Hebrews 12
1 Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
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 Jesus, the founder and completer of the faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has 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 consider him who has endured such hostility from sinners against himself, so that you may not become tired and give up.
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 have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your struggle against 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 which reasons with you as with sons, "My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor lose heart when you are corrected 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 punishes every son he accepts."
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 are enduring discipline, God is dealing with you as sons. For what son is there whom his 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 But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then you are illegitimate, 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 Furthermore, we had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we paid them respect. Should we not much rather be subject to the Father of 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, disciplined us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.
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 All discipline seems for the moment painful, not joyful; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.
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 Therefore, lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble 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 dislocated, 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 everyone, and the sanctification without 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 looking carefully lest there be anyone who falls short of the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by it many become 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 that there be no sexually immoral or profane person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for one meal.
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 even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently 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 have not come to something that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and darkness, gloom, 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 the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken 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 could not stand that which was commanded, "If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned;"
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 fearful was the appearance, that Moses said, "I am terrified 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 have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,
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 of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of righteous people 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 to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better 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 See that you do not refuse him who speaks. For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns 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, but now he has promised, saying, "Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens."
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 This phrase, "Yet once more," signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are 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 So since we are receiving a Kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us give thanks, through which we may offer service pleasing to God, with reverence and awe,
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 a consuming fire.
我らの神は燒き盡す火なればなり。
