エペソ人への手紙 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、エフェゾに在る（凡ての）聖徒、並にキリスト、イエズスに於る信徒に[書簡を贈る]。
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints that are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus:
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 to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3 第一項 エフェゾ信徒の為に感謝し祈祷す 第一編 聖會の比なき光榮 祝すべき哉、我主イエズス、キリストの神及び父、是はキリストに於て諸の霊的祝福を以て我等を天より祝し給ひ、
Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly [places] in Christ:
4 御前に於て聖にして汚なき者たらしめんとて、寵愛を以て、世界開闢以前よりキリストによりて選み給ひ、
even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love:
5 思召のまにまに、イエズス、キリストを以て己が子とならしめん事を預定し給ひたればなり。
having foreordained us unto adoption as sons through Jesus Christ unto himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
6 是最愛なる御子に於て我等に賜ひし榮光ある恩寵の誉の為なり。
to the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved:
7 我等が贖を得、罪の赦を得るは、キリストに在りて其御血によれり、即ち神の豊なる恩寵に由れるなり。
in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,
8 其恩寵我等に溢れて、諸の智恵及び悟を開けり、
which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,
9 是御旨に從ひて、キリストを以て預定し給ひし思召の奥義を、我等に諭し給はん為なり。
making known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him
10 此思召は、時期の満つるに及びて一切のもの、即ち天に在るものをも地に在るものをも悉くキリストに於て一の首の下に輯め給ふに在り。
unto a dispensation of the fulness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things upon the earth; in him, [I say],
11 我等もキリストに於て選まれ、思召す儘に萬事を行ひ給ふものの量に從ひて預定せられたり、
in whom also we were made a heritage, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his will;
12 是先んじてキリストを希望せし我等が、其光榮の誉とならん為なり。
to the end that we should be unto the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ:
13 汝等も亦キリストに於て、眞理の言なる汝等の救霊の福音を聞き、且之を信じて約束せられ給ひたりし聖霊を以て證印せられしが、
in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth, the gospel of your salvation, —in whom, having also believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,
14 之汝等の世嗣の保證として、獲られたる人々の贖となり、其光榮の誉と成らん為に賜はりたるなり。
which is an earnest of our inheritance, unto the redemption of [God’s] own possession, unto the praise of his glory.
15 故に我も、主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、
For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which [ye show] toward all the saints,
16 不絶汝等の為に感謝し、我祈祷の中に汝等を記念す。
cease not to give thanks for you, making mention [of you] in my prayers;
17 祈る所は我主イエズス、キリストの神、光榮の父が、汝等に知識と黙示との霊を賜ひて神を識らしめ、
that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;
18 汝等の心の眼を明にして、其召によれる希望の如何を識らしめ、聖徒等に賜ふべき世嗣の光榮富の如何を識らしめ
having the eyes of your heart enlightened, that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
19 其全能の勢力の作為によりて、信奉る我等に於て、其勢力の如何に優れて偉大なるかを識らしめ給はん事是なり。
and what the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might
20 其勢力をキリストに於て顕し、之を死者の中より復活せしめ、天に於て之を己の右に置き、
which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly [places],
far above all rule, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: (aiōn g165)
22 萬物を其御足の下に服せしめ、教會の萬事の上に頭となし給へり。
and he put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the church,
23 即ち教會はキリストの御體にして、萬物に萬事を満たし給へるものの充満ち給ふ所なり。
which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
