hold on the Truth, and who think of religion only as a source of gain.
6 抑足る事を知れる敬虔こそは大いなる利益の道なれ、
And a great source of gain religion is, when it brings contentment with it!
7 其は我等が此世に來りし時何物をも携へざりしかば、去る時亦何物をも取る能はざるは疑なき所なればなり。
For we brought nothing into the world, because we cannot even carry anything out of it.
8 衣食だにあらば、我等は其にて満足すべし。
So, with food and shelter, we will be content.
9 蓋富まんと欲する人々は、誘惑と惡魔の罠とに陥り、人を堕落と滅亡とに沈むる、愚にして有害なる種々の慾望に陥る。
Those who want to be rich fall into the snares of temptation, and become the prey of many foolish and harmful ambitions, which plunge people into Destruction and Ruin.
10 即ち利慾は一切の惡事の根なり、或人々は之が為に信仰に遠ざかりて迷ひ、多くの苦を以て己を刺貫けり。
Love of money is a source of all kinds of evil; and in their eagerness to be rich some have wandered away from the Faith, and have been pierced to the heart by many a regret.
11 然れど神の人よ、汝は是等の事を避けて、正義、敬虔、信仰、慈愛、忍耐、柔和を求め、
But do you, Servant of God, avoid all this. Aim at righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, gentleness.
Run the great race of the Faith, and win the Immortal Life. It was for this that you received the Call, and, in the presence of many witnesses, made the great profession of Faith. (aiōnios g166)
13 我萬物を活かし給ふ神の御前、及びポンシオ、ピラトの時に立證して善き宣言を為し給ひしキリスト、イエズスの御前に、汝に命ず、
I urge you, as in the sight of God, the source of all life, and of Christ Jesus who before Pontius Pilate made the great profession of Faith —
14 我主イエズス、キリストの顕れ給ふまで、穢なく咎なく掟を守れ、
I urge you to keep his Command free from stain or reproach, until the Appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ.
15 其時期至りては、至福唯一の主権者、諸王の王、総て主たる者の主はイエズス、キリストを顕し給はんとす、
This will be brought about in his own time by the one ever-blessed Potentate, the King of all kings and Lord of all lords,
who alone is possessed of immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has ever seen or ever can see — to whom be ascribed honour and power for ever. Amen. (aiōnios g166)
Urge upon those who are wealthy in this life not to pride themselves, or fix their hopes, on so uncertain a thing as wealth, but on God, who gives us a wealth of enjoyment on every side. (aiōn g165)
18 善を為して善業に富める者と成り、快く施し且分與へ、
Urge upon them to show kindness, to exhibit a wealth of good actions, to be open-handed and generous,
19 眞の生命を捉ふる様、将來の為に善き資本を蓄へん事を。
storing up for themselves what in the future will prove to be a good foundation, that they may gain the only true Life.
20 嗚呼チモテオよ、托せられしものを守りて、世俗の空言と有名無實なる學識の反論とを避けよ、
Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you. Avoid the profane prattle and contradictions of what some miscall ‘theology,’
21 或人々は之を粧ひて信仰の的を外れたるなり。願はくは恩寵汝と共に在らん事を、アメン。
for there are those who, while asserting their proficiency in it, have yet, as regards the Faith, gone altogether astray. God bless you all.
