1 Thessalonians 1

1 Paul and Silvanus and Timotheus to the assembly of Thessalonians in God [the] Father and [the] Lord Jesus Christ. Grace to you and peace.

パウロ、シルワノ、テモテ、書を父なる神および主イエス・キリストにあるテサロニケ人の教會に贈る。願はくは恩惠と平安と汝らに在らんことを。

2 We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you at our prayers,

われら祈のときに汝らを憶えて、常に汝ら衆人のために神に感謝す。

3 remembering unceasingly your work of faith, and labour of love, and enduring constancy of hope, of our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;

これ汝らが信仰のはたらき、愛の勞苦、主イエス・キリストに對する望の忍耐を、我らの父なる神の前に絶えず念ふに因りてなり。

4 knowing, brethren beloved by God, your election.

神に愛せらるる兄弟よ、また汝らの選ばれたることを知るに因りてなり。

5 For our glad tidings were not with you in word only, but also in power, and in [the] Holy Spirit, and in much assurance; even as ye know what we were among you for your sakes:

それ我らの福音の汝らに至りしは、言にのみ由らず、能力と聖 靈と大なる確信とに由れり。且われらが汝らの中にありて汝らの爲に如何なる行爲をなししかは、汝らの知る所なり。

6 and ye became our imitators, and of the Lord, having accepted the word in much tribulation with joy of [the] Holy Spirit,

かくて汝らは大なる患難のうちにも、聖 靈による喜悦をもて御言をうけ、我ら及び主に效ふ者となり、

7 so that ye became models to all that believe in Macedonia and in Achaia:

而してマケドニヤ及びアカヤに在る凡ての信者の模範となれり。

8 for the word of the Lord sounded out from you, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith which [is] towards God has gone abroad, so that we have no need to say anything;

それは主のことば汝 等より出でて、啻にマケドニヤ及びアカヤに響きしのみならず、神に對する汝らの信仰のことは諸方に弘りたるなり。されば之に就きては何をも語るに及ばず。

9 for they themselves relate concerning us what entering in we had to you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God,

人々 親しく我らが汝らの中に入りし状を告げ、また汝らが偶像を棄てて神に歸し、活ける眞の神に事へ、

10 and to await his Son from the heavens, whom he raised from among the dead, Jesus, our deliverer from the coming wrath.

神の死人の中より甦へらせ給ひし御子、すなはち我らを來らんとする怒より救ひ出すイエスの、天より降りたまふを待ち望むことを告ぐればなり。