2 John 1
1 This letter comes from the elder to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in the truth. Not just from me, but from everyone who knows the truth,
長老は選を蒙りたる夫人及び其子等、即ち我並に、啻我のみならず、総て眞理を識れる人も亦、
今我等の中に止りて、而も限なく我等と共に存すべき眞理に對して、眞に愛する所の者に[書簡を贈る]。 (aiōn g165)
3 May grace, mercy and peace continue to be with us, from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and in love.
願はくは恩寵と慈悲と平安とが、父にて在す神及び父の御子イエズス、キリストより賜はりて、眞理及び愛に於て汝等と共に在らん事を。
4 I was delighted to discover that some of your children are following the truth, just as the Father commanded us.
我汝の子等の中に、我等が父より掟を受け奉りし如くに歩める者あるを認めて、甚だ喜べり。
5 Now I'm telling you, dear lady, not as a new instruction, but following what we've understood from the beginning, that we should love one another.
夫人よ、今新しき掟を書贈るものとせず、之を初より受けたるものとして相愛せん事を汝に冀ふ。
6 This is what love is: we should follow God's commands. The command, just as you heard right from the beginning, is that you should live in love.
愛とは我等が其御掟に從ひて歩むべき事是なり。御掟とは即汝等が初より聞きたるがままに歩むべきもの是なり。
7 I'm telling you this because many deceivers have left and gone out into the world. They don't accept that Jesus Christ has come as a human being. Anyone like this is a deceiver and an antichrist.
蓋肉體にて來り給ふイエズス、キリストを宣言せざる、多くの誘惑者世に出でたり、是ぞ誘惑者にして又非キリストなる。
8 Be careful that you don't lose what we've worked so hard for, and that you receive all that you should.
汝等己に省みて、我等が曾て働きし所を失はず、充満せる報酬を受くる様にせよ。
9 All those who become extremists and don't continue to follow the teaching of Christ don't have God with them. Those who continue to follow the teaching of Christ have both the Father and the Son with them.
総てキリストの教に止らずして退く者は神を有し奉らず、教に止る者は父及び御子を有し奉る。
10 If people come to you and don't show evidence of Christ's teaching, don't take them in, don't welcome them—
若汝等に至る者にして、此教を齎す事なくば、之を家に入るる事なく、之に挨拶すること勿れ。
11 for if you encourage them you share in their evil work.
其は之に挨拶する人は、其惡しき業に與ればなり。
12 I have so many things to tell you that I won't write any more with paper and ink, for I hope to visit you and talk with you face to face. How happy that would make us!
書贈るべき事尚多くあれども、我は紙と墨とを以てするを好まず、是汝等の喜の全からん為に、汝等の中に在りて口づから語らん事を希望すればなり。
13 Greetings to you from the children of your chosen sister.
選を蒙りたる汝の姉妹の子等、汝に宜しくと言へり。
