コリント人への手紙第二 9
1 第二項 施の性質及び好果 聖徒等の為にせらるる醵金に就きては、我汝等に書遣るに及ばず、
For, indeed, concerning the ministry which is for the saints, it is, superfluous for me, to be writing to you;
2 汝等の志の趣けるを知ればなり。是によりて我、アカヤ[州]は昨年より既に準備せりとて、マケドニア人の前に汝等を以て誇と為す、斯て汝等の奮發は夥しき人々を励ましたるなり。
For I know your forwardness of mind—of which, in your behalf, I am boasting unto Macedonians, that, Achaia, hath been prepared for a year past, —and, your zeal, hath stirred up the greater number of them.
3 然るを我が兄弟等を遣はしたるは、曾て汝等に就きて誇る事の此點に於て空しからず、既に言へる如く準備の成らん為なり。
Nevertheless I have sent the brethren, that, our boast in your behalf, be not made void, in this respect, that, even as I was saying, ye may be prepared, —
4 若マケドニア人我と共に至りて、汝等の準備の未成らざるを見ば、此點に於て、汝等は言ふに及ばず、恐くは我等も赤面するならん。
Lest by any means, if there should come with me Macedonians, and find you unprepared, we, —not to say, ye, —should be put to shame in this confidence.
5 故に我兄弟等に請ひて、先ちて汝等に至り、既に約束せられし醵金を、吝むが如くにせず恵むが如くにして、豫め備置かしめん事を必要と思へり。
Necessary, therefore, I regarded it, to exhort the brethren that they would go forward unto you, and make up beforehand your previously- promised blessing. The same, to be ready—thus, as a blessing, and not as of constraint.
6 是に於て我は言ふ、吝みて少く蒔く人は亦少く刈り、豊に蒔く人は亦豊に刈らん。
As to this, however, he that soweth sparingly, sparingly, also shall reap, and, he that soweth with blessings, with blessings, also shall reap:
7 各心に決せし如く、吝まず、止むを得ざるに出でずして施すべし、神は喜びて與ふる人を嘉し給へばなり。
Each one, according as he hath purposed in his heart, not sorrowfully, nor of necessity, —for, a cheerful giver, God, loveth.
8 抑神は能く凡ての恩寵を汝等の中に溢れしめ、汝等をして何時も萬事に十分ならざる所なく、凡ての善業に豊ならしむることを得給ふ、
Moreover God is able to cause, every gracious gift, to superabound unto you, in order that, having in every thing, at every time, every kind of sufficiency of your own, ye may be superabounding unto every good work;
Even as it is written—He hath scattered abroad, he hath given to the needy, —his righteousness, abideth to futurity. (aiōn g165)
10 然て蒔く人に種を賜ふ者は食すべき麪をも賜ひ、汝等の種を殖し、且汝等の義の結ぶ果を増し給ふべし。
Now, he that supplieth seed to the sower, and bread for eating, will supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and cause to grow your fruits of righteousness:
11 斯て汝等が萬事に富み、総て快く施すを以て、人は我等に就きて神に感謝し奉るに至らん。
In every thing, being enriched, unto every kind of liberality, —which, indeed, worketh out, through us, thanksgiving unto God;
12 蓋此祭務を行ふは、聖徒等の缺乏を補ふ耳ならず、尚又主に對して多くの感謝を豊ならしむるなり。
Because, the ministry of this public service, is not only towards filling up the deficiencies of the saints, but also superabounding, through the thanksgiving of many, unto God, —
13 即ち聖徒等は此務を證據として、汝等がキリストの福音に對して顕す所の服從、及び彼等にも凡ての人にも快く施せる事に就きて、神に光榮を歸し奉らん。
[Of many] who, through the proof of this ministry, are glorifying God for your acknowledged submission unto the glad-message of the Christ, and for the liberality of the fellowship, unto them, and unto all, —
14 又神の汝等に賜ひし勝れたる恩寵に就き、汝等を慕ひて汝等の為に祈らん。
Themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, longing after you, by reason of the surpassing favour of God [resting] upon you: —
15 言盡し難き御賜に就きて神に感謝し奉るべし。
Thanks be unto God, for his unspeakable bounty!
