1 Corinthians 7
1 And concerning the things of which you wrote to me: [it is] good for a man not to touch a woman,
第三項 婚姻及び童貞の身分 汝等が我に書贈りし事に就きては、男の女に触れざるは善き事なり。
2 and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;
然れど私通を免れん為には各妻あるべく、女も各夫あるべく、
3 to the wife let the husband render the due benevolence, and in like manner also the wife to the husband;
夫は妻に負債を果し、妻も亦夫に然すべきなり。
4 the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband; and in like manner also, the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife.
妻は其身の権利を有せずして夫之を有すると共に、夫も亦其身の権利を有せずして妻之を有す。
5 Do not defraud one another, except by consent for a time, that you may be free for fasting and prayer, and again may come together, that Satan may not tempt you because of your self-indulgence;
相拒む事勿れ、唯祈に從事せんとて合意の上暫く之を罷むるも、再び共に其事に復るべし、是汝等が色情に就きてサタンに誘はれざらん為なり。
6 and this I say by way of concurrence—not of command,
然て我が斯く云へるは、命令に非ずして許可なり。
7 for I wish all men to be even as I myself [am]; but each has his own gift of God, one indeed thus and one thus.
蓋我が望む所は、汝等皆我が如くならん事なりと雖も、人各固有の賜を神に得て、一人は此の如く一人は彼の如し。
8 And I say to the unmarried and to the widows: it is good for them if they may remain even as I [am];
然れば婚姻を為さざる人及び寡婦に向ひて我は言ふ、其儘に而も我が如くにして居らんは、彼等に取りて善き事なり。
9 and if they do not have continence—let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn;
然れど若自ら制する事能はずば、宜しく婚姻すべし、婚姻するは[胸の]燃ゆるに優ればなり。
10 and to the married I announce—not I, but the LORD—do not let a wife separate from a husband:
婚姻に由りて結ばれたる人々には、妻は夫に別るる事勿れと命ず。是我に非ずして主の命じ給ふ所なり。
11 but, and if she may separate, let her remain unmarried, or let her be reconciled to the husband, and do not let a husband send a wife away.
若別るる事あらば其儘にして嫁がず、或は夫に和合すべし、夫も亦妻を離縁すべからず。
12 And to the rest I speak—not the LORD—if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is pleased to dwell with him, do not let him send her away;
其他の人々には我謂はん、是は主の曰ふに非ず、若兄弟に不信者なる妻を有てる者あらんに、其妻彼と同居する事を承諾せば、之を離別する事勿れ。
13 and a woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is pleased to dwell with her, do not let her send him away;
若又信者たる婦、不信者なる夫を有てる事あらんに、夫之と同居する事を承諾せば、夫を離去るべからず。
14 for the unbelieving husband has been sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified in the husband; otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.
蓋不信者なる夫は（信徒たる）妻によりて聖とせられ、不信者なる妻も（信徒たる）夫によりて聖とせられたるなり。然らざれば汝等の子等は潔からざるべしと雖も、今彼等は聖たるなり。
15 And if the unbelieving separates himself—let him separate himself: the brother or the sister is not under servitude in such [cases], and in peace has God called us;
不信者若自ら去らば去るに任せよ、其は斯る時に當りて、兄弟或は姉妹は奴隷たるべきに非ず、神は平和に我等を召し給へるなり。
16 for what, have you known, O wife, whether you will save the husband? Or what, have you known, O husband, whether you will save the wife?
蓋妻よ、汝争でか能く夫を救ふべきや否やを知らん、又夫よ、汝争でか能く妻を救ふべきや否やを知らん。
17 If not, as God distributed to each, as the LORD has called each—so let him walk; and thus I direct in all the assemblies:
唯主が面々に分配し給ひし儘に、神が面々を召し給ひし儘に歩むべし、凡ての教會に於て我が教ふる所斯の如し。
18 being circumcised—was anyone called? Do not let him become uncircumcised; in uncircumcision was anyone called? Do not let him be circumcised;
人割禮ありて召されたらんか、割禮を匿む事勿れ、人割禮なくして召されたらんか、割禮を受くる事勿れ、
19 the circumcision is nothing, and the uncircumcision is nothing—but a keeping of the commands of God.
効あるは割禮に非ず、又無割禮に非ず、神の掟を守る事是なり。
20 Each in the calling in which he was called—in this let him remain;
各我が召されし時の身分に止るべし。
21 a servant—were you called? Do not be anxious; but if also you are able to become free—use [it] rather;
汝奴隷にして召されたらんか、之を思ひ煩ふ事勿れ、假令自由の身となる事を得るも、一層利用せよ。
22 for he who [is] in the LORD—having been called a servant—is the LORD’s freedman: in like manner also he the freeman, having been called, is servant of Christ:
蓋奴隷にして主に召されたる者は主に於ては自由の身となりし者、同じく自由の身にして召されたる者はキリストの奴隷たるなり。
23 you were bought with a price, do not become servants of men;
汝等は價を以て買はれたり、人の奴隷となる事勿れ。
24 each, in that in which he was called, brothers, in this let him remain with God.
兄弟等よ、各召されたる儘に、神に在りて之に止るべし。
25 And concerning the virgins, I do not have a command of the LORD; and I give judgment as having obtained kindness from the LORD to be faithful.
童貞女に就きては、我主の命を受けざれども、主より慈悲を蒙りたる者として、忠實ならん為に意見を與へんとす。
26 I suppose, therefore, this to be good because of the present necessity, that [it is] good for a man that the matter be thus:
然れば目前の困難の為には我之を善しと思ふ。其は其儘なるは人に取りて善ければなり。
27 Have you been bound to a wife? Do not seek to be loosed; have you been loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife.
汝妻に繋がれたるか、釈かるる事を求むる勿れ、妻に絆されざるか、妻を求むる事勿れ。
28 But, and if you may marry, you did not sin; and if the virgin may marry, she did not sin; and such will have tribulation in the flesh: and I spare you.
假令汝妻を娶るも罪とならず、童貞女嫁するも亦罪とならず、但斯る人は肉身上困難を受けん、我は汝等の之に遇ふことを惜む。
29 And this I say, brothers, the time from now on is having been shortened—that both those having wives may be as not having;
兄弟等よ、我が言へるは是なり、時は縮まりぬ、然れば妻を有てる人も有たざるが如く、
30 and those weeping, as not weeping; and those rejoicing, as not rejoicing; and those buying, as not possessing;
泣く人は泣かざるが如く、喜ぶ人は喜ばざるが如く、買ふ人は持たざるが如く、
31 and those using this world, as not using [it] up; for the [present] form of this world is passing away.
此世を利用する人は利用せざるが如くになるべき外なし、其は此世の態は過行くものなればなり。
32 And I wish you to be without anxiety; the unmarried is anxious for the things of the LORD, how he will please the LORD;
斯て我汝等の思ひ煩はざらんことを望む。妻なき人は、如何にして主を喜ばしめんかと、主の事を思ひ煩ふに、
33 and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how he will please the wife.
妻と共に居る人は、如何にして妻を喜ばしめんかと、世の事を思ひ煩ひて心分るるなり。
34 The wife and the virgin have been distinguished: the unmarried is anxious for the things of the LORD, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit, and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how she will please the husband.
婚姻せざる女と童貞女とは、身心共に聖ならん為に主の事を思ひ、婚姻したる女は、如何にして夫を喜ばしめんかと、世の事を思ふなり。
35 And this I say for your own profit: not that I may cast a noose on you, but for the seemliness and devotedness to the LORD, undistractedly,
抑我が之を言へるは、汝等に益あらんが為にして、汝等を罠に懸けんとするに非ず、寧汝等をして貞潔に進ましめ、餘念なく主に奉侍する事を得しめん為なり。
36 and if anyone thinks [it] to be unseemly to his virgin, if she may be beyond the bloom of age, and it ought to be so, what he wills let him do; he does not sin—let him marry.
人ありて若我女の童貞女の年過ぎたるを辱しとし、然せざるを得ずと思はば、其望む所を行へ、女婚姻するも罪を犯すには非ず。
37 And he does well who has stood steadfast in the heart—not having necessity—and has authority over his own will, and he has determined this in his heart—to keep his own virgin;
然れど人ありて、心に堅く決する所あり、必要にも迫られず、我意の儘に事を行ふ権力ありて、心の中に女を童貞女にして保つを善しと定めたらん時に、然するは善き事なり。
38 so that both he who is giving in marriage does well, and he who is not giving in marriage does better.
然れば己が童貞女に婚姻を結ばしむる人も善き事を為し、結ばしめざる人も更に善き事を為すなり。
39 A wife has been bound by law [for] as long [a] time as her husband may live, and if her husband may sleep, she is free to be married to whom she will—only in the LORD;
婦は夫の活ける間は繋がるれども、夫永眠すれば自由なり、宜しく望の人に嫁ぐべし、唯主に於て為すべきのみ。
40 and she is happier if she may so remain—according to my judgment; and I think I also have the Spirit of God.
然れど我が意見に從ひて若其儘に止らば、福は一層なるべし、我も神の霊を有し奉る思ふなり。
