コリント人への手紙第一 13
1 たとひ我もろもろの國人の言および御使の言を語るとも、愛なくば鳴る鐘や響く鐃鈸の如し。
If I speak with the tongues of humans and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong, or a clanging cymbal.
2 假令われ預言する能力あり、又すべての奧義と凡ての知識とに達し、また山を移すほどの大なる信仰ありとも、愛なくば數ふるに足らず。
If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
3 たとひ我わが財産をことごとく施し、又わが體を燒かるる爲に付すとも、愛なくば我に益なし。
If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.
4 愛は寛容にして慈悲あり。愛は妬まず、愛は誇らず、驕らず、
Love is patient and is kind; love does not envy. Love does not brag, is not proud,
5 非禮を行はず、己の利を求めず、憤ほらず、人の惡を念はず、
does not behave itself inappropriately, does not seek its own way, is not irritable, does not keep a record of wrongs;
6 不義を喜ばずして、眞理の喜ぶところを喜び、
does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
7 凡そ事 忍び、おほよそ事 信じ、おほよそ事 望み、おほよそ事 耐ふるなり。
bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 愛は長久までも絶ゆることなし。然れど預言は廢れ、異言は止み、知識もまた廢らん。
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are tongues, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.
9 それ我らの知るところ全からず、我らの預言も全からず。
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;
10 全き者の來らん時は全からぬもの廢らん。
but when that which is complete has come, that which is partial will be done away with.
11 われ童子の時は語ることも童子のごとく、思ふことも童子の如く、論ずる事も童子の如くなりしが、人と成りては童子のことを棄てたり。
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become an adult, I have put away childish things.
12 今われらは鏡をもて見るごとく見るところ朧なり。然れど、かの時には顏を對せて相 見ん。今わが知るところ全からず、然れど、かの時には我が知られたる如く全く知るべし。
For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.
13 げに信仰と希望と愛と此の三つの者は限りなく存らん、而して其のうち最も大なるは愛なり。
But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.
