ローマ人への手紙 6
1 第一款 キリストに於る信仰によりて義とせられし人の道義的生活 然らば我等何をか云はん、恩寵の溢れん事を期して罪に止らんか、
What are we to say, then? Are we to continue to sin, in order that God’s loving-kindness may be multiplied?
2 然らず、我等は罪に死したる者なれば、争でか尚罪に活くべき。
Heaven forbid! We became dead to sin, and how can we go on living in it?
3 知らずやキリスト、イエズスに於て洗せられし我等が、皆其死に擬して洗せられたる事を。
Or can it be that you do not know that all of us, who were baptized into union with Christ Jesus, in our baptism shared his death?
4 蓋我等は其死に倣はん為に、洗禮を以て彼と共に葬られたるなり、是キリストが御父の光榮を以死者の中より復活し給ひし如く、我等も亦新しき生命に歩まん為なり。
Consequently, through sharing his death in our baptism, we were buried with him; that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by a manifestation of the Father’s power, so we also may live a new Life.
5 蓋我等は彼に接がれて其死の状態に肖似りたれば、其復活にも亦肖似るべし。
If we have become united with him by the act symbolic of his death, surely we shall also become united with him by the act symbolic of his resurrection.
6 我等の古き人が彼と共に十字架に釘けられしは、罪の身を亡ぼされて再び罪の奴隷とならざらん為なる事は我等之を知る、
We recognise the truth that our old self was crucified with Christ, in order that the body, the stronghold of Sin, might be rendered powerless, so that we should no longer be slaves to Sin.
7 死したる人は罪を脱れたればなり。
For the man who has so died has been pronounced righteous and released from Sin.
8 我等は信ず、我等若キリストと共に死したらば、亦キリストと共に活きんと。
And our belief is, that, as we have shared Christ’s Death, we shall also share his Life.
9 其はキリストは死者の中より復活して最早死し給ふ事なく、死が更に之を司る事なかるべしと知ればなり。
We know, indeed, that Christ, having once risen from the dead, will not die again. Death has power over him no longer.
10 死せしは罪の為にして一度死し給ひたれど、活くるは神の為に活き給ふなり。
For the death that he died was a death to sin, once and for all. But the Life that he now lives, he lives for God.
11 斯の如く汝等も己を、罪には死したる者なれども、神の為には我主キリスト、イエズスに於て活ける者と思へ。
So let it be with you — regard yourselves as dead to sin, but as living for God, through union with Christ Jesus.
12 故に罪は汝等を其諸慾に從はしむるほど、汝等の死すべき身の中に王たるべからず。
Therefore do not let Sin reign in your mortal bodies and compel you to obey its cravings.
13 尚又汝等の五體を不義の武器として罪に献ぐること勿れ、却て死したりしに活くる者として己を神に献げ、五體をも神の為に義の武器として献げよ。
Do not offer any part of your bodies to Sin, in the cause of unrighteousness, but once for all offer yourselves to God (as those who, though once dead, now have Life), and devote every part of your bodies to the cause of righteousness.
14 其は汝等既に律法の下に在らずして恩寵の下に在るが故に、罪の汝等を司る事あるまじければなり。
For Sin shall not lord it over you. You are living under the reign, not of Law, but of Love.
15 然らば如何にすべきか、我等は律法の下に在らずして恩寵の下に在るが故に罪を犯すべきか、然らず。
What follows, then? Are we to sin because we are living under the reign of Love and not of Law? Heaven forbid!
16 知らずや、汝等順はんとて己を奴隷として献ぐれば、其順ふ所の者の奴隷となる事を。或は罪の奴隷として死に至り、或は從順の奴隷として義に至る。
Surely you know that, when you offer yourselves as servants, to obey any one, you are the servants of the person whom you obey, whether the service be that of Sin which leads to Death, or that of Duty which leads to Righteousness.
17 然れど神に感謝す、汝等は罪の奴隷たりしに、交付されて學びたる教の法に心より從ひ、
God be thanked that, though you were once servants of Sin, yet you learned to give hearty obedience to that form of doctrine under which you were placed.
18 且罪より救はれて義の奴隷となりたるなり。
Set free from the control of Sin, you became servants to Righteousness.
19 我汝等の肉の弱きに對して、人の語法を以て云はん、即ち汝等不義の為に五體を不潔不義の奴隷として献げたりしが如く、今は聖とならん為に五體を義の奴隷として献げよ。
I can but speak as men do because of the weakness of your earthly nature. Once you offered every part of your bodies to the service of impurity, and of wickedness, which leads to further wickedness. Now, in the same way, offer them to the service of Righteousness, which leads to holiness.
20 汝等罪の奴隷たりし時、義に對しては自由の身なりしが、
While you were still servants of Sin, you were free as regards Righteousness.
21 其時に今耻と為る事を以て何の好果を得たりしぞ、即ち是等の事の終は死あるのみ。
But what were the fruits that you reaped from those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of such things is Death.
But now that you have been set free from the control of Sin, and have become servants to God, the fruit that you reap is an ever-increasing holiness, and the end Immortal Life. (aiōnios g166)
