テトスへの手紙 1
1 神の僕にしてイエズス、キリストの使徒たるパウロ、共通の信仰によりて我實子たるチトに[書簡を贈る]。我が使徒たるは、神に選まれたる人々の信仰に應じ、又人を敬虔に導きて、
Paul a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for promoting the faith of God's chosen people, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness:
in hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before all ages; (aiōnios g166)
3 時至りて御言を顕すに宣教を以てし給ひ、其宣教は我救主にて在す神の命によりて我に託せられたるなり。
and hath in his own times manifested his word, by the preaching, with which I was intrusted according to the commandment of God our Saviour:
4 願はくは父にて在す神及び我救主キリスト、イエズスより恩寵と平安とを賜はらんことを。
to Titus my son in the common faith, grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.
5 第一編 善き聖職者の選択に関する教訓 我が汝をクレタ[島]に置きしは、尚缺けたる所を整へ、且我が汝に命ぜし如く町々に長老を立てしめん為なり、
For this cause I left thee in Crete, that thou mightest set in order what remained, and ordain elders in every city as I directed thee:
6 即ち咎むべき所なく、一婦の夫にして、若子等あらば是も信徒にして、放蕩を以て訴へらるる事なく、順はざる事なき子等を有てる人たるべし。
to wit, if any one be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of debauchery, or unruly.
7 蓋監督は、神の家宰として咎むべき所なき人たるべし。即ち自慢せず、短氣ならず、酒を嗜まず、人を打たず、耻づべき利を求めず、
For a bishop must be blameless as the steward of God, not self-willed, not passionate, not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of sordid gain:
8 旅人を接待し、善を好み、怜悧にして義人たり、信心家にして節制家たり、
but hospitable, benevolent, sober, just, holy, temperate;
9 教によれる眞の談を固く執り、健全なる教によりて人を勧むることを得、反對を稱ふる人に答弁をするを得る人たるべし。
holding fast the faithful word, according as he hath been taught, that he may be able both to instruct in sound doctrine, and to convince gainsayers.
10 蓋從はずして贅弁を弄し、以て人を惑はす者、殊に割禮の人々の中に多し。
For there are many disorderly persons, vain-talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision; whose mouths must be stopped:
11 彼等は耻づべき利の為に、教ふべからざる事を教へ、全家をも覆すが故に、彼等をして閉口せしむるを要す。
who subvert whole families, teaching what they ought not, for shameful gain:
12 彼等の中なる一人の預言者は言へり、「クレタ人は何時も虚言を吐きて、惡き獣、懶惰の腹なり」と。
as said one of themselves, a prophet of their own, "The Cretans are always liars, mischievous beasts, sluggish gluttons."
13 この證言は實なり、此故に汝、彼等をして信仰に健全ならしめん為に、鋭く之を譴責し、
This testimony is true: for which cause rebuke them sharply, that they may be found in the faith;
14 ユデア教の寓言と、身を眞理に反くる人々の戒とに憑る事なからしめよ。
not attending to Jewish fables, and the precepts of men who turn away from the truth.
15 潔き人々には、物皆潔けれども、穢れたる人、不信の人には潔き物なく、其理性と良心と共に穢れたり。
To the pure indeed all things are pure; but to the polluted and unbelieving nothing is pure; even their mind and conscience is polluted.
16 彼等は自ら神を識り奉れりと宣言すれども、行に於ては之を棄てて實に憎むべきもの、反抗するもの、一切の善業に就きての廃物なり。
They profess to know God, but in works deny Him, being abominable and disobedient, and to every thing that is good void of understanding.
