コリント人への手紙第二 1
1 神の思召によりてイエズス、キリストの使徒たるパウロ、及び兄弟チモテオ、コリントに在る神の教會並にアカヤ全地方の聖徒一同に[書簡を贈る]。
Paul, apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and brother Timothy, to the church of God that is in Corinth, together with all the saints throughout Achaia:
2 願はくは我父にて在す神及び主イエズス、キリストより、恩寵と平安とを汝等に賜はらん事を。
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and Sovereign Jesus Christ.
3 祝すべき哉我主キリスト、イエズスの神及び父、慈悲の父、諸の慰の神。即ち
All praise to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and God of all encouragement,
4 我一切の患難に於て我等を慰め給へるは、我等をして、己が神より慰めらるる慰を以て、亦自ら一切の難に迫れる人々を慰むる事を得しめ給はんとなり。
who encourages us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to encourage those who are in whatever affliction, by means of the encouragement with which we ourselves are encouraged by God.
5 蓋キリストの為の苦我等に溢るるが如く、我等の慰も亦キリストを以て溢るるなり。
Because just as the sufferings of the Christ flow over into us, so also our encouraging overflows, through Christ.
6 抑我等が苦難に遇へるも汝等の慰安と救霊との為、慰めらるるも汝等の慰の為にして、汝等にも我等が忍べる如き苦を忍ぶ事を得しむるなり。
Now then, if we are afflicted, it is for the sake of your encouragement and deliverance, that are effective for enduring the same sufferings that we also are suffering
7 斯て汝等が苦を共にするが如く、又慰をも共にせん事を知れば、我等が汝等に對する希望は堅し。
(yes, our hope concerning you is steadfast); if we are encouraged, it also is for the sake of your encouragement and deliverance, since we know that you will share in the encouragement just as you do in the sufferings.
8 蓋兄弟等よ、我等が[小]アジアに於て遇ひし困難に就きて、汝等の知らざるを好まず、即ち責めらるる事過度にして、力及ばず、活くる望をすら失ふに至りしかば、
And so, brothers, we do not want you to be in ignorance concerning the affliction that came upon us in Asia: we were under extreme pressure, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life.
9 心の中には死すとの返答を持ちたりき。是己を頼まずして、死者を復活せしめ給神を頼奉らん為なり。
Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, so that we not place confidence in ourselves, but in the God who raises the dead;
10 即ち曩に斯る死より我等を救ひ給ひて今も救ひ給へば、尚救ひ給ふべき事を信頼するなり。
He did deliver us from that deadly peril, and still delivers; in whom we trust that He will keep on delivering,
11 是亦汝等が我等の為に祈りて援くるに由る、蓋多くの人の願によりて我等に賜はる恵を、多くの人を以て我等の為に感謝せられんとてなり。
you also adding your cooperation in prayer, on our behalf; that thanks may be given by many persons for the gift bestowed on us by means of many, on your behalf.
12 第一項 パウロの眞實を咎め得る者はあらじ 第一編 パウロ使徒としての動作及び氣質を弁護す 我等が誇とする所は、即ち世中、殊に汝等に對して處するに質直なる心と神の賜へる眞實とを以てし、又肉的智恵に由らず神の恩寵に由りてせるを、我良心の證する事是なり。
Now this is our boast: the testimony of our conscience that we have conducted ourselves in the world with openness and godly sincerity, not by fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and especially toward you.
13 蓋我等の書遣るは汝等が読む所知る所に外ならず、
For we do not write you any other things than what you can read and understand; and I do hope that you will keep on understanding to the end
14 汝等既に粗我等を知りたれば、亦主イエズス、キリストの日に於て我等が汝等の名誉なるが如く、汝等も我等の名誉なる事を、終まで知らん事を希望す。
(as indeed some of you have acknowledged) that we are your boast, just as you are ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus.
15 斯る希望の下に再び恩寵を得させんとて、我曩に汝等に至り、
It was in this confidence that I was planning to come by you first,
16 汝等を経てマケドニアに往き、マケドニアより更に復汝等に至り、汝等よりユデアへ送られんと志ししが、
and by you to proceed into Macedonia, and to come back to you from Macedonia (that you might benefit twice), and then to be sent by you on my way to Judea.
17 斯く志したればとて、我豈軽々しくせしものならんや、又我が定むる事をば肉に由りて定め、我に於て然りと云ひ、又然らずと云ふが如き事あらんや。
Now then, when I was deciding this, I was not acting frivolously, was I? Or the things I decide, do I decide according to the flesh, so that with me there would be both “Yes, yes” and “No, no”?
18 神は眞實に在して、我が汝等の中に語りし所には、然り然らずと云ふ事なきを證し給ふ。
As God is faithful, our word to you was not “Yes” and “No”,
19 蓋我等を以て、即ち我とシルヴァノとチモテオとを以て、汝等の中に宣べられ給ひし神の御子イエズス、キリストに於ては、然り然らずと云ふ事なく、唯然りと云ふ事あるのみ。
because the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was proclaimed among you by us—by me and Silvanus and Timothy—was not “Yes” and “No”. In fact, with Him it has always been “Yes”,
20 即神の御約束は彼に於て悉く然りとなりたれば、我等は彼を以て神に向ひて其光榮の為にアメンと誦ふるなり。
because all the promises of God in Him are “Yes”; indeed, in Him they are “Amen”, that there be glory to God through us.
21 汝等と共に我等をキリストに於て堅固ならしめ、且我等に注油し給ひしものは神にて在す。
Now He who establishes us together with you into Christ, and who anointed us, is God,
22 而て尚我等を證印し給ひ、保證として霊を我等の心に賜ひしなり。
who also sealed us and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.
23 我魂を賭けて、神を呼びて證者とし奉る、即ち我が更に汝等に至らざりしは、汝等を宥恕する故なり。
For my part, I call on God as witness, upon my soul, that it was to spare you that I have not yet returned to Corinth.
24 我等は汝等の信仰を壓せんとする者に非ずして、汝等の喜の協力者なり、其は汝等信仰に據りて立てばなり。
(Not that we have control over your faith, but we work with you for your joy, for it is by faith that you stand firm.)
