Hebrews 12
1 Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, having put off every weight, and the closely besetting sin, may we run the contest that is set before us through endurance,
この故に我らは斯く多くの證人に雲のごとく圍まれたれば、凡ての重荷と纏へる罪とを除け、忍耐をもて我らの前に置かれたる馳場をはしり、
2 looking to the Author and Perfecter of the faith—Jesus, who, for the joy set before Him, endured a cross, having despised shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God;
信仰の導師また之を全うする者なるイエスを仰ぎ見るべし。彼はその前に置かれたる歡喜のために、恥をも厭はずして十字架をしのび、遂に神の御座の右に坐し給へり。
3 for again consider Him who endured such contradiction from the sinners to Himself, that you may not be wearied in your souls—being faint.
なんじら倦み疲れて心を喪ふこと莫らんために、罪人らの斯く己に逆ひしことを忍び給へる者をおもへ。
4 You did not yet resist to blood—striving with sin;
汝らは罪と鬪ひて未だ血を流すまで抵抗しことなし。
5 and you have forgotten the exhortation that speaks fully to you as to sons, “My son, do not despise [the] discipline of [the] LORD, nor be faint, being reproved by Him,
また子に告ぐるごとく汝らに告げ給ひし勸言を忘れたり。曰く『わが子よ、主の懲戒を輕んずるなかれ、主に戒めらるるとき倦むなかれ。
6 for whom the LORD loves He disciplines, and He scourges every son whom He receives”;
そは主、その愛する者を懲しめ、凡てその受け給ふ子を鞭うち給へばなり』と。
7 if you endure discipline, God bears Himself to you as to sons, for who is a son whom a father does not discipline?
汝らの忍ぶは懲戒の爲なり、神は汝らを子のごとく待ひたまふ、誰か父の懲しめぬ子あらんや。
8 And if you are apart from discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are bastards, and not sons.
凡ての人の受くる懲戒、もし汝らに無くば、それは私生兒にして眞の子にあらず、
9 Then, indeed, we have had fathers of our flesh, correctors, and we respected [them]; will we not much rather be subject to the Father of the spirits, and live?
また我らの肉體の父は、我らを懲しめし者なるに尚これを敬へり、況して靈魂の父に服ひて生くることを爲ざらんや。
10 For they, indeed, for a few days, according to what seemed good to them, were disciplining, but He for profit, to be partakers of His separation;
そは肉體の父は暫くの間その心のままに懲しむることを爲しが、靈魂の父は我らを益するために、その聖潔に與らせんとて懲しめ給へばなり。
11 and all discipline for the present, indeed, does not seem to be of joy, but of sorrow, yet afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those exercised through it.
凡ての懲戒、今は喜ばしと見えず、反つて悲しと見ゆ、されど後これに由りて練習する者に、義の平安なる果を結ばしむ。
12 For this reason, lift up the hanging-down hands and the loosened knees;
されば衰へたる手、弱りたる膝を強くし、
13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that which is lame may not be turned aside, but rather be healed;
足蹇へたる者の履み外すことなく、反つて醫されんために汝らの足に直なる途を備へよ。
14 pursue peace with all, and the separation, apart from which no one will see the LORD,
力めて凡ての人と和ぎ、自ら潔からんことを求めよ。もし潔からずば、主を見ること能はず。
15 observing lest anyone be failing of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up may give trouble, and through this many may be defiled;
なんじら愼め、恐らくは神の恩惠に至らぬ者あらん。恐らくは苦き根はえいでて汝らを惱し、多くの人これに由りて汚されん。
16 lest anyone be a fornicator, or a profane person, as Esau, who in exchange for one morsel of food sold his birthright,
恐らくは淫行のもの、或は一飯のために長子の特權を賣りしエサウの如き妄なるもの起らん。
17 for you know that also afterward, wishing to inherit the blessing, he was disapproved of, for he did not find a place of conversion, though having sought it with tears.
汝らの知るごとく、彼はそののち祝福を受けんと欲したれども棄てられ、涙を流して之を求めたれど囘復の機を得ざりき。
18 For you did not come near to the mountain touched and scorched with fire, and to blackness, and darkness, and storm,
汝らの近づきたるは、火の燃ゆる觸り得べき山・黒 雲・黒闇・嵐、
19 and a sound of a trumpet, and a voice of sayings, which those having heard begged that a word might not be added to them,
ラッパの音、言の聲にあらず、この聲を聞きし者は此の上に言の加へられざらんことを願へり。
20 for they were not bearing that which is commanded, “And if a beast may touch the mountain, it will be stoned, or shot through with an arrow,”
これ『獸すら山に觸れなば、石にて撃るべし』と命ぜられしを、彼らは忍ぶこと能はざりし故なり。
21 and (so terrible was the sight), Moses said, “I am exceedingly fearful, and trembling.”
その現れしところ極めて怖しかりしかば、モーセは『われ甚く怖れ戰けり』と云へり。
22 But you came to Mount Zion, and to [the] city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of messengers,
されど汝らの近づきたるはシオンの山、活ける神の都なる天のエルサレム、千萬の御使の集會、
23 to the assembly-place and Assembly of the Firstborn registered in Heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to spirits of righteous men made perfect,
天に録されたる長子どもの教會、萬民の審判 主なる神、全うせられたる義人の靈魂、
24 and to a mediator of a new covenant—Jesus, and to blood of sprinkling, speaking better things than that of Abel!
新約の仲保なるイエス及びアベルの血に勝りて物 言ふ灑の血なり、
25 Watch out lest you refuse Him who is speaking, for if those did not escape who refused him who was divinely speaking on earth—much less we who turn away from Him who [speaks] from Heaven,
なんじら心して語りたまふ者を拒むな、もし地にて示し給ひし時これを拒みし者ども遁るる事なかりしならば、況して天より示し給ふとき、我ら之を退けて遁るることを得んや。
26 whose voice shook the earth then, and now He has promised, saying, “Yet once [more]—I shake not only the earth, but also Heaven”;
その時、その聲、地を震へり、されど今は誓ひて言ひたまふ『我なほ一たび地のみならず、天をも震はん』と。
27 and this, “Yet once [more],” makes evident the removal of the things shaken, as of things having been made, that the things not shaken may remain;
此の『なほ一度』とは震はれぬ物の存らんために、震はるる物すなはち造られたる物の取り除かるることを表すなり。
28 for this reason, receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, may we have grace, through which we may serve God well-pleasingly, with reverence and fear,
この故に我らは震はれぬ國を受けたれば、感謝して恭敬と畏懼とをもて御心にかなふ奉仕を神になすべし。
29 for our God [is] also a consuming fire.
我らの神は燒き盡す火なればなり。
