コロサイ人への手紙 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、
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy the brother,
2 コロサイに於てキリスト（イエズス）に在る聖徒、及び忠信なる兄弟等に[書簡を贈る]。
to the saints and faithful brethren in Christ at Colossae: Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father.
3 願はくは我父にて在す神、及び主イエズス、キリストより、汝等に恩寵と平安とを賜はらん事を。
We give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,
4 第一款 コロサイ人の為に感謝し祈祷す 第一編 教理の部 第一項 キリスト及び其事業 我等キリスト、イエズスに於る汝等の信仰と凡ての聖徒に對する愛情とを聞きて、常に汝等の為に祈りて、我主イエズス、キリストの父にて在す神に感謝し奉る。
since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints,
5 是天に於て汝等の為に備へられ、曾て汝等が福音の眞理の言の中に聞きし希望の故なり。
on account of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel,
6 汝等に至れる福音は、果を世界に結びて傳播しつつある事、猶汝等が眞理に從ひて神の恩寵を聞き且識りし日より汝等の中に於て在りしが如し。
which is come to you, as it is in all the world, and is bearing fruit and growing, as it doth also in you, from the day ye heard it, and knew the grace of God in truth;
7 汝等之を至愛なる我等の同輩エパフラより學びたるが、彼は汝等の為にキリスト、イエズスの忠信なる役者にして、
even as ye learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow-servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on your behalf;
8 [聖]霊によれる汝等の愛情を我等に告げたり。
who also brought to our knowledge your love in the Spirit.
9 故に我等も亦之を聞きし其日より、汝等の為に祈りて止まず、以て汝等が[聖]霊によれる凡ての智恵と悟とによりて、神の御旨を知る[の知識]に満たされん事を求め奉る。
On this account we also, from the day we heard of it, cease not to pray for you, and to ask that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
10 是汝等が主に相應しく歩み、萬事につけて御意に合ひ、凡ての善業に於て果を結び、神[を識る]の知識を増し、
that ye may walk worthily of the Lord so as to please him in all things, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
11 其光榮ある全能に從ひて凡ての力を加へられ、喜を以て凡ての事に辛抱し堪忍し、
endued with all power according to the might of his glory unto all patience and long-suffering with joy;
12 神にて在す父に感謝し奉ることを得ん為なり。其は忝くも我等を以て、聖徒等と共に榮光を蒙るに足るべき者と為し給ひ、
giving thanks to the Father, who enabled us to share in the inheritance of the saints in the light;
13 暗黒の権威より救出して最愛なる御子の國に移し給ひ、
who rescued us from the empire of darkness, and transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved Son;
14 我等其御子に在りて、御血を以て贖はれ、罪の赦しを得ればなり。
in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins; —
15 第二款 キリスト及び其事業は広大にして無比なり 御子は即ち見え給はざる神の御姿にして、一切の被造物に先だちて生れ給ひし者なり。
who is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of the whole creation;
16 蓋萬物は彼に於て造られ、天にも地にも見ゆるもの、見えざるもの、或は玉座、或は主権、或は権勢、或は能力、皆彼を以て且彼の為に造られ、
for in him were created all things, those in the heavens, and those on the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers, all things have been created through him and for him;
17 御自らは萬物に先だちて在し、萬物は彼の為に存す。
and he is before all things, and in him all things subsist.
18 彼は又其體なる教會の頭にて在す、蓋原因に在して其死者の中より先んじて生れ給ひしは、萬事に於て自ら先んずる者と成り給はん為なり、
And he is the head of the body, the church; since he is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that he may be in all things pre-eminent;
19 其は充満せる徳を全く彼に宿らしめ、
for God was pleased that in him all the fullness should dwell, and by him to reconcile all things to himself,
20 彼を以て萬物を己と和睦せしめ、其十字架の血を以て地に在るものをも天に在るものをも和合せしむる事の、御意に適ひたればなり。
having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him, I say, whether the things on earth, or those in the heavens.
21 汝等も曾て惡業によりて神に遠ざかり、心より其仇となりしを、
And you, that were once alienated, and enemies in your mind in wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
22 神は今御子の肉體に於て其死によりて己と和睦せしめ、聖にして汚なく罪なき者たらしめ、以て御前に供へんとし給へり。
in the body of his flesh through his death, to present you holy and blameless and irreproachable in his sight;
23 汝等若確乎として信仰に基き、福音に於る希望より動かされずば、當に然あるべし。此福音は、汝等之を聞き、普く天下一切の人に宣べられしが、我パウロは其役者と為られたるなり。
if ye indeed continue in the faith grounded and settled, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye heard, which hath been preached in the whole creation under heaven; of which I Paul became a minister.
24 我今汝等の為に苦むを喜ぶ、又キリストの御苦の缺けたる所を、御體なる教會の為に我が肉體に於て補ふなり。
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up instead that which is wanting of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh on behalf of his body, which is the church;
25 我が教會の役者と為られたるは、汝等の為に神より賜はりたる務に由れり、是神の御言、即ち世々代々に隠れ來りて、
of which I became a minister, according to the stewardship which God entrusted to me, for you, to fulfill the word of God,
the mystery which hath been hidden for ages and generations, but hath been now revealed to his saints; (aiōn g165)
27 此奥義とは光榮の希望にして、汝等に在すキリスト是なり、此奥義の異邦人に及ぼしたる光榮の富の如何を知らしむるは神の御意なり。
to whom it was the will of God to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory;
28 我等は之を宣べ傳へ、凡ての知識に從ひて、凡ての人を誡め凡ての人に教ふ、是凡ての人をしてキリスト、イエズスに於て完全にならしめんが為なり。
whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ;
29 我が現に勞苦して、我に於て強く働ける彼の勢力に應じて戰ひつつあるは是が為なり。
to which end I also am laboring, striving earnestly through his working, which worketh within me mightily.
