Romans 1
1 From Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, who has been called to become an apostle, and has been set apart to tell God’s good news.
キリスト・イエスの僕、召されて使徒となり、神の福音のために選び別たれたるパウロ――
2 This good news God promised long ago through his prophets in the sacred scriptures,
この福音は神その預言者たちにより、聖書の中に預じめ御子に就きて約し給ひしものなり。
3 concerning his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord; who, as to his human nature, was descended from David,
御子は肉によれば、ダビデの裔より生れ、
4 but, as to the spirit of holiness within him, was miraculously designated Son of God by his resurrection from the dead.
潔き靈によれば、死人の復活により大能をもて神の子と定められ給へり、即ち我らの主イエス・キリストなり。
5 Through him we received the gift of the apostolic office, to win submission to the faith among all nations for the glory of his name.
我等その御名の爲にもろもろの國人を信仰に從順ならしめんとて、彼より恩惠と使徒の職とを受けたり。
6 And among these nations are you – you who have been called to belong to Jesus Christ.
汝 等もその中にあり、てイエス・キリストの有とならん爲に召されたるなり。――
7 To all in Rome who are dear to God and have been called to become Christ’s people, may God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ bless you and give you peace.
われ書をロマに在りて神に愛せられ、召されて聖徒となりたる凡ての者に贈る。願はくは我らの父なる神および主イエス・キリストより賜ふ恩惠と平安と汝らに在らんことを。
8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because the report of your faith is spreading throughout the world.
汝らの信仰、全世界に言ひ傳へられたれば、我まづ汝ら一同の爲にイエス・キリストによりて我が神に感謝す。
9 God, to whom I offer the worship of my soul as I tell the goodness of his Son, is my witness how constantly I mention you when I pray,
その御子の福音に於て我が靈をもて事ふる神は、わが絶えず祈のうちに汝らを覺え、
10 asking that, if he be willing, I may some day at last find the way open to visit you.
如何にしてか御意に適ひ、いつか汝らに到るべき途を得んと、常に冀がふことを我がために證し給ふなり。
11 For I long to see you, in order to impart to you some spiritual gift and so give you fresh strength –
われ汝らを見んことを切に望むは、汝らの堅うせられん爲に靈の賜物を分け與へんとてなり。
12 or rather that both you and I may find encouragement in each other’s faith.
即ち我なんぢらの中にありて、互の信仰により相 共に慰められん爲なり。
13 I want you to know, my friends, that I have many times intended coming to see you – but until now I have been prevented – that I might find among you some fruit of my labors, as I have already among the other nations.
兄弟よ、我ほかの異邦人の中より得しごとく、汝らの中よりも實を得んとて、屡次なんぢらに往かんとしたれど、今に至りてなほ妨げらる、此の事を汝らの知らざるを欲せず。
14 I have a duty to both the Greek and the barbarian, to both the cultured and the ignorant.
我はギリシヤ人にも夷人にも、智き者にも愚なる者にも負債あり。
15 And so, for my part, I am ready to tell the good news to you also who are in Rome.
この故に我はロマに在る汝らにも福音を宣傳へんことを頻りに願ふなり。
16 For I am not ashamed of the good news; it is the power of God which brings salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first, but also to the Greek.
我は福音を恥とせず、この福音はユダヤ人を始めギリシヤ人にも、凡て信ずる者に救を得さする神の力たればなり。
17 For in it there is a revelation of the divine righteousness resulting from faith and leading on to faith; as scripture says – ‘Through faith the righteous will find life.’
神の義はその福音のうちに顯れ、信仰より出でて信仰に進ましむ。録して『義人は信仰によりて生くべし』とある如し。
18 So, too, there is a revelation from heaven of the divine wrath against every form of ungodliness and wickedness on the part of those people who, by their wicked lives, are stifling the truth.
それ神の怒は、不義をもて眞理を阻む人の、もろもろの不虔と不義とに對ひて天より顯る。
19 This is so, because what can be known about God is plain to them; for God himself has made it plain.
その故は、神につきて知り得べきことは彼らに顯著なればなり、神これを顯し給へり。
20 For ever since the creation of the universe God’s invisible attributes – his everlasting power and divinity – are to be seen and studied in his works, so that people have no excuse; (aïdios g126)
それ神の見るべからざる永遠の能力と神性とは、造られたる物により世の創より悟りえて明かに見るべければ、彼ら言ひ遁るる術なし。 (aïdios g126)
21 because, although they learned to know God, yet they did not offer him as God either praise or thanksgiving. Their speculations about him proved futile, and their undiscerning minds were darkened.
神を知りつつも尚これを神として崇めず、感謝せず、その念は虚しく、その愚なる心は暗くなれり。
22 Professing to be wise, they showed themselves fools;
自ら智しと稱へて愚となり、
23 and they transformed the glory of the immortal God into the likeness of mortal humans, and of birds, and beasts, and reptiles.
朽つることなき神の榮光を易へて、朽つべき人および禽獸・匍ふ物に似たる像となす。
24 Therefore God abandoned them to impurity, letting them follow the cravings of their hearts, until they dishonored their own bodies;
この故に神は彼らを其の心の慾にまかせて、互にその身を辱しむる汚穢に付し給へり。
25 for they had substituted a lie for the truth about God, and had reverenced and worshiped created things more than the Creator, who is to be praised for ever. Amen. (aiōn g165)
彼らは神の眞を易へて虚僞となし、造物主を措きて造られたる物を拜し、且これに事ふ、造物主は永遠に讃むべき者なり、アァメン。 (aiōn g165)
26 That, I say, is why God abandoned them to degrading passions. Even the women among them perverted the natural use of their bodies to the unnatural;
之によりて神は彼らを恥づべき慾に付し給へり。即ち女は順性の用を易へて逆性の用となし、
27 while the men, disregarding that for which women were intended by nature, were consumed with passion for one another. Men indulged in vile practices with men, and incurred in their own persons the inevitable penalty for their perverseness.
男もまた同じく女の順性の用を棄てて互に情 慾を熾し、男と男と恥づることを行ひて、その迷に値すべき報を己が身に受けたり。
28 Then, as they would not keep God before their minds, God abandoned them to depraved thoughts, so that they did all kinds of shameful things.
また神を心に存むるを善しとせざれば、神もその邪曲なる心の隨に爲まじき事をするに任せ給へり。
29 They reveled in every form of wickedness, evil, greed, vice. Their lives were full of envy, murder, quarreling, treachery, malice.
即ちもろもろの不義・惡・慳貪・惡意にて滿つる者、また嫉妬・殺意・紛爭・詭計・惡念の溢るる者、
30 They became back-biters, slanderers, impious, insolent, boastful. They devised new sins. They disobeyed their parents.
讒言する者・謗る者・神に憎まるる者・侮る者・高ぶる者・誇る者・惡事を企つる者・父母に逆ふ者、
31 They were undiscerning, untrustworthy, without natural affection or pity.
無知・違約・無情・無 慈悲なる者にして、
32 Well aware of God’s decree, that those who do such things deserve to die, not only are they guilty of them themselves, but they even applaud those who do them.
かかる事どもを行ふ者の死罪に當るべき神の定を知りながら、啻に自己これらの事を行ふのみならず、また人の之を行ふを可しとせり。
