Galatians 1
1 [I], Paul, [write this letter to you. I remind you that I am] an apostle. That is not because a group of people [appointed me], nor because a human being [sent me to be an apostle]. Instead, Jesus Christ and God [our heavenly] Father, who caused Jesus to become alive again after he died, have [appointed and] sent [me to be an apostle].
使徒となったパウロ――私が使徒となったのは、人間から出たことでなく、また人間の手を通したことでもなく、イエス・キリストと、キリストを死者の中からよみがえらせた父なる神によったのです。――
2 All the fellow believers [who are here] with me [approve of this message that I am writing. I am sending this letter] to the congregations that [are] in Galatia [province].
および私とともにいるすべての兄弟たちから、ガラテヤの諸教会へ。
3 [I pray that] God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ will kindly [help] you and enable [you to have inner] peace.
どうか、私たちの父なる神と主イエス・キリストから、恵みと平安があなたがたの上にありますように。
4 Christ offered himself [as a sacrifice] in order that [he might remove the guilt for] our sins. He did that in order that he might enable us to not [do the evil things that people who do not know him] do. [He did this] because God, who is our Father, wanted it. (aiōn g165)
キリストは、今の悪の世界から私たちを救い出そうとして、私たちの罪のためにご自身をお捨てになりました。私たちの神であり父である方のみこころによったのです。 (aiōn g165)
どうか、この神に栄光がとこしえにありますように。アーメン。 (aiōn g165)
6 I am very disappointed [IRO] that so soon [after you trusted in Christ] you have turned away from [God]. He chose you in order that [you might have what] Christ freely/kindly gives. I am also disappointed that so soon you are believing a different [message which some say is] “good news.”
私は、キリストの恵みをもってあなたがたを召してくださったその方を、あなたがたがそんなにも急に見捨てて、ほかの福音に移って行くのに驚いています。
7 Their message is not a true message. [What is happening is that] certain persons are confusing your [minds]. They are desiring to change the good message (that Christ [revealed/about] Christ) [and are creating another message].
ほかの福音といっても、もう一つ別に福音があるのではありません。あなたがたをかき乱す者たちがいて、キリストの福音を変えてしまおうとしているだけです。
8 But even if we [(exc) apostles] or an angel from heaven would tell you a message that is different from the good message that we told you [before], I [appeal to God] that [he] punish such a person [forever].
しかし、私たちであろうと、天の御使いであろうと、もし私たちが宣べ伝えた福音に反することをあなたがたに宣べ伝えるなら、その者はのろわれるべきです。
9 As I told you previously, so now I tell you this once more: Someone is telling you [what he says is] a good message, but it is a message that is different from [the good message] that I gave you. So I [appeal to God] that [he] severely punish that person.
私たちが前に言ったように、今もう一度私は言います。もしだれかが、あなたがたの受けた福音に反することを、あなたがたに宣べ伝えているなら、その者はのろわれるべきです。
10 [I said that] because [RHQ] I do not desire that people approve me, [contrary to what some have said about me]. It is God whom I desire to approve me. [Specifically, I do not say and do] [RHQ] things just to please people. If it were still people whom I was trying to please, then I would not be one who [willingly and completely] serves Christ.
いま私は人に取り入ろうとしているのでしょうか。いや。神に、でしょう。あるいはまた、人の歓心を買おうと努めているのでしょうか。もし私がいまなお人の歓心を買おうとするようなら、私はキリストのしもべとは言えません。
11 My fellow believers, I want you to know that the message about Christ that I proclaim to people is not one that some person [created/thought up].
兄弟たちよ。私はあなたがたに知らせましょう。私が宣べ伝えた福音は、人間によるものではありません。
12 I did not receive this message from a human [messenger], and no [human being] taught it to me. Instead, Jesus Christ revealed it to me.
私はそれを人間からは受けなかったし、また教えられもしませんでした。ただイエス・キリストの啓示によって受けたのです。
13 People have told you how I used to behave when [I practiced] the Jewish religion. They told you that I continually did very harmful things to the groups of believers that God [established], and they told you that I tried to get rid of those people.
以前ユダヤ教徒であったころの私の行動は、あなたがたがすでに聞いているところです。私は激しく神の教会を迫害し、これを滅ぼそうとしました。
14 I practiced the Jewish religion more thoroughly than many [other Jews] who were my age practiced it. I much more enthusiastically tried to get others to obey the traditions that my ancestors [kept].
また私は、自分と同族で同年輩の多くの者たちに比べ、はるかにユダヤ教に進んでおり、先祖からの伝承に人一倍熱心でした。
15 Nevertheless, before I was born, [God] (set me apart/selected me). He chose me [to live eternally], something that I did not deserve.
けれども、生まれたときから私を選び分け、恵みをもって召してくださった方が、
16 He wanted me to know that Jesus is (his Son/the man who is also God), so that I would tell others the message about him in regions where non-Jews live. But I did not immediately go to any human beings [SYN] in order to gain [an understanding of that message. I received it directly from Christ!]!
異邦人の間に御子を宣べ伝えさせるために、御子を私のうちに啓示することをよしとされたとき、私はすぐに、人には相談せず、
17 I did not [immediately] leave Damascus and go to Jerusalem [for that purpose] to those who were apostles before I was. Instead, I went away to Arabia [region, a desert area]. Later I returned once more to Damascus [city].
先輩の使徒たちに会うためにエルサレムにも上らず、アラビヤに出て行き、またダマスコに戻りました。
18 Then three years after [God revealed this good message to me], I went up to Jerusalem in order that I might meet Peter. But I stayed with him for [only] 15 days, [which was not long enough for him to teach me thoroughly about Christ].
それから三年後に、私はケパをたずねてエルサレムに上り、彼のもとに十五日間滞在しました。
19 I also saw James, the brother of our Lord [Jesus and the leader of the believers there, but] I did not see any other apostle.
しかし、主の兄弟ヤコブは別として、ほかの使徒にはだれにも会いませんでした。
20 God knows that what I am writing to you is completely true [LIT]!
私があなたがたに書いていることには、神の御前で申しますが、偽りはありません。
21 After [I left Jerusalem], I went to [the regions of] Syria and Cilicia.
それから、私はシリヤおよびキリキヤの地方に行きました。
22 [At that time, people in] the Christian congregations that are in Judea [province] still had not met me [SYN] personally.
しかし、キリストにあるユダヤの諸教会には顔を知られていませんでした。
23 They only heard [others say about me] repeatedly, “[Paul], the one who was formerly doing harmful things to us, is now telling the [same message] which we believe and which formerly he was trying (to destroy/to cause people to stop believing)!”
けれども、「以前私たちを迫害した者が、そのとき滅ぼそうとした信仰を今は宣べ伝えている。」と聞いてだけはいたので、
24 And they praised God because of [what had happened to] me.
彼らは私のことで神をあがめていました。
