Hebrews 12
1 Wherefore, seeing we also are encompassed with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset [us], and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
第三款 既往の教訓を信者の現状に應用す 然れば我等も、斯く夥しき證人の雲に圍まれたれば、一切の荷と纏へる罪とを卸して、
2 Looking to Jesus the author and finisher of [our] faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
我等の信仰の指導者に在し完成者に在すイエズスに鑑みつつ、忍耐を以て我等に備はれる勝負に走るべし。即ちイエズスは曾て、己に備はれる喜に代へて、辱を厭はず、十字架を忍び給ひ、而して神の玉座の右に坐し給ふ。
3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
汝等倦みて己が心の弱らざらん為に、己に對する惡人のさしも甚しかりし反抗を忍び給ひし者を回想せよ。
4 Ye have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin.
蓋汝等の罪に對ひて戰ふに、未だ血を流す程に抵抗せし事なし。
5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh to you as to children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked by him:
汝等は又、子に於るが如くに告げらるる勧を忘れたり。曰く、「我子よ、主の懲を疎畧にすることなく、之に懲らされ奉る時倦む事勿れ、
6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
主は其寵み給ふ人を懲らし、総て子として受け給ふ者を鞭ち給へばなり」と。
7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons: for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
汝等懲を忍べ、神の汝等に對し給ふは、恰も子等に於るが如し。誰か父に懲らされざる子あらん、
8 But if ye are without chastisement, of which all are partakers, then are ye bastards and not sons.
汝等若凡ての人の受くる懲の外に在らば、是私生児にして正子に非ざるべし。
9 Furthermore, we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected [us], and we gave [them] reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?
且我等は肉身の父に懲らされて、尚之を尊敬しつつありしものを、况や霊の父には歸服して生命を得べきに非ずや。
10 For they verily for a few days chastened [us] after their own pleasure; but he for [our] profit, that [we] might be partakers of his holiness.
肉身の父等は、少き日數の間に心の儘に我等を懲らしたるに、霊の父の懲らし給ふは、己が聖徳を蒙らしめて我等を益し給はん為なり。
11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness to them who are exercised by it.
総て懲は其當時に在りては、喜ばしく見えず、悲しきが如くなれども、後には之を以て鍛錬せられたる人に、義の平穏なる果を結ぶものなり。
12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
然れば汝等、萎えたる手、弱りたる膝を立てよ、
13 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
誰も足萎えて踏外す事なく、寧醫されん為に己の足踏を直くせよ。
14 Follow peace with all [men], and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
汝等凡ての人と和合し、聖徳を追求せよ、之なくては誰も主を見奉る事を得じ。
15 Looking diligently, lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up, trouble [you], and by it many be defiled;
汝等注意して、一人も恩寵より退く事なく、如何なる苦き根にもあれ、生出でて妨を為し、多くの人を汚すことなからしめ、
16 Lest there [be] any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birth-right.
一人たりとも、食物の為に長子権を売りしエザウの如く、私通者不敬者と成る事なからしめよ。
17 For ye know that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
蓋彼が、後に祝福を継がん事を望みしも退けられ、涙を以て回復を求めたれど其餘地を得ざりしは、汝等の知るべき所なり。
18 For ye are not come to the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor to blackness, and to darkness, and tempest,
汝等の近づけるは、触れ得べき山、燃ゆる火、黒雲、暗黒、暴風、
19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which [voice] they that heard, entreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
溂叭の音、又言の聲には非ず。彼聲を聞きし人々は、言の己に語られざらん事を願へり。
20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
蓋獣すらも、山に触れなば石を擲たるべしと命ぜられたるを忍び得ず、
21 And so terrible was the sight, [that] Moses said, I exceedingly fear and tremble: )
見ゆる物甚だ恐ろしくして、モイゼも、我恐怖慄けり、と言へり。
22 But ye are come to mount Sion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
然るに汝等の近づきたるは、シヨンの山と、活き給へる神の都なる天のエルザレムと、億萬の天使の喜ばしき集會と、
23 To the general assembly and church of the first-born, who are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
天に其名を記されたる長子等の教會と、萬民の審判者に在す神と、全うせられし義人等の霊と、
24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than [that of] Abel.
新約の仲介者に在すイエズスと、アベルの血に優りて能く言ふ血の沃がるる事と是なり。
25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more [shall not] we [escape], if we turn away from him that [speaketh] from heaven:
汝等慎みて、言ひ給ふを否むこと勿れ。蓋彼等は地上に言ひ給へるを否みて迯れざりしなれば、况て天より言ひ給ふを退くる我等の迯るべけんや。
26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
彼時は其聲地を動かしたりしに、今は約して曰はく、「我唯に地をのみならず天をも尚一度動かさん」と。
27 And this [word], Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
斯の如く「尚一度」と曰へるは、震動せざる事物の永存せん為に、震動せし事物の、造られたるものとして廃るべきを示し給ふなり。
28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably, with reverence and godly fear.
然れば震動せざる國を受けたるが故に、我等は感謝し奉りて、御意に適ふ様、恐れ畏みて神に事へ奉るべし。
29 For our God [is] a consuming fire.
是我等の神は焼盡す火にて在せばなり。
