テモテへの手紙第二 2
1 第二項 勞苦に拘らず勇氣を振ふべし 然れば我子よ、汝キリスト、イエズスに於る恩寵に愈堅固なれ。
Thou therefore, my child, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus;
2 然て、數多の證人の前に我より聞きし事を、他人に教ふるに足るべき、忠實なる人々に托せよ。
and the things which thou didst hear from me before many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, such as will be able to teach others also.
3 キリストの善き軍人として共に苦を忍べ。
Endure hardship with me as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
4 軍人は生活の事を以て己を煩はさずして、募りし者の心を獲んとす。
No one serving as a soldier entangleth himself with the affairs of life, that he may please him who chose him to be a soldier.
5 又勝負を争ふ人は規定に從ひて争はざれば冠を得ず。
And if a man contendeth in the games, he is not crowned, unless he contendeth lawfully.
6 辛勞する農夫は先其産物を獲ざるべからず。
The husbandman that laboreth must be the first partaker of the fruits.
7 我が言ふ所を悟れ、主は萬事に就きて汝に悟を賜ふべし。
Understand what I say; for the Lord will give thee apprehension in all things.
8 ダヴィドの裔に在す主イエズス、キリストが、我福音の儘に死者の中より復活し給ひしことを記憶せよ、
Bear in mind Jesus Christ of the seed of David, as raised from the dead, according to my gospel;
9 我は此福音の為に苦を嘗めて、惡人の如く鎖に繋がるるに至れり。然れども神の御言は繋がれず、
in which I suffer hardship even unto bonds as an evil-doer; but the word of God is not bound.
For this cause I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus, with everlasting glory. (aiōnios g166)
11 眞實の談なる哉、我等キリストと共に死したるならば、又共に活くべし、
True is the saying: for if we died with him, we shall also live with him;
12 忍ばば又彼と共に王と成るべし、我等若彼を否まば、彼も亦我等を否み給ふべし、
if we endure, we shall also reign with him; if we deny him, he also will deny us;
13 我等は信ぜざる事ありとも、彼は絶えず眞實にて在す、其は己に違ひ給ふ事能はざればなり。
if we are faithless, he remaineth faithful; for he cannot deny himself.
14 第一項 謬説に對する處置 第二編 謬説と棄教とを防ぐべし 汝人々をして是等の事を思出さしめ、又主の御前に保證して、口論する事を戒めよ、口論は何等の益する所なく、聞く人をして亡に至らしむる耳なればなり。
Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord not to carry on a strife of words, to no useful purpose, but rather to the subverting of the hearers.
15 汝神の御前に於て鍛錬したる者、耻づる所なき働人、眞理の言を正しく扱へる者たらん事を努めよ。
Study to present thyself approved unto God, a workman not ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
16 世俗の無駄話を避けよ、蓋之を為せる人は、大いに不敬虔に進み、
But shun the profane babblings; for they will go on to a higher degree of ungodliness;
17 其話の広がる事は脱疽の如し、ヒメネオとフィレトと其中に在りて、
and their word will eat as doth a canker; of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus,
18 復活は既に在りきと稱へて眞理を脱し、或人々々の信仰を覆へせり。
who have erred concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection hath already taken place, and overthrow the faith of some.
19 然れど神の据ゑ給ひし堅固なる基礎立ちて、其上に次の如く録されたる印章あり、曰く、「主は己のものを知り給ふ」、又曰く、「総て主の御名を稱ふる人は不義を離るべし」と。
Nevertheless God's firm foundation standeth, having this seal, “The Lord knoweth them that are his;” and, “Let every one that nameth the name of the Lord depart from iniquity.”
20 抑大いなる家の中には金銀の器のみならず亦木と土との器ありて、或物は尊き用を為し、或物は卑しき用を為す。
But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also wooden and earthen ones; and some for honor, and some for dishonor.
21 然れば人若彼人々を離れて己を潔くせば、尊き器、聖とせられ且主に有益にして凡ての善業の為に備はれる器と成るべし。
If then any one shall purge himself from these, he will be a vessel for honor, hallowed, useful for the householder, prepared for every good work.
22 汝若氣の欲を避けて、義と信と愛とを求め、又潔き心を以て主を呼憑み奉る人々との和合を求めよ。
But flee youthful lusts, and follow righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
23 然れど愚にして無學なる探求は、是争論を起すものなりと悟りて之を避けよ。
But the foolish and ignorant questionings avoid, knowing that they gender quarrels;
24 主の僕は争論すべきに非ず、却て一切の人に柔和にして、善く教へ且忍耐し、
and a servant of the Lord must not quarrel, but be gentle to all, apt in teaching, patient of wrong,
25 眞理に逆らふ人々を戒むるに謙譲を以てすべし。或は眞理を覚らしめん為に神彼等に改心を賜ひ、
in meekness admonishing those that oppose themselves; if haply God may give them repentance to attain the full knowledge of the truth,
26 彼等は何時しか目を覚して、惡魔の罠を迯るる事あらん、其は彼が、随意虜と為られたればなり。
and they may awake to their senses out of the snare of the Devil, by whom they have been taken captive to do his will.
