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1 イエズス、キリストの僕たるパウロ及びチモテオ、総てフィリッピに於てキリスト、イエズスに在る聖徒、並に監督及び執事等に[書簡を贈る]。

Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, to all the saints in Christ Jesus that are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:

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 我汝等を想起す毎に、我神に感謝し、

I thank my God upon all my remembrance of you,

4 凡ての祈祷に於て常に汝等一同の為に喜びて懇願し奉る。

always in every supplication of mine on behalf of you all making my supplication with joy,

5 蓋汝等最初の日より今に至る迄、キリストの福音の為に協力したれば、

for your fellowship in furtherance of the gospel from the first day until now;

6 汝等の中に善業を肇め給ひし者の、キリスト、イエズスの日まで、之を全うし給はん事を信頼せり。

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ:

7 汝等一同に就きて我が斯く思へるは至當の事なり、其は汝等我心に在り、又我が縲絏の中に在るにも、福音を弁護して之を固むるにも、汝等皆我と共に恩寵に與ればなり。

even as it is right for me to be thus minded on behalf of you all, because I have you in my heart, inasmuch as, both in my bonds and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers with me of grace.

8 蓋我が、キリストの腸を以て、如何許り汝等一同を戀慕ふかは、神我為に之を證し給ふ。

For God is my witness, how I long after you all in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

9 我が祈る所は、即ち汝等の愛が益智識と凡ての悟とに富み、

And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;

10 汝等が一層善き事を弁へて、キリストの日に至るまで潔く科なくして、

so that ye may approve the things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and void of offence unto the day of Christ;

11 イエズス、キリストによりて、神の光榮と讃美との為に、義の好果に満たされん事是なり。

being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.

12 第一項 パウロ自身の音信 兄弟等よ、我汝等の知らん事を欲す、我身に関する事柄は、却て福音の裨益と成るに至りしことを。

Now I would have you know, brethren, that the things [which happened] unto me have fallen out rather unto the progress of the gospel;

13 即ち我が縲絏に遇へる事のキリストの為なるは、近衛兵の全営にも何處にも明に知られたり。

so that my bonds became manifest in Christ throughout the whole prætorian guard, and to all the rest;

14 斯て兄弟中の多數は、我縲絏の故に主を頼み奉りて、一層憚らず神の御言を語るに至れり。

and that most of the brethren in the Lord, being confident through my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the word of God without fear.

15 實は猜と争との為にキリストを宣ぶる者もあれど、好意を以てする者もあり、

Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:

16 又福音を守護せん為に我が置かれたるを知りて、愛情よりする人もあれば、

the one [do it] of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel;

17 眞心を有たず、縲絏に於る我困難を増さん事を思ひ、党派心よりキリストの事を説く者もあり。

but the other proclaim Christ of faction, not sincerely, thinking to raise up affliction for me in my bonds.

18 然りとて何かあらん、如何様にもあれ、或は口實としてなりとも、或は眞心を以てなりとも、キリスト宣傳せられ給へば、我は之を喜ぶ、[以後も]復喜ばん。

What then? only that in every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is proclaimed; and therein I rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.

19 其は我汝等の祈とイエズス、キリストの霊の助力とによりて、此事の我救となるべきを知ればなり。

For I know that this shall turn out to my salvation, through your supplication and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

20 是我が待てる所、希望せる所に叶へり、即ち我何に於ても耻づる事なかるべく、却て何時も然ある如く、今も亦活きても死しても、キリストは安全に我身に於て崇められ給ふべきなり。

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing shall I be put to shame, but [that] with all boldness, as always, [so] now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.

21 蓋我に取りて、活くるはキリストなり、死ぬるは益なり。

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

22 若肉身に於て活くる事が我に事業の好果あるべくば、其孰を擇むべきかは我之を示さず、

But if to live in the flesh, —[if] this shall bring fruit from my work, then what I shall choose I know not.

23 我は双方に挟まれり、立去りてキリストと共に在らん事を望む、是我に取りて最も善き事なり、

But I am in a strait betwixt the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ; for it is very far better:

24 然れど我が肉身に留る事は、汝等の為に尚必要なり。

yet to abide in the flesh is more needful for your sake.

25 斯く確信するが故に、我は汝等の信仰の進歩と喜悦とを來さん為に、汝等一同と共に留り、且逗留すべき事を知る。

And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide, yea, and abide with you all, for your progress and joy in the faith;

26 我再び汝等に至らば、キリスト、イエズスに於て、我に就きて汝等の誇る所は彌増すべし。

that your glorying may abound in Christ Jesus in me through my presence with you again.

27 第二項 實用的勧告 汝等は唯キリストの福音に相應しく生活せよ、是我が或は至りて汝等を見る時も、或は離れて汝等の事を聞く時も、汝等が同一の精神、同一の心を以て立てる事と、福音の信仰の為に一致して戰ふ事と、

Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ: that, whether I come and see you or be absent, I may hear of your state, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the gospel;

28 聊も敵に驚かされざる事とを知らん為なり。此驚かされざる事こそ、敵には亡滅の徴、汝等には救霊の徴にして、神より出づるものなれ。

and in nothing affrighted by the adversaries: which is for them an evident token of perdition, but of your salvation, and that from God;

29 其は汝等キリストの為に賜はりたるは、唯之を信ずる事のみならず、又之が為に苦しむ事なればなり。

because to you it hath been granted in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer in his behalf:

30 汝等の遇へる戰は、曾て我に於て見し所、又我に就きて聞きし所に等しきものなり。

having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.