コリント人への手紙第二 10
1 第一項 パウロの権力及び勞力 面前に居る時は汝等の中に謙りて、居らざる時は汝等に對して敢て大胆なる我パウロ、自らキリストの柔和と謙遜とを以て汝等に希ふ。
Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Christ; I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am of good courage toward you.
2 或人々は我等を恰も肉に從ひて歩むが如く思ふが故に、我が汝等に願ふ所は、其處に居りて彼の思はるる大胆を以て敢て此の人々に對はざらん事是なり。
But I implore you that when I am present I may not have to be bold with the confidence with which I intend on showing against some, who consider us to be walking according to the flesh.
3 蓋我等肉に於て歩むと雖も、肉に從ひて戰ふには非ず。
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh;
4 即ち我等の戰の武器は肉的に非ずして、城塞を破るほど神によりて強きなり。之を以て謀計と、
for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty in God for the tearing down of strongholds,
5 神の智識に逆らひて驕る計畧と堡塁とを悉く壊し、凡ての理性を虜にしてキリストに服從せしむ。
throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;
6 又汝等の服從完全になりたらん時、一切の悖逆を罰せんとす。
and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience, when your obedience will be made full.
7 外面の事を看よ、人若し自らキリストのものなりと思はば、又省みて自らキリストのものとなるが如く、我等も亦然りと考ふべし。
Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ's, let him consider this again with himself, that, even as he is Christ's, so also we are Christ's.
8 蓋假令我等の権力、即ち主が汝等を破る為ならで立つる為に、我等に賜ひたる権力に就きて愈誇るとも、我は赤面せざるべし。
For though I should boast somewhat abundantly concerning our authority, (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down) I will not be disappointed,
9 但我書簡を以て汝等を威すと思はれざらん為、
that I may not seem as if I desire to terrify you by my letters.
10 ――即ち彼等は云ふ、其書簡こそ厳しく且強けれ、面前には身は弱く談話は拙しと、――
For, "His letters," they say, "are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised."
11 斯の如き人は我等が居らざる時書簡によりて語るが如く、居る時も亦實際に然りと覚悟せざるべからず。
Let such a person consider this, that what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such are we also in deed when we are present.
12 蓋己を立つる人々には、我等身を並べ又は比ぶる事を敢てせず、彼等は己を以て己を度り、己に己を比べて悟らざる者なり。
For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.
13 我等は度外に誇らず、神の我等に度りて賜ひたる分界の度によりて誇る、其度は汝等にまで及べる事即ち是なり。
But we will not boast beyond proper limits, but within the boundaries with which God appointed to us, which reach even to you.
14 其は汝等まで届かざるものの如く、度を超えて身を延ばしたるに非ずして、實にキリストの福音を以て汝等に及びたればなり。
For we do not stretch ourselves too much, as though we did not reach to you. For we came even as far as to you with the Good News of Christ,
15 我等は他人の働を以て度外に誇らず、唯汝等が信仰の彌増すに随ひて、己が分界に應じて汝等の中に益大いならん事を希望し、
not boasting excessively in the work done by others, but having hope that as your faith grows, we will be abundantly enlarged by you in our sphere of influence,
16 又既に準備せられたる他人の分界に誇らずして、尚汝等を踰えて他にも福音を宣べん事を希望す。
so as to preach the Good News even to the regions beyond you, not to boast in what someone else has already done.
17 誇る人は宜しく主によりて誇るべし、
But "he who boasts, let him boast in the Lord."
18 其は可とせらるる者は、己を立つる人に非ずして、主の立て給ふ所の人なればなり。
For it is not he who commends himself who is approved, but whom the Lord commends.
