1 Corinthians 7
1 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
汝らが我に書きおくりし事に就きては、男の女に觸れぬを善しとす。
2 But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
然れど淫行を免れんために、男はおのおの其の妻をもち、女はおのおの其の夫を有つべし。
3 Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
夫はその分を妻に盡し、妻もまた夫に然すべし。
4 The wife hath not power over her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power over his own body, but the wife.
妻は己が身を支配する權をもたず、之を持つ者は夫なり。斯くのごとく夫も己が身を支配する權を有たず、之を有つ者は妻なり。
5 Defraud ye not one the other, except it be by consent for a season, that ye may give yourselves unto prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.
相 共に拒むな、ただ祈に身を委ぬるため合意にて暫く相 別れ、後また偕になるは善し。これ汝らが情の禁じがたきに乘じてサタンの誘ふことなからん爲なり。
6 But this I say by way of permission, not of commandment.
されど我が斯くいふは命ずるにあらず、許すなり。
7 Yet I would that all men were even as I myself. Howbeit each man hath his own gift from God, one after this manner, and another after that.
わが欲する所は、すべての人の我が如くならん事なり。然れど神より各自おのが賜物を受く、此は此のごとく、彼は彼のごとし。
8 But I say to the unmarried and to widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
我は婚姻せぬ者および寡婦に言ふ。もし我が如くにして居らば、彼 等のために善し。
9 But if they have not continency, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
もし自ら制すること能はずば婚姻すべし、婚姻するは胸の燃ゆるよりも勝ればなり。
10 But unto the married I give charge, [yea] not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband
われ婚姻したる者に命ず（命ずる者は我にあらず、主なり）妻は夫と別るべからず。
11 (but and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband); and that the husband leave not his wife.
もし別るる事あらば、嫁がずして居るか、又は夫と和げ。夫もまた妻を去るべからず。
12 But to the rest say I, not the Lord: If any brother hath an unbelieving wife, and she is content to dwell with him, let him not leave her.
その外の人に我いふ（主の言ひ給ふにあらず）もし或 兄弟に不 信者なる妻ありて偕に居ることを可しとせば、之を去るな。
13 And the woman which hath an unbelieving husband, and he is content to dwell with her, let her not leave her husband.
また女に不 信者なる夫ありて偕に居ることを可しとせば、夫を去るな。
14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
そは不 信者なる夫は妻によりて潔くなり、不 信者なる妻は夫によりて潔くなりたればなり。然なくば汝らの子供は潔からず、されど今は潔き者なり。
15 Yet if the unbelieving departeth, let him depart: the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such [cases]: but God hath called us in peace.
不 信者みづから離れ去らば、その離るるに任せよ。斯くのごとき事あらば、兄弟または姉妹、もはや繋がるる所なし。神の汝らを召し給へるは平和を得させん爲なり。
16 For how knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O husband, whether thou shalt save thy wife?
妻よ、汝いかで夫を救ひ得るや否やを知らん。夫よ、汝いかで妻を救ひ得るや否やを知らん。
17 Only, as the Lord hath distributed to each man, as God hath called each, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all the churches.
唯おのおの主の分ち賜ふところ、神の召し給ふところに循ひて歩むべし。凡ての教會に我が命ずるは斯くのごとし。
18 Was any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Hath any been called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.
割禮ありて召されし者あらんか、その人、割禮を廢つべからず。割禮なくして召されし者あらんか、その人、割禮を受くべからず。
19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing; but the keeping of the commandments of God.
割禮を受くるも受けぬも數ふるに足らず、ただ貴きは神の誡命を守ることなり。
20 Let each man abide in that calling wherein he was called.
各人その召されし時の状に止るべし。
21 Wast thou called being a bondservant? care not for it: but if thou canst become free, use [it] rather.
なんぢ奴隷にて召されたるか、之を思ひ煩ふな（もし釋さるることを得ばゆるされよ）
22 For he that was called in the Lord, being a bondservant, is the Lord’s freedman: likewise he that was called, being free, is Christ’s bondservant.
召されて主にある奴隷は、主につける自主の人なり。斯くのごとく自主にして召されたる者は、キリストの奴隷なり。
23 Ye were bought with a price; become not bondservants of men.
汝らは價をもて買はれたる者なり。人の奴隷となるな。
24 Brethren, let each man, wherein he was called, therein abide with God.
兄弟よ、おのおの召されし時の状に止りて神と偕に居るべし。
25 Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: but I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.
處女のことに就きては主の命を受けず、然れど主の憐憫によりて忠實の者となりたれば、我が意見を告ぐべし。
26 I think therefore that this is good by reason of the present distress, [namely], that it is good for a man to be as he is.
われ思ふに、目前の患難のためには、人その在るが隨にて止るぞ善き。
27 Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
なんぢ妻に繋がるる者なるか、釋くことを求むな。妻に繋がれぬ者なるか、妻を求むな。
28 But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Yet such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I would spare you.
たとひ妻を娶るとも罪を犯すにはあらず。處女もし嫁ぐとも罪を犯すにあらず。然れどかかる者はその身、苦難に遭はん、我なんぢらを苦難に遭はすに忍びず。
29 But this I say, brethren, the time is shortened, that henceforth both those that have wives may be as though they had none;
兄弟よ、われ之を言はん、時は縮れり。されば此よりのち妻を有てる者は有たぬが如く、
30 and those that weep, as though they wept not; and those that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and those that buy, as though they possessed not;
泣く者は泣かぬが如く、喜ぶ者は喜ばぬが如く、買ふ者は有たぬが如く、
31 and those that use the world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
世を用ふる者は用ひ盡さぬが如くすべし。此の世の状態は過ぎ往くべければなり。
32 But I would have you to be free from cares. He that is unmarried is careful for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord:
わが欲する所は汝らが思ひ煩はざらん事なり。婚姻せぬ者は如何にして主を喜ばせんと主のことを慮ぱかり、
33 but he that is married is careful for the things of the world, how he may please his wife.
婚姻せし者は如何にして妻を喜ばせんと、世のことを慮ぱかりて心を分つなり。
34 And there is a difference also between the wife and the virgin. She that is unmarried is careful for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married is careful for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
婚姻せぬ女と處女とは身も靈も潔くならんために主のことを慮ぱかり、婚姻せし者は如何にしてその夫を喜ばせんと世のことを慮ぱかるなり。
35 And this I say for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is seemly, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.
わが之を言ふは汝らを益せん爲にして、汝らに絆を置かんとするにあらず、寧ろ汝らを宣しきに適はせ、餘念なく只管、主に事へしめんとてなり。
36 But if any man thinketh that he behaveth himself unseemly toward his virgin [daughter], if she be past the flower of her age, and if need so requireth, let him do what he will; he sinneth not; let them marry.
人もし處女たる己が娘に對すること宣しきに適はずと思ひ、年の頃もまた過ぎんとし、かつ然せざるを得ずば、心のままに行ふべし。これ罪を犯すにあらず、婚姻せさすべし。
37 But he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power as touching his own will, and hath determined this in his own heart, to keep his own virgin [daughter], shall do well.
されど人もし其の心を堅くし、止むを得ざる事もなく、又おのが心の隨になすを得て、その娘を留め置かんと心のうちに定めたらば、然するは善きなり。
38 So then both he that giveth his own virgin [daughter] in marriage doeth well; and he that giveth her not in marriage shall do better.
されば其の娘を嫁がする者の行爲は善し。されど之を嫁がせぬ者の行爲は更に善し。
39 A wife is bound for so long time as her husband liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
妻は夫の生ける間は繋がるるなり。然れど夫もし死なば、欲するままに嫁ぐ自由を得べし、また主にある者にのみ適くべし。
40 But she is happier if she abide as she is, after my judgment: and I think that I also have the Spirit of God.
然れど我が意見にては、その儘に止らば殊に幸福なり。我もまた神の御靈に感じたりと思ふ。
