1 Peter 1
1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers dispersed through Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, elect,
イエズス、キリストの使徒たるペトロ、ポント、ガラチア、カパドシア[小]アジア及びビチニアに離散して寄留せる人々、
2 According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, unto the sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you and peace be multiplied.
父にて在す神の預知に從ひて、[聖]霊によりて聖とせられ、且服從し、イエズス、キリストの御血を沃がれん為に選まれたる人々に[書簡を贈る]。願はくは恩寵と平安と汝等に加はらん事を。
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy hath regenerated us unto a lively hope, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
第一項 信徒の賜はりし恵を神に感謝す。 第一編 キリスト信徒の特典及び其要する聖徳。 祝すべき哉我主イエズス、キリストの父にて在す神、蓋其大いなる憫に從ひて、イエズスの死者の中よりの復活を以て、我等を新に生れしめて、活ける希望を懐かしめ、
4 Unto an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that can not fade, reserved in heaven for you,
天に於て汝等に備はりたる、屈せず穢れざる而も萎まざる世嗣を得させんとし給ふ。
5 Who, by the power of God, are kept by faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time.
汝等は神の能力により、終の日に顕るべく備はりたる救霊を得ん為に、信仰を以て守らるるものなり。
6 Wherein you shall greatly rejoice, if now you must be for a little time made sorrowful in divers temptations:
是によりて、假令暫くは種々の試に悩まさるべきも、汝等は喜に勝へざるべし。
7 That the trial of your faith (much more precious than gold which is tried by the fire) may be found unto praise and glory and honour at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
蓋汝等が信仰の試みらるるは、金が火を以て試るるよりも遥に尊き事にして、イエズス、キリストの公現の時、誉と榮と尊とを得べき者として認められん為なり。
8 Whom having not seen, you love: in whom also now, though you see him not, you believe: and believing shall rejoice with joy unspeakable and glorified;
汝等はイエズス、キリストを見ざりしも、之を愛し奉り、今も尚見ずして之を信じ奉り、信じ奉りて而も光榮を帯びたる言ひ難き喜に勝へざるならん。
9 Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
其は汝等の信仰の目的たる魂の救を得べければなり。
10 Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and diligently searched, who prophesied of the grace to come in you.
此救霊に就きては、汝等に於る将來の恩寵の事を預言せし預言者等、穿鑿して之を探求せり。
11 Searching what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ in them did signify: when it foretold those sufferings that are in Christ, and the glories that should follow:
即ちキリストの霊は彼等に在して、キリストに於る苦難と其後の光榮とを豫告げ給ひしかば、何時の頃如何なる時を示し給へるぞと探求したりしに、
12 To whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to you they ministered those things which are now declared to you by them that have preached the gospel to you, the Holy Ghost being sent down from heaven, on whom the angels desire to look.
其傳ふる所は、彼等自らの為に非ずして汝等の為なりとの黙示を得たり。其傳ふる所とは、天より遣はされ給ひし聖霊によりて汝等に福音を宣べし人々より、汝等が今既に告げられたる所にして、天使等も亦之を鑑みる事を欲せるなり。
13 Wherefore having the loins of your mind girt up, being sober, trust perfectly in the grace which is offered you in the revelation of Jesus Christ,
第二項 神の御恵に應じて生活すべし。 是故に汝等心に帯して節制し、イエズス、キリストの公現の時汝等に賜はる恩寵を缺くる所なく希望し、
14 As children of obedience, not fashioned according to the former desires of your ignorance:
從順なる子兒の如く、最初の不知の望に從ふ事なく、
15 But according to him that hath called you, who is holy, be you also in all manner of conversation holy:
汝等を召し給ひし聖なるものに象りて、凡ての行状に於て汝等も亦聖と成れ。
16 Because it is written: You shall be holy, for I am holy.
其は録して、「我は聖なるにより汝等も聖と成るべし」とあればなり。
17 And if you invoke as Father him who, without respect of persons, judgeth according to every one’s work: converse in fear during the time of your sojourning here.
人に依怙ある事なく、各の業によりて審判し給ふ者を父と呼び奉るならば、畏を以て汝等が世に住める時を過せ。
18 Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things as gold or silver, from your vain conversation of the tradition of your fathers:
是汝等が先祖傳來の空しき行状より贖はれしは、金銀の如き壊るべきものによらずして、
19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb unspotted and undefiled,
無缺無垢の羔の如きキリストの尊き御血によれる事を知ればなり。
20 Foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but manifested in the last times for you,
彼は世界開闢以前より豫知せられ給ひたりしかど、彼によりて神を信仰せる汝等の為に、世の末に顕れ給ひたるものにして、
21 Who through him are faithful in God, who raised him up from the dead, and hath given him glory, that your faith and hope might be in God.
神が之を死者の中より復活せしめ之に光榮を賜ひしは、汝等の信仰と希望とを神によらしめ給はんとてなり。
22 Purifying your souls in the obedience of charity, with a brotherly love, from a sincere heart love one another earnestly:
汝等偽なき兄弟的相愛を生ぜしめんが為に、眞理に服從する事によりて魂を潔め、一層深く心より相愛せよ。
23 Being born again not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible, by the word of God who liveth and remaineth for ever. (aiōn g165)
汝等が新に生れたるは、腐るべき種によらず、腐るべからざる種により、活きて永遠に存する神の御言によれり。 (aiōn g165)
24 For all flesh is as grass; and all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass is withered, and the flower thereof is fallen away.
蓋一切の肉身は草の如く、其榮は草の花の如し、草は枯れ其花は落つれども、
